Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Studying for new qualifications is one way of advancing your career.
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án B
Phương pháp giải:
Kiến thức: Cụm động từ – từ trái nghĩa
Giải chi tiết:
A. moving up: tiến lên
B. holding back: kìm lại không cho tiến lên
C. giving up: từ bỏ
D. keeping off: tránh, ngăn cản
=> advance (v): tiến lên, thăng tiến >< hold back
Tạm dịch: Học tập để lấy những bằng cấp mới là một cách để thăng tiến sự nghiệp của bạn.Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on 16 May, 1929 over dinner in Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel. (30) ______ was attended by 270 people, each paying 5 dollars to bring a guest, and hosted by silent-movie actor Douglas Fairbanks, who gave out the awards in a few minutes. The 12 winners had been (31) ______ three months beforehand and the very first “Oscar” - a 34 cm-tall gold-plated statuette designed by MGM's art director, Cedric Gibbons - had already been handed to German actor Emil Jannings, who had sailed to Europe a few weeks before. Actually, Jannings was the runner-up in the Best Actor category, the real winner was Rin Tin Tin, a celebrity dog, but the new awards ceremony wanted to be (32) ______ place seriously.
According to (33) ______ a librarian in the offices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the prizes, saw a statuette and said “Gee! He looks just like my Uncle Oscar." The name stuck, and (34) ______ did the "Little Man", who remains the single most prized object in the entire multi-billion-dollar movie business.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I have two brothers. One of them is in high school, ________ is in college.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
But for the dog, we would have got completely lost.
In general, the company receives hundreds of ________ for a post they offer.
Two teenagers are talking with each other.
- Mike: "Why don't you take some time out and rest?”
- Thomas: "_________________”Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
