Bộ ôn tập Từ cùng trường nghĩa môn Tiếng anh có đáp án (Part 7)

He talked to a(n) counsellor/advisor about his marriage difficulties.

I waited so long for my turn to see the careers lawyer/advisor that I missed my train.

The documents were all in the safekeeping of the family attorney/solicitor, and would remain so until her death.

Under state law, a request for a special prosecutor can come only from a district attorney/counsellor.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

He served as international economic ______ in the White House.

My ______ is drawing up a building contract.

The family hired a prominent defence ______.

She was asked to take the witness stand and was then cross-examined by the state ______.

The doctor suggested that I might like to see a(n) ______ to help me deal with stress better.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

It is important to understand the particular group norms/laws that emerge to govern individual behaviour.

Social etiquette/law dictates that men cannot sit while women are standing.

The company’s actions violated the rule/law on equal employment.

The sport has strict rules/principles for player safety.

He doesn't invest in the arms industry on rule/principle.

There will be stricter norms/regulations dictating which foods are allowed in schools.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence,

She considers it poor ______ to invite people over and then cancel just the day before.

Doing what’s right appears to be more of a concern for him than for the average person; his platform is strongly governed by his personal ______.

In such matters, social and cultural ______ can dictate people’s behaviour.

The government has introduced some tough new ______ on food hygiene.

Tackling a player without the ball is against the ______.

He didn’t cover up for his former friend because it was against his ______.

To comply with government hygiene ______, there must be a separate sink for handwashing.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

His parents have a combined annual income/dole of more than £350.000. Both are successful lawyers.

The scholarship program provides monthly stipend/income for chosen postgraduate students to study in the UK which covers basic living expenses.

Her monthly take-home dole/pay after taxes is £2.600.

For many teachers at state schools, monthly salaries/pensions do not cover their daily needs.

At the time, Josh was earning about nine times more than the average American industrial worker's wages/dole.

Jane had worked for Peter’s family as a housekeeper for many years. After she left the family, he provided her with an annual salary/pension for the rest of her life.

The factory closure will mean another few hundred people having to live on the dole/pay.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

After the factory was closed, my uncle spent the next ten years on the ______. He got just £10 a week.

The report highlights the fact that many people are relying on the state ______ for their retirement income.

The $6,000 fellowship ______ that she had received for being in Dallas was three times that required to live like a well-off American student.

Banks now extend credit to low- ______ families, so that owning a home or driving a new car is no longer evidence that someone is middle class.

The workers agreed to a five-year contract, during which they were to be paid a daily ______ and were given promise of a return passage back to India.

This company has a(n) ______ of around £10 million a year.

Unemployed and facing the ______ queue, this enterprising young man decided to set up his own business.

After years of loyal service, his boss fired him just before he would have qualified for a(n) ______.

There are severe penalties for failing to declare all your ______ to the tax authorities.

She was offered a ______ of £500,000 a year to work for BBC.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

After the grueling test, he felt totally spent/jet-lagged.

The troops were already jet-lagged/fatigued from the long-forced march.

She was drowsy/weary from years and years of housework.

She was drowsy/worn out with the wine, so her husband drove them home.

He said nothing, and Alice had no choice but to follow him as they began their weary/tired trek across the wide, empty beach.

He was driving through the night, and he arrived in an exhausted/exhausting state.

I tried to watch the news on TV, but I was too tired/tiring to stay awake.

Before the race, he was fine. But afterwards he was exhausting/worn out.

After losing the game, the coach came to the press conference looking and sounding emotionally drained/drowsy.

Flowers explode with colour, tree trunks pulse with thick veins of sap, stones appear almost like living cells in the tired/drowsy heat of the mid-afternoon sun.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

By the time you near your last few reps, your muscles should be thoroughly ______

An older man with grey hair stepped into the room and sank down into one of the plastic chairs with a(n) ______ sigh, dropping his head into his hands.

You shouldn't drive after taking these pills - they can make you ______. You might fall asleep while driving.

I flew to Turkey and made my way on a series of long, ______ bus journeys to the Iraq border, manned by both Kurdish and American soldiers.

Looking after a baby on my own left me feeling utterly ______.

The ______ warmth of my room was beginning to take its toll on me, and I was soon sprawled in my bed asleep.

Cucumber is good for soothing ______ eyes.

Her last relationship left her emotionally ______. For a long time, she was not motivated to work, create, and pursue her goals and dreams.

When she got home from school after the test, she was so ______ that all she could do was flop down in front of the television.

He felt pleasantly ______ after a big lunch and had to fight off the urge to sleep.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

These cupcakes cost me three dollars every/each.

I get that wrong every/each single time.

My younger sister and I have one cat each/every - all together, we have two cats in our family.

Every/Each time I go to London, I get caught in a traffic jam.

These paintings may look like the real thing, but every/each one of them is a fake.

We every/each wanted the bedroom with the balcony, so we tossed a coin to decide.

Each/Every of the brothers has a different personality.

That salmon was very expensive, so make sure you eat up each/every single bit.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

He is indisputably/unambiguously an excellent player.

To achieve greatness, a filmmaker needs to direct three vaguely/unequivocally great movies.

I wasn't present at the conference, but apparently/unambiguously it went well.

We’re unambiguously/obviously going to need more help.

She walked slowly down the road, evidently/indisputably in pain.

He had an accident, evidently/unambiguously because he was driving at excessive speed.

The rules need to be unambiguously/undeniably clear.

"I didn’t realise it was a formal occasion." - "Indisputably/Obviously!"

Undeniably/Apparently, it's going to rain today.

Obviously/Unambiguously, the school cannot function without teachers.

She needs to deliver her message powerfully and undeniably/unequivocally.

There was unambiguously/obviously a great physical attraction between them.

She unambiguously/undeniably stated that she wanted to do the laundry herself.

The computer trouble was unambiguously/apparently caused by a programming error.

They both nodded in affirmation, undeniably/evidently satisfied.

Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following questions.

The audience evidently weren’t enjoying the show and some people began to leave.

This time his father declared unequivocally: "You’re getting no more money from me, and that's final."

His artworks indisputably constitute an important and influential 20^th- century legacy.

The kids next door didn’t even apologize for breaking our window with their baseball; they evidently have terrible manners.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

The stink/aroma of fresh baking wafted through the air.

Inside the room, there was the unmistakeable scent/odour of sweaty feet.

The sweet stink/scent of incense lingered in the air.

What perfume/smell are you wearing? It smells so good on you.

The stink/fragrance of wood smoke drifted through the village.

Lilacs, white and purple, sent waves of reek/perfume over the porch in the evenings when a breeze sprang up.

The air is heavy with the taste/smell of rain and moist vegetation.

The prisoner escaped because the dogs lost his scent/smell.

Twenty-seven dogs lived there - you can imagine the smell/perfume!

For the final touch, she sprayed her signature scent/odour, Le Labo Santal 33, around the room and walked through it.

They are about to launch their first fragrance/odour for men.

The room was filled with the scent/stink of sweat and urine.

Blind people often have a much better sense of smell/fragrance than other people.

There is an unmistakable scent/aroma of recovery in the air.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

The room smelt stale and musty with the pungent ______ of the fat tallow candles placed on the desk.

Kate took the rose and brought it to her nose, breathing in the sweet ______.

I can’t stand the ______ of rotten meat.

Someone should tell him to use a deodorant to prevent his body ______.

Residents can smell the ______ of sizzling bacon and fresh-brewed coffee from down the hall before they ever see their meal.

Picking a fragrance for another person can be tricky, but Chanel No. 5 is the little black dress of ______ - always a good idea.

The ______ of rotting seaweed was strong along the seashore.

It smelt not only of mud and rotting materials, but also the unmistakable ______ of human waste.

The fruity, woodsy ______ of the jujubes pairs with the floral, honeyed syrup, and their dense, spongy texture complements the chewy mochi.

Pigs have a keen sense of ______, which is why they are used to find truffles.

The ______ is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed of uncaringly in an open public place.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

Our goal/purpose is for the country to be fully independent within two years.

The leaflet has been produced with the goal/aim of increasing public awareness of the disease.

The purpose/goal of the occasion was to raise money for medical supplies.

Government objectives/targets for waiting lists are beginning to be met.

The university will reach its goal/target of 5 000 students next September.

He gave her a sum of money which she used to good aim/purpose.

The project's objectives/purposes were adumbrated in the report.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

He looks very doubtful/suspicious hanging around by the bins - I'm sure he's up to something.

It now looks doubtful/suspicious that the building work will be completed on time.

My parents were dubious/sceptical about it at first but we soon convinced them.

The public remain dubious/sceptical of these claims.

Even if we could go, which is highly doubtful/sceptical, John wouldn't be able to come with us.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

I've always been ______ about the effectiveness of the alternative therapies.

Inform the police immediately if you see anything ______.

It was ______ that the money would ever be found again.

Those figures alone are a ______ basis for such a conclusion.

Colleagues became ______ when he started acting strangely.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

We were amazed/shocked to see John looking so well, so soon after his operation. We all felt relieved.

The rabbits were so taken aback/startled that they ran off in all directions.

Noal was really shocked/amazed by his girlfriend’s sudden death.

There was to be no stunned/taken aback silence, so aghast staring and, it seemed, no dramatic response from Lucas.

I was always startled/taken aback by the lack of knowledge of local people about what was going on.

I was taken aback/astounded that there was a kitchen on the plane, serving up warm food.

When Lucas heard he was being handed a family fortune, he was very surprised/taken aback.

Josh was astonished/startled by his own stupidity.

She was taken aback/shocked at such an improper suggestion.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

In ______ silence, her eyes huge, disbelieving, she wordlessly stared at him.

Many people were ______ by the real sex scenes in the movie. Those scenes were disgusting!

One investigator was examining the crime scene. He was ______ to see a woman’s face peering back at him through the window.

Dumbfounded, panting, ______ by his own stupidity and rage, and spitting blood, Robert just sat there for a while.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

Fat that is poured down the sink will thwart/block the drain.

She was thwarted/prevented in her attempt to take control of the party.

An ugly new building blocked/prevented the view from the window.

The new law blocks/bars smoking in all public places.

Some teachers felt hindered/prevented by a lack of resources when teaching online.

The high price of the service could deter/block people from seeking advice.

She was very talented, and I felt her parents were deterring/blocking her progress.

A good sunscreen will help thwart/prevent sunburn.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

After today's heavy snow, many roads are still ______.

High winds have ______ firefighters in their efforts to put out the blaze.

The troubled accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to ______ government investigators.

Will this harsher punishment effectively ______ criminals?      

The drug inhibits the replication of cancer cells, thereby ______ their spread.

Visitors were ______ from taking bags into the building, metal detectors were installed and police carrying machine guns patrolled the foyer.

Government officials, who knew that the findings would likely be negative and fearful that they would leak, ______ the effort.

One of the guards moved to ______ her path.

These laws will ______ our economy rather than help progress.

The internet has ______ young people from talking to each other.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

He was listening/hearing intently to what she was saying.

He listened/heard a noise and went to investigate.

Every morning I listen/hear to my Mozart CD while I’m having breakfast. It prepares me mentally for the day.

The human ear cannot listen/hear very high-frequency sounds.

The music was beautiful. We just sat there and listened/heard.

I could listen/hear someone calling my name.

I listened/heard with half an ear to the conversation at the next table.

I could listen/hear the sound of traffic in the background.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

During the game, the fighters/combatants had to be separated by the referee.

Just like other local soldiers/warriors, they also served in various military units nationwide.

The smoke of fires, as well as cannon, meant that the servicemen/combatants fought without seeing clearly what was around them.

All ranks from the most junior troopers/civilians to senior officers will benefit.

Jane knew how easy it would be for Tom to just die right then and there, but she also knew he was a determined fighter/soldier.

Alexander the Great is known as one of the greatest troopers/warriors ever. He was a renowned king in an ancient Greek town. He conquered and expanded his empire to parts of India, Persia, Syria, Egypt among others.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

He wrote about his life as a British ______ stationed in Burma.

Boxing has been through periods when it seems all the top ______ are ducking each other, but this isn’t one of those periods.

A Viking ______ would be buried with his weapons: usually with his sword, spear, shield, and battle-axe.

There will be months of physiotherapy, but medical staff say Jane’s a real ______

In the long Russo-Swedish conflict, both ______ endured terrible sacrifices.

Last month, a New Jersey gym owner and former mixed martial arts ______ was sentenced to three years and five months in prison.

After an Indian ______ was killed during the protests and street fighting, security forces opened fire on crowds, resulting in the killing of five more people on Saturday night.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

Obviously as sales manager/supervisor he'll be very involved in the promotion and marketing of the product.

She became the corporate controller/regulator after working for years in the accountancy department

On these occasions, at least two extra controllers/supervisors assisted the instructor with the testing procedure.

In pursuing social policy objectives, managers/regulators also often impose investment restrictions or minimum return guarantees.

The comedian is unavailable for comment, according to her manager/supervisor.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

She likes aviation but didn't want to fly, so she became an air traffic ______.

A significant proportion of workers felt they had been bullied by their immediate ______.

He has worked as a human resource ______ in business firms and non-profit organizations for more than twenty years.

Congress is investigating why it took so long for government ______ to shut the plant down.

Each student has a ______ to advise on the writing of the dissertation.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

The magic show had a lot of audience/spectator participation, with people shouting things to the performers and going up on stage.

The new football stadium will hold 75 000 audiences/spectators.

It is estimated that four million viewers/onlookers watched the program.

A crowd of curious viewers/onlookers soon gathered to see what was happening.

Marshals struggled in vain to prevent onlookers/spectators from rushing onto the racetrack.

Cinema audiences/viewers would be more accepting of this sort of advertising.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

The racing car left the track at 120 mph and scythed through the crowd of ______, killing ten.

Most cable ______ have a few channels that they watch regularly.

The final game attracted a crowd of over 50,000 ______.

He was soon encouraging ______ participation and several women came up on stage.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

In developing countries, more than 640 million are without lodging/shelter.

She left house/home and began an independent life at sixteen.

You should book your travel accommodations/houses and flights quickly.

They opened a(n) shelter/accommodation to provide temporary housing for the city’s homeless.

Eventually she had to give up her house and go into a nursing home/house.

It costs a lot to buy a lodging/house in this part of London.

It was cheaper to live in households/lodgings than in a hotel.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

It's unusual for young people over 25 to still live in the family ______.

They were anxious to find ______ for the night.

______ prices have tripled over the last ten years.

He was living on the streets for three months, and his ______ was a carboard box.

The organization provides food and ______ for homeless people.

Nora's parents lost custody, and she was placed in a children's ______.

During the construction work, nursery school children and staff will be housed in temporary ______ opposite the existing building.

He was an abused dog that Sophia rescued from an animal ______.

I'm worried about leaving him alone in the ______ all day.

You won’t find any luxurious ______, but there are adequate hotels and guest houses.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

Irecognized/realized that it was too late to stop them from finding out.

He'd completely changed - I didn't recognize/realize him.

Two of the suspects have been recognized/identified by witnesses.

You must accredit/acknowledge the truth of her argument.

Institutions that do not meet the standards will not be accredited/acknowledge for teacher training.

You don't seem to realize /identify the seriousness of the situation.

I have to identify/acknowledge the fact that I am partly responsible.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

Passengers were asked to ______ their own suitcases before they were put on the plane.

Many families fail to ______ the importance of a well-balanced diet.

The president ______ his mistake in not vetoing the tax bill.

As we drew alongside the black car, I suddenly ______ my ex-boyfriend at the wheel.

This degree programme is fully ______ by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

The police car was going so rapid/fast, it must have been chasing someone.

I only had time for a quick/fast glance at the paper this morning.

The police took fast/swift action against the rioters.

Technological progress has been so rapid/swift over the last few years.

Your quick/fast response in an emergency could be a life-saver for your child.

Given his age, he's a remarkably quick/fast runner.

Rapid/Swift economic growth pushed unemployment to relatively low levels.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

We need to have a ______ chat before the meeting.

They will take ______ action to resolve these issues.

The report notes a ______ decline in manufactured goods.

Fares start at about 20 in second class on a slow train, rising to 100 for first- class on a ______ train.

The ______ growth of opposition to the plan has surprised the council.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

She gazed/observed that every man in the room had removed his hat.

The man behind the desk eyed/looked us suspiciously.

He sat for hours just gazing/observing into space (= looking straight in front, not at any particular person or thing).

The new teacher will give the lesson today and the principal will observe/stare.

I was in the living room, looking/watching TV.

He was looking/observing down the road to see if the bus was coming

He watched/stared at me bleakly and said nothing.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

The dog sat there, ______ my sandwich as I ate.

Children learn by ______ their parents and others.

He stopped talking suddenly and ______ into the distance.

He spent the entire afternoon ______ a cricket match.

They ______ the bus disappear into the distance.

He spent a year in the jungle, ______ how deforestation is affecting local tribes.

She ambled down the street, stopping occasionally to ______ in the shop windows.

The children ______ the cakes greedily.

She sat ______ out the window at the people walking by.

She correctly ______ that there was very little difference between the two parties on domestic policies.

I ______ in the mirror to see if my tie was straight.

Mavis ______ the old sewing machine. "Does this still work?" she asked.

Circle the word which best fits the sentence.

The issue of where the peace talks will be held may seem undersized/trivial, but to the participants it is very important.

Forensic scientists use microscopes when looking for minute/trivial clues to help solve crimes.

He listened to all her problems, no matter how petty/minute and insignificant, and offered solutions, never once laughing.

It is thought to have exploded on Saturday night or Sunday morning and, fortunately, caused severe/minor damage.

Weight is important. If the animals are undersized/petty, they may not survive the seven-month long hibernation period.

He would try anything to make her even the smallest/pettiest degree happier.

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits the sentence.

The substance is so toxic that even a(n) ______ dose of it could be fatal.

It wasn't such a long time ago that we died from what are now considered to be ______ illnesses.

His only injuries were some ______ scratches above his eyes.

Did you buy any other ______ travel items for your week-long stay in Somerset?

They bought a nice ______ house near the beach.

Then their marriage went sour. They started having arguments over ______ things.

The contract seems fine, except for a few ______ details.

Sexual harassment in the workplace is not a(n) ______ matter.

Though a football all-star in high school, he was just a mediocre, ______ player at the college level.