Riley is between a _______ and a hard place as he accidentally set up his doctor's appointment on the same day as his son's first soccer game at school.
A. rock
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Đáp án A
Phương pháp giải:
Kiến thức: Thành ngữ
Giải chi tiết:
between a rock and a hard place (idiom): in a situation where you have to choose between two things, both of which are unpleasant (trong một tình huống mà bạn phải lựa chọn giữa hai điều, cả hai đều khó chịu) => tiến thoái lưỡng nan
Các phương án còn lại không kết hợp với “between” và “hard place” để tạo thành thành ngữ trên:
B. stone: đá (cuội)
C. ball: quả bóng
D. dirt: vết bẩn
Tạm dịch: Riley thì trong tình trạng tiến thoái lưỡng nan vì anh ấy vô tình sắp xếp cuộc hẹn với bác sĩ của mình cùng ngày với trận đấu bóng đá đầu tiên của con trai mình ở trường.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 18 to 22.
Edward Patrick Eagan was born on April 26th 1897 in Denver, Colorado, and his father died in a railroad accident when Eagan was only one year old. He and his four brothers were raised by his mother, who earned a small income from teaching foreign languages.
Inspired by Frank Marriwell, the hero of a series of popular novels for boys, Eagan pursued an education for himself and an interest in boxing. He attended the University of Denver for a year before serving in the U.S. army as an artillery lieutenant during World War I. After the war, he entered Yale University and while studying there, won the US national amateur heavyweight boxing title. He graduated from Yale in 1921, attended Harvard Law School, and received a Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford where he received his A.M. in 1928.
While studying at Oxford, Eagan became the first American to win the British amateur boxing championship. Eagan won his first gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Eagan also fought at the 1924 Olympics in Paris as a heavyweight but failed to get a medal. Though he had taken up the sport just three weeks before the competition, he managed to win a second gold medal as a member of four-man bobsled team at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Thus, he became the only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
(Adapted from "Peteson's Master TOEFL Reading Skills)
What is the main idea of the passage?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.
The placebo effect is far more powerful than most people realize. It's fascinating, and it has been (1) _____ studied by medical science. We know that four placebo sugar pills a day will clean up an illness quicker than two sugar pills, we know that an injection is a more effective treatment for pain than a pill, we know that green pills are more effective (2) _____ stress than red pills, and we know that brand packaging on painkillers increases pain relief.
But if homeopathy users are being deceived by the placebo effect, is that so bad? Maybe not. There are often situations (3) _____ people want treatment but medicine has little to offer - back pain, stress at work, medically unexplained fatigue, and (4) _____ commonly colds. Trying every known medication will only give you side effects. A sugar pill in these circumstances seems a very (5) _____ option.
You must read the instructions carefully; _______, you won't know how to use this tool.
According to various studies, children with supportive parents often do better at school than those without.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Katherine has currently been down in the dumps because all her best friends have gone abroad to study.
The word "Inspired" in paragraph 2 in CLOSEST in meaning to ______.
Karl Kani, who was a black American designer, was the first to _______ the trend of merging hip hop with fashion.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
When you purchase anything in this shopping mall, your first order is delivered free as a(n) ______ offer.
It is now _______ that vitamin C plays a crucial role in the manufacture of collagen within the skin.
Internal _______ engines are the most widely used power-generating devices currently in existence.
According to the passage, Eagan won all of the following EXCEPT ______.
Peter couldn't sleep because the people next door _______ a lot of noise until past midnight.
