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.
A. Plants grow old as surely as do animals, and a generally accepted definition of age in plants has not yet been realized.
B. Although plants grow old as surely as do animals, a generally accepted definition of age in plants has not yet been realized.
C. Plants grow old as surely as do animals, so a generally accepted definition of age in plants has not yet been realized.
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án B
Kiến thức về mệnh đề trạng ngữ
Tạm dịch: Thực vật trở nên già cỗi chắc chắn cũng giống như thực vật già cỗi đi vậy. Tuy nhiên, một định nghĩa được chấp nhận rộng rãi về sự lão hóa ở thực vật thì vẫn chưa được tìm ra.
* Xét các đáp án:
A. Sai vì dùng liên từ “and” để nối hai mệnh đề, hai vế có nghĩa tương đồng bổ trợ cho nhau.
B. Đúng. Vì “although + clause, clause: mặc dù……nhưng…….”để diễn tả hai vế có tính tương phản nhau.
C. Sai vì dùng liên từ “so” để nối hai vế có mối quan hệ nguyên nhân-hệ quả.
D. Sai vì dùng liên từ “for” để nối hai câu có nguyên nhân hệ quả. “For” ở đây mang nghĩa là “bởi vì”.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.
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.
Now that she is trained, she hopes to earn her living as a ________ in an office.
We employed a market researcher to find out what people really want from a cable TV system.
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.
I am writing in connection with the volunteer opportunities ____ on 10 November.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Câu 28. He was arrested because he answered to the description of the wanting man.
