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WorksheetsĐề đề xuất DHBB 11 2017 Chuyên Lam Sơn Thanh Hóa
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 46mins
1. Poor management brought the company to the ______ of collapse.
brink
rim
fringe
brim
2. The accused man was able to prove his innocence at the trial and was ______.
absolved
forgiven
acquitted
abandoned
3. Luckily my wallet was handed in to the police with all its contents ______.
preserved
unscathed
contained
intact
4. According to a Government spokesman, further ______ in the public sector are to be expected.
cutbacks
breakdowns
outtakes
layouts
5. Don’t get yourself ______ up over such a trivial matter.
done
worried
whipped
worked
6. My sunburnt nose made me feel rather ______ for the first few days of the holiday.
self-effacing
self-centered
self-conscious
self-evident
7. There was a lot of ______ as throngs of people tried to see the famous actor walking through the mall.
stamina
discipline
counsel
commotion
8. When the ship docked at Hamburg, they found a(n) ______ in the hold.
gate-crasher
stowaway
interloper
trespasser
9. He wants to pay the bill himself, but I won’t hear ______ it.
from
about
of
for
10. When his parents are away, his eldest brother ______.
knocks it off
calls the shot
draws the line
is in the same boat
Note: Phần tìm lỗi sai Task 2 Grammar and Vocabulary
Fill in each gap with one suitable preposition.
1. I’m sorry to butt (a) , but did you happen to mention the name “Fiona”?
2. The entire staff was thrown (a) balance when the news of the takeover was announced.
3. The trekkers were bent (a) reaching the village by the afternoon.
4. We had to dispense (a) pages of legal jargon before we could sign the contract.
5. The girl only went (a) the room with a duster.
Complete the passage with appropriate forms of the words given in the box.
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Read the text and decide which answer best fits each gap.
THE INVENTION OF TELEVISION
Few inventions have (1) ______ more scorn and praise (2) ______ them at the same time than television. And few have done so much to unite the world into one vast audience for news, sport, information and entertainment. Television must be (3) ______ alongside printing as one of the most significant inventions of all time in the (4) ______ of communications. In just a few decades it has reached (5) ______ every home in the developed world and an ever-increasing (6) ______ of homes in developing countries. It took over half a century from the first suggestion that television might be possible before the first (7) ______ pictures were produced in laboratories in Britain and America.
In 1926 John Logie Baird’s genius for publicity brought television to the (8) ______ of a British audience. It has since (9) ______ such heights of success and taken on such a pivotal function that it is difficult to imagine a world (10) ______ of this groundbreaking invention.
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had
even
been
done
2.
taken over
heaped upon
picked on
given over
3.
awarded
rated
graduated
assembled
4.
location
site
post
field
5.
simultaneously
actually
virtually
substantially
6.
proportion
rate
portion
part
7.
flaring
glimmering
sparkling
flickering
8.
attention
concentration
initiation
surveillance
9.
found
left
gained
reached
10.
without
shallow
bereft
lacking
Read the text and fill in each gap with one word which best fits.
EARLY CALENDARS
Dennis the Small, a 6th (1) ______ expert on canon law, has had an enduring, if unsung, (2) ______ on the affairs of the modern world. It was (3) ______ to his calculations that the precise timing of the 2000th anniversary of Christ’s birth was recently confirmed beyond (4) ______. Dionysus Exiguus, as he was then (5) ______, was charged in 525 by Pope John I was setting dates in the Christian calendar. Though he was a good mathematician, the accuracy of Dennis’ calculations was limited by the information (6) ______ at the time.
Establishing the exact (7) ______ of Christ’s crucifixion – and therefore that of Easter – (8) ______ an especially difficult challenge. Theologians had decreed that Easter should be marked on the Sunday after the first full (9) ______ after the vernal equinox, but without accurate solar and (10) ______ calendars how could the church fathers predict the dates in the future?
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