Tuyển tập 80 bài Guided cloze cực hay có đáp án luyện thi HSG THPT cấp tỉnh Mã A313641

Direction: In the following passages there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Passage 1

Economic backwardness of a region is (1) by the co-existence of unutilized or underutilized (2)on the one hand, and (3)natural resources, on the other. Economic development essentially means a process of (4) change whereby the real per capita income of an economy (5) over a period of time. Then, a simple but meaningful question arises: what causes economic development? Or what makes a country developed? This question has absorbed the (6) of scholars of socio-economic change for decades. Going through the (7) history of developed countries like America, Russia and Japan, man is essentially found as (8) in the process of economic development. Japan, whose economy was (9) damaged from the ravages of the Second World War, is the clearest example of our time to (10) kingpin role in economic development. 1. 1) developed 2) cured 3) improved 4) enhanced 5) characterised 2. 1) sources 2) finances 3) funds 4) manpower 5) industries 3. 1) exhaustive 2) unexploited 3) abundant 4) indefinite 5) unreliable 4. 1) upward 2) drastic 3) negligible 4) incredible 5) sudden 5. 1) diminishes 2) degenerates 3) increases 4) succumbs 5) stabilizes 6. 1) plans 2) attempts 3) attention 4) resources 5) strategy 7. 1) existing 2) glorious 3) ancient 4) economic 5) discouraging 8. 1) pivotal 2) neutral 3) insignificant 4) enchanted 5) vicious

Chapter 13 Cloze Test

9. 1) increasingly 2) always 3) gradually 4) deliberately 5) badly 10. 1) enlighten 2) validate 3) negate 4) underestimate 5) belittle

Absorb = to hold somebody’s attention or

interest completely Ravage = to damage something badly; to

destroy something The ravages = the damaging effect of something; of something the destruction done by something Kingpin = a person of thing essential for

success Enhance = to increase or improve further the

good quality, value or status of something Incredible = difficult to believe; extraordinary Diminish = to decrease; to become or make

something smaller or less Degenerate = to pass into a worse physical, mental

or moral state that one which is considered normal or desirable. Succumb = to fail to resist an illness, an attack

etc Pivotal = central; of great importance because

other things depend on it. Vicious = acting or done with evil intentions;

cruel and violent. Enlighten = to give somebody greater knowledge

or understanding Validate = to show that something is

reasonable or logical; to make something legally valid Negate = to cancel the effect of something; to

nullify something Belittle = to make a person or an action seem

unimportant or of little value.

Passage 2

Although John Wisdom’s writings in philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a (1) originality. Despite the (2) and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom (3). He is a unique kind of genius in philosophy.

This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom’s repeated attempts to (4) the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is (5) interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel (6) to utter such strange sentences (e.g. “Time is unreal”, There are no material