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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.

        Glass is a remarkable substance made from the simplest raw materials. It can be colored or colorless, monochrome or polychrome, transparent, translucent, or opaque. It is lightweight impermeable to liquids, readily cleaned and reused, durable yet fragile, and often very beautiful. Glass can be decorated in multiple ways and its optical properties are exceptional. In all its myriad forms - as table ware, containers, in architecture and design - glass represents a major achievement in the history of technological developments.

        Since the Bronze Age about 3, 000 B.C., glass has been used for making various kinds of objects. It was first made from a mixture of silica, line and an alkali such as soda or potash, and these remained the basic ingredients of glass until the development of lead glass in the seventeenth century. When heated, the mixture becomes soft and malleable and can be formed by various techniques into a vast array of shapes and sizes. The homogeneous mass thus formed by melting then cools to create glass, but in contrast to most materials formed in this way (metals, for instance), glass lacks the crystalline structure normally associated with solids, and instead retains the random molecular structure of a liquid. In effect, as molten glass cools, it progressively stiffens until rigid, but does so without setting up a network of interlocking crystals customarilyassociated with that process. This is why glass shatters so easily when dealt a blow. Why glass deteriorates over time, especially when exposed to moisture, and why glassware must be slowly reheated and uniformly cooled after manufacture to release internal stresses induced by uneven cooling.

         Another unusual feature of glass is the manner in which its viscosity changes as it turns from a cold substance into a hot, ductile liquid. Unlike metals that flow or freeze at specific temperatures glass progressively softens as the temperature rises, going through varying stages of malleability until it flows like thick syrup. Each stage of malleability allows the glass to be manipulated into various forms, by different techniques, and if suddenly cooled the object retains the shape achieved at that point. Glass is thus amenable to a greater number of heat-forming techniques than most other materials.

The words “exposed to” in paragraph 2 most likely mean________.

A. hardened by

B. chilled with

C. subjected to

Đáp án chính xác

D. deprived of

Trả lời:

verified Giải bởi Vietjack

Đáp án C.

Keywords: exposed to, paragraph 2.

Clue: "... Why glass deteriorates over time, especially when exposed to moisture, and why glassware must be slowly reheated and uniformly cooled after manufacture to release internal stresses induced by uneven cooling”: Lí do thủy tinh hỏng theo thời gian, đặc biệt khi tiếp xúc với hơi ẩm,lí do đồ thủy tinh phải được đun lại từ từ và được làm nguội đồng bộ sau khi sn xuất để giải thoát áp lực bên trong gây ra bởi làm nguội không đng đu.

Phân tích: Ta có “to be exposed to” là tiếp xúc với, thường là những thứ khó chịu, độc hại. Trong bối cảnh này tương đương với từ “subjected to”. Do đó, chọn đáp án C. subjected to: chịu đựng cái gì có hại, phụ thuộc vào.

Các đáp án khác không phù hợp:

A. hardened by: bị làm cứng lại, làm rn lại.

B. chilled with: làm cho ớn lạnh, làm giảm nhiệt.

D. deprived of: bị tước đi, bị lấy đi, cướp đi.

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