Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34
If we took a look at how people in Europe communicated just one hundred years ago, we would be very surprised to find out that English was hardly used outside the United Kingdom. The language most commonly used between people of different nationalities, and particularly the aristocracy, was French. In fact, French was the language of diplomacy, culture and education. However, that is not the case nowadays. English has replaced French as the international language of communication. Today there are more people who speak English as a second language than people who speak it as a first language.
There are many reasons why English has become the language of international communication. Britain's colonization of many parts of the world had something to do with it, but it is mainly due to America's rise to the position of major world power. This helped spread popular American culture throughout the world bringing the language with it.
But is it good that English has spread to all parts of the world so quickly? Language specialists seem to be divided over this issue. There are those who claim that it is important to have a language that the people in our increasingly globalized world have in common. According to others, English is associated with a particular culture and therefore promotes that culture at the expense of others. Linguists have suggested "Esperanto", an artificially put-together language, as a solution to international communication problems but without success. So, English will continue being the world language until some other languages, maybe Chinese, which is the most widely-spoken native language in the world, takes over as the world's international language instead of English.
According to the passage, a century ago ___________
Giải bởi Vietjack
Theo đoạn văn, một thế kỷ trước _____
A. những người có học ở khắp châu Âu nói tiếng Anh.
B. du khách nước ngoài đến Anh chỉ nói tiếng Pháp.
C. Tiếng Pháp phổ biến hơn nhiều so với tiếng Anh.
D. chỉ có giới quý tộc Pháp mới có thể nói tiếng Anh
Đáp án: C
Giải thích: “If we took a look at how people in Europe communicated just one hundred years ago, we would be very surprised to find out that English was hardly used outside the United Kingdom. The language most commonly used between people of different nationalities, and particularly the aristocracy, was French.”: Nếu chúng ta nhìn vào cách mọi người ở châu Âu giao tiếp chỉ một trăm năm trước, chúng ta sẽ rất ngạc nhiên khi biết rằng tiếng Anh hầu như không được sử dụng bên ngoài Vương quốc Anh. Ngôn ngữ được sử dụng phổ biến nhất giữa những người có quốc tịch khác nhau, và đặc biệt là tầng lớp quý tộc, là tiếng Pháp.
As a protection device, an octopus ejects black or purple ink to cloud the water when ___________
An ambitious person is committed to improve his or her status at work.
In simple animals, ___________ reflex movement or involuntary response to stimuli.
Lucy is asking for permission to play the guitar at Pete's home.
- Lucy: "Is it all right if I play the guitar in here while you're studying?"
- Pete: “___________”
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Considerations of safety were eventually ___________ by those of cost.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29
Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, (25) ___________ when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college. After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, which laid the early (26) ___________ for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the (27) ___________ between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters, and became the longest-running New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into a major motion picture for (28) ___________ Tan co-wrote the screenplay. Tan's other works have also been (29) ___________ into several different forms of media.
The ___________ and file supporters of the party were cheered by the election result.
It was a stroke of luck that he had always been able to write with ___________ hand.
Tan's other works have also been (29) ___________ into several different forms of media.
When she heard from the hospital that her grandfather had died, she ___________ into tears.
It appears that the hostages were not ___________ to any unnecessary suffering.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42
After the United States purchased Louisiana from France and made it their newest territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson called for an expedition to investigate the land the United States had bought for $15 million. Jefferson's secretary, Meriwether Lewis, a woodsman and a hunter from childhood, persuaded the president to let him lead this expedition. Lewis recruited Army officer William Clark to be his co-commander. The Lewis and Clark expedition led the two young explorers to discover a new natural wealth of variety and abundance about which they would return to tell the world. When Lewis and Clark departed from St. Louis in 1804, they had twenty-nine in their party, including a few Frenchmen and several men from Kentucky who were well-known frontiers men.
Along the way, they picked up an interpreter named Toussant Charbonneau and his native American wife, Sacajawea, the Shoshoni “Bird Woman” who aided them as guide and peacemaker and later became an American legend.
The expedition followed the Missouri River to its source, made a long portage overland thought he Rocky Mountains, and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. On the journey, they encountered peaceful Otos, whom they befriended, and hostile Teton Sioux, who demanded tribute from all traders. They also met Shoshoni, who welcomed their little sister Sacajawea, who had been abducted as a child by the Mandans. They discovered a paradise full of giant buffalo herds and elk and antelope so innocent of human contact that they tamely approached the men. The explorers also found a hell blighted by mosquitoes and winters harsher than anyone could reasonably hope to survive. They became desperately lost, then found their way again. Lewis and Clark kept detailed journals of the expedition, cataloging a dazzling array of new plants and animals, and even unearthing the bones of a forty-five-foot dinosaur.
When the party returned to St. Louis in 1806 after travelling almost 8,000 miles, they were eagerly greeted and grandly entertained. Their glowing descriptions of this vast new West provided a boon to the westward migration now becoming a permanent part of American life. The journals written by Lewis and Clark are still widely read today.
The purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition was ___________
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three tin the pronunciation in each of the following questions.
