50 CÂU HỎI
The first (1) _____ died two weeks ago in Vietnam and there have been the cases reported since in Thailand, and there are some suspected cases in Cambodia as well as.
A. victim
B. casualty
C. sufferer
D. infector
The first case (2) _____ someone died was in Hong Kong in 1997.
A. where
B. when
C. which
D. why
There are the several different forms of bird flu, ranging from mild to very (3) _____ infections, which spreading rapidly and kill many of the birds they infect.
A. strict
B. severe
C. serious
D. heavy
They can spread the virus to farm birds through (4) _____ contact or by the contaminating water supplies.
A. direct
B. straight
C. immediate
D. square
World Health Organization officials have attributed the spread of bird flu to human contact with the droppings of infected birds and (5) _____ sanitation.
A. awful
B. bad
C. terrible
D. poor
But how much do we understand about this complex force (31)______ can kill and spread fear?
A. what
B. which
C. when
D. where
Gusts of over 130 km/h (32)______ through the region
A. ran
B. blew
C. flew
D. spread
Nineteen people were killed, £1.5-billion worth of damage was (33) ______ and 19 million trees were blown down in just a few hours.
A. paid
B. created
C. resulted
D. caused
Although people thought of this as a hurricane, the winds of 1987 were only a (34)______ 7 storm. They remain far better known than the much more serious storms of January 25, 1990, when most of Britain was hit by daytime winds of up to 173 km/h.
A. strength
B. length
C. power
D. force
On this occasion, 47 people were killed, even though, (35)______ in 1987, the weather forecasters issued accurate warnings.
A. when
B. like
C. unlike
D. such as
Some time ago, scientists began experiments to find out (31)______ it would be possible to set up a “village” under the sea.
A. which
B. what
C. how
D. whether
A special room was built and lowered (32)______ the water of Port Sudan in the Red Sea.
A. underneath
B. into
C. down
D. below
At a (33)______ lower level, another two divers stayed for a week in a smaller “house”.
A. any
B. more
C. much
D. some
On returning to the surface, the men said that they had experienced no difficulty in breathing and had (34)______ many interesting scientific observations.
A. made
B. exercised
C. caught
D. done
The captain of the party, Commander Cousteau, spoke of the possibility of (35)______ the seabed.
A. implanting
B. transplanting
C. growing
D. cultivating
One of the most (31) _____ -used reference books is a dictionary, which provides information about words.
A. greatly
B. mainly
C. widely
D. largely
It lists meanings and spellings, tells how a word is pronounced, gives (32) _____ of how it is used, may reveal its origins and also lists synonyms and antonyms.
A. evidence
B. roof
C. examples
D. cases
To help you find the words faster, there are guide words at the top of each page showing the first and last words on that page - and of course it (33) _____ to know the alphabet!
A. assists
B. pays
C. helps
D. works
There is usually a section at the front (34) _____ how to use the dictionary, which includes the special abbreviations or signs.
A. explaining
B. interpreting
C. suggesting
D. presenting
To find a specific place, you need to look in the (35) _____ at the back of the atlas and the exact position on the map.
A. foreword
B. preface
C. complement
D. index
(31)______ homework today still means spending time in the library, it’s for a different reason.
A. But
B. For
C. While
D. Because
Rather than using books for research, students today are (32)______ to the Internet to download enormous amounts of data available online.
A. connecting
B. linking
C. searching
D. looking
In the past, students were limited to their school’s (33)______ of books. In many cases, they got to the school library and found out that someone had already taken the books they needed.
A. select
B. selective
C. selectively
D. selection
Students, however, do have to
(34)______ sure that the information they find online is true.
A. do
B. get
C. make
D. come
This is because online (35)______ allow students to electronically upload their homework for their teachers to read and mark.
A. materials
B. systems
C. structures
D. sources
The schools teach a (31) _____ many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee?
A. large
B. great
C. far
D. lost
This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate, with people and to (32) _____ your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will both understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.
A. interpret
B. give out
C. transfer
D. present
Of course, skill in expression is not enough (33) _____ itself.
A. on
B. for
C. by
D. in
Expressing one's thoughts is one skill that the school can (34) _____ teach.
A. quite
B. hardly
C. truly
D. really
The foundations for skill in expression have to be laid early: an interest in and an ear (35) _____ language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the habit of verbal expression.
A. by
B. of
C. for
D. when
CARE was (1) _____ in 1945 to help people after World War II.
A. founded
B. build
C. found
D. constructed
It distributed over 100 million food (2) _____.
A. packages
B. wraps
C. parcels
D. pieces
CARE gives equipment and (3) _____ people how to build water systems, roads, schools and health centers.
A. says
B. tells
C. orders
D. informs
It also teaches people how to increase production on farms, how to reforest areas, and how to (4) _____ small village industries.
A. start
B. begin
C. take up
D. turn on
They train people to provide (5) _____ medical care.
A. elementary
B. only
C. easy
D. primitive
The (1) _____ of the earth is caused by exhaust gas from automobile engines, factories and power stations.
A. heating
B. warming
C. poisoning
D. harming
Carbon dioxide goes up into the atmosphere, and it forms a kind of factories that keeps or rather allows the sunshine in but stop the earth’s heart (2) _____ getting out.
A. against
B. up
C. from
D. away
This (3) _____ in temperature will cause big changes to the world's climate.
A. rise
B. raise
C.fall
D. drop
The second problem is the (4) _____ of the ozone layer.
A. loss
B. lose
C. losing
D. lost
The sulfurous smoke from factories and power stations mixes with rain clouds and gets blown by the wind and then falls as acid rain (5) _____ destroys lakes and forests.
A. it
B. which
C. what
D. they
The warming ot the Earth is caused by exhaust gas from automobile engines, factories and power (23) ________.
A. companies
B. factories
C. sites
D. stations
Carbon dioxide goes up into the atmosphere, and it form a kind of screen that keeps or allows the sunshine in but stop the Earth heat (24) _______ getting out.
A. from
B. up
C. against
D. away
It works like a greenhouse, that’s why we call (25) ________ the Green House effect.
A. is
B. be
C. it
D. them
This (26) ________ in temperature will cause big changes to the world’s climate.
A. raise
B. rise
C. drop
D. fall
The sea level will increase as the ice (27) _______ the poles will melt.
A. covering
B. covers
C. covered
D. cover
Personal space is a term that refers (23) ………….. the distance we like to keep between ourselves and other people.
A.from
B. about
C. to
D. for
When (24) …………….we do not know well gets too close we usually begin to feel uncomfortable
A.people
B. anyone
C. someone
D. nobody
If a business colleague comes closer than 1.2 meters, the most common response is to move (25) ……………..
A.up
B. away
C. on
D. in
Some interesting (26) ….……… have been done in libraries.
A.survey
B. questionnaires
C. research
D. studies
. People use newspapers (27) ………….. a barrier between themselves and other people, and if they do not have one, they stare into the distance, making sure they are not looking into anyone’s eyes.
A.like
B. alike
C. as
D. such as