Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
ONE OF AMERICA’S TOP GIVERS – WARREN BUFFETT
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $88.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion
The legendary investor’s quest to give ____(46)____ more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s ____(47)____ more than $40 billion - much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where it’s being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He’s also given billions in stock to the four charities ____(48)____ by his three children and his late wife. “The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude,” Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge - an ____(49)____ aimed at convincing the world’s billionaires to donate at least half their fortunes to charity - alongside the Gateses. “Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness ____(50)____ our well-being would be enhanced.”
A. received
B. donated
C. taken
D. invested
Đáp án đúng: B
Giải thích: donate (v) quyên góp
Dịch: Cho đến nay, ông ấy đã quyên góp hơn 40 tỷ đô la - phần lớn trong số đó thông qua quà tặng hàng năm cho Quỹ Bill & Melinda Gates, nơi tổ chức này đang hoạt động vì các sáng kiến về nghèo đói và chăm sóc sức khỏe ở Hoa Kỳ và các nước đang phát triển.
We have got a few minutes to wait for the train. Let’s have a cup of coffee.
The green move emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Its growth was driven by popular and scientific concerns about local and global degradation of the physical environment.
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 following questions.
In 1900, just 13 per cent of the world's people lived in cities. In 2008, the number passed 50 per cent for the first time in history. By 2050, the number will be about 70 per cent. The urban population in Asia and Africa will double, and there will be nearly 30 ‘megacities' – cities with more than 10 million people. So what will life be like for people in the cities of the future? Professor of human geography Ben Rhodes describes his vision of the urban world in 2050.
Life in cities will be very different from how it is today. Energy, especially oil, will be very expensive, so many people will probably work at home, or have their work places close to where they live. There will be less traffic on the roads, and it will be easier for people to be close to their families. For these reasons, cities won't have just one centre where everyone goes to work and shop. Instead, we'll probably see cities with many different centres.
It will be difficult to provide enough water, gas and electricity for really big cities, so these will probably stop growing. Many people from the countryside will move to smaller cities of 500,000 people or less. Transport over long distances will be a lot more expensive than it is now, so people will have to use food and energy from the countryside around their cities. They will use local materials for building, and perhaps traditional styles of architecture too.
The thing I really worry about is that energy may become too expensive for many people. In the end we might have two groups of people: a rich group which can afford energy and lives in clean, green areas, and a bigger, poorer group which can't afford energy and has to live in the more polluted parts of the city. This might lead to serious political problems.
By 2050, 70% of the population will live ___________.
Some of the biggest cities are losing population because people go back to live in rural areas, which is known as urbanization.
____________ pollutants in the air cannot be seen with our naked eyes, we don’t realize the sources of the increasing pollution level.
There is a chance tha the will not come and we may have to go without him.
Daniel has migrated to a major city. He is asking his friend, Anthony, for some information about the accommodation there.
Daniel: "Are there any flats to rent in the city center?" - Anthony: "_______________"
Tony was always in trouble with the police when he was young, but now he's a ________ married man.
The company has just ____________ its plans for the coming year, including the opening of new offices in Paris.
John ___________ the key to his house and had to wait for long hours outside the house for his parents to return home.
The holiday is also celebrated with small gifts for children and the distribution of food to _________ needy.
What this company needs is a ______ policy for investment in science and technology.
In recent years, there has been a sharp rise _________ the number of people out of work.
It is recommended that the government ____ urbanization to maintain sustainable urban areas.