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WorksheetsCambridge 17 Test 2
Total questions: 92
Worksheet time: 47mins
What does the underlined verb mean?
"In late 1946 or early 1947, three Bedouin teenagers were tending their goats and sheep near the ancient settlement of Qumran."
What does the underlined phrases mean?
"One of these young shepherds tossed a rock into an opening on the side of a cliff and was surprised to hear a shattering sound."
What does 'toss something' mean?
What does the underlined word mean?
"He and his companions later entered the cave and stumbled across a collection of large clay jars, seven of which contained scrolls with writing on them."
What does the underlined word mean?
"He and his companions later entered the cave and stumbled across a collection of large clay jars, seven of which contained scrolls with writing on them."
What does the underlined word mean?
"He and his companions later entered the cave and stumbled across a collection of large clay jars, seven of which contained scrolls with writing on them."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"The teenagers took the seven scrolls to a nearby town where they were sold for a small sum to a local antiquities dealer."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"The teenagers took the seven scrolls to a nearby town where they were sold for a small sum to a local antiquities dealer."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"Word of the find spread, and Bedouins and archaeologists eventually unearthed tens of thousands of additional scroll fragments from 10 nearby caves; together they make up between 800 and 900 manuscripts."
What do the underlined words mean?
"Word of the find spread, and Bedouins and archaeologists eventually unearthed tens of thousands of additional scroll fragments from 10 nearby caves; together they make up between 800 and 900 manuscripts."
Which phrase means "chủ đề tranh luận của giới học thuật"?
A subject of scholar debate
An object of scholarly debate
A subject of scholarly debate
A subject of scholary debate
What do the underlined words mean?
"According to the prevailing theory, they are the work of a population that inhabited the area until Roman troops destroyed the settlement around 70 CE."
What does the underlined verb mean?
"In addition, several texts feature translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek."
What does the underlined phrase mean in Vietnamese?
"The Dead Sea Scrolls include fragments from every book of the Old Testament of the Bible except for the Book of Esther."
Kinh Cựu Ước của Kinh Thánh
What do the phrases mean in Vietnamese?
"Along with biblical texts, the scrolls include documents about sectarian regulations and religious writings that do not appear in the Old Testament."
What do the words mean in Vietnamese?
"The writing on the Dead Sea Scrolls is mostly in black or occasionally red ink, and the scrolls themselves are nearly all made of neither parchment (animal skin) or an early form of paper called ‘papyrus’."
giấy da - giấy gỗ nén
bìa cứng - giấy carton
vải lụa - giấy mây
giấy da (thuộc) - giấy cói
What do the underlined words mean?
"Known as the Copper Scroll, this curious document features letters chiselled onto metal – perhaps, as some have theorized, to better withstand the passage of time."
painted on the metal - fade quickly
printed on paper - become obsolete
glued to the metal - deteriorate faster
carved into the metal - endure longer without deterioration
Which phrase DOES NOT mean "withstand the passage of time"?
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"One of the most intriguing manuscripts from Qumran, this is a sort of ancient treasure map that lists dozens of gold and silver caches."
What do the underlined phrases mean in Vietnamese?
"Using an unconventional vocabulary and odd spelling, it describes 64 underground hiding places that supposedly contain riches buried for safekeeping."
từ vựng thông thường - cách viết chuẩn
từ vựng cổ điển - cách viết truyền thống
từ vựng hiện đại - cách viết đơn giản
từ vựng không phổ thông - cách viết kỳ lạ
What do the underlined words possibly mean?
"None of these hoards have been recovered, possibly because the Romans pillaged Judea during the first century CE."
Hoard: a type of fish;
Pillaged: to build or construct.
Hoard: treasure or valuable items;
Pillaged: robbed or plundered.
Hoard: a collection of books;
Pillaged: to donate items.
Hoard: a type of clothing;
Pillaged: to decorate or embellish.
What is the plural form of 'Hypothesis'?
What does 'Hypothesis' mean in Vietnamese?
What does the underlined word mean?
"Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been on interesting journeys. In 1948, a Syrian Orthodox archbishop known as Mar Samuel acquired four of the original seven scrolls from a Jerusalem shoemaker and part-time antiquity dealer, paying less than $100 for them."
bought
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"This would be an ideal gift to an educational or religious institution by an individual or group"
What is a synonym of the underlined word ?
"In 2017, researchers from the University of Haifa restored and deciphered one of the last untranslated scrolls."
What does the underlined word mean?
"The university’s Eshbal Ratson and Jonathan Ben-Dov spent one year reassembling the 60 fragments that make up the scroll."
What do the underlined verbs mean?
"It took at least 3,000 years for humans to learn how to domesticate the wild tomato and cultivate it for food."
adapt for human use - prepare land for growing.
create new species - water plants.
eliminate pests - fertilize soil.
grow plants in the wild - harvest crops.
What does this sentence simply mean?
"This approach relies on the revolutionary CRISPR genome editing technique, in which changes are deliberately made to the DNA of a living cell, allowing genetic material to be added, removed or altered."
What does the underlined word mean?
"This approach relies on the revolutionary CRISPR genome editing technique , in which changes are deliberately made to the DNA of a living cell, allowing genetic material to be added, removed or altered."
What is a synonym of the underlined word?
"This approach relies on the revolutionary CRISPR genome editing technique, in which changes are deliberately made to the DNA of a living cell, allowing genetic material to be added, removed or altered."
What do the underlined words mean?
"This fast-track domestication could help make the world’s food supply healthier and far more resistant to diseases, such as the rust fungus devastating wheat crops."
delay - unable to withstand - protective
accelerate - able to withstand - causing severe damage
speed up - easily affected - causing minor damage
accelerate - able to cope with - mildly harmful
What does 'edible' mean?
What do the underlined phrases mean?
"We can now mimic the known domestication course of major crops like rice, maize, sorghum or others."
imitate - process
explore - environmental impact
analyze - nutritional value
study - genetic makeup
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"Over many generations, peoples such as the Aztecs and Incas transformed the plant by selecting and breeding plants with mutations* in their genetic structure, which resulted in desirable traits such as larger fruit."
genetic traits that are always harmful to plants.
the physical appearance of plants.
changes in the DNA of plants that can result in new, desirable traits.
What does the verb 'breed' mean?
What does the underlined words mean?
"Sometimes the desirable mutations come with less desirable traits. For instance, the tomato strains grown for supermarkets have lost much of their flavour."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"The teams in Brazil and China have now used this knowledge to reintroduce these changes from scratch while maintaining or even enhancing the desirable traits of wild strains."
What does the underlined phrase mean in Vietnamese?
"While the historical domestication of tomatoes reduced levels of the red pigment lycopene – thought to have potential health benefits – the team in Brazil managed to boost it instead."
phân đoạn màu đỏ
yếu tố đỏ
độc tố đỏ
What is NOT a synonym of the adjective 'aromatic'?
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"They also created another strain that is more salt tolerant – and has higher levels of vitamin C."
What does this sentence simply mean?
"Groundcherries are already sold to a limited extent in the US but they are hard to produce because the plant has a sprawling growth habit and the small fruits fall off the branches when ripe."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"Van Eck’s team has edited the plants to increase fruit size, make their growth more compact and to stop fruits dropping."
making the plants produce smaller fruits.
making the plants grow more slowly and drop fewer leaves.
enhance the plants to grow taller and spread out.
modify the plants to grow shorter and denser.
What does this sentence simply mean?
"Taking the work further would be expensive because of the need to pay for a license for the CRISPR technology and get regulatory approval."
What does 'the plant has a sprawling growth habit' mean?
Which adjective can be a synonym of the underlined word?
"This approach could boost the use of many obscure plants."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"But it will be hard for new foods to grow so popular with farmers and consumers that they become new staple crops."
rare and expensive agricultural products.
crops that are only grown in specific regions and climates.
foods that are only consumed during special occasions.
essential agricultural products that are widely consumed and form a significant part of the diet.
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"The three teams already have their eye on other plants that could be ‘catapulted into the mainstream’, including foxtail, oat-grass and cowpea."
What do the underlined words mean?
"By choosing wild plants that are drought or heat tolerant, says Gao, we could create crops that will thrive even as the planet warms."
able to survive with little water or in high temperatures - grow well
growing in cold climates - remain stagnant
needing a lot of water - to struggle
unable to survive with little water or in high temperatures - wither away
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"But Kudla didn’t want to reveal which species were in his team’s sights, because CRISPR has made the process so easy."
What do the underlined words mean?
"Scientific discovery is popularly believed to result from the sheer genius of such intellectual stars as naturalist Charles Darwin and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein."
extraordinary intelligence - highly influential thinkers
common knowledge -unknown individuals
minimal effort - celebrities.
average intelligence - ordinary thinkers.
What are the missing words?
"Our view of such unique contributions to science often _________ (không tính đến) the person’s _________ (trước) experience and the efforts of their lesser-known _________ (người đi trước, người tiền nhiệm)."
regards - before - predecessors
disregards - prior - predecessors
disregards - before - successors
disregard - prior - predecessor
What does this sentence simply mean?
"Conventional wisdom also places great weight on insight in promoting breakthrough scientific achievements, as if ideas spontaneously pop into someone’s head – fully formed and functional."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"Conventional wisdom also places great weight on insight in promoting breakthrough scientific achievements, as if ideas spontaneously pop into someone’s head – fully formed and functional."
What is a synonym of 'breakthrough'?
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"We believe that it largely misrepresents the real nature of scientific discovery, as well as that of creativity and innovation in many other realms of human endeavor."
What does this sentence simply mean?
"We believe that this view largely misrepresents the real nature of scientific discovery, as well as that of creativity and innovation in many other realms of human endeavor."
The view gives a false idea of the true nature of scientific discovery and creativity.
What do the underlined words mean?
"Setting aside such greats as Darwin and Einstein – whose monumental contributions are duly celebrated – we suggest that innovation is more a process of trial and error."
What does this sentence simply mean?
"Setting aside such greats as Darwin and Einstein – whose monumental contributions are duly celebrated – we suggest that innovation is more a process of trial and error, where two steps forward may sometimes come with one step back, as well as one or more stops to the right or left."
What do the underlined words mean?
"This evolutionary view of human innovation undermines the notion of creative genius and recognizes the cumulative nature of scientific progress."
support - random occurrences.
weaken - building up over time.
enhance - decreasing over time.
ignore -instantaneous change.
What does the verb 'Postulate' mean?
Consider one unheralded scientist: John Nicholson, a mathematical physicist working in the 1910s who postulated the existence of ‘proto-elements’ in outer space.
What do the underlined words mean in Vietnamese?
"By combining different numbers of weights of these proto-elements’ atoms, Nicholson could recover the weights of all the elements in the then-known periodic table."
What do the underlined words mean?
"Niels Bohr, the Nobel prize-winning father of modern atomic theory, jumped off from this interesting idea to conceive his now-famous model of the atom."
What does this question mean in Vietnamese?
"What are we to make of this story?"
What does the underlined words mean?
"One might simply conclude that science is a collective and cumulative enterprise."
What does the verb 'glean' mean?
What do the underlined words mean?
"In the same way, random, arbitrary or accidental mutations of ideas may help pave the way for advances in science."
random or based on personal choice - prepare for or facilitate future developments.
essential or necessary - ignore future possibilities.
systematic or organized - hinder progress.
predetermined or fixed - block future developments.
What is a synonym of the underlined word?
"Support for this evolutionary view of behavioral innovation comes from many domains."
What does the underlined phrase mean in Vietnamese?
"The so-called ‘acey-deucy’ stirrup placement, in which the rider’s foot in his left stirrup is placed as much as 25 centimeters lower than the right, is believed to confer important speed advantages when turning on oval tracks."
What does the underlined word mean?
"The so-called ‘acey-deucy’ stirrup placement, in which the rider’s foot in his left stirrup is placed as much as 25 centimeters lower than the right, is believed to confer important speed advantages when turning on oval tracks."
What do the underlined words mean?
"Had the jockey conducted methodical investigations or examined extensive film records in a shrewd plan to outrun his rivals?"
horse trainer - foolish idea - walk slower than rivals -
horse rider - silly idea - run slower than rivals
horse rider - clever strategy - move faster than rivals
What does the underlined word mean?
"His modification just happened to coincide with enhanced left-hand turning performance."
What does the underlined phrasal verb mean?
"His modification just happened to coincide with enhanced left-hand turning performance."
What does the underlined adjective mean?
"His modification just happened to coincide with enhanced left-hand turning performance."
What does the underlined word mean?
"This led to the rapid and widespread adoption of riding acey-deucy by many riders, a racing style which continues in today’s thoroughbred racing."
(a horse) with parents that are of the same breed and have good qualities
What does the sentece simply mean?
"Plenty of other stories show that fresh advances can arise from error, misadventure, and also pure serendipity – a happy accident."
What does the underlined word mean?
"The solution to both these problems was invention of the brilliantly simple yet phenomenally successful Post-It note."
What does the underlined phrase mean?
"Such examples give lie to the claim that ingenious, designing minds are responsible for human creativity and invention."
question the validity of the claim
support the claim
prove the claim false
ignore the claim altogether
What do the underlined words mean?
"Such examples give lie to the claim that ingenious, designing minds are responsible for human creativity and invention."
artistic - physical objects.
clever or inventive - creative individuals.
traditional - historical figures.
simple or dull - uncreative individuals.
What does this sentence simply mean?
"Far more banal and mechanical forces may be at work; forces that are fundamentally connected to the laws of science."
What does this sentence simply mean?
"The notions of insight, creativity and genius are often invoked, but they remain vague and of doubtful scientific utility, especially when one considers the diverse and enduring contributions of individuals such as Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Curie, Pasteur and Edison."
What does this sentence simply mean?
" These notions merely label rather than explain the evolution of human innovations."
What does this sentence simply mean?
"The Law of Effect holds that organisms tend to repeat successful behaviors and to refrain from performing unsuccessful ones."
What does the underlined phrase mean in Vietnamese?
"Just like Darwin’s Law of Natural Selection, the Law of Effect involves an entirely mechanical process of variation and selection, without any end objective in sight."
What does the underlined word mean?
"In particular, the provenance of the raw material on which the Law of Effect operates is not as clearly known as that of the genetic mutations on which the Law of Natural Selection operates."
What ảe the missing words?
"The generation of _____ (mới mẻ) ideas and behaviors may not be entirely random, but _______ (bị hạn chế, giới hạn) by prior successes and failures – of the current individual (such as Bohr) or of _________ (người tiền nhiệm) (such as Nicholson)."
novelist - constrained - successors
novel - constrained - successors
novel - constrained - predecessors
novel - restrained - predecessors
What does the underlined word mean in Vietnamese?
"The time seems right for abandoning the naïve notion of intelligent design and genius, and for scientifically exploring the true origins of creative behavior."
What does 'Widely held view' mean?
What does 'Justify a standpoint' mean?
What does 'Great minds' mean in Vietnamese?
What does 'Provoke something' mean?
What does the verb "Compromise" mean?
