Read the passage and choose the word that best fits each gap
Why did you decide to read this and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every single part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight's time ? Common sense (1) ......... that the answers to these questions depend on “readability" whether the (2) ......... matter is interesting, the argument clear and the layout attractive. But psychologists are discovering that to (3) ......... why people read - and often don't read -technical information, they have to examine so much the writing as the reader.
Even the most technically confident people often (4) ......... instructions for the video on home computer in favour of hands-on experience. And people frequently (5) ......... little consumer information, whether on nutritional labels or in the small print of contracts a Psychologists researching reading (6) ......... to assume that both beginners and competent readers read everything put in front of them from start to finish. There are arguments among them about the (7) .........of eyes, memory and brain during the process. Some believe that fluent readers take (8) ......... every letter or word they see: others (9) ......... that readers rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts, comprehension (10) ......... then reading stops.
Chọn A
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence before it
You must be at the airport by 2 o’clock, no matter what you have to do.
At all .................................................................................................................... .
Don’t you remember anything about your lifetime in London as a child? ( recollection)
The thought of what might happen next fills me with horror.
I dread .................................................................................................................. .
“ I don’t mind where the money goes as long as the people are the real beneficiaries.” ( matter)
Paper making began in China and from there it ............. to North Africa.
The realization that I had mad a big mistake came later.
Only ................................................................................................................... .
Complete each sentence with a suitable preposition
I really don’t like the shoes, and ............. they aren’t my size, so I don’t want to buy them.
I have been working very hard, I hope I will ........... my math exam.
He was poor, but he rent a mansion and set himself .............. as a millionaire.
You should pay more attention to those road signs about speed limits. ( notice)
He had to .............. a new syllabus as the old one was out-dated.