Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
Choose the word which has the bold part pronounced differently from the others.
symbol
emergency
poverty
qualify
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
He rarely goes to bed late, _____?
Tomorrow she will cook a delicious dinner _____.
_____ by a Danish physician named Ole Worm, this fabulous collection once took the world by storm.
Computers with a Linux operating system are not _____ of running Digitext software.
Teenagers are now _____ at information technology than the previous generations.
I learned to play _____ guitar when I was at university.
"You have to remember _____ some stamps for me," my mother said.
I'll do my best to finish the report by Friday, but in all _____, it won't be ready till Monday.
They have _____ a lot of extensive research into renewable energy sources.
Jane's parents will certainly go _____ when she buys them a present with her first salary.
My younger brother is studying Math under his teacher’s _____.
Our parents took a lot of photos of us while we _____ the tree.
In Viet Nam, you shouldn't _____ at somebody house on the 1st day of the New Year unless you have been invited by the house owner.
"Will the solar panels _____ on the roof of the house tomorrow?" My father asked.
Charles and Lisa are in the same room.
Charles: “Do you mind if I smoke?”
Lisa: “_____”
Two friends Diana and Anna are talking about one of their classmates.
Diana: “Joana is so hard-working; she maintains good scores all the time.”
Anna: “______”
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
At first, no one believed she was a pilot, but her documents lent colour to her statements.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
To have a chance to enter the final round, you have to eliminate lots of competitors.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Whenever problems come up, we discuss them frankly and find solutions quickly.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
There are various kinds of products in the store.
Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
"Sorry, we're late. It took us ages to look for a parking place” said John.
Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
It is obligatory for me to submit my assignment to the professor for checking today.
Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.
I last saw Bob when I was in Ho Chi Minh City.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Their children learn primarily by directly experiencing the world around it.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
This plan is practicable, as it takes into account the available resources and the skills of the team members.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
A Tokyo newspaper - television company has organized a climb competition in 1975, but without success.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
Seth informed us of his scholarship to study abroad. He did it when arriving at the school.
Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.
He can’t give you a lift. He doesn’t have a car.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer for each question.
Today, supermarkets are found in almost every large city in the world. the first supermarket was opened only fifty years ago. It was opened in New York by a man named Michael Cullen.
A supermarket is different from types of stores in several ways. In supermarkets goods are placed on open shelves. The choose what they want and take them to the checkout counter. This means that fewer shop assistants are needed than in other stores.The way products are is another difference between supermarkets and many other types of stores. For example, in supermarkets, there is usually a display of small inexpensive items just in front of the checkout counter such as candies, chocolates, magazines, cheap foods and so on.
Most customers go to a supermarket buy goods from a shopping list. They know exactly what they need to buy. They do the shopping according to a plan.
Read the passage and choose the most suitable answer for the following questions.
In late 1882, Dr. Jigoro Kano opened the first school of judo in Japan. There was a popular sport in Japan at that time called jujitsu. Jujitsu had some techniques that could cause injury. Dr. Kano’s purpose was to develop judo just as a sport that was the physical and mental training of jujitsu without those techniques. Without the deadly locks and throws of jujitsu, the new sport judo became safe even for women and children.
Competitive judo demands the highest skill and strength. And it is only one part of this sport. To those who know it well, it is an exciting study. To active men and women, judo is an enjoyable way to keep fit. Boys are enthusiastic students of judo and enter junior competitions at an early age. Men and women compete separately.
Unlike karate, which uses both foot and hand blows, judo basically depends upon the use of balance to defeat an opponent. A person under attack does not block or punch his opponent. He may resist for a moment and then let go suddenly. This forces his opponent off balance and makes it easier to throw him.
Judo requires much physical training and instruction. Training often takes place in a gym area. In Asia, players practice on straw mats. In Western countries, a canvas wrestling mat can be used. The players wear cotton jackets and trousers circled by colored belts. A beginner wears a white belt and a more successful player a brown belt. Experts wear the black belt.
What is the best title for the passage?
When was judo invented?
Which of the following is NOT true about judo?
The word "resist" in paragraph 3 is closet in meaning to _____.
Read the following passage and choose the best answer to the questions that follow.
Television’s contribution to family life in the United States has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By dominating the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.
“Like the sorcerer of old,” writes Urie Bronfenbrenner, “the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces - although there is danger there - as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, games, the family festivities, and arguments through which much of the child’s learning takes place and through which character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.”
Of course, families today still do special things together at times: go camping in the summer, go to the zoo on a nice Sunday, take various trips and expeditions. But the ordinary daily life together is diminished - that sitting around at the dinner table, that spontaneous taking up of an activity, those little games invented by children on the spur of the moment when there is nothing else to do, the scribbling, the chatting, the quarreling, all the things that form the fabric of a family, that define a childhood.
Instead, the children have their regular schedule of television programs and bedtime, and the parents have their peaceful dinner together. But surely the needs of adults are being better met than the needs of children, who are effectively shunted away and rendered untroublesome.
If the family does not accumulate its backlog of shared experiences, shared everyday experiences that occur and recur and change and develop, then it is not likely to survive as anything other than a caretaking institution.
Which of the following best represents the author’s argument in the passage?
The word "it" in the first passage refers to _____.
The word "freezing" in the passage is closest in meaning to _____.
Which of the following would be an example of what the author means by a special thing that families do?
According to the author, what distinguishes one family from another?
The word "diminished" in paragraph 3 is closet in meaning to _____.
What is NOT true according to the passage?