IV. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Building roads with waste coffee
Used coffee grounds, which are left in coffee machines after cups of coffee have been made, are already recycled in a variety of ways. Now a team of scientists have discovered that they can also be (1) ____________ to good use as a material for building roads.
Coffee lover and professor of geotechnical engineering Arul Arulrajah (2) ____________ the idea of using them in this way after observing workers at his favourite coffee shops in Melbourne, Australia, (3) ____________ throwing away used coffee grounds. He then (4) ____________ several experiments to find something suitable to mix with the coffee grounds to (5) ____________ the base layer under a road's (6) ____________ .
According to Professor Arulrajah's estimates, the 150 kg of coffee grounds the team (7) ____________ from Melbourne's coffee houses every week could create enough material to build about five kilometres of road per year. This would (8) ____________ to a reduction in the amount of organic and industrial waste that ends up in the city's landfills.
| 1 | A. made | B. put | C. given | D. got |
| 2 | A. considered | B. regarded | C. acknowledged | D. realised |
| 3 | A. carelessly | B. forgetfully | C. neglectfully | D. insensitively |
| 4 | A. guided | B. directed | C. controlled | D. conducted |
| 5 | A. compose | B. position | C. install | D. form |
| 6 | A. ground | B. covering | C. surface | D. exterior |
| 7 | A. collects | B. keeps | C. saves | D. stores |
| 8 | A. bring | B. come | C. lead | D. arrive |
Q.1: It's a strange experience because they are unaccustomed ___________ and fussed over.
A. to be cared for B. to being cared for
C. being cared for D. having cared for
Q.2: _____________ in a DIY project can give you a sense of pleasure and satisfaction.
A. Engaging B. Having engaged
C. To be engaged D. Being engaged
Q.3: She ought ____________ for a decent interval before getting married again.
A. to have waited B. to be waited
C. to being waited D. to wait
Q.4: He experienced instant success and fame without ever ____________ by the artistic family to which he ought logically _____________ .
A. being claimed / have belonged
B. having claimed / to belong
C. claiming / to be belonged
D. having been claimed / to have belonged
Q.5: Following its defeat in 1918, Germany admitted _____________ by a combination of new weapons, notably tanks and combat aircraft.
A. to being fallen B. having been fallen
C. having been felled D. being felled
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
1. Peter wasn't misunderstood (A), he didn't just make some (C) indiscrete (D) comment without (D) thinking.
2. One (A) can go to thousands of human societies (B) and find ingenuous (C) explanations for each incidence (D) of masculinity and femininity.
3. In this category, unfortunately (A), software developers (B) always find (C) a way to run on (D) your parade.
4. But within days (A) of making the tortuously (B) slow descent from the escarpment down to (C) the river basin, they found (D) evidence of rampant poaching.
5. Being duly warned (A) that my application would get (B) nowhere, I went right (C) ahead and applied anyway (D).
VII. Use the correct form or tense of the verb in parentheses to fill in each blank.
21. These ridiculous rules and regulations should (eliminate) _____________ years ago.
22. _____________ (introduce) my guests to each other, I made a long speech on the current changes in the computer technologies.
23. Following its defeat in 1918, Germany admitted (defeat) ____________ by a combination of new weapons, notably tanks and combat aircraft.
24. He ____________ (wait) over an hour and was beginning to feel irritable.
25. Virtually every person in my road (get) ___________ a burglar alarm (fit) ___________ recently.
*) Cho các thể đột biến ở người được ký hiệu như sau:
(1) Ung thư máu ở người (2) Máu khó đông (3) Hồng cầu lưỡi liềm ở người
(4) Hội chứng Tơcnơ (5) Bạch tạng (6) Hội chứng Đao
(7) Hội chứng Claiphentơ (8) Mù màu (9) Dính ngón thứ 2 và thứ 3 ở người
(10) Câm điếc bẩm sinh (11) Hội chứng mèo kêu.
Sử dụng các thông tin trên trả lời câu hỏi từ 17 đến câu 21.
Câu 17: Những bệnh do đột biến gen lặn trên nhiễm sắc thể thường gây ra:
A. (2) và (3) B. (2) và (5) C. (5) và (8) D. (5) và (10)
Câu 18: Các thể đột biến cấu trúc nhiễm sắc thể gồm:
A. (3) và (8) B. (1) và (11) C. (1) và (5) D. (3) và (11)
Câu 19: Các thể lệch bội ở nhiễm sắc thể giới tính:
A. (4) ; (7) ; (10) B. (4) ; (6) ; (10) C. (4) ; (7) D. (7) ; (11)
Câu 20: Các thể đột biến gen gồm:
A. (2) ; (3) ; (5) ; (8) ; (9) ; (11) B. (2) ; (3) ; (5) ; (8) ; (9) ; (10)
C. (2) ; (4) ; (5) ; (8) ; (10) ; (11) D. (2) ; (5) ; (8) ; (10) ; (11)
Câu 21: Thể đột biến thuộc dạng thể ba nhiễm:
A. (5) và (6) B. (6) và (10) C. (6) và (7) D. (3) và (7)
Exercise 3: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
1. Tuan regrets ___________ (not study) harder. He wishes he ___________ (make) more effort to achieve a better grade.
2. The organizers might ____________ (change) their plans and decided not to pursue the model project.
3. A winner was supposed _____________ (choose) and given sufficient funds to build the initial model.
4. As many as ten-million children _____________ (infect) with the virus by the end of the decade.
5. Ryan straddles two cultures, _____________ (bring up) in Britain and later converted to Islam.