Choose the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following questions
I received housing benefits when I was unemployed.
A. out of fashion
B. out of date
C. out of order
D. out of work
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án đúng: D
Giải thích: unemployed = out of work: thất nghiệp
Dịch: Tôi đã nhận trợ cấp nhà ở khi tôi thất nghiệp.
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
All living things require energy to do the work necessary for survival and reproduction. But what is energy? Energy is simply the ability to do work, (22) ___ work is done when a force moves an object. Let's consider your own needs for a moment. You need energy to turn on and turn off your computer. You need energy to (23) ___ of bed in the morning. And, yes, you need energy to reproduce. So where does energy come from and how do we use it? On Earth, energy ultimately comes from the sun. Plants use the sun's energy to make sugar. Organisms, in turn, use sugar as a (24) ___ of energy to do work
Plants use energy from sunlight to make sugar and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water. The process by which carbon dioxide and water are (25) ___ to sugar and oxygen using sunlight is referred to as photosynthesis. This is an endergonic reaction, meaning energy is required by the reaction. Specifically, energy is required to put the carbon dioxide and the water molecules together to form sugar. Sun (26) ___ the energy needed to drive photosynthesis, and some of the energy used to make the sugar is stored in the sugar molecule.
I don't get high scores in English tests. I will be very annoyed.
Choose the underline part that needs correction
Bella had better to change her study habits if she wants to be admitted to a good college.
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
I'm standing on a sidewalk in the early morning. The great avenues of Paris are silent, and the shops are closed. Suddenly, a couple appeared from a hole in the sidewalk. Mud covers their boots. They place the iron cover over the hole and run down the street, smiling. The couple had been exploring the tunnels beneath the city.
When Romans occupied Paris, they cut down stone from deep within the earth to build their city. Later, the French used more stone to construct the Notre Dame Cathedral. This left huge underground tunnels upon which part of the city now. Once used for growing mushrooms and as a hiding place, today they are mostly forgotten, except by "cataphiles" - those who love to go down into the tunnels below Paris, even though it is actually not permitted.
In the 70s and 80s, it is easier to enter the tunnels because there were many more open entrances through forgotten doorways and into catacombs - rooms filled with bones. The bones had been moved into the tunnels to solve the problem crowded cemeteries. By the end of the 1980s, most of the entrances were shut and police regularly walked the tunnels. However, there are still cataphiles, like the couple I saw that morning, and for those who dare, the underground is an exciting place to meet, party, perform for each other or create art.
My own experience began beneath the old Paris opera house, where sewer workers showed me a 55-meter-long underground pond, a pond that actually had fish in it! Later, at France's national bank, officials guided me below to an amazing room filled with 2,600 tons of gold.
As cataphiles are the best guides, I then asked one of the cataphiles to give me a tour. Descending into the underground through a secret entrance beneath a bridge, we walked for hours through catacombs, and galleries of huge, bright paintings. The cataphile told me "Many people come down here to party, some to paint. Some people to destroy or to create or to explore. We do what we want. We don't have rules."
(Adapted from Reading Explorer 2, Paul Macintyre&David Bohlke, 2015)
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