Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or, D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.
School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out (1) ..... much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn't it a fact that some people who are very successful academically don't have any common sense?
Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. (2) ...... scientists are now preparing advanced computer technology that will be able to "read" our brains, for the present, tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence.
A person's IQ is his intelligence (3) ...... it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946. By 1976 it had 1,300 members in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (4) ...... in the US.
People taking the tests are judged in relation to an average score of 100, and those (5) ...... score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2% of the population.
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Since rats are destructive and may carry diseases, therefore many cities try to exterminate them.
He graduated with doctorates of _______ and surgery from Florence, gaining the highest honors that year.
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We shouldn't make an appointment with this doctor. You can see him whenever you want.
Sửa lỗi sai: Please turn off your television. I also like watching TV but now I am having to study for the exam.
Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank.
Recent research has (1)____ that a third of people in Britain have not met their (2)____neighbors, and those who know each other (3) _____ speak. Neighbors gossiping over garden fences and in the street was a common (4)_____ in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an expert on local communities. Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together with the Internet and satellite television, are eroding neighborhood (5)_____ . "Poor neighborhoods once had strong kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy," said Chinn.Professor John Locke, a social scientist at Cambridge University, has analyzed a large (6)_____ of surveys. He found that in America and Britain the amount of time spent in social activity is decreasing. A third of people said they never spoke to their neighbors at (7)_____. Andrew Mayer, 25, a strategy consultant, rents a large apartment in West London, with two flat mates, who work in e – commerce. "We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers below, but our contact comes via letters (8)_____ to the communal facilities or complaints that we've not put out our bin bags properly," said Mayer. The (9)_____ of communities can have serious effects. Concerned at the rise in burglaries and (10)_____ of vandalism, the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as Neighborhood Watch, call on people who live in the same are to keep an eye on each others' houses and report everything they see which is unusual.
To absorb more oil from spring rolls, we can use materials like _____ newspaper to wrap them after frying.
Such … the play that the theater is likely to be full every night.
The first time I tried out my new bike I _________ balanced and fell off.
Politicians should never lose________of the needs of the people they represent.
