The following is true about Belgium’s wedding, EXCEPT ____________.
A. The weddings in Belgium are not only a civil event but also a religious one.
B. The wedding invitations are the symbol of both the bride’s and the groom’s families.
C. Each mother of the couple is given a single flower in their children’s wedding.
Đáp án D
Các câu sau là đúng về đám cưới ở Bỉ, ngoại trừ ___________.
A. Những đám cưới ở Bỉ không chỉ là sự kiện dân sự mà còn là sự kiện tôn giáo.
B. Thiệp mời đám cưới là biểu tượng của cả gia đình cô dâu và chú rể.
C. Mỗi người mẹ của cặp đôi mới cưới được tặng 1 bông hoa duy nhất vào ngày cưới của con họ.
D. Cô dâu thường ôm mẹ chồng trước khi ôm mẹ cô ấy.
Căn cứ vào các thông tin sau:
Belgium weddings may be performed as a civil ceremony or as a religious ceremony. (Các đám cưới ở Bỉ có thể được thực hiện như một buổi lễ dân sự hoặc như một buổi lễ tôn giáo.)
These wedding invitations symbolize the union of the two families and the partnership of the new union. (Những lời mời đám cưới này tượng trưng cho sự kết hợp của hai gia đình và quan hệ đối tác của sự hợp nhất mới).
An ancient Belgium custom that is designed to unite the two families calls for the bride to stop as she walks up the isle and to hand her mother a single flower. The two then embrace. Then, during the recessional, the bride and groom walk to the groom’s mother and the new bride hands her new mother-in-law a single flower and the two of them embrace, symbolizing the bride’s acceptance of her new mother.
(Một phong tục cổ ở Bỉ được thiết kế để đoàn kết hai gia đình kêu gọi cô dâu dừng lại khi cô đi lên hòn đảo và để đưa cho mẹ cô một bông hoa duy nhất. Cả hai sau đó ôm nhau. Sau đó, trong bài thánh ca tiễn sau khi làm lễ, cô dâu và chú rể đi đến mẹ của chú rể và cô dâu mới đưa cho mẹ chồng cô ấy một bông hoa duy nhất và hai người họ ôm nhau, tượng trưng cho sự chấp nhận cô dâu của người mẹ mới của cô ấy.)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.
Asia is very rich in cultures, races and languages. Indians and most people in (23) ____ South Asian countries commonly speak more than one language daily, as a matter of routine. Their highly diverse expat, diaspora and migrant communities provide them not only with global access, but also with global sources of income.
India and other South Asian countries are (24) ____ the largest recipients of monthly transfers from their diaspora workers. Due to their religious, ethnic and social diversity, more than 30 million Indians access and transfer (25) ____ from countries as various as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.
Regional languages and minority religions have (26) ____ themselves as global community networks. This is as much true for the Tamils in Malaysia as for the Sikhs in Canada. Such connections provide them with (27) ____ to education and jobs, partly through professional visa arrangements, and despite the limitations and constraints of our current times. These communities have created their own formats, many of which have become international actors, such the Global Tamil Forum and the World Sikh Organization.
People who spend too much time on the Internet run the risk of getting addiction to it.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Câu 49. Fast-food restaurants attract children. They offer toys and a party atmosphere.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
It is necessary that the use of public transport is encouraged to reduce traffic jams and air pollution.
I still keep wondering if I was doing the right thing when I asked my father for ______ permission to leave school.
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 questions.
Called the ‘Red Planet,’ Mars is roughly half the size of Earth, and one of our closest neighboring planets. Though Mars is the most Earth-like of any other planet, the two are still worlds apart. Living on Mars has been the stuff of science fiction for decades. However, can humans really live on Mars? Will it ever be possible or safe? NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) hopes to find out. NASA researchers on Earth are conducting several experiments together with the International Space Station (ISS) to study the health and safety issues that may tell us if life on Mars is possible.
Food and oxygen would be the main necessities for travelers living extended periods on Mars. The need to grow plants, which provide both food and oxygen, would be a key. But the decreased gravity and low atmospheric pressure environment of the planet will stress the plants and make them hard to grow. However, space station crews are growing plants in controlled environments in two of the station’s greenhouses. They take care of the plants, photograph them, and collect samples to be sent back to Earth. Researchers then use the data to develop new techniques that will make it possible to grow plants successfully in space.
Another concern for space travelers is the health hazards posed by the effect of space radiation on humans. A spacecraft traveling to Mars would be exposed to large amounts of radiation. Since human exposure to such intense radiation would mean certain death, the spacecraft used for such travel would have to protect the humans on the inside of the craft from exposure. Researchers are using special machines inside the crew areas of the International Space Station to carefully watch radiation levels. NASA scientists, who have maintained radiation data since the beginning of human space flight, continue to learn about the dangers it poses. Researchers use the station to test materials that could be used in making a spacecraft that could successfully travel to Mars.
Will it ever be safe for humans to live on Mars? It is still too early to say. But thanks to the dedicated researchers of NASA and the results of ISS experiments, we are getting closer to knowing every day.
(Adapted from “Select Readings –Intermediate Tests” by Linda Lee and Erik Gundersen)
Câu 31. What does the passage mainly discuss?
She didn’t get a high mark because she had made the classical mistake of forgetting to put the “s” on the verb in the third person singular.
The word “hazards” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ____________.
According to paragraph 3, which of the following is the demand for manufacturing spacecrafts travelling to Mars?
Smoking is unhealthy. It also costs governments billions of dollars in health-care costs.
Intellectuals think that if we _____________daily on tolerance and racism, we will end up killing one another.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
On their way to the station they were caught _____ the rain and before long were wet ______________.
She has told me I should stay till she ______________ a replacement. Well, last time it took two weeks.
It’s said that the government has made no _______ in the fight against inflation; indeed, the situation has worsened recently.
As mentioned in paragraph 2, why can’t people grow plants successfully in space?