Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 19. After months lying in bed because of a serious disease, now she looks so shabby, which is really different from her being animate before.
Đáp án A
Từ đồng nghĩa- kiến thức về từ vựng
Tạm dịch: Sau hàng tháng nằm liệt giường vì bệnh nặng, bây giờ trông cô ấy thật quá là tiều tụy, điều đó thực sự làm cho cô khác hoàn toàn so với dáng vẻ đầy sức sống trước kia.
=>Animate /ˈænəmət/ (a): có sức sống, đầy sự sống
Xét các đáp án:
A. alive /əˈlaɪv/ (a): vẫn còn sống, chưa chết; rất sống động, tràn đầy năng lượng
B. tired /ˈtaɪərd/ (a): mệt mỏi
C. exhausted /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd/ (a): cực kỳ mệt mỏi; kiệt sức
D. active /ˈæktɪv/ (a): năng động (hay làm nhiều việc, nhiều thứ)
=> Animate ~ Alive
*Cấu trúc cần lưu ý:
- Be different from sth (a): khác biệt với cái gìMark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best completes following exchanges.
Câu 47. Two students are talking with each other about the weekend picnic:
Student 1: "Can you come with us?"
Student 2: “________________________.”
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.
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, and cloud forests are dying. More alarmingly, wildlife is scrambling to keep (23) ____. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by (24) ____ heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.
We call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, (25) ____ up moisture over the oceans, rising here, settling there. It's changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon.
What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope (26) ____ the changes we've already set into (27) ____? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it-coasts, forests, farms and snow-capped mountains-hangs in the balance.
Martin is called the teacher's pet by his classmates because he is taken under his teacher's _____.
The company was dealt a ________ blow when its chief designer deserted to another firm.
We employed a market researcher to find out what people really want from a cable TV system.
Now that she is trained, she hopes to earn her living as a ________ in an office.
The government has __________ new proposals to tackle the problem of increasing crime.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 21. One journalist has commented, "Ordering a frozen embryo is a little more emotionally complicated than ordering a home-delivered pizza - but not so different logistically".
The organizers said that if it continued______, they might have to cancel the outdoor concert.
The following are the changes in the new 21st century economy, EXCEPT ______________.
It's absolutely vital that your son ___________ a rest and _____ hard.
In 2002 in the UK, there were ____ 350 community recycling initiatives linked to the Community Recycling Network.
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. Plants grow old as surely as do animals. However, a generally accepted definition of age in plants has not yet been realized.
According to paragraph 2, the following are the reasons of children’s aggression, EXCEPT __________.