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Cambridge 12 Test 2

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does 'vulnerable' mean?

a)

able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked

b)

not able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked

c)

able to be easily physically hurt, influenced, or attacked

d)

able to be easily mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked

2.

Which word means 'ăn sâu, thấm nhuần'?

"At the same time, cultural values are highly entrenched in food and agricultural systems worldwide."

a)

cultural values

b)

highly entrenched

c)

agricultural systems

3.

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."

a)

extreme weather

b)

climate change

c)

price volatility

d)

input

4.

Which phrase means 'nông dân sản xuất nhỏ'?

a)

small farmer

b)

smallholder farmer

c)

smallholding farmer

d)

smallhold farmer

5.

Which is NOT a synonym of 'Adverse'?

a)

unfavourable

b)

disadvantageous

c)

detrimental

d)

harmless

6.

What is NOT a synonym of 'Prevalent'?

a)

uncommon

b)

predominant

c)

common

d)

rife

7.

Which is the correct definition of 'underlying'?

a)

real and immediately obvious

b)

real but not immediately obvious

c)

not real but immediately obvious

8.

Which words are missing:

"On the question of ________ the risks farmers face, most essayists called for greater state intervention."

a)

timigating - intervention

b)

immitating - invention

c)

mitigating - intervention

9.

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.

a)

procurement and holding

b)

wild swings

c)

alleviating uncertainties

d)

market supply

10.

Which word DOESN'T mean 'buying'?

a)

Procurement

b)

Purchase

c)

Sale

11.

Which word means 'Intervention'?

a)

interference

b)

intersection

c)

internalization

12.

Which phrase means 'phúc lợi công'?

(a)  

13.

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."

a)

biên dịch

b)

đồng nghĩa (với việc...)

14.

Which phrase means 'an ninh lương thực'?

(a)  

15.

Which phrase means 'trợ cấp nhà nước'?

(a)  

16.

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."

a)

complete control

b)

partial control

c)

partly control

17.

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.’

a)

giver

b)

receiver

c)

recipient

d)

inheritor

18.

Which word means 'sự minh bạch'?

(a)  

19.

Which phrase means 'tác dụng phụ'?

(a)  

20.

Which word means 'hàng hóa', rather than 'goods'?

(a)  

21.

Which words are missing?

"Murphy noted that when futures markets become excessively _________ they can contribute to short-term price _________, which increases farmers’ food _________ ."

a)

financialised - volatility- security

b)

financialised - volatility- insecurity

c)

financialised - involatility- insecurity

22.

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."

a)

transparency - mitigate - inadequate

b)

transparent - mitigation - adequate

c)

transparency - mitigate - adequate

23.

Which phrase means 'năng suất cây trồng'?

(a)  

24.

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.’

a)

yields

b)

magnitude

c)

frequency

d)

vulnerability

25.

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"

a)

relevant

b)

related

c)

responsive

d)

resilient

26.

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."

a)

các nhóm hành động

b)

các nhóm hành động riêng lẻ

c)

các nhóm hành động chung

27.

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."

a)

đồng bộ hóa

b)

hệ thống hóa

c)

cải cách

d)

hiện đại hóa

28.

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."

a)

stakeholders

b)

civil society

c)

value chain

29.

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."

a)

volatility

b)

presence

c)

intermediary

d)

dictate

30.

Which phrase means 'sự biến động giá cả'?

(a)  

31.

Which word means 'đế chế'?

(a)  

32.

What does 'encounter' mean?

"An explorer’s encounter with the ruined city of Machu Picchu, the most famous icon of the Inca civilsation."

a)

an unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something

b)

an unexpected or casual working with someone

c)

an unexpected or casual appointment with someone or something

33.

Which word means 'nền văn minh'?

(a)  

34.

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."

a)

ascend

b)

go down

c)

climb

d)

go up

35.

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.'

a)

set off

b)

preceded

c)

blasted

36.

What is NOT a synonym of 'blast'?

a)

explode

b)

destroy

c)

stop

d)

blow up

37.

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."

a)

Bingham likes climbing the hill

b)

Bingham is keen on climbing the hill

c)

Bingham is not eager for climbing the hill at all

38.

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."

a)

ascend

b)

climb

c)

descend

39.

Which can be a synonym of 'vivid'?

"Bingham writes about the approach in vivid style in his book."

a)

dramatic

b)

significant

c)

drastic

40.

What does 'accounts' in 'Different accounts of the same journey' mean?

a)

a work of hindsight

b)

journal entries

c)

books

41.

What does 'chronicler' mean?

a)

niên đại học

b)

biên niên sử

c)

nhà biên niên sử

42.

What does 'flee' mean?

"Thousands of fugitives are fleeing from the war-torn area.."

a)

escape

b)

move into

c)

immigrate

43.

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."

a)

answer

b)

support

c)

confuse

d)

arrticulate

44.

What may 'elite' not mean?

a)
b)

the most powerful

c)

the best-educated

d)

the underprivileged

45.

Which word has the opposite meaning to 'ancestor'?

a)

descendant

b)

ascendant

c)

senior

46.

What does 'Monolingual' mean?

a)

able to use one language well

b)

able to use two languages well

c)

able to use many languages well

47.

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."

a)

bilingual

b)

auditory

c)

corresponding

48.

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."

a)

change

b)

replace

c)

transform

49.

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."

a)

to be extremely bad at something

b)

to be extremely good at something

c)

to be extremely terrible at something

d)

to be extremely clumsy at something

50.

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."

a)

make use of (+)

b)

take advantage of (+)

c)

overuse

51.

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."

a)

simple speech sounds

b)

intervening background noise

c)

brain stem responses

52.

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"

a)

neural response

b)

fundamental frequency

c)

pitch perception

53.

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."

a)

learn smt - become proficient in smt

b)

buy smt - become proficient in smt

c)

learn smt - become unskillful in smt

54.

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."

a)

Alzheimer’s disease

b)

degenerative brain disease

c)

initial symptoms

55.

Which is a synonym of 'Seriousness'?

a)

Severity

b)

Severition

c)

Severitiness

56.

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."

a)

monolinguals

b)

monolingual people

c)

monolingual peers

d)

monolingual non-speakers

57.

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."

a)

loạn hướng

b)

định hướng

c)

mất phương hướng

58.

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."

a)

take away advantages

b)

bring advantages

c)

introduce advantages

59.

What does 'engage a language' mean?

"Bilingual people engage both languages simultaneously."

a)

use a language

b)

learn a language

c)

give up using a language

60.

What does 'simultaneously' mean?

"Bilingual people engage both languages simultaneously."

a)

at nearly the same time

b)

at almost the same time

c)

at exactly the same time