15000 bài tập tách từ đề thi thử môn Tiếng Anh có đáp án (Phần 39)

Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China (27)________date from around 4000 BC.

However, the first (28)________ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050 BC.

The modern European alphabet is based on the Greek and spead (29)________other European countries under the Romans.

If we (30)________the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts.

If you want to prepare yourself for great achievement and have more to (31) ________ to your education or your work, try reading more books.

Pick (32) ________ some of the interestingly informative books and search for well-researched materials that can help you grow.

That is an interesting point of view worth further (33) ________.

The written word is an incredibly flexible and efficient way of communication.

Not only that, we can (35) ________ vast amounts of information through reading in a very short time.

Ever since it was first possible to make a real robot, people have been hoping for the invention of a machine (36) ________would do all the necessary jobs around the house.

If boring and repetitive factory work could be (37) ________by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too?

A factory robot (38) ________one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else. It doesn’t run the whole factory.

A housework robot, on the other hand, has to do severa different types of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope (39) ________all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs.

(40) ________, there have been some developments recently.

Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (41) ________ ecosystems.

If there is too (42) ________ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live.

Heat from a forest fire melts the seal ans lets the seeds (43) ________ . Polluting the air, soil and water can harm ecosystems.

Building (44) ________ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers.

Ecologists are working with companies and goverments to find better ways of (45) ________ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams.

This (46) ________ many problems, including serious air pollution, lengthy delays,

In addition, drivers could be required to pay for using particular routes at different times of the day.

This system, also known as ‘road pricing’, is already being introduced in a number of cities

, using a special electronic card (49) ________ to windscreen of the car.

Of course, the most important (50) ________ is to provide good public transport.

Once a site has been chosen, special tunneling machines are (51) ________ in to ceate passage and rooms in the sandstone.

Houses are of all shapes and (52) ________, the largest having twenty rooms, and some even have their own swimming poll.

Living underground may sound strange but in fact it has a number of advantages.

By the fierce dust storms that regularly sweep (54) ________ the area.

And of course, if your family (55) ________ or lots of friends come to stay, you can always dig another room.

Wise parents will have a (56) ________ attitude and take the lead from their child.

What they should provide is a selection of (57) ________ toys, books and other activities.

There is also a huge range of videos, (58) ________ can reinfore and extend the pleasure a child finds in a book

and are (59) ________ valuable in helping to increase vocabulary and concentration.

However, (60) ________ viewing of programs designed for young children can be useful.

Yet in that short time, they have (61) ________ an enormous contribution to modern medicine.

The first female doctors were nuns (62) ________ gave advice about diseases

(63) _______ and prepared medicnes.

In Britain, for centuries, male doctors were suspicious of women who pratised medicine (64) ________ and in 1512 a law was passed making it illegal for them to do so.

Women coulnd’t study medicine at universities (65) ________ the 19th century and they only began to gain equality with male doctors in the 20th century.

Statesmen define a family as "a group of individuals having a common dwelling and related by blood adoption or marriage, (66)_________ includes common-law relationships".

Although the definition of a family may not change, (67)_________ relationship of people to each other within the family group changes as society changes.

Today, men expect to work for pay for about 40 years of their lives, and, in today's marriages (68)_________ which both spouses have paying jobs, women can expect to work for about 30 to 35 years of their lives

This means that man must learn to do their share of family tasks such as caring for the children and daily (69)_________.

Children, too, especially adolescents, have to (70)_________ with the members of their family in sharing household tasks.

Many parents believe that they should begin to teach their children to read when they are (71) ________ more than toddlers

Nowadays there is plenty of good (72) ________ available for young children, and of course, seeing plenty of books in use about the house will also encourage them to read.

Television gets a bad review as far as children are concerned, mainly because too many spend too much time watching programmes not intended for their age (73) ________.

Just as adults enjoy reading a book after seeing it serialised on television, so children will pounce on books which (74) ________their favourite television characters,

and videos can add a new (75) ________to a story known from a book.