but I can (20) _____ up television easily enough. You can’t watch television at bus stops!
A. pick
Đáp án C.
Clue: “but I can _____ up television easily enough.”
Phân tích: Ta có phrasal verb: give up là từ bỏ, thôi không làm gì nữa. Nên đáp án đúng là C. give.
Các đáp án khác không đúng:
A. pick up sth: trả lời điện thoại, nhận tín hiệu điện tử/âm thanh, dọn phòng
Ex: The phone rang and rang and nobody picked up.
We were able to pick up the BBC World Service.
B. look up sth: tra cứu
Ex: Can you look up the opening times on the website?
D. turn up sth: tìm cái gì, vặn to lên, khâu gấu quần/gấu áo lên cho nó ngắn lại
Ex: Our efforts to trace him turned up nothing.
The music was turned up loud.
Chess, often (1 )______ to as a Royal Game, is the oldest of all board games which do not contain an element of chance.
Or do they copy one another, perhaps (9) ________ envy or perhaps because they have shared information about the products?
Each bird will carry these in a miniature backpack, (15) ________, that is, from the camera, which will hang around its neck.
The readings made by the sensors will be automatically converted into text messages and beamed to the Internet – (14) ________ they will appear on a dedicated ‘pigeon blog’.
Dr. Sheldrake, the biologist (25) designed the study, believes that the results are convincing enough to find out through further experiments precisely how the staring effect might actually came about.