14. It’s important to__________the infrastructure of the city to make it more liveable.
Đáp án: C. upgrade
Giải thích:
A. accept (v.): chấp nhận B. support (v.): hỗ trợ
C. upgrade (v.): nâng cấp D. substitute (v.): thay thế
Xét về nghĩa, phương án C phù hợp nhất.
Dịch nghĩa: It’s important to upgrade the infrastructure of the city to make it more liveable. (Nâng cấp cơ sở hạ tầng của thành phố để khiến nó trở nên đáng sống hơn là rất quan trọng.)Gói VIP thi online tại VietJack (chỉ 400k/1 năm học), luyện tập gần 1 triệu câu hỏi có đáp án chi tiết
4. Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some__________areas.
2. What leads to the development of the smart city?
→ ____________________________________________________13. A: I can’t stand this cold weather.
B: Yes, the weather today is terrible, isn’t it? ________2. Advances in technology are believed to improve the__________of life.
6. You watch this horror film. You won’t be able to sleep.
→ ____________________________________________________Talk about problems a city will have to face up to in the future.
You can use the following questions as cues:
• What are the environmental problems?
• What are the problems of resources?
• What are negative effects of technology?
Useful languages:
Complete the notes:
Now you try!
Give your answer using the following cues. You should speak for 1-2 minutes.
1. In my opinion, the more populous cities are, the more problems they have.
2. Firstly, a future city will have to face up to environmental problems ...
3. Secondly, city dwellers will also have to cope with the shortage of resources ...
4. In addition, there are several problems that are related to technology ...
Now you tick!
Did you ...
- answer all the questions in the task?
- give some details to each main point?
- speak slowly and fluently with only some hesitation?
- use vocabulary wide enough to talk about the topic?
- use various sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) accurately?
- pronounce correctly (vowels, consonants, stress, intonation)?
Let’s compare!
Finally, compare with the sample answer on page 190.
10. Michael remained strongly__________that his life could be much better if he moved to the city.
2. Many of the immigrants have intermarried with the island’s original__________.