Guided cloze tests (gần 150 bài) có đáp án (92 trang) Mã A429440

TEST 1

WATER - A LUXURY?

A glass of fresh water from the tap - a luxury? The reality is that for some 1.1 billion people access to safe drinking water is (1) ...... they can only dream about. Some 2.4 billion people worldwide similarly do not have access to adequate sanitation. Yet access to safe drinking water and sanitation is not just a luxury. It often makes the difference (2) ...... life and death. Half of the world's hospital beds are occupied by (3) ...... of waterbome diseases. And an estimated 6,000 children die each day from diseases caused by poor sanitation and hygiene. Add to this the increasing pressure (4) ...... the world's freshwater supply over the last 50 years, and the continuous degradation of water quality in many regions around the world, and there is no doubt that the challenge before us is (5) ...... .

1- A) anywhere B) something C) someone D) anyone E) everything

2- A) between B) from C) along D) in E) about

3- A) victims B) residents C) supporters D) mortals E) disasters

4- A) about B) in C) at D) on E) for

5- A) excellent B) bearable C) supporting D) weak E) immense

BENEFICIAL or UNDESIRABLE?

In nature there is (6) ...... such thing as either a beneficial or an undesirable wild animal. In Georgia, (7) ......, where quail are valued as game birds, sportsmen once shot marsh hawks (8) ...... the hawks sometimes killed quail. But the shooting of marsh hawks failed to increase the numbers of quail. Examination of stomach contents showed that the marsh hawk feeds mainly upon the cotton rat, which eats the eggs of quail and other ground-nesting birds. By being a (9) ...... greater enemy of cotton rats than of quail, the marsh hawk proves (10) ...... to be a friend of the quail. The killing of marsh hawks has now largely ceased in Georgia, and marsh hawks and quail are growing more numerous side by side.

6- A) any B) many C) no D) none E) some

7- A) at once B) for instance C) on average D) at the time E) in short

8- A) while B) yet C) even though D) because E) before

9- A) much B) more C) too D) the most E) such

10- A) rarely B) slightly C) anxiously D) barely E) actually

RIVAL FOSSIL HUNTERS

(11) ...... of our knowledge of dinosaurs comes from North America. From 1870 into the early 1900s, two men dominated the search for dinosaurs in the western United States, and their rivalry became a bitter conflict. One was Othniel Charles Marsh, of Yale University, and (12) ...... was Edward Drinker Cope. (13) ...... man controlled (14) ...... scientific journal, and it is reported that their field crews would occasionally shoot at one another and destroy each other's fossils. Still, (15) ...... men made lasting and valuable contributions to our knowledge of dinosaurs, though their conflict caused them to work hurriedly and in many instances to forego the customary patience and caution required in the science of paleontology.

11- A) A great deal B) Just one C) As many as D) Everything E) A large number

12- A) someone B) another C) the other D) each one E) the whole

13- A) Each B) All C) Some D) Any E) None

14- A) themselves B) his own C) itself D) them E) theirs

15- A) all B) every C) some D) both E) either

THE ORIGIN OF THE CIRCUS

No one knows when or where the first circus act (16) ...... place. It's probable that displays of physical skill and animal training (17) ...... people for many thousands of years. Some circus acts are so old that even the ancient Romans, who coined the word circus, did not know where they originated. It was not (18) ...... the late 1700s that the modem circus began to take form. It is believed that the modern circus originated in the exhibitions of horsemanship that became popular in England. A former cavalryman, Philip Astley, was presenting such feats in London in 1768. Astley put his horses through their paces in a large circle, or ring. (19) ...... his time, the ring has been the central performance area of the circus. Astley embellished his London show with …