Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.
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I _____ educational courses for business and professional men and women in New York since I moved there.
Nobody is aware of the problem, _____?
We should wash our hands regularly to avoid _____ infected by viruses.
If they hadn't raised our awareness of the disease, we _____ of it as seasonal flu.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Instead of simply punishing them, the system encourages offenders to modify their behavior.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Skydiving is a hazardous sport as you could be killed or seriously injured doing it.
Choose the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in the following question.
According to one research study, rude behavior in students can even spread like a virus and lead to school violence.
Choose the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
After a good night's sleep, she woke up feeling as fresh as a daisy and eager to start work again.
Everlyne and Jonathan are talking to each other about the consequence of the Covid-19.
- Everlyne: "We have all experienced a great deal of disruption."
- Jonathan: "_____. Our life and work have been adversely affected.”
A custom officer is talking to a client at the airport.
- Officer: "Can I have your passport, please?"
- Client: "_____."
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Human beings have a superpower - sweating. When temperatures rise, bends of sweat exude from our pores and evaporate, releasing energy that cools the skin and keeps our bodies overheating. This self-cooling mechanism has helped humans spread to hot and humid corner of the globe. But that sweating superpower has a theoretical upper limit: When it gets too hot and humid, the laws of physics inhibit sweat from cooling skin. That limit is hit when a bulb thermometer wrapped in a wet towel (a measure of heat and humidity is known as "wet-bulb" temperature) reads 35° Celsius or 950 Fahrenheit. Even the fittest human supplied with unlimited water would probably die after a few hours in these conditions.
Scientists have thought that this temperature extreme occurs rarely, if ever, on Earth. globe warms, wet-bulb temperatures around 35°C could become more common toward the end of the century in certain regions, endangering hundreds of millions of people.
If carbon emissions aren't curbed in the coming decades, these relatively rare extremes will become increasingly common. Such conditions are unbearable without technology like air conditioning and make outdoor labor near impossible.
(Adapted from www.sciencenews.org)
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While previous generations of American students have had to sit through tests, never have the tests been given so frequently and never have they played such a prominent role in schooling. Exams used to be administered mostly to decide where to place kids or what kind of help they needed; only recently have scores been published in the newspaper and used as the primary criteria for judging children, teachers, and schools indeed, as the basis for flunking students or denying them a diploma, deciding where money should be spent, and so on. Tests have lately become a mechanism by which public officials can impose their will on schools, and they are doing so with a vengeance.
This situation is also unusual from an international perspective. "Few countries today give these formal examinations to students before that age of sixteen or so," two scholars report. In the US, we give standardized tests to children as young as six, despite the fact that almost all experts in early childhood education condemn this practice. And it isn't easy to find other countries that give multiple-choice tests to students of any age.
In short, our children are tested to an extent that is unprecedented in our history and unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Rather than seeing this as odd, or something that needs to be defended, many of us have come to take it for granted. The result is that most of today's discourse about education has been reduced to a crude series of monosyllables: "Test scores are too low. Make them go up."
(Adapted from "Advanced Reading" by John Lane)
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Indulging oneself is a common coping strategy that proves of almost no value in helping us deal with problems. Consider the example of Doug, whose girlfriend of 18 months has just broken up with him. In response, Doug has dived into a number of self-indulgent habits that he had previously held to a minimum. He is smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day. As soon as he is home from work, he pours himself a slug of Corona Extra - a beverage he continues to sip through the evening until he passes out. On the weekends, he hits a nearby casino with some fellow single friends and gambles far more than he can afford to lose.
Doug would describe each of these behaviors -smoking, drinking, and gambling - as pleasurable. And yet, when practiced to excess, each of them has a negative effect on his overall well-being. None of them addresses the problem that is the source of his stress - why his relationship with his girlfriend has ended.
People who respond to stressful events by indulging themselves are attempting to compensate for a lack of satisfaction in one area of their lives by providing themselves with an alternate form of satisfaction. Drinking, stoking, binge eating, shopping sprees, drug use, and gambling are all forms of self-indulgence commonly used to compensate for stressful events. Not surprisingly, this form of coping leads to its own problems, in the shape of poor physical health, addiction, and financial problems.
A recent form of this maladaptive coping style is seen in people who respond to the stress of daily life by spending excessive amount of time online. Some people become so immersed in the virtual world of online games, websites, social networking, and so on, that it seems no exaggeration to call them "Internet addicts". People who spend an inordinate amount of time on the Internet often describe themselves as feeling empty lost, depressed, and anxious when they are not able to be online. Their real-life relationships, as well as the ability to function at work or at school, suffer as they become more immersed in their online activities. Like other forms of self-indulgence as coping strategy, Internet overuse can end up creating, rather than solving problems in the subject's life.
(Adapted from www.the-scientist.com)
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Children being punished often want to regain the warmth, care and some of approving of parents as quickly as possible.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
Either one of the students seem capable of completing the test as both of them missed the final question.
Choose the underlined part that needs correction.
There was an overwhelmed interest in the story of King Kong from its first appearance in 1933 movie to the popular remake of that film in 2017.
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Most people get fewer colds in the summer than in the winter.
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It's possible that Newton has got lost.
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"Stop drinking or you'll be ill," the doctor told me.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following question.
I never came to this city. I couldn't meet him.
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Right after Vietnam national football team won the AFF Cup 2018, thousands of fans flocked to the streets to celebrate.