Speech is one of the most important (1).................................. of communicating. It consists of far more than...

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Thùy Trang

25 tháng 7 2018 lúc 11:34

I. Read the passage below and fill each blank with ONE suitable word. (1.0 pt) Speech is one of the most important (1) _______ of communicating. It consists of far more than just making noises. To talk and also to be (2) ____________ by other people, we have to speak a language, that is, we have to use combinations of (3) ________ that everyone agrees stand for particular object or idea. Communication would be impossible if everyone made up their own language. (4) ________ a language properly...

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I. Read the passage below and fill each blank with ONE suitable word. (1.0 pt)

Speech is one of the most important (1) _______ of communicating. It consists of far more than just making noises. To talk and also to be (2) ____________ by other people, we have to speak a language, that is, we have to use combinations of (3) ________ that everyone agrees stand for particular object or idea. Communication would be impossible if everyone made up their own language.

(4) ________ a language properly is very important. The basic (5) __________ of English is not very large, and only about 2000 words are needed to (6) ________ it quite well. But the more words you know, the more ideas you can (7) ________ and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.

Words are the (8) ____________ thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The (9) _________ we say the words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and (10) ________ whether we are pleased or angry, for instance.

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BW

Be Well

17 tháng 9 2017 lúc 16:12

Complete using the correct form of the words in italics. You need to use one word twice. get make put look bring fall grow Personality Some of us seem to be infinitely kind, while others seem to 1) _________ down on everyone around them. Some of us never forget an argument, while others 2) _________ up and forgive easily. As we 3) _________ up, our personality develops and we find that we 4) _________ on with certain people more than others. Who we are see...

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Complete using the correct form of the words in italics. You need to use one word twice.

get make put look bring fall grow
Personality
Some of us seem to be infinitely kind, while others seem to 1) _________ down on everyone around them. Some of us never forget an argument, while others 2) _________ up and forgive easily. As we 3) _________ up, our personality develops and we find that we 4) _________ on with certain people more than others. Who we are seems to have a large genetic element, but is also influenced by those who 5) _________ us up. If we 6) _________ up to our parents or other family members, we may want to be like them. On the other hand, if our parents seem to 7) _________ us down all the time and we 8) _________ out with them a lot, then perhaps we will develop quite different personalities.

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TQ

Triều Trương Quang

31 tháng 3 2018 lúc 19:26

Strong Relationships Equal Health, Happiness What will most help you lead a long happy and healthy life? Is it making lots of money? Is it a great job that you enjoy? Perhaps it’s fame. If you ask a young person, many are likely to give you one of those answers. Or possibly all three. Some cultures put more importance on work and money than others. Americans can be obsessed with their jobs and making money. They might feel the need to make lots of money for education, medical care, homes an...

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Strong Relationships Equal Health, Happiness

What will most help you lead a long happy and healthy life? Is it making lots of money? Is it a great job that you enjoy? Perhaps it’s fame. If you ask a young person, many are likely to give you one of those answers. Or possibly all three.

Some cultures put more importance on work and money than others. Americans can be obsessed with their jobs and making money. They might feel the need to make lots of money for education, medical care, homes and cars. But it’s not just about the money. For many Americans, self-worth is linked to our professional success or failure. Many of us spend most of our lives working – sacrificing other activities.

Imagine if we could visit our older selves and ask -- "What would you have done differently to be truly happy?" But we can’t do that. We could learn about what makes people happy, and what does not, by studying people over the course of their lives.

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Nguyễn Thư

29 tháng 9 2019 lúc 8:37

The discovery that language can be a barrier to communication is quickly made by all who travel, study, govern or sell. Whether the activity is tourism, research, government, policing, business, or data dissemination, the lack of a common language can severely impede progress or can halt it altogether. Common language here usually means a foreign language, but the same point applies in principle to any encounter with unfamiliar dialects or styles within a single language. They dont talk the same...

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The discovery that language can be a barrier to communication is quickly made by all who travel, study, govern or sell. Whether the activity is tourism, research, government, policing, business, or data dissemination, the lack of a common language can severely impede progress or can halt it altogether. 'Common language' here usually means a foreign language, but the same point applies in principle to any encounter with unfamiliar dialects or styles within a single language. 'They don't talk the same language' has a major metaphorical meaning alongside its literal one.

Although communication problems of this kind must happen thousands of times each day, very few become public knowledge. Publicity comes only when a failure to communicate has major consequences, such as strikes, lost orders, legal problems, or fatal accidents — even, at times, war. One reported instance of communication failure took place in 1970, when several Americans ate a species of poisonous mushroom. No remedy was known, and two of the people died within days. A radio report of the case was heard by a chemist who knew of a treatment that had been successfully used in 1959 and published in 1963. Why had the American doctors not heard of it seven years later? Presumably, because the report of the treatment had been published only in journals written in European languages other than English.

Several comparable cases have been reported. But isolated examples do not give an impression of the size of the problem — something that can come only from studies of the use or avoidance of foreign-language materials and contacts in different communicative situations. In the English-speaking scientific world, for example, surveys of books and documents consulted in libraries and other information agencies have shown that very little foreign-language material is ever consulted. Library requests in the field of science and technology showed that only 13 per cent were for foreign language periodicals. Studies of the sources cited in publications lead to a similar conclusion: the use of foreign-language sources is often found to be as low as 10 per cent.

The language barrier presents itself in stark form to firms who wish to market their products in other countries. British industry, in particular, has in recent decades often been criticised for its linguistic insularity - for its assumption that foreign buyers will be happy to communicate in English, and that awareness of other languages is not therefore a priority. In the 1960s, over two-thirds of British firms dealing with non-English-speaking customers were using English for outgoing correspondence; many had their sales literature only in English; and as many as 40 per cent employed no-one able to communicate in the customers' languages. A similar problem was identified in other English-speaking countries, notably the USA, Australia and New Zealand. And non-English-speaking countries were by no means exempt - although the widespread use of English as an alternative language made them less open to the charge of insularity.

The criticism and publicity given to this problem since the 1960s seems to have greatly improved the situation. Industrial training schemes have promoted an increase in linguistic and cultural awareness. Many firms now have their own translation services; to take just one example in Britain, Rowntree Mackintosh now publish their documents in six languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Xhosa). Some firms run part-time language courses in the languages of the countries with which they are most involved; some produce their own technical glossaries, to ensure consistency when material is being translated. It is now much more readily appreciated that marketing efforts can be delayed, damaged, or disrupted by a failure to take account of the linguistic needs of the customer.

The changes in awareness have been most marked in English-speaking countries, where the realisation has gradually dawned that by no means everyone in the world knows English well enough to negotiate in it. This is especially a problem when English is not an official language of public administration, as in most parts of the Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Arab world, Latin America and French-speaking Africa. Even in cases where foreign customers can speak English quite well, it is often forgotten that they may not be able to understand it to the required level - bearing in mind the regional and social variation which permeates speech and which can cause major problems of listening comprehension. In securing understanding, how 'we' speak to 'them' is just as important, it appears, as how 'they' speak to 'us'.

Questions 14-17
Complete each of the following statements (Questions 14-17) with words taken from Reading Passage 133

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

14 Language problems may come to the attention of the public when they have ........................... such as fatal accidents or social problems.

15 Evidence of the extent of the language barrier has been gained from ............................ of materials used by scientists such as books and periodicals.

16 An example of British linguistic insularity is the use of English for materials such as ...........................

17 An example of a part of the world where people may have difficulty in negotiating English is ........................... .

Questions 18-20
Choose the appropriate letters A-D

18 According to the passage, ‘They don't talk the same language' (paragraph 1), can refer to problems in...
A understanding metaphor.
B learning foreign languages.
C understanding dialect or style.
D dealing with technological change.

19 The case of the poisonous mushrooms (paragraph 2) suggests that American doctors …
A should pay more attention to radio reports.
B only read medical articles if they are in English.
C are sometimes unwilling to try foreign treatments.
D do not always communicate effectively with their patients.

20 According to the writer, the linguistic insularity of British businesses...
A later spread to other countries.
B had a negative effect on their business.
C is not as bad now as it used to be in the past.
D made non-English-speaking companies turn to other markets.

Questions 21-24
List the FOUR main ways in which British companies have tried to solve the problem of the language barrier since the 1960s.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

21 ......................................
22 ......................................
23 ......................................
24 ......................................

Questions 25 and 26
Choose the appropriate letters A-D and write them in boxes 25 and 26 on your answer sheet

25 According to the writer, English-speaking people need to be aware that...
A some foreigners have never met an English-speaking person.
B many foreigners have no desire to learn English.
C foreign languages may pose a greater problem in the future.
D English-speaking foreigners may have difficulty understanding English.

26 A suitable title for this passage would be .......
A Overcoming the language barrier
B How to survive an English-speaking world
C Global understanding - the key to personal progress
D The need for a common language

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TA

Trần Minh Ánh

3 tháng 4 2017 lúc 22:06

Some people learn a second language (1).............................. Other people have trouble learning a new language. How can you have (2)............................ learn a new language, such as English ? There are several ways to make learning English a little (3)............................ and more interesting. The first step is to feel positive about learning English. If you believe that you can learn, you will learn (4)............................ patient. You do not to have to underst...

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Some people learn a second language (1).............................. Other people have trouble learning a new language. How can you have (2)............................ learn a new language, such as English ? There are several ways to make learning English a little (3)............................ and more interesting. The first step is to feel positive about learning English. If you believe that you can learn, you will learn (4)............................ patient. You do not to have to understand (5)............................... all at once. It's natural to make mistakes when you learn something new. We can learn from our mistakes. The second step is to practice your English. For example, write in a journal, or diary, every day. You will get used to (6)............................ in English, and you will feel comfortable expressing your ideas in English. After several weeks, you will see that your writing is improving. (7)................................, you much speak English every day, You can practice with your classmates (8)............................... class. The third step is to keep a record of your language learning. You can write this in your journal. After (9).................................. class, think about what you did. Did your answer a question (10)..................................... ? Did you understand something the teacher explained ? Perharps the lesson was difficult, but you tried to understand it. It is important to practice every day and make a record of your achievements.

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LM

Lê Nguyễn Giáng My

14 tháng 10 2018 lúc 15:26

II. Read the passage carefully then answer the questions. The environment is the most important thing for our life. The environment is the air we breath, the water we drink and is everything we need for our life. This pollution affects the health of living things. But only we can change it and solve it. First we can use recycled paper to help save trees. Second try to avoid buying plastic. To protect the environment we also have to save energy. Finally, we now know that environment is the m...

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II. Read the passage carefully then answer the questions.

The environment is the most important thing for our life. The environment is the air we breath, the water we drink and is everything we need for our life. This pollution affects the health of living things.

But only we can change it and solve it. First we can use recycled paper to help save trees. Second try to avoid buying plastic. To protect the environment we also have to save energy.

Finally, we now know that environment is the most important thing for life. Everyday we invent and find more and more way to protect the environment. I hope that in the future the earth will be cleaner.
Questions

1. Is the environment the most important thing for our life?

2. What does this pollution affect?

3. What can we use to help save trees?

4. What does the author hope that in the future?

5. What do we try to avoid buying?

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PM

Phan Trà My

26 tháng 8 2020 lúc 15:03

1. Read the passage then choose the best answers Money is something we all take for granted in our lives. Some of us may wish we had more of it but we all recognize it when we see it, whether in the form of coins, notes or cheques. It is difficult to imagine how people managed without money. In the earliest periods of human history, people used to exchange goods directly. They would exchange things they had plenty of for things that they were in need of. For example, they might offer food f...

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1. Read the passage then choose the best answers

Money is something we all take for granted in our lives. Some of us may wish we had more of it but we all recognize it when we see it, whether in the form of coins, notes or cheques. It is difficult to imagine how people managed without money. In the earliest periods of human history, people used to exchange goods directly. They would exchange things they had plenty of for things that they were in need of. For example, they might offer food for tools. This method of exchange, which is known as “barter”, has many disadvantages. Certain goods may be difficult to carry, they may not last long, or may be impossible to divide into smaller units. It can also be difficult to know the worth of something compared with other goods.

According to historians, the first money, in the sense we understand it today, consisted of gold coins produced about 2,500 years ago. Gold, being a very precious metal, was a suitable material. The introduction of gold coins was acceptable to everyone and they were still being used at the beginning of this century, although they have now been replaced by paper money and coins made of ordinary metals.

1. In the old days, people exchanged………..

A. what they needed for what they had B. food for tools

C. what they had for what they needed D. goods for money

2. “barter” is a system of exchange in which ………

A. food is exchanged for tools B. no money is used

C. money is used to buy things D. goods are difficult to carry

3. Direct exchange of goods is ……. because some gods may be too big to carry.

A. advantageous B. precious C. impossible D. disadvantages

4. According to historians, the first money was ………

A. made of paper B. made of gold C. made of coins D. made of 2000 years ago

5. Modern money is made of ……….

A. gold B. paper or gold

C. ordinary metals D. paper or ordinary metals

2. Read the passage and fill one suitable word in each blank.

Everyone is becoming aware that the environment is a (0) .... serious.... issue. However, we have not done (1) .......... to deal with this problem because we seem to wait for governments to (2) ........... actions. In my opinion, individuals can do many things to help (3) .......... the problem. To begin (4) .........., we can be more responsible in the (5) .......... we dispose of waste. We should not throw rubbish into lakes and (6) ........... . Moreover, we also need to (7) .......... the water we use. Fresh water (8) ..........drinking is running out in many (9) .......... of the world. Finally, I think that if we use (10) ........... transport more we can reduce air pollution in cities.

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Lớp 7 Tiếng anh Luyện tập tổng hợp

H24

anime

22 tháng 12 2019 lúc 13:04

Services / neighbors / friends / polluted / advantages / isolated / hurry / which / means / environment The country and the city have (1) _______ and disadvantages. People in the country live in more beautiful (2) _______. They enjoy peace and quiet and can do their work at their own pace because no one is in a (3) _________. They live in larger, more comfortable houses, and their (4) ________ are more friendly, and ready to help them when they need it. Their life can be monotonous and they can...

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Services / neighbors / friends / polluted / advantages / isolated / hurry / which / means / environment

The country and the city have (1) _______ and disadvantages. People in the country live in more beautiful (2) _______. They enjoy peace and quiet and can do their work at their own pace because no one is in a (3) _________. They live in larger, more comfortable houses, and their (4) ________ are more friendly, and ready to help them when they need it. Their life can be monotonous and they can be (5) _______ , a long way from the nearest town, (6) _____ is a serious problem if they are ill or have to take children to school.
The city has all the (7) ___________ the country lacks, but it also has a lot of disadvantages. Cities are often ugly and (8) ________ ; they not only have bad air but are also noisy. Everyone is always in a haste and this (9) ______ that people have no time to get to know each other and make (10)_______

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NL

Nguyen Ngoc Lien

18 tháng 9 2016 lúc 14:36

Read Tessas postcard to Angela and write the missing words. Use one word only in each space.Were having va great time here. Its beautiful, and the sun (1) .... shining. Yesterday I went water-skiing ! What (2) .... you think of that ? Im (3) .... at a table in our hotel room and writting a few postcards. The room is fine, but we (4) .... like the food very much. But it (5) .... matter because we (6) .... out to a restaurant every evening.Were both (7) .... very lazy at the moment. I (8) .... up...

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Read Tessa's postcard to Angela and write the missing words. Use one word only in each space.

We're having va great time here. It's beautiful, and the sun (1) .... shining. Yesterday I went water-skiing ! What (2) .... you think of that ?

I'm (3) .... at a table in our hotel room and writting a few postcards. The room is fine, but we (4) .... like the food very much. But it (5) .... matter because we (6) .... out to a restaurant every evening.

We're both (7) .... very lazy at the moment. I (8) .... up quite late in the morning, and Nigel (9) .... up even later. You know of course how much Nigel's word (10) .... to him and how he's (11) .... talking about it. Well, the holiday is so good that he's forgotten all about work. So it's the perfect holiday. The only prolem is that it's (12) .... us a lot of money. But we'll worry about that later.

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