Câu hỏi:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

‘Sorry, we’re late. It took us ages to look for a parking place,’ said John.

Whole villages were.........by the floods last year.

....., Nam Cao is a realistic writer, but he still used a lot of romance in his stories.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out (31).....much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a fact that some people who are very successful academically don’t have any common sense?

Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. (32)......scientists are now preparing advanced computer technology that will be able to “read” our brains, for the present, tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence.

A person’s IQ is his intelligence (33)......it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946. By 1976 it had 1,300 members in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (34)......in the US.

People taking the tests are judged in relation to an average score of 100, and those (35)......score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2% of the population.

Question 34

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that need correction in each of the following sentences.

Today the (A) number of people (B) whom enjoy winter sports (C) is almost double (D) that of twenty years ago.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that need correction in each of the following sentences.

There (A) are probably (B) around 3,000 languages (C) speaking in (D) the world.

When my mother is busy preparing dinner, my father often gives her a hand.....the housework.