Kiến thức: Sự kết hợp từ
Giải thích:
Ta có “a confined space”: không gian bị giới hạn, không gian chật hẹp Is it right to lock an energetic animal into a (30) confined space?
Tạm dịch: Có đúng không nếu nhốt một con vật “tăng động” trong một không gian chật hẹp?
Chọn C
Dịch bài đọc:
Niềm hạnh phúc và nỗi khổ đau của người nuôi thú cưng! Suốt cuộc đời mình đa phần trong số chúng ta đã có những trải nghiệm về việc nuôi thú cưng hoặc có quan hệ thân thiết với ai đó nuôi thú cưng. Có thật là ý niệm “thú cưng lý tưởng” tồn tại? Nếu vậy thì điều gì làm nên đặc trưng của thú nuôi lý tưởng? Nhiều yếu tố tác động lên lựa chọn vật nuôi, từ chính lý do bạn cần một con vật đến lối sống của bạn. Ví dụ, dù một vài thú cưng có thể mua được với giá khá rẻ, chi phí phải bỏ ra để nuôi dưỡng chúng có thể khá tốn. Mọi thứ cần phải được cân nhắc, từ thức ăn chỗ ngủ đến hóa đơn tiêm vắc-xin và thuốc thú y. Bạn phải chuẩn bị dành thời gian để vào vât nuôi, đó là những việc liên quan đến sắm sửa đồ đạc cho nó, tắm rửa và cho ăn. Thú nuôi có thể đòi hỏi khắt khe và là một trách nhiệm lớn. Bạn đã sẵn sàng để tập luyện và huấn luyện thú nuôi đi vệ sinh đúng chỗ hay bạn muốn một thú cưng tự lập hơn? Bạn có bao nhiêu không gian trống? Có đúng không nếu nhốt một con vật “tăng động” trong một không gian chật hẹp? Bạn có sống gần đường cao tốc mà có thể đe dọa tới mạng sống của thú cưng? Vật nuôi như rùa hay cá vàng có thể rẻ và tiện lợi, nhưng nếu bạn muốn nuôi thú cưng giàu tình cảm thì một chú chó hoặc mèo thân thiện có thể hợp lý hơn. Mọi người nuôi thú cưng vì một vài lý do: bầu bạn, sự an toàn hay dạy trẻ con trở nên có trách nhiệm. Thú nuôi có thể rất giàu tình cảm và trung thành và đồng thời là bạn đồng hành tuyệt vời miễn là bạn biết loài thú cưng nào hợp với bạn và lối sống của bạn.
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It is also a good idea to review your résumé with a critical eye and identify areas that an employer might see as limitations or want further information. Think about how you can answer difficult questions (7)_______ and positively, while keeping each answer brief.
An interview gives the employer a (8)_______ to get to know you. While you do want to market yourself to the employer, answer each question with an honest response.
Never say anything negative about past experiences, employers, or courses and professors. Always think of something positive about an experience and talk about that. You should also be (9)_______. If you are genuinely interested in the job, let the interviewer know that.
One of the best ways to show you are interested in a job is to demonstrate that you have researched the organization prior to the interview. You can also (10)_______ interest by asking questions about the job, the organization, and its services and products.
handed knowledge and help (15) ______an end to leftie discrimination once and for all.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 21 to 25.
Polar bears are in danger of dying out. Unlike some other endangered animals, it's not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears has reduced in size (21)_________ about 30 per cent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been rising and this is (22)_________ the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears' home. The polar bears' main sources of food are the different types of seals found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes seals have made in the ice. (23)_________ the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in water. This means that the bears really do rely on the ice to hunt.
Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can cover a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been (24)_________ to swim up to 100 km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (25)_________ fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drown in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more ice before they became too tired and couldn't swim any further.
Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks from 46 to 50.
What make a good souvenir?
On my desk at home, I have a collection of souvenirs; objects that remind me of places I‟ve visited and important events in my life. These objects include a model boat that I saw being carved from a piece of wood on a Caribbean island, a piece of lava that emerged hot from a volcano in the year I was born, and a shell (46) _____ on my favourite childhood beach.
Unlike everything else, from which memory and detail fades, it is as if the longer you hold on to certain objects, the (47) ________ their associations with the past become, and the sharper the recollections that gather around them. They are, (48) ________, real souvenirs, encapsulations not only of the place, but of your time in the place. But these days, the term “real souvenirs” sounds like a contradiction in terms, and this is because the objects sold to tourists as souvenirs are often cheap mass-produced imports that have nothing to do with the place at all.
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.
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(Source: Academic Vocabulary in Use by Michael McCarthy and Felicity O’Dell)