Put the correct form of either "can" or "be able to" for each sentence. Only use "be able to" if absolutely necessary!
1. I haven't ___concentrate recently at work. I don't know what it is.
2. My brother ___ cook very well. He is a chef in a French restaurant.
3. When he was only 2, my friend Lee ___speak quite well.
4. I have to go to a business dinner tomorrow night so I___ (not) come to the party. I'm very sorry.
5. Kevin lived in Italy for six years, so he must ___ speak Italian quite well. He will help you with your homework.
6. This telephone is terrible. I ___(not) hear you at all.
7. When the car drove into the lake, one of the passengers ___ (not) open the door and had to be rescued.
8. Despite the arrival of the storm, they ___finish the football match.
9. When I was very young, I used to ___touch my toes, but I can't now!!
10. The house was totally empty all day yesterday and I ___finish that book I was reading.
11. My mother tells me that her grandfather was one of the best musicians of his time in the city and ___ play the piano like a professional.
12. I hope to ___ speak English very well after this course finishes.
tìm lỗi sai và giải thích :
Lang said that he knows how the procedures for doing the experiment, but when he began to work in the laboratory, he found that he was mistaken.
Dịch lá thư sau:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to make an insurance claim for an item that I lost while on holiday last week.
The item is a wristwatch that I inherited from my grandfather. Both the watch strap and the face are made of gold, and the watch is worth a considerable amount of money. It also has great sentimental value.
I believe that I must have left the watch on the beach in front of the hotel where I was staying. I did return to search for it, but I can only assume that it was either covered in sand or that it had been washed out to sea.
I took out comprehensive travel insurance with your company, and my contract states that all lost items are covered. I would therefore ask that you review the attached information regarding the estimated value of the watch, and that you process my claim as quickly as possible.
Please let me know if you require any further information.
Yours faithfully,
Daniel Craig
Direction: As if you are the person in charge, read the letter and give a suitable response.
SECTION A: PASSAGE FOR GAP-FILL In this section you must find a word from the box to complete the numbered blanks in the passage below. Use only ONE word for each blank. (15 points):
Used,on, afford, enough, every, soon, wait, used
Listening, home, few, who, what, won, all
There was once a large, fat woman (26)... had a small, thin husband.He had a job in a big company and was given his weekly wage(27)...... Friday morning. As (28).. .. as he got (29).......on friday, his wife(30).....to make him give her (31).... his money, and then she(32).... to give him back only (33)......to buy his lunch in the office every day. One day the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the livingroom .His wife was (34).....to the radio and eating chocolates there.You"ll never guess(35)....happened to me today, dear," he said. He waited for a few second and then added. I'll (36)...... ten thousand pounds (37)...... the lottery !". "That's wonderfull" said his wife delightedly. But then she thought for a(38).....seconds and added angrily, " but (39). ...a moment! How could you (40)....to buy the ticket?"
Dịch:
Some theories of the purpose of dreams
Freud believed that we dream so that we can release the deep, secret desires that we are not allowed to express in real life because of the rules of polite society. Most people know about Freudian dream analysis – a dream about a train going into a tunnel is a dream about sexual intercourse. But couldn’t it just be a dream about travelling on a train?
Another theory is that dreams allow us to solve problems that we can’t solve in real life. We go to sleep with a problem and wake up with the answer. This may be more of a way to ‘use’ our dreams than a ‘purpose’ of dreaming. If you believe that your dreams are important then analysing them may help you to focus your mind on the problem and help you to find the solution.
The modern image is that dreams are the brain’s way of cleaning up the computer’s hard disk, organizing the events of the day into folders and deleting the rubbish that it doesn’t want to keep. But we all know that very little of what we dream every night is concerned with what happened to us that day.
Another idea is that dreams are the brain’s way of practising the behaviour that we need to survive. So we dream about being chased by a monster because one day it might happen! It’s a bit like a pianist practising her scales every day even though she doesn’t need to use them at that moment.
Others believe that dreaming is the brain’s way of exercising the pathways between the brain cells. This may be an important element in why we sleep rather than why we dream. We die if we don’t sleep but we can live without dreaming. Some patients with brain injuries lose the ability to dream but don’t seem to suffer any ill-effects.
REM and dreaming
Scientists used to think that dreaming only happened during Rapid Eye Movement sleep (REM). REM sleep is essential for all mammals. We all become irritable and depressed without it. If we don’t have enough REM one night, we will compensate by having more the next. REM is generated by the brainstem – the oldest and most primitive part of the brain. So scientists used to believe that dreaming was also caused by activity in the brainstem. We now know that dreaming can happen at any time during sleep. The only difference seems to be that it’s easier to remember dreams that happen during REM.
Babies have a lot more REM activity than adults, but research shows that they dream less. The same may be true of animals. We know that they have REM activity but that doesn’t mean they dream.
It also seems that dreaming is a skill that develops as you get older, like language for example. Young children’s dreams are very different from older children’s or adult’s dreams.
New research
Modern technology has allowed scientists to map the parts of the brain that are active when we dream. The primitive brainstem is very active, but so are other important areas at the front of the brain. These are the frontal lobes that control emotion, memory, and experiences that come through the senses like hearing and vision. If these areas are injured, the person stops dreaming. On the other hand, the areas that control rational, logical thought are not active at all. This could explain why dreams are so strange. They have no logical sequence or time, which makes them very difficult to explain to other people when we wake up. Dreams combine recent events with long past events and our emotions while we are dreaming are often very strong.
Psychologists have also done studies on people who kept dream diaries for long periods of time (up to fifty years in some cases) and have found that what we dream is very much connected with how we think and behave when we are awake. So an extrovert, adventurous person will have extrovert, adventurous dreams. A shy person will be a shy person in her dreams. People who are important to us will often be in our dreams and so will things that worry us or make us happy.
So what’s the conclusion?
Well, nobody really knows. But scientists are now suggesting that dreams have absolutely no purpose at all. When we are awake we are ‘thinking’ all the time. Some of this thinking is useful and has a purpose. But we often just ‘think’ about nothing in particular while we’re waiting for the bus or walking to work. And that’s what the brain is doing when we are asleep - just thinking. Sometimes it’s interesting and sometimes it’s boring.
Doing the research for this article has made me more interested in my dreams rather than less. I might even start a dream diary! But nothing that I’ve read explains why I sometimes have an embarrassing dream about finding myself standing completely naked at a bus stop. Fortunately, this has never happened to me in real life, and it isn’t something that I think about when I’m awake. I’m told that it’s an example of a ‘universal dream’ – a dream that is common to people all over the world. Dreaming about flying is another example. So what’s the explanation? We can’t all be ‘just thinking’ about the same thing, can we?
Find the new words and translate it
Điền liên từ but,so,however,therefore thích hợp
1.this is the shortest way to the city centre ;....it is not the only way
2.the boy was able to learn english ,....he is very lazy
3.he didn'n attend the lesson,...he could not do his homework .
4.the rice is 6000 dong per kilo,....we bought 10 kilos
5.your son is heading to the right direction;...i think you should encourage him to learn harder.
6.it is very late now,....she is still at her office .
7. It was midnight,.....they closed the restaurant and went home.
8.he had written to her many times,...she didn't give any reply,....the had been out of touch ever since
Tìm lỗi sai và sửa chúng
1.I'm really a keen on going to the cinema, so I have got lots of favorite
2.films. But the best one as I've seen lately is called Pressure. In some
3.ways, I suppose that you could regard it as a detective film,but it's
4.different from most films of that one kind because the characters are
5.they such unusual people. The detective in it,For example, is a computer
6.expert who solves crimes on her computer using information given to
7.her by her assistants, who go out and interview to people. the Case in
8.The film concerns the wife of a millionaire, who has gone missing.
9.Sometimes the plot is a bit complicated but it is not too hard to keep
10.up with it. There are a lot of strange characters in it, such as a man
11.who always wears two hats on and some of the scenes really made me
12.laugh.Also there is a big surprise at the end but i won't say you what
13.that is in the case you go to see it. it was very well acted and I also like
14. the music in it. But what do I really like about the film is that it is so
15.orignal- I have never seen a film quite like that.
Đọc đoạn văn và viết T (Câu trả lời đúng), F (Câu trả lời sai)
Young Farmer
At the age of four, Gavin Clark knew the names of each one of his neighbour’s cows. By ten, he was selling chickens and eggs to his friends, and was winning prizes for them at farm shows. Now, at thirteen, he still loves farming and has his own animals. Presents for Gavin are not a problem – every year he gets another animal from his parents and brother.
Gavin’s father, Steven, works for an international company and travels all over the world. Gavin has visited many exciting places in Europe with his father, but he is much happier doing his weekend job on his neighbour’s farm. Steven’s company wanted him to move to Portugal with the family. Everyone liked the idea of living somewhere warm – but not Gavin! He said he wouldn’t leave his animals!
In his free time Gavin plays tennis and football. He goes out with his friends and enjoys computer games, just like other teenagers. But every morning he gets up at half past five to give his animals food and water, before he goes to school. His parent want him to go to college and get a diploma when he is sixteen. ‘Let’s wait and see,’ he says.
1. Gavin lives next to a farm. ……………………..
2. Gavin’s family never know what to give him for his birthday. ……………………..
3. Gavin’s father always travels alone on business. ……………………..
4. Gavin spends Saturdays and Sundays working near his home. ……………………..
5. Gavin didn’t agree with his parents about moving to Portugal. ……………………..
6. Gavin is too busy with his animals to have any other hobbies. ……………………..
7. Gavin gets up at the same time as his parents in the morning. ……………………..
8. Gavin has decided to study for a diploma at college. ……………………..
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Tìm lỗi sai và sửa chúng
1.I'm really a keen on going to the cinema, so I have got lots of favorite
2.films. But the best one as I've seen lately is called Pressure. In some
3.ways, I suppose that you could regard it as a detective film,but it's
4.different from most films of that one kind because the characters are
5.they such unusual people. The detective in it,For example, is a computer
6.expert who solves crimes on her computer using information given to
7.her by her assistants, who go out and interview to people. the Case in
8.The film concerns the wife of a millionaire, who has gone missing.
9.Sometimes the plot is a bit complicated but it is not too hard to keep
10.up with it. There are a lot of strange characters in it, such as a man
11.who always wears two hats on and some of the scenes really made me
12.laugh.Also there is a big surprise at the end but i won't say you what
13.that is in the case you go to see it. it was very well acted and I also like
14. the music in it. But what do I really like about the film is that it is so
15.orignal- I have never seen a film quite like that.
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