I heard it through the grapevine that they were enemies and had never been on good terms.
A. gave it the low-down
B. put it in the picture
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án C
Từ trái nghĩa- kiến thức về thành ngữ
Tạm dịch: Tôi nghe đồn rằng họ là kẻ thù của nhau và chưa bao giờ họ là những người bạn tốt.
=>Hear (sth) through/on the grapevine (idm): nghe lời đồn đại từ ai đó (là tin tức được truyền miệng từ người này sang người kia, không có tính xác đáng)
Xét các đáp án:
A. give sth the low-down (idm): chia sẻ điều gì với ai (là điều sự thật, thực tế và thường cụ thể về ai hay điều gì)
B. put sb in the picture (idm): kể cho ai nghe về thực tế, sự thật của một tình huống
C. hear sth straight from the horse’s mouth (idm): nghe điều gì trực tiếp từ một người có kiến thức rất trực quan về điều gì hay về ai D. keep sb in the loop (idm): giữ cho ai đó được cập nhật, được thông báo về tin tức, thông tin của tình hình (dự án, kế hoạch)
*Cấu trúc cần lưu ý:
- Be on good/friendly/…. terms (with sb): có mối quan hệ tốt/thân thiện/…. với ai.Mark 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.
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 __________.
