Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase...

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Nguyen Hoang Hai

1 tháng 11 2018

Rather: hơn

Still: vẫn

Instead: thay vì

Yet: nhưng, rồi

Câu này dịch như sau: How does Samaras hunt tornadoes? It’s not easy. First, he has to find one. Tornadoes are too small to see using weather satellites. So Samaras can’t rely on these tools to find a twister. (38)____, he waits for tornadoes to develop.

=> Samaras săn lung những cơn bão như thế nào? Không hề dễ chút nào. Trước tiên anh ấy phải tìm. Các cơn lốc xoáy quá nhỏ để có thể sử dụng vệ tinh thời tiết. Vì vậy Samaras không thể dựa vào công cụ này để tìm lốc xoáy. Thay vào đó, anh ấy chờ cơn lốc xoáy phát triển.

=> Chọn C

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 fist each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 40Tim Samaras is a storm chaser. His job is to find tornadoes and follow them. When he gets close to a tornado, he puts a special tool (36) ___________a turtle probe on the ground. This tool measures things like a twister’s temperatune, humidity, and wind speed. With this information, Samaras can lean what causes...

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Dương Minh

13 tháng 4 2018

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

13 tháng 4 2018

Cụm động từ warn someone about something : cảnh báo ai về việc gì

Câu này dịch như sau: This tool measures things like a twister’s temperatune, humidity, and wind speeD. With this information, Samaras can lean what causes tornadoes to develop. If meteorologists understand this, they can warn people (37)____twisters sooner and save lives.

=> Công cụ này đo những thứ như là nhiệt độ của lốc xoáy, độ ẩm và tốc độ gió. Với thông tin này Samaras có thể hiểu nguyên nhân gây ra lốc xoáy để phát triển. Nếu các nahf chiêm tinh học hiểu được nó , họ có thể cảnh báo mọi người về cơn lốc sớm hơn và cứu sống được nhiều người.

=> Chọn B

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 fist each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 40Tim Samaras is a storm chaser. His job is to find tornadoes and follow them. When he gets close to a tornado, he puts a special tool (36) ___________a turtle probe on the ground. This tool measures things like a twister’s temperatune, humidity, and wind speed. With this information, Samaras can lean what causes...

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Dương Minh

12 tháng 10 2019

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

12 tháng 10 2019

Progression: sự phát triển

Movement: sự di chuyển

Dimension: chiều / dạng

Direction: phương hướng

Câu này dịch như sau:

Once Samaras sees a tornado, the chase begins. But a tornado is hard to follow. Some tornadoes change (39)____several time – for example, moving east and then west and then east again.

=> Khi Samaras nhìn thấy một cơn lốc xoáy cuộc truy đuổi bắt đầu. Nhưng lốc xoáy rất khó bám theo. Một vài lốc xoáy thay đổi phương hướng nhiều lần – ví dụ di chuyển về hướng đông sau đó về hướng tây sau đó lại về hướng đông.

=> Chọn D

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 fist each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 40Tim Samaras is a storm chaser. His job is to find tornadoes and follow them. When he gets close to a tornado, he puts a special tool (36) ___________a turtle probe on the ground. This tool measures things like a twister’s temperatune, humidity, and wind speed. With this information, Samaras can lean what causes...

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Dương Minh

31 tháng 12 2018

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

31 tháng 12 2018

Terrify (v) : kinh khủng

Terrifying( adj): đáng sợ ( tính từ chủ động dùng để tả tính chất của người/ vật)

Terrified (adj): hoáng sợ ( tính từ bị động thường dùng cho chủ ngữ chỉ người)

Sau động từ be (is) cần dùng tính từ => loại A và D

Câu này dịch như sau: When Samaras finally gets near a tornado, het puts the turtle probe on the grounD. Being this close to twister is (40)____. He must get away quickly.

=> Khi Samaras cuối cùng đế gần được lốc xoáy anh ấy đặt con rùa thăm dò trên mặt đất. Việc đến gần lốc xoáy rất đáng sợ. Anh ấy phải chạy đi rất nhanh.

=> Mô tả bản chất công việc đến gần lốc xoáy rất đáng sợ => dùng tính từ chủ động

=> Chọn B

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.A ghostly animal creeps silently through a Florida swamp. It’s a rare type of big cat known as a Florida panther, one of only 80 to 100 such panthers left in the world. Scientists must work to save these remaining panthers from extinction, but their secretive nature is making it difficult. They are attaching a special transmitter to each Florida panther so...

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Dương Minh

1 tháng 12 2017

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

A ghostly animal creeps silently through a Florida swamp. It’s a rare type of big cat known as a Florida panther, one of only 80 to 100 such panthers left in the world. Scientists must work to save these remaining panthers from extinction, but their secretive nature is making it difficult. They are attaching a special transmitter to each Florida panther so they can follow their movements, range, and habits. The technology these transmitters use is called satellite tracking.

The scientists are dedicated professionals, but they are not pioneers. Their colleagues before them have attached tiny transmitters to many different kinds of wild animals, including birds, fish, and big cats. So the Florida scientists are using their methods. Firstly, they must trap and tranquillize the panther. Then, the transmitter is attached to a harness and strapped to the panther’s body. Each harness is custom designed and manually adjusted for panthers so it fits comfortably. Scientists don’t want the transmitter to interfere with the panther’s natural habits. The point of tracking them is to find out as much as they can about their natural habits.

Once the tracking transmitter is in place, the information it records is sent to an orbiting satellite. The satellite can see the transmitter that is attached to the panther, even when it is out of sight of a biologist on the ground. The satellite collects information from the transmitter about the

panther’s exact location. Once the information is received, it is transmitted back to Earth so it can be recorded by the scientists.

Scientists can use the information in many different ways. They can follow the panthers on the ground and observe their behavior. Alternatively, they can use the information to determine the panthers’ ranges and to understand their social patterns. They can also track how environmental changes like weather conditions affect their movements and health. All this information can be used to provide ideal conditions for the endangered panthers. It can also be used to protect the panthers from danger.

In the end, the panther silently slips away through the trees. Around its shoulders a transmitter is sending signals via satellite to a dedicated biologist. The biologist is using the information the transmitter provides to save the Florida panthers from extinction. With the help of satellite tracking these beautiful cats have a better chance of survival in the modern world.

(Adapted from http://www.thereadingplanet.com)

According to the passage, what information does the satellite collect from the transmitter?

A. The chance of panthers’ survival.

B. The panther’s exact location

C. The biologists on the ground.

D. The total number of panthers.

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

1 tháng 12 2017

Đáp án B

Theo đoạn văn, thông tin gì vệ tinh thu được từ máy phát tín hiệu?

A. Cơ hội sống sót của báo.

B. Vị trí chính xác của báo.

C. Các nhà sinh vật học trên mặt đất.

D. tổng số lượng báo.

Thông tin ở câu gần cuối đoạn 3:

The satellite collects information from the transmitter about the panther’s exact location.

Vệ tinh thu thập thông tin từ máy truyền tín hiệu về vị trí chính xác của con báo.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.The weather is a national obsession in Britain, perhaps because it is so changeable. It's the national talking point, and most people watch at least one daily weather forecast. Most of the viewers imagine that the presenter does little more than arrive at the studio a few minutes before the broadcast, read the weather, and then go home. In fact,...

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Dương Minh

5 tháng 8 2018

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.

The weather is a national obsession in Britain, perhaps because it is so changeable. It's the national talking point, and most people watch at least one daily weather forecast. Most of the viewers imagine that the presenter does little more than arrive at the studio a few minutes before the broadcast, read the weather, and then go home.

In fact, this image is far from the truth. The two-minute bulletin which we all rely on when we need to know tomorrow's weather is the result of a hard day's work by the presenter, who is actually a highly-qualified meteorologist.

Every morning, after a weather forecaster arrives at the TV studios, his/her first task of the day is to collect the latest data from the National Meteorological Office. The information is very detailed and includes predictions, satellite and radar pictures, as well as more technical data. After gathering all the relevant material from this office, the forecaster has to translate the scientific terminology and maps into images and words which viewers can easily understand. The final broadcast is then carefully planned. The presenter decides what to say and in what order to say it. Next a “story board” is drawn up which lays out the script word for word.

The time allocated for each broadcast can also alter. This is because the weather report is screened after the news, which can vary in length. The weather forecaster doesn't always know how much time is available, which means that he/she has to be thoroughly prepared so that the material can be adapted to the time available.

What makes weather forecasting more complicated is that it has to be a live broadcast and cannot be pre-recorded. Live shows are very nerve-racking for the presenter because almost anything can go wrong. Perhaps the most worrying aspect for every weather forecaster is getting the following day's predictions wrong. Unfortunately for them, this is not an unusual occurrence; the weather is not always possible to predict accurately.

These days, a weather forecaster's job is even more complicated because they are relied upon to predict other environmental conditions. For example, in the summer the weather forecast has to include the pollen count for hay fever sufferers. Some also include reports on ultraviolet radiation intensity to help people avoid sunburn. The job of a weather forecaster is certainly far more sophisticated than just pointing at a map and describing weather conditions. It's a job for professionals who can cope with stressful and challenging conditions.

What does the word “this” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A. the weather forecaster's worry

B. the complication of a live broadcast

C. giving a forecast that doesn't come true

D. an accurate prediction

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

5 tháng 8 2018

Đáp án C

Kiến thức: đọc hiểu

Tạm dịch: Từ “this” ở đoạn thứ 5 chỉ điều gì?

A. sự lo lắng của người dự báo thời tiết C. đưa ra một dự báo mà không trở thành sự thật

B. sự phức tạp của chương trình phát sóng trực tiếp D. một dự đoán chính xác

Thông tin: Perhaps the most worrying aspect for every weather forecaster is getting the following day's predictions wrong. Unfortunately for them, this is not an unusual occurrence; the weather is not always possible to predict accurately.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.The weather is a national obsession in Britain, perhaps because it is so changeable. It's the national talking point, and most people watch at least one daily weather forecast. Most of the viewers imagine that the presenter does little more than arrive at the studio a few minutes before the broadcast, read the weather, and then go home. In fact,...

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Dương Minh

19 tháng 2 2018

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.

The weather is a national obsession in Britain, perhaps because it is so changeable. It's the national talking point, and most people watch at least one daily weather forecast. Most of the viewers imagine that the presenter does little more than arrive at the studio a few minutes before the broadcast, read the weather, and then go home.

In fact, this image is far from the truth. The two-minute bulletin which we all rely on when we need to know tomorrow's weather is the result of a hard day's work by the presenter, who is actually a highly-qualified meteorologist.

Every morning, after a weather forecaster arrives at the TV studios, his/her first task of the day is to collect the latest data from the National Meteorological Office. The information is very detailed and includes predictions, satellite and radar pictures, as well as more technical data. After gathering all the relevant material from this office, the forecaster has to translate the scientific terminology and maps into images and words which viewers can easily understand. The final broadcast is then carefully planned. The presenter decides what to say and in what order to say it. Next a “story board” is drawn up which lays out the script word for word.

The time allocated for each broadcast can also alter. This is because the weather report is screened after the news, which can vary in length. The weather forecaster doesn't always know how much time is available, which means that he/she has to be thoroughly prepared so that the material can be adapted to the time available.

What makes weather forecasting more complicated is that it has to be a live broadcast and cannot be pre-recorded. Live shows are very nerve-racking for the presenter because almost anything can go wrong. Perhaps the most worrying aspect for every weather forecaster is getting the following day's predictions wrong. Unfortunately for them, this is not an unusual occurrence; the weather is not always possible to predict accurately.

These days, a weather forecaster's job is even more complicated because they are relied upon to predict other environmental conditions. For example, in the summer the weather forecast has to include the pollen count for hay fever sufferers. Some also include reports on ultraviolet radiation intensity to help people avoid sunburn. The job of a weather forecaster is certainly far more sophisticated than just pointing at a map and describing weather conditions. It's a job for professionals who can cope with stressful and challenging conditions.

What does the word “this” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A. the weather forecaster's worry

B. the complication of a live broadcast

C. giving a forecast that doesn't come true

D. an accurate prediction

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

19 tháng 2 2018

Đáp án C

Kiến thức: đọc hiểu

Tạm dịch: Từ “this” ở đoạn thứ 5 chỉ điều gì?

A. sự lo lắng của người dự báo thời tiết C. đưa ra một dự báo mà không trở thành sự thật

B. sự phức tạp của chương trình phát sóng trực tiếp D. một dự đoán chính xác

Thông tin: Perhaps the most worrying aspect for every weather forecaster is getting the following day's predictions wrong. Unfortunately for them, this is not an unusual occurrence; the weather is not always possible to predict accurately.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.A ghostly animal creeps silently through a Florida swamp. It’s a rare type of big cat known as a Florida panther, one of only 80 to 100 such panthers left in the world. Scientists must work to save these remaining panthers from extinction, but their secretive nature is making it difficult. They are attaching a special transmitter to each Florida panther so...

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Dương Minh

13 tháng 2 2019

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

A ghostly animal creeps silently through a Florida swamp. It’s a rare type of big cat known as a Florida panther, one of only 80 to 100 such panthers left in the world. Scientists must work to save these remaining panthers from extinction, but their secretive nature is making it difficult. They are attaching a special transmitter to each Florida panther so they can follow their movements, range, and habits. The technology these transmitters use is called satellite tracking.

The scientists are dedicated professionals, but they are not pioneers. Their colleagues before them have attached tiny transmitters to many different kinds of wild animals, including birds, fish, and big cats. So the Florida scientists are using their methods. Firstly, they must trap and tranquillize the panther. Then, the transmitter is attached to a harness and strapped to the panther’s body. Each harness is custom designed and manually adjusted for panthers so it fits comfortably. Scientists don’t want the transmitter to interfere with the panther’s natural habits. The point of tracking them is to find out as much as they can about their natural habits.

Once the tracking transmitter is in place, the information it records is sent to an orbiting satellite. The satellite can see the transmitter that is attached to the panther, even when it is out of sight of a biologist on the ground. The satellite collects information from the transmitter about the

panther’s exact location. Once the information is received, it is transmitted back to Earth so it can be recorded by the scientists.

Scientists can use the information in many different ways. They can follow the panthers on the ground and observe their behavior. Alternatively, they can use the information to determine the panthers’ ranges and to understand their social patterns. They can also track how environmental changes like weather conditions affect their movements and health. All this information can be used to provide ideal conditions for the endangered panthers. It can also be used to protect the panthers from danger.

In the end, the panther silently slips away through the trees. Around its shoulders a transmitter is sending signals via satellite to a dedicated biologist. The biologist is using the information the transmitter provides to save the Florida panthers from extinction. With the help of satellite tracking these beautiful cats have a better chance of survival in the modern world.

(Adapted from http://www.thereadingplanet.com)

Which of the following could best describe the author’s attitude in the passage?

A. Objective

B. Negative

C. Sarcastic

D. Sympathetic

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

13 tháng 2 2019

Đáp án A

Câu nào sau đây có thể mô tả đúng nhất thái độ của tác giả trong đoạn văn?

A. Khách quan

B. Phủ định

C. châm biếm

D. cảm thông

Giọng văn và thái độ của tác giả trong bài mang tính cung cấp thông tin khách quan, không hề mang theo ý nghĩ chủ quan của bản thân, do vậy, thái độ phù hợp nhất chính là khách quan.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In...

DM

Dương Minh

21 tháng 4 2018

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without being taught - to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle - compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.

If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let's end all this nonsense of grades, exams, and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, "But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?" Don't worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.

What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things

A. By listening to explanations from skilled people.

B. By making mistakes and having them corrected.

C. By asking a great many questions.

D. By copying what other people do.

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

21 tháng 4 2018

Đáp án D

Dịch nghĩa: Tác giả nghĩ đâu là cách tốt nhất để trẻ học hỏi?

A. Bằng cách nghe diễn giải từ những người có kinh nghiệm.

B. Bằng việc mắc lỗi và nhờ người sửa chữa.

C. Bằng việc đặt ra thật nhiều câu hỏi.

D. Bằng việc sao chép những gì người khác làm.

Giải thích: Thông tin nằm ở đoạn 1 “children learn all the other things compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes”

Câu B dễ gây nhầm lẫn, ở bài viết, tác giả nói là để lũ trẻ tự sửa lỗi chứ không phải nhờ người khác sửa lỗi cho như ý B.

Cấu trúc have somebody do something/ have something done: nhờ ai làm gì