Bài tập môn Tiếng Anh về đọc điền khuyết - Gaps filling

BÀI TẬP VỀ ĐỌC ĐIỀN KHUYẾT - GAPS FILLING
Exercise 1. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
Several years ago while I was visiting Athens for a few weeks, I decided to spend a whole day on a nearby island. The weather (1)________had predicted that it would be a scorching hot day so (2)________ off early in the morning.
Even though I arrived at the port in plenty of time, I was forced to sit on the top (3)________because other passengers who had got to the boat earlier filled the lower ones. Soon after the boat had departed, somebody came round with raffle tickets. There were, as far as I could make (4)________two prizes: a bag of fresh fish and several (5)________ of chocolate. I bought a ticket, not expecting to win as I had never won anything in a raffle (6)________.
Some time later the person who had sold the tickets announced the winning numbers. To my great surprise, I had won the chocolate. I was naturally delighted, but (7)________how I could prevent it from (8)________in the intense heat. Realizing that I could not possible eat it all myself, I (9)________it with the passengers sitting near me. In return, they offered me sandwiches and (10)________drinks.
All in all, it was a pleasant start to a memorable day with my new acquaintances.
01. A. prediction 	B. prophecy	C. forecast 	D. foresight
02. A. went	B. left	C. departed 	D. set
03. A. deck	B. layer	C. floor 	D. storey
04. A. up	B. out	C. for	D. over
05. A. bars	B. slices	C. cartons	D. packets
06. A. again	B. before	C. since	D. already
07. A. thought	B. questioned	C. wondered	D. regarded
08. A. dissolving	B. liquefying	C. melting	D. spreading
09. A. separated	B. divided	C. distributed	D. shared
10. A. soft	B. light	C. bubbly	D. sparkling
Exercise 2. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
An unlucky day
	Helen packed a small suitcase, said goodbye to her mother and hurried out of the house to (1) __________ to the station. There was no one (2) ____________ waiting at the bus stop, so it looked as if a bus had just left. Helen looked at her watch anxiously; it was already two o’clock. Her train left at two thirty, and since it would (3) __________ at least twenty minutes to reach the station, she did not have much time to (4) __________, even if a bus came along at once.
	Just then a taxi came slowly down the road. Helen knew that the (5) __________ to the station was at least two dollars, which was more than she could (6) ___________, but she quickly made her (7) ___________ that it would be well (8) ___________ the extra expense in order to be sure of catching the train. So she stopped the taxi and got in. she told the driver that she had to catch the train which left at half past two. The man nodded and said that he would take a short (9) ___________ to get her to the station in good time.
	All went well until, just as they were coming out of a side street into the (10) _________ that lead to the station, the taxi ran (11) ___________ a car. There was a loud crash and Helen was thrown (12) _________ so violently that she hit her head on the front seat. Both drivers got out and began (13) _________ each other. Helen got out as (14) _____ to ask them to stop quarrelling, but (15) _________ took any notice of her at all.
1. A. go on bus	B. get the bus	C. drive taxi 	D. catch the bus
2. A. else	B. other	C. person	D. more
3. A. be	B. take	C. waste	D. lose
4. A. spend	B. wait for	C. spare	D. go
5. A. cost	B. expense	C. fare	D. money
6. A. pay	B. afford	C. give	D. have
7. A. decision	B. mind	C. head	D. own
8. A. cheap	B. done	C. for	D. worth
9. A. time	B. way	C. cut	D. road
10. A. main road	B. main side street	C. alley	D. train
11. A. off	B. up	C. for	D. into
12. A. forward	B. over	C. up	D. hard
13. A. shouting	B. to shout at	C. to shout for	D. shouting to
14. A. well	B. soon	C. much	D. if	
15. A. none	B. no one	C. neither	D. both of them
Exercise 3. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
Dolphins communicate mainly by (1)________ of sounds. These sounds not only (2)________ whistles, but also so-called pulsed sounds, which are often described as squawks, barks, rasps, etc. However, they also use breaching (jumping and falling back into the (3)________ with a loud splash) and pectoral fin (or flipper) and tail (or fluke) slaps (hitting the flipper or fluke on the water surface). Body posturing and jaw popping also have a role in (4)________ . As for language, we do not know (5)________ they have one. Several studies have demonstrated that dolphins can understand a structured language like (6)________. This has been demonstrated for a number of other animal species as well (gorilla, California sea lion, and parrot). Some studies also indicate that dolphin vocalizations are complex (7)________ to support some form of language. (8)________, it has not been demonstrated (9)________ that they can undoubtedly communicate (10)________ themselves.
1. A. way	B. mean	C. using	D. means
2. A. have	B. include	C. contain	D. combine
3. A. water	B. sea	C. ocean	D. river
4. A. reaction	B. chewing	C. speaking	D. communication
5. A. why	B. if 	C. when	D. how
6. A. your	B. ours	C. our	D. yours
7. A. too	B. as	C. enough	D. so
8. A. Whenever	B. Wherever	C. However	D. Whoever
9. A. yet	B. still	C. though	D. neither
10. A. together	B. each other	C. between	D. among
Exercise 4. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
According to a magazine article I read recently, we (1)_______ live in an age of increasing leisure. Not only are more and more people reaching (2)_______ age with their taste for enjoyment and even adventure relatively (3)_______ but the working week is becoming shorter and the opportunities for (4)_______ are becoming greater and greater all the time. Not to mention the fact that people (5)_______ to spend less time travelling to work or may even be working from home. What I can't understand, however, is who these people are. As far as I can (6)_______ the whole thing is another one of (7)_______ journalistic fictions. I admit that there are a lot of retired people (8)_______ but I am not sure that all of them are dashing about learning hang-gliding or sailing single-handed (9)_______ the world. My own parents seem to (10)_______ most of their time gazing at the television. And as for the shorter working week, I wish someone (11)_______ remind my company about it. I seem to be working longer and longer hours (12)_______ the time. The little leisure time I have is eaten into by sitting in the traffic jams or waiting for trains to (13)_______ up at rain-swept platforms. I haven't noticed any dramatic improvements in my (14)_______ either, but perhaps I just have to wait until I get my (15)_______. 
 1. A. presently	B. at the moment	C. now	D. at this time
 2. A. retirement	B. their	C. later	D. third
 3. A. present	B. survived	C. free	D. intact
 4. A. this	B. longer	C. leisure	D. people
 5. A. use	B. tend	C. have	D. demand
 6. A. concern	B. imagine	C. expect	D. tell
 7. A. the 	B. those	C. these	D. some
 8. A. in our days	B. in these times	C. nowadays	D. now and again
 9. A. round	B. over	C. through	D. into
 10. A. have	B. use	C. the	D. spend
 11. A. would	B. to	C. had	D. might
 12. A. at	B. for	C. take	D. all
 13. A. keep	B. line	C. show	D. set
 14. A. cost of living	B. lifestyle	C. lifeline	D. livelihood
 15. A. pension	B. retirement	C. insurance	D. salary	
Exercise 5. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
The Internet bus
In the desert areas that surround Tucson city, USA, students spend hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from their schools. But when mobile internet equipment was (1)____________ on a yellow school bus, the bored, often noisy, teens were transformed into quiet, studious individuals.
District officials got the idea during (2)____________ drives on school business to Phoenix, two hours each way, when they (3)____________ that, when they went in pairs, one person could drive and the other could work using a laptop and a wireless card. They (4)____________ if internet access on a school bus could (5)____________ students’ academic productivity, too.
But the idea for what students call ‘the internet bus’ really took shape when the district’s chief information officer (26)____________ across an article about having internet across in cars. He thought, “What if you could put that in a bus?”
The officials have been delighted to see the (7)____________ of homework getting done, morning and evening, as the internet bus (8)____________ up and drops off students along the 70-minute drive. (9)____________ some students spend their time playing games or visiting social networking sites, most students do make (10)____________ their travel time to study.
1. A. installed	B. set	C. included	D. structured
2. A. extraordinary	B. occasional	C. exceptional	D. few
3. A. believed	B. acknowledged	C. estimated	D. realised
4. A. thought	B. imagined	C. suspected	D. wondered
5. A. increase	B. enlarge	C. rise	D. heighten
6. A. got	B. looked	C. came	D. put
7. A. total	B. amount	C. number	D. measure
8. A. brings	B. picks	C. rides	D. catches
9. A. Since	B. Despite	C. Although 	D. However
10. A. progress	B. work	C. use	D. part
Exercise 6. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS
On the fourth day, we started our descent from the mountain range. We walked down the narrow track in single (1)________, taking care not to slip on the wet surface. We followed the river down a steep-sided (2)_______, stopping just once along the way to take a shower under a beautiful______(3). Soon the (4)_________ began to change, with more and more trees and (5) ________ vegetation. Several (6)_______ of birds flew overhead, and we saw an amazing multi-colored snake lying under a small (7)________ as we walked past. By the afternoon, the countryside was changing again as we approached the coast. Here, there were (8)_________ where farmers grew a variety of crops such as wheat, and we saw a (9)_________ of cows near a farmhouse. Then we climbed up and down some tall, grass-covered (10)________, and at last we had arrived at the sea.
1. A. line 	B. file 	C. track	D. queue
2. A. channel	B. lagoon	C. canal	D. valley
3. A. pond	B. waterfall	C. current	D. bath
4. A. scenery	B. sights	C. settings	D. scenes
5. A. dense	B. tight	C. intense	D. close
6. A. crews	B. bunches	C. flocks	D. crowds
7. A. wood	B. hedge	C. bush	D. forest
8. A. deserts	B. fields	C. shores	D. jungles
9. A. team	B. gang	C. pack	D. herd
10. A. dunes	B. beaches	C. plains	D. fences
Exercise 7. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
GIRLS AND TECHNOLOGY
	If you want your daughter to succeed, buy her a toy construction set. That is the advice from Britain’s (1) ___________ female engineers and scientists. Marie-Noelle Barton, who heads an Engineering Council campaign to encourage girls into science and engineering, maintains that some of Britain’s most successful women have had their careers (2) ___________ by the toys they played with as children. Even girls who end (3)___________ nowhere near a microchip or microscope could benefit from a better (4) ___________ of science and technology. 
	‘It’s a (5) ___________ of giving them experience and confidence with technology so that when they are (6) ___________ with a situation requiring some technical known-how, they feel they can handle it and don’t just (7) ___________ defeat immediately’, says Mrs. Barton. ‘I believe that lost of girls feel unsure of themselves when it comes (8) ___________ technology and therefore they might be losing out on jobs because they are reluctant even to apply for them.’ 
	Research recently carried out suggests that scientific and constructional toys should be (9) ___________ to girls from an early age, otherwise the result is ‘socialization’ into stereotypical female (10) ___________, which may explain why relatively few girls study science and engineering at university in Britain. Only 14% of those who have gone for engineering options at university this year are women, although this figure does represent an improvement of the 7% recorded some years ago. 
1. A. predominant	 	B. foremost	C. surpassing	D. uppermost 
2. A. styled	B. shaped	C. built	D. modeled 
3. A. by	B. in	C. up	D. on 
4. A. insight	B. hold	C. realization	D. grasp 
5. A. situation	B. state	C. matter	D. cause 
6. A. presented	B. encountered	C. approached	D. offered 
7. A. allow	B. receive	C. admit	D. permit 
8. A. to	B. with	C. from	D. for 
9. A. feasible	B. reachable	C. obtainable 	D. accessible 
10. A. roles	B. characters	C. parts	D. states
Exercise 8. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
Viewed from the outside (1)________, the Houses of Parliament look impressive. The architecture gives the place a traditional look, and the buildings are sandwiched between a busy square and the river, making them a (2)________ between the country house of an eccentric duke and a Victorian railway station. You have only to learn that the members (3)______ to each other as ‘The Honorable Member to (4)______ the picture of a dignified gentlemen’s club, with of course a few ladies to (5)_______ the numbers. Sadly, over the past few years first radio, and now television, have shown the general public, who are (6)______ the electorate, what in fact goes on when bills are discussed and questions are asked. The first obvious fact is that the chamber is very rarely full, and there may be only a handful of members present, some of whom are quite clearly asleep, telling jokes to their neighbor, or shouting like badly-behaved schoolchildren. There is not enough room for them all in the chamber in any (7)_______, which is a second worrying point. Of course, television does not follow the work of committees, which are the small discussions groups that do most of the real work of the House. But the (8)______ impression that voters receive of the workings of government is not a good one. To put it (9)_______, parliament looks disorganized, is clearly behind the time and seems to be filled with bores and comedians. This is presumably why members (10)_______ for so long the efforts of the BBC to broadcast parliamentary matters on television.
1. A. likewise 	B. at least 	C. nevertheless 	D. as well
2. A. mixture 	B. combination 	C. cross 	D. match
3. A. call 	B. refer 	C. speak 	D. submit
4. A. finalize 	B. end 	C. conclude 	D. complete
5. A. take away 	B. bring about 	C. make up 	D. set in
6. A. after all 	B. anyway 	C. even 	D. furthermore
7. A. point 	B. way 	C. matter 	D. case
8. A. total 	B. broad 	C. overall 	D. comprehensive
9. A. bluntly 	B. shortly 	C. directly 	D. basically
10. A. prevented 	B. checked 	C. defied 	D. resisted
Exercise 9. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
Last year Gladys Kalema became the Ugandan Wildlife Service's chief and only vet after (1)_____ for the Royal Veterinary College in London. She was the first person to fill the post for 30 years and at the age of 26, easily the youngest.
	If Gladys did nothing else, caring for the world's (2)______ population of 650 gorillas would alone justify her wages. Since the 1970s, gorillas have (3)______ severely from war and poaching. Now for $150 each, tourists can be led through the forest and come within five meters of gorilla – no closer, for (4)______ of transmitting diseases such as measles and flu.
	The gorillas here make a small but viable population. (5)______ in the national parts the usual animals, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, are either not there or present in insignificant numbers which are dangerously out of (6)______ with the creatures around them. If Uganda stays calm, wildlife may, in (7)_______, return by itself. But Gladys believes the country cannot wait. Animals must be brought in to swell tourism and provide (8)______to expand her work.
	Despite her difficulties, Gladys feels more useful and fulfilled than she would be anywhere else. "At this moment, my friends from vet school are reading the best way to (9)______ a cat or dog, and here am I planning to translocate elephants. In my small (10)_______ I am part of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of my country."
1. A. leaving	B. qualifying	C. graduating	D. passing
2. A. living	B. surviving	C. continuing	D. lasting
3. A. endured	B. harmed	C. died	D. suffered
4. A. risk	B. fear	C. fright	D. danger
5. A. Somewhere	B. Anywhere	C. Elsewhere	D. Nowhere
6. A. balance	B. relation	C. comparison	D. equality
7. A. terms	B. years	C. ages	D. time
8. A. figures	B. funds	C. accounts	D. savings
9. A. treat	B. prescribe	C. heal	D. operate
10. A. means	B. manner	C. method	D. way
Exercise 10. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage.
Action scenes in films
Modern cinema audiences expect to see plenty of thrilling scenes in action films. These scenes, which are (1)_________ as stunts, are usually performed by stuntmen who are specially trained to do dangerous things safely. (2)________ can crash a car, but if you are shooting a film, you have to be extremely (3)_________ sometimes stopping right in front of the camera and film crew. At an early (4)_________ in the production, an expert stuntman is (5)_________ in to work out the action scenes and form a team. He is the only person who can go (6)_________ the wishes of the director, although he will usually only do this in the (7)_________ of safety.
Many famous actors like to do the dangerous parts themselves, which produces better shots, since stuntmen don’t have to (8)_________ in for the actors. Actors like to become (9)_________ in all the important aspects of the character they are playing, but without the recent progress in safety equipment, insurance companies would never let them take the risk. To do their own stunts, actors need to be good athletes, but they must also be sensible and know their (10)__________.If they were to be hurt, the film would come to a sudden halt.
1. A. remarked	B. known	C. referred	D. named
2. A. Everyone	B. Someone	C. Anyone	D. No one
3. A. detailed	B. plain	C. straight	D. precise
4. A. period	B. minute	C. part	D. stage
5. A. led	B. taken	C. drawn	D. called
6. A. over	B. against	C. through	D. across
7. A. interests	B. needs	C. purposes	D. regards
8. A. work	B. get	C. put	D. stand
9. A. connected	B. arranged	C. involved	D. affected
10. A. limits	B. ends	C. frontiers	D. borders
________THE END______