We’re missing the boat on improving relationship with our partners because you were late for the meeting which made them really angry. It is you who have to take the responsibility for this.
A. having a field day
B. making hay while the sun shines
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Đáp án D
Từ đồng nghĩa- kiến thức về thành ngữ
Tạm dịch: Chúng ta đã làm lỡ mất cơ hội cho việc cải thiện mối quan hệ với đối tác bởi vì bạn đã đến muộn cuộc họp điều mà đã làm cho họ rất tức giận. Chính bạn là người sẽ phải chịu trách nhiệm cho vấn đề này.
=> Miss the boat (idm): làm mất cơ hội làm gì bởi vị sự chậm trễ trong việc làm gì khác.
Xét các đáp án:
A. have a field day (idm): tận dụng cơ hội để làm gì bạn thích
B. make hay while the sun shines (idm): tận dụng cơ hội làm gì trong khi điều gì đó đang kéo dài, đang diễn ra (mượn gió bẻ măng)
C. be laughed out of court (idm): ngớ ngẩn, lố bịch, không phù hợp (thường ở quan tòa)
D. close/shut the door on sth (idm): làm lỡ mất, làm cho không thể xảy ra (kế hoạch, giải pháp,….)
*Cấu trúc cần lưu ý:
- Take the responsibility for sth (coll): chịu trách nhiệm cho việc 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.
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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.
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The company was dealt a ________ blow when its chief designer deserted to another firm.
Now that she is trained, she hopes to earn her living as a ________ in an office.
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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.
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According to paragraph 2, the following are the reasons of children’s aggression, EXCEPT __________.
