Bài tập môn Tiếng Anh - Luyện thi Đại Học năm học 2015-2016 - Bài số 25 - Phạm Thái Bạch Mai

LESSON 25 - May 25th, 2016
WORD FORMS. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in capitals.
1. What did you score in the........section of the test? 	SOCIAL
2. These chemicals can be very........., so take care when using them. 	HARM
3. Jenny is far more........than I am. 	CAUTION
4. His idea is totally........ . He'll never be able to do it. 	REAL
5. She wasn't very.........when I told her about my accident. 	SYMPATHY
6. We're.........that we'll get into the university we want. 	HOPE
7. He's totally........ He never does what he says he will do. 	RELY
8. We knew what he was going to do before he did it. He's so......... 	PREDICT
9. It's important for me to buy a......car. I don’t want to keep breaking down. RELY
KEY-WORD TRANSFORMATION.. 
1. He started working here 2 years ago. 	FOR
 He ............................ 2 years.
2. My old car wasn't nearly as expensive as the new one. 	MUCH
 My new car is ......................... my old one.
3. I don’t know many intelligent people like him. 	ONE
 He is ........................... people I know.
4. He's like a son to me. 	REGARD
 I ................................. a son.
5. I saw that film last week. 	ALREADY
 I ................................. that film.
6. We know that people were farming thousands of years ago. 	IS
 It................................people were farming thousands of years ago.
7. We had to send them the directions for the restaurant. 	BE
 They............................... the directions for the restaurant.
8. They are preparing your food right now. 	IS
 Your................................right now.
9. You must clean the rice before you cook it. 	BE
 The................................before you cook it.
10. They think the café will be busy all year. 	EXPECT
 The................................busy all year.
11. It's necessary to order the paella in advance. 	NEEDS
 The................................in advance.
12. We believe that the restaurant was bought by a famous chef last month. HAVE
 The restaurant is................................by a famous chef last month.
ONE-WORD GAP-FILL. Complete the gaps with ONE word.
 I've always wanted to be (1).......my best friend. She is attractive, witty, intelligent and great fun to be with. She's also the (2)........generous person I know. We've known each other (3).......2005 when we met at secondary school. Whenever I'm (4).......bit short of money, she always pays for cinema tickets or coffee. In fact she's just (5)........a sister. I'll never be (6)........pretty as she is, but I've become (7)........more confident since we met. Three weeks (8)........we entered a singing competition and we won. Although I was very nervous, it was a (9)........more fun than I expected and I'm now considering a music career. I haven’t done anything about it (10)........, but I will one day. I'm sure.
PHRASAL VERB 1. Complete the sentence with a preposition from the list.
out • off • on • up • away • down
1. The meat was so bad that it turned me......eating meat ever again. 
2. I didn’t think that Dan was coming to the party, but he turned.......about 11pm.
3. We were turned.......at the door of the nightclub because we didn’t have tickets.
4. Max couldn’t cook at all when he was young, but he turned......to be a fantastic cook when he got older.
5. She was offered a job but the turned it......as she wanted to run her own business.
6. Some customers suddenly turned.......the chef and said the food was terrible.
PHRASAL VERB 2. Complete the sentence with a preposition from the list.
• about • across • up against • out with • down • 
• into • round to • through • up with •
1. Little children sometimes come......some really embarrassing comments like, 'Gosh, isn't that lady ugly'.
2. The scientists came......the bacteria when they were doing some tests.
3. Have you come......many problems in your new job?
4 How did it come......that you were free at that time anyway?
5. The patient came......the operation with very few problems.
6. The politician came......in everyone's esteem when his wheeler-dealing was revealed.
7. I didn't agree at first but I've come......since that way of thinking.
8. Tara came......a lot of money when her grandmother died.
9. Unless they come......a solution quickly, the theatre will have to close.
10. He comes......a bit of a fool, but in fact, he's highly intelligent.
11. Lisa came......a really bad illness on holiday and had to be flown home.
12. The trainee we took on last week didn't come.......expectations and we had to let him go.
CLOZE-TEST. Read the following text and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
 When travelling (1)......., it is always worth taking the time to do some (2).......and find out about the culture of the place you are visiting. One of the best ways to choose what to see is to get a (3)........which has details about all the different cultural (4)......on offer. Of course, if you are on a package tour, your tour operators will normally provide you with an (5).......of the places you will see. They take responsibility for (6)........the travel arrangements. This helps to make your (7)......more enjoyable, as you do not need to worry about finding out where to go.
 From the moment you (8).......until the time of departure, everything is taken care of, from booking flights to (9).......visits to places of interest. W ith a package tour, all your holiday needs will have been taken care of and everything will have been (10)......
months in advance. You never need to worry about your hotel being (11).......as your agent will have checked and (12).......all the travel arrangements.
1. A. foreign 	B. internationally 	C. overland 	D. abroad
2. A. sights 	B. sightseeing 	C. history 	D. viewing
3. A. prospectus 	B. leaflet 	C. guide 	D. brochure
4. A. customs 	B. sites 	C. museums 	 D. destinations
5. A. agenda 	B. article 	C. identification 	D. itinerary
6. A. booking 	B. making 	C. taking 	D. having
7. A. voyage 	B. flight 	C. cruise 	D. trip
8. A. arrive 	B. reach 	C. come 	 D. go
9. A. organising 	B. making 	C. taking 	 D. doing
10. A. previewed 	B. pre-set 	C. prescribed 	 D. prearranged
11. A. pre-booked 	B. overcharged 	C. overloaded 	 D. overbooked
12. A. unchecked 	B. rechecked 	C. reused 	 D. post-checked
WORD CHOICE - Complete these sentences with the correct form of one of these talking verbs.
argue • chat • discuss • gossip • nag
1. People who live in small communities often.......about each other. That’s how they all know about each other’s private lives.
2. I’ll do my homework when this programme’s finished. Stop......me.
3. When I was a teenager, my parents were always complaining that I spent too long......to my friends on the phone.
4. The politicians spent several hours.......tax increases.
5. My best friend and his wife are always......these days. It wouldn’t surprise me if they got divorced eventually.
NOUN FORMATION. Complete these sentences with nouns related to these adjectives.
competitive • confident • generous • lazy • optimistic • sincere
1. I’ve never doubted her........ . I believe every word she says.
2. You have to admire his.......... He always looks on the bright side.
3. After the accident she lost all her......... . She didn’t drive again for over a year.
4. My brother’s always enjoyed.... He always has to prove he’s better than everyone else.
5. What stops her succeeding is her.......... . She just can’t be bothered.
6. She’s well-known for her......... . She’s always giving people presents.
GAPPED TEXT. Read an article about a man who is an autistic savant. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
 A. Brain scans suggest that the right hemisphere might be compensating for damage in the left hemisphere.
 B. He also happens to be autistic, which is why he can’t drive a car, wire a plug, or tell right from left. 
 C. He likes to do things in his own time, and in his own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn’t work.
 D. He arrives at the answer instantly.
 E. These range from reciting all nine volumes of Grove’s Dictionary of Music to measuring exact distances with the naked eye.
 F. Trips to the supermarket are always a chore.
 G. Few people on the streets have recognised Tammet since his pi record attempt.
 H. A number of scientists now hope that Tammet might help us to understand better.
A GENIUS EXPLAINS
 Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform amazing mathematical calculations at incredible speeds. But, unlike other savants who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the 
key to unlocking the secrets of autism. INTERVIEW BY RICHARD JOHNSON
 Daniel Tammet is talking. As he talks, he studies my shirt and counts the stitches. Ever since the age of three, when he suffered an epileptic fit, Tammet has been obsessed with counting. Now he is 26, and a mathematical genius who can figure out cube roots quicker than a calculator and recall pi to 22,514 decimal places. 1______ He lives with an extraordinary ability and disability. 
 Tammet is calculating 377 multiplied by 795. Actually, he isn't 'calculating': there is nothing conscious about what he is doing.2______ Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number five, for instance, is a clap of thunder. 'When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.' 
 Tammet is a 'savant', an individual with an astonishing, extraordinary mental ability. An estimated 10% of the autistic population - and an estimated 1% of the non-autistic population - have savant abilities, but no one knows exactly why.
 3______ Professor Allan Snyder, from the Centre for the Mind at the Australian National University in Canberra, explains why Tammet is of particular scientific interest. 'Savants can't usually tell us how they do what they do,' says Snyder. 'Daniel can. He describes what he sees in his head. That's why he's exciting. He could be the Rosetta Stone.’ Savants have usually had some kind of brain damage and it is this damage which creates the savant.
 4______ While many savants struggle with language and comprehension (skills associated primarily with the left hemisphere), they often have amazing skills in mathematics and memory (primarily right hemisphere skills).
 Tammet lives on the south coast of England, just a five-minute walk from the beach. But he never goes there - there are too many pebbles to count. 5______ 'There's too much mental stimulus. I have to look at every shape, texture, price, and arrangement of fruit and vegetables. And instead of thinking, "What cheese do I want this week?" I just feel really uncomfortable.'
 Tammet has never been able to work 9 to 5. It would be too difficult to fit around his daily routine. For instance, he has to drink his cups of tea at exactly the same time every day. Things have to happen in the same order: he always brushes his teeth before he has his shower. ‘I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important.'
6______ Instead, he has set up a business on his own, at home, writing email courses in language learning, numeracy, and literacy for private clients. It has had the added benefit of keeping human interaction to a minimum.
 Autistic savants have displayed a wide range of talents.7______ The blind American savant Leslie Lemke played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 after hearing it for the first time, and he never had a piano lesson. And the British savant Stephen Wiltshire was able to draw a highly accurate map of the London skyline from memory after a single helicopter trip over the city. Even so, Tammet could still turn out to be the most significant of all.
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KEY TO LESSON 25
WORD FORMS. 1. sociability 2. harmful 3. cautious 4. Unrealistic 5. sympathetic 
 6. hopeful 7. unreliable 8. predictable 9. Reliable
KEY-WORD TRANSFORMATION: 
1. has/'s been working here for 	2. much more expensive than 
3. one of the most intelligent 	4. regard him as 
5. have / 've already seen 	6. is known that 
7. had to be sent 	8. food is being prepared 
9. rice must be cleaned 	10. café is expected to be 
11. paella needs to be ordered 	12. believed to have been bought
ONE-WORD GAP-FILL: 1. like – 2. most - 3. since – 4. a – 5. like – 6. as – 7. much – 8. ago - 9. lot – 10. yet
PHRASAL VERBS 1: 1. off - 2. up – 3. away - 4. out - 5. down - 6. On
PHRASAL VERBS 2: 1. out with - 2. across - 3. up against - 4. about - 5. through
6. down - 7. round to - 8. into - 9. up with - 10. comes/came across as - 11. came down with - 12. come up to
CLOZE-TEST: 1. D 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. D 6. B 7. D 8. A 9. A 10. D 11. D 12. B
WORD CHOICE: 1. gossip 2. nagging 3. chatting 4. discussing 5. arguing
NOUN FORMATION: 1. sincerity 2. optimism 3. confidence 4. competition(s) 
 5. laziness 6. generosity
GAPPED TEXT: 1. B - 2. D - 3. H - 4. A - 5. F - 6. C - 7. E Extra sentence: G
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 The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing carved into it. French soldiers found it in Egypt in 1799. It helped people get a better understanding of the Ancient Egyptian writing system called hieroglyphics. Its discovery led to the translation of Ancient Egyptian writing. The stone is named after the city where it was found, Rosetta. Today, that city is called "Rashid". The stone is now in the British Museum in London.
It had three pieces of writing on it that said the same thing in three different languages. One was in an Ancient Egyptian script called demotic, the local language of the people in Egypt at that time. The other two languages were hieroglyphics and Ancient Greek.
The historians could already read the Greek. Using this knowledge they were able to work out how to read the Egyptian scripts.
 The complete Greek text, in English, is about 1600–1700 words in length. The text on the Rosetta Stone is a tax relief given to the temple priests. It gives them back the tax privileges they had earlier. Some scholars believe that several copies of the Rosetta Stone might exist, as this proclamation must have been made at many temples.
Rosetta Stone