Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
AUDIOBOOKS - BOOKS ON CASSETTE
In the modern world, there is a wealth of leisure activities to choose from. Entertainment industries (41)________for your leisure time. You can watch TV, listen to music, go to an art gallery or concert or, of course, read a book. Sometimes it seems that reading is (42)________because, even if you're a fast reader, it can take a (43)________amount of time to finish a novel, for example. But in the (44)________world, time is something that can be in short supply. Book publishers haven't been (45)________to realise this and are now selling a product which needn't (46)________as much of your time but still tells you an excellent story. The new product is the audiobook -cassette recordings of shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors themselves. Audiobooks are (47)________new but people are becoming more aware of them and sales are increasing all the time. One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they're (48)________listening to the radio. You can listen to what you want when you want, and you won't ever (49)________anything. Much of their appeal lies in their flexibility. They (50)________you to do other things while you're listening, such as driving or doing the housework. For some people, audiobooks can be a much more enjoyable way of gaining knowledge than reading.
Entertainment industries (26)________for your leisure time.
A. chase
B. compete
C. oppose
D. pursue
compete (v): cạnh tranh
oppose (v): chống đối
pursue (v): đuổi theo
to compete against / with sb in / for sth: cạnh tranh với ai vì điều gì
=>Entertainment industries compete for your leisure time.
Tạm dịch:Các ngành công nghiệp giải trí cạnh tranh với nhau trong khoảng thời gian rảnh của bạn.
Đáp án cần chọn là: B
I think the match ________. Everybody's gone into the stadium and youcan hear them cheering.
Reading cannot makeyour life longer , but reading reallymakes your life more thicker
Too much television can has negative effects on young minds because of higher levels of television viewing correlate with lowered academic performance, especially reading scores.
There are many benefits that we may be gainedby actuallytaking the time to read a book instead ofsitting in front of the TV or doing some otherforms of mindless entertainment.
The museum is open to everybody. It ________ between 9am and 5pm.
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel of just over 100 pages in length by Ernest Hemingway, ________.
Read the passage below and choose one correct answer for each question.
Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these How-to books are useful: in fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words 'How-to". One book may tell you how to earn more money, another may tell you how to save or spend it and another may explain how to give your money away. Many How-to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If you fail, however, you can buy the book “How to Turn Failure into Success”. If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to Make a Millionaire”. If you never make any money at all. you may need abook called “How to Live on Nothing”. One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read “How to Succeed in Love Every Minute of Your Life”. If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer books which give step-by-step instructions on how to redecorate or enlarge a house. Why have How-to books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. How-to books help people deal with modern life.
From the first paragraph, we know How-to books are________.
________two days and nights' pass in this manner, during which the old man bears the tension of the line with his body.