Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word:
When drawing human(1)......,children often make the head two large for the(2).......of the body.A recent study offers more insight(3)......this common disproportion in children illustration.(4)......part of the study researchers asked children between four and seven years old to(5)......several drawings of men.When they drew(6)......views of male figures,the size of the head was noticeably(7)......However,when the children drew rear view of man,the size of the head was(8)......so exaggerated. Researchers suggest that children draw bigger heads when they know they must(9)......room for facial details.Therefore,the odd head size in children's illustrations is a(10)......of planning and not an indication of a poor sence of scale.
when drawing human figures, children often make the head too large for the rest of the body. a recent study offers some insights into this common disproportion in children's illustrations. as a part of the study, researchers asked children between 4 and 7 years old to make several drawing of men. when they drew front views of male figures, the size of the heads was marketly enlarged. however, when the children drew rear view of men, the size of the heads was not so exaggerated. the researchers suggested that children drew bigger heads when they know they must leave room for facial details. therefore, the odd head size in children's illustration is a form of planning ahead and not an indication of a poor sense of scale
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Benefits of Technology in the Classroom
There's quite a bit of evidence that technology, when used in the right way, ________ (6) students learn. One study, for example, showed that a medical school class with iPads scored 23% ________ (7) on exams than classes without this device.
Technology, such as tablets, isn't only useful for ________ (8) knowledge; it helps with communication as well. Teachers and administrators use such devices to send materials and information ________ (9) students and parents. Students ________ (10) in homework and term papers online and can access educational applications and programs to further assist with learning.
Question 6:
A. help
B. helps
C. helping
D. to help
Đáp án B
Giải thích: cần 1 động từ số ít cho chủ ngữ “technology”
Dịch: Có một chút bằng chứng rằng công nghệ, khi được dùng đúng cách, giúp học sinh học tập.
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Benefits of Technology in the Classroom
There's quite a bit of evidence that technology, when used in the right way, ________ (6) students learn. One study, for example, showed that a medical school class with iPads scored 23% ________ (7) on exams than classes without this device.
Technology, such as tablets, isn't only useful for ________ (8) knowledge; it helps with communication as well. Teachers and administrators use such devices to send materials and information ________ (9) students and parents. Students ________ (10) in homework and term papers online and can access educational applications and programs to further assist with learning.
Question 7:
A. higher
B. high
C. highest
D. most high
Đáp án A
Giải thích: cấu trúc so sánh hơn với tính từ ngắn “be + adj + đuôi –er + than”
Dịch: Ví dụ, một nghiên cứu cho thấy một lớp học y có ipad đạt điểm kiểm tra cao hơn 23% lớp học thường.
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Benefits of Technology in the Classroom
There's quite a bit of evidence that technology, when used in the right way, ________ (6) students learn. One study, for example, showed that a medical school class with iPads scored 23% ________ (7) on exams than classes without this device.
Technology, such as tablets, isn't only useful for ________ (8) knowledge; it helps with communication as well. Teachers and administrators use such devices to send materials and information ________ (9) students and parents. Students ________ (10) in homework and term papers online and can access educational applications and programs to further assist with learning.
Question 8:
A. absorbing
B. having
C. sending
D. conveying
Đáp án A
Giải thích: be useful for + Ving: hữu ích cho việc làm gì
Absorb knowledge: hấp thu kiến thức
Dịch: Công nghệ, ví dụ như máy tính bảng, không chỉ hữu ích cho việc hấp thu kiến thức, mà còn giúp giao tiếp nữa.
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Benefits of Technology in the Classroom
There's quite a bit of evidence that technology, when used in the right way, ________ (6) students learn. One study, for example, showed that a medical school class with iPads scored 23% ________ (7) on exams than classes without this device.
Technology, such as tablets, isn't only useful for ________ (8) knowledge; it helps with communication as well. Teachers and administrators use such devices to send materials and information ________ (9) students and parents. Students ________ (10) in homework and term papers online and can access educational applications and programs to further assist with learning.
Question 9:
A. for
B. with
C. from
D. to
Đáp án D
Giải thích: cấu trúc send st to sb: gửi cái gì cho ai
Dịch: Giáo viên và các nhà quản trị dùng những thiết bị này để gửi học liệu và thông tin cho học sinh và phụ huynh
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Benefits of Technology in the Classroom
There's quite a bit of evidence that technology, when used in the right way, ________ (6) students learn. One study, for example, showed that a medical school class with iPads scored 23% ________ (7) on exams than classes without this device.
Technology, such as tablets, isn't only useful for ________ (8) knowledge; it helps with communication as well. Teachers and administrators use such devices to send materials and information ________ (9) students and parents. Students ________ (10) in homework and term papers online and can access educational applications and programs to further assist with learning.
Question 10:
A. arm
B. leg
C. foot
D. hand
Đáp án D
Giải thích: cụm từ hand in st: nộp cái gì
Dịch: Học sinh nộp bài về nhà và bài kiểm tra giữ kì qua mạng và có thể tiếp cận đơn đăng kí và các chương trình để nhận được hỗ trợ học tập sâu hơn.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.
One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud was a distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silent reading have revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As the number of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, came the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.
Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and were replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialized readership on the other.
By the end of the twentieth century, students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use reading skills which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied
Question: The writer of this passage is attempting to_________.
A. change people’s attitudes to reading
B. explain how reading habits have developed
C. encourage the growth of reading
D. show how reading methods have improved
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.
A newborn baby can see, hear and feel. By the age of five, a child can talk, ride a bike and invent imaginary friends. How does this development happen? We don't understand the way language, thinking and planning develop very well. Now scientists are using new technology to ‘see’ into children's brains. And they are discovering new information about the way a baby's brain develops.
A study in 2010 showed that the experiences a child has in their first few years affect the development of the brain. It showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs. The brain of a newborn baby has nearly a hundred billion neurons. This is the same number as an adult's brain. As they grow, a baby receives information through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This information creates connections between different parts of the brain. At the age of three, there are a hundred trillion connections.
One experiment looked at images of babies' brains while they were listening to different sounds. The sounds were in different sequences. For example, one sequence was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern ‘A-B-B’. Another sequence was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern ‘A-B-C’. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during ‘A-B-B’ patterns. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. This experiment is interesting because sequences of words are important to grammar and meaning. Compare two sentences with the same words in a different order: ‘John killed the bear’ is very different from ‘The bear killed John.’ So babies are starting to learn grammatical rules from the beginning of life.
Researchers also know that babies need to hear a lot of language in order to understand grammar rules. But there is a big difference between listening to television, audio books or the internet, and interacting with people. One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies. The test results showed that the second group could recognise different sounds, however the first group learned nothing. The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies.
What did the study described in the last paragraph do?
A. compared the effects of different languages
B. divided babies into two groups with different treatment
C. investigated if babies can learn Chinese
D. taught babies foreign languages through listening to videos
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Nghiên cứu được mô tả trong đoạn cuối làm gì?
A. so sánh tác dụng của các ngôn ngữ khác nhau
B. chia em bé thành hai nhóm với cách điều trị khác nhau
C. điều tra liệu em bé có thể học tiếng Trung Quốc
D. dạy bé ngoại ngữ thông qua nghe video.
Thông tin: One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies.
Tạm dịch: Một nghiên cứu đã so sánh hai nhóm trẻ sơ sinh Mỹ 9 tháng tuổi. Một nhóm đã xem video về âm thanh tiếng Trung Quốc. Trong nhóm khác, mọi người nói những âm thanh tương tự với các em bé.
Chọn B
Recent technological advances in manned and unmanned vehicles, along with breakthroughs in satellite technology and computer equipment, have overcome some of the limitations of divers and diving equipment for scientists doing research on the great oceans of the world. Without a vehicle, divers often became sluggish, and their mental concentration was severely limited. Because undersea pressure affects their speech organs, communication among divers has always been difficult or impossible. But today, most oceanographers avoid the use of vulnerable human divers, preferring to reduce the risk to human life and make direct observations by means of instruments that are lowered into the ocean, from samples take from the water, or from photographs made by orbiting satellites. Direct observations of the ocean floor can be made not only by divers but also by deep-diving submarines in the water and even by the technology of sophisticated aerial photography from vantage points above the surface of more than seven miles and cruise at depths of fifteen thousand feet. In addition, radio-equipped buoys can be operated by remote control in order to transmit information back to land-based laboratories via satellite. Particularly important for ocean study are data about water temperature, currents, and weather. Satellite photographs can show the distribution of sea ice, oil slicks, and cloud formations over the ocean. Maps created from satellite pictures can represent the temperature and the color of the ocean's surface, enabling researchers to study the ocean currents from laboratories on dry land. Furthermore, computers help oceanographers to collect, organize, and analyze data from submarines and satellites. By creating a model of the ocean's movement and characteristics, scientists can predict the patterns and possible effects of the ocean on the environment.
Recently, many oceanographers have been relying more on satellites and computers than on research ships or even submarine vehicles because they can supply a greater range of information more quickly and more effectively. Some of humankind's most serious problems, especially those concerning energy and food, may be solved with the help of observations made possible by this new technology.
This passage suggests that the successful exploration of the ocean depends upon ________.
A. the limitations of diving equipment
B. radios that divers use to communicate
C. controlling currents and the weather
D. vehicles as well as divers
Đáp án D.
Key word: succesful exploration, depends, limitations, radios, weather, vehicles
Clue: “Direct observations of the ocean floor can be made not only by divers but also by deep-diving submarines in the water”: Quan sát trực tiếp đáy biển có thể được thực hiện bởi cả thợ lặn và những tàu ngầm lặn sau dưới nước.
Dựa vào clue ta thấy đáp án chính xác là D. vehicles as well asdivers: phương tiện đi lại cũng như thợ lặn.
Các đáp án khác không đúng:
A. The limitations of diving equipment: những hạn chế trong thiết bị lặn
B. Radios that divers use to communicate: sóng radio mà thợ lặn dùng để giao tiếp
C. Controlling currents and the weather: kiểm soát sóng và thời tiết