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WorksheetsCambridge 12 Test 2
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
What does 'vulnerable' mean?
able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
not able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
able to be easily physically hurt, influenced, or attacked
able to be easily mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
Which word means 'ăn sâu, thấm nhuần'?
"At the same time, cultural values are highly entrenched in food and agricultural systems worldwide."
cultural values
highly entrenched
agricultural systems
Which word means 'sự biến động giá cả'?
"Farmers everywhere face major risks, including extreme weather, long-term climate change, and price volatility in input and product markets."
extreme weather
climate change
price volatility
input
Which phrase means 'nông dân sản xuất nhỏ'?
small farmer
smallholder farmer
smallholding farmer
smallhold farmer
Which is NOT a synonym of 'Adverse'?
unfavourable
disadvantageous
detrimental
harmless
What is NOT a synonym of 'Prevalent'?
uncommon
predominant
common
rife
Which is the correct definition of 'underlying'?
real and immediately obvious
real but not immediately obvious
not real but immediately obvious
Which words are missing:
"On the question of ________ the risks farmers face, most essayists called for greater state intervention."
timigating - intervention
immitating - invention
mitigating - intervention
Which phrase means 'sự biến động lớn'?
Sophia Murphy suggested that the procurement and holding of stocks by governments can also help mitigate wild swings in food prices by alleviating uncertainties about market supply.
procurement and holding
wild swings
alleviating uncertainties
market supply
Which word DOESN'T mean 'buying'?
Procurement
Purchase
Sale
Which word means 'Intervention'?
interference
intersection
internalization
Which phrase means 'phúc lợi công'?
(a)
What does 'translate' in this sentence mean?
"Some commentators responded that cash transfers to poor families do not necessarily translate into increased food security, as these programmes do not always strengthen food production or raise incomes."
biên dịch
đồng nghĩa (với việc...)
Which phrase means 'an ninh lương thực'?
(a)
Which phrase means 'trợ cấp nhà nước'?
(a)
What does the underlined word mean?
"Regarding state subsidies for agriculture, Rokeya Kabir commented in her essay that these ‘have not compensated for the stranglehold exercised by private traders."
complete control
partial control
partly control
Which is NOT a synonym of 'beneficiary' in this sentence:
"In fact, studies show that sixty percent of beneficiaries of subsidies are not poor, but rich landowners and non-farmer traders.’
giver
receiver
recipient
inheritor
Which word means 'sự minh bạch'?
(a)
Which phrase means 'tác dụng phụ'?
(a)
Which word means 'hàng hóa', rather than 'goods'?
(a)
Which words are missing?
"Murphy noted that when futures markets become excessively _________ they can contribute to short-term price _________, which increases farmers’ food _________ ."
financialised - volatility- security
financialised - volatility- insecurity
financialised - involatility- insecurity
Which words are missing:
"Many participants and commentators emphasised that greater (sự minh bạch) in markets is needed to (giảm thiểu) the impact of volatility, and make evident whether (đủ) stocks and supplies are available."
transparency - mitigate - inadequate
transparent - mitigation - adequate
transparency - mitigate - adequate
Which phrase means 'năng suất cây trồng'?
(a)
Which word means 'cường độ'?
Fan explained that ‘in addition to reducing crop yields, climate change increases the magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events, which increase smallholder vulnerability.’
yields
magnitude
frequency
vulnerability
Which word is missing:
"According to this author, one solution would be to develop crop varieties that are more _________ to new climate trends and extreme weather patterns"
relevant
related
responsive
resilient
What does the underlined word mean?
"Some participating authors and commentators argued in favour of community-based and autonomous risk management strategies through collective action groups, co-operatives or producers’ groups."
các nhóm hành động
các nhóm hành động riêng lẻ
các nhóm hành động chung
What does the underlined word mean?
"Such groups enhance market opportunities for small-scale producers, reduce marketing costs and synchronise buying and selling with seasonal price conditions."
đồng bộ hóa
hệ thống hóa
cải cách
hiện đại hóa
Which word means 'các bên liên quan'?
"In order to ‘apply what we already know’, all stakeholders, including business, government, scientists and civil society, must work together, starting at the beginning of the value chain."
stakeholders
civil society
value chain
Which word means 'trung gian':
"Some participants explained that market price volatility is often worsened by the presence of intermediary purchasers who, taking advantage of farmers’ vulnerability, dictate prices."
volatility
presence
intermediary
dictate
Which phrase means 'sự biến động giá cả'?
(a)
Which word means 'đế chế'?
(a)
What does 'encounter' mean?
"An explorer’s encounter with the ruined city of Machu Picchu, the most famous icon of the Inca civilsation."
an unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something
an unexpected or casual working with someone
an unexpected or casual appointment with someone or something
Which word means 'nền văn minh'?
(a)
What does the underlined word mean?
"Cusco lies on a high plateau at an elevation of more than 3,000 metres, and Bingham’s plan was to descend from this plateau along the valley of the Urubamba river."
ascend
go down
climb
go up
Which word means 'đi trước'?
"When Bingham and his team set off down the Urubamba in late July, they had an advantage over travelers who had preceded them: a track had recently been blasted down the valley canyon to enable rubber to be brought up by mules from the jungle.'
set off
preceded
blasted
What is NOT a synonym of 'blast'?
explode
destroy
stop
blow up
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"The morning was dull and damp, and Bingham also seems to have been less than keen on the prospect of climbing the hill."
Bingham likes climbing the hill
Bingham is keen on climbing the hill
Bingham is not eager for climbing the hill at all
What DOESN'T the underlined phrase mean?
"In his book Lost City of the Incas, he relates that he made the ascent without having the least expectation that he would find anything at the top."
ascend
climb
descend
Which can be a synonym of 'vivid'?
"Bingham writes about the approach in vivid style in his book."
dramatic
significant
drastic
What does 'accounts' in 'Different accounts of the same journey' mean?
a work of hindsight
journal entries
books
What does 'chronicler' mean?
niên đại học
biên niên sử
nhà biên niên sử
What does 'flee' mean?
"Thousands of fugitives are fleeing from the war-torn area.."
escape
move into
immigrate
What does 'perplex' mean?
"One question that has perplexed visitors, historians and archaeologists alike ever since Bingham, is why the site seems to have been abandoned before the Spanish Conquest."
answer
support
confuse
arrticulate
Which word has the opposite meaning to 'ancestor'?
descendant
ascendant
senior
What does 'Monolingual' mean?
able to use one language well
able to use two languages well
able to use many languages well
Which word mean 'tương ứng?
"For bilingual people, this activation is not limited to a single language; auditory input activates corresponding words regardless of the language to which they belong."
bilingual
auditory
corresponding
What does 'juggle' mean?
"As a result, the constant juggling of two languages creates a need to control how much a person accesses a language at any given time. For this reason, bilingual people often perform better on tasks that require conflict management."
change
replace
transform
What does 'excel' mean?
"Bilingual people often excel at tasks such as this, which tap into the ability to ignore competing perceptual information and focus on the relevant aspects of the input."
to be extremely bad at something
to be extremely good at something
to be extremely terrible at something
to be extremely clumsy at something
What does 'tap into' NOT mean?
"Bilingual people often excel at tasks such as this, which tap into the ability to ignore competing perceptual information and focus on the relevant aspects of the input."
make use of (+)
take advantage of (+)
overuse
Which phrase means 'phản ứng thân não'?
"When monolingual and bilingual adolescents listen to simple speech sounds without any intervening background noise, they show highly similar brain stem responses."
simple speech sounds
intervening background noise
brain stem responses
Which phrase means 'tần số cơ bản'?
"When researchers play the same sound to both groups in the presence of background noise, however, the bilingual listeners’ neural response is considerably larger, reflecting better encoding of the sound’s fundamental frequency, a feature of sound closely related to pitch perception"
neural response
fundamental frequency
pitch perception
What do 'acquire' and 'master', in turn, mean?
"Such improvements in cognitive and sensory processing may help a bilingual person to process information in the environment, and help explain why bilingual adults acquire a third language better than monolingual adults master a second language."
learn smt - become proficient in smt
buy smt - become proficient in smt
learn smt - become unskillful in smt
Which phrase means 'bệnh thoái hóa não'?
"In a study of over 200 patients with Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative brain disease, bilingual patients reported showing initial symptoms of the disease an average of five years later than monolingual patients."
Alzheimer’s disease
degenerative brain disease
initial symptoms
Which is a synonym of 'Seriousness'?
Severity
Severition
Severitiness
What does 'monolingual counterparts' NOT mean?
"Surprisingly, the bilinguals’ brains had more physical signs of disease than their monolingual counterparts, even though their outward behaviour and abilities were the same."
monolinguals
monolingual people
monolingual peers
monolingual non-speakers
What does 'navigate' in the following phrase mean?
"This suggests that for very young children, as well as for older people, navigating a multilingual environment imparts advantages that transfer far beyond language."
loạn hướng
định hướng
mất phương hướng
What does 'imparts advantages' in the following phrase mean?
"This suggests that for very young children, as well as for older people, navigating a multilingual environment imparts advantages that transfer far beyond language."
take away advantages
bring advantages
introduce advantages
What does 'engage a language' mean?
"Bilingual people engage both languages simultaneously."
use a language
learn a language
give up using a language
What does 'simultaneously' mean?
"Bilingual people engage both languages simultaneously."
at nearly the same time
at almost the same time
at exactly the same time
