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?
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’.
Each bird will carry these in a miniature backpack, (15) ________, that is, from the camera, which will hang around its neck.