"What do you think of the film we've watched?----- Nội dung dịch tự động từ ảnh ----- 18. "What do you think of the film we've watched? A. It's a breeze! B. Absolutely! 19. He leads a quite difficult life; he can just A. run errands C. I've seen better! B. make ends meet C. make allowance for it B. hands down C. near at hand B. Word Forms Use the correct form of the word given to fill in each blank. (20 pts) 1. Wimbledon is widely. 2. Frankly, they are just my mere as being the premier tennis tournament. (acquaint) 3. I really appreciate the author's 4. The water in this lake is poisoned by 5. Our new 20. He won the match A. from hands to mouth (know) the animals in that fable. (person) (contaminate) (surround) are a lot more beautiful than we expected. 6. You should choose a partner who compensates for your personal 7. Judo is an 8. (basis) sport to take up because you do not need much equipment. (expense) speaking, their goal is to promote healthier eating habits. 9. The audience was completely absorbed in their 10. He was known as a(n). performance. (witch) criminal. (fame) 3. A. inspect 4. A. program 5. A. substitution 6. A. defect 7. A. adjusted 8. A. good 9. A. broke up 10. A. illegally 11. A. negotiate 12. A. paper sheet 13. A. perfect PART THREE. CLOZE TESTS Read the passage and choose the best option (A, B, C or D) for each blank space. PASSAGE A (15 pts) When you buy something from a shop, you are making a contract. This contract means that it's up to the shop - not the manufacturer - to (1)_ your complaints if the goods are not satisfactory. If the shop sells you faulty goods, it has (2) its side of the contract. If goods are faulty when you first (3)_ or use them, go back to the shop, say that you cancel the (4) and ask for a complete refund. If you prefer, you can accept a repair or a (5). If the goods break down through no (6)______ of yours, after you have used them for a time, you may still be (7) to some compensation. In some cases it would be reasonable to expect a complete refund - if, for (8)_ without misuse your shoes (9) after only one day's wear, or your washing machine (10)_ broke down after only three wash days. But if your washing machine worked perfectly for a while and then broke you could only expect some of the purchase price back. You and the supplier must (11)_ a reasonable settlement. You need never accept a (12)_ for faulty goods. If you do so, then later find you do not want anything in the shop or store, you may not get you money back. If you have to spend money as a (13). result of goods being faulty, you can also (14)_ this from the shop. You could, for example, claim the cost of using a laundry while the washing machine wasn't working. But you must keep such (15) down to a minimum. 1. A. do away 2. A. done B. carry out B. conformed B. touch B. project B. transform B. flaw B. devoted B. the time being B. came apart B. irreparably B. talk D. None of your business! D. mind his own business D. hands up C. deal with C. taken C. investigate C. purchase C. modification C. fault C. allergic C. instance C. worn away C. irreversibly C. quarrel C. money bill C. direct (short) B. leaflet B. straight 14. A. force B. claim C. take C. savings 15. A. earnings B. mortgages Fill in each of the blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word. PASSAGE B (30 pts) D. make up D. broken D. inquire D. sale D. replacement D. error D. entitled D. for all time D. fell through D. unreasonably D. conclude D. credit note D. full D. obtain D. expenses Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special (1). to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their (2)_ ,babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will (3) crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell (4) the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an (5) notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and (6) often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks (7) babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and (8)_ inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and (9) they develop actual (10)_ can influence babies' emotional states and behavior. Long before comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech. Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to (11)_ up a language by exaggerating such (12)_ One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse (13) and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial (14)___ hold vowels longer, and (15)_ emphasis on certain words. |