
1. With increasing numbers of people choosing to teach English as a foreign language, the need to gain a(n) ________ (credit) qualification has never been more important.
accredited: được công nhận
2. A campaign is calling for the reversal of a decision to scrap A-level archaeology - saying it would cause _______(revoke) harm to the development of future archaeologists.
irrevocable: không thể thay đổi
3. Sir Adrian was a true gentleman. He was ________ (fail) polite to everyone he met within the business and was on first name terms with many of them, regardless of where they worked.
unfailingly: luôn luôn
4. An eight-month inquiry by the all party group on ________ (mind) found frontline public servants could be less likely to fall ill with stress, or quit altogether, if they engage in the increasingly popular meditation practice.
mindfulness: chánh niệm
5. ________ (absent) is an issue of growing concern among employers in the UK owing to changing legislation, but there is virtually no robust data on its direct or indirect costs.
Absenteeism: sự vắng mặt không có lí do chính đáng
6. A decision to allow ________ (hear) evidence in disciplinary proceedings against a doctor linked to child abuse claims was ________ (law).
hearsay – unlawful: tin đồn-bất hợp pháp
7. Slavoj Žižek was born in communist Yugoslavia in 1949, and received a thorough grounding in Marxism and the principles of ________ (dialect) materialism.
dialectical: biện chứng
8. Can you make up a(n) ________ (four) for tennis tomorrow?
foursome: đấu cặp
9. These wonderful books ________ (capsule) moments in history in truly unforgettable ways .
encapsulate: tóm lược
10. Proposals to protect the right of mentally ________ (capacity) people to be involved in important decisions about their life have been published by the government.
incapacitated: bị làm mất sức lao động
11. Authorities in the US state of Michigan have charged a taxi driver with six counts of murder after he went on a random shooting spree on Saturday. Jason Brian Dalton, 45, remained ________ (express) as the charges were read in court on Monday.
expressionless: không biểu cảm
12. Around 40% of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year, the report says, running "significant risks of ________ (moral), loss of self-esteem and mental health problems"
demoralization: sự làm mất tinh thần
13. A former migrant has returned home to Senegal after becoming ________ (heart) with life as an illegal migrant in Spain. After six years, Babacar Dialor Faye never got his legal documents and had to live on ________ (hand) from the Red Cross.
disheartened – handouts: nản lòng-sự cứu trợ
14. Kids have become ________ (sense) to violence. Someone's been shot, and kids are playing up and down the streets on their bikes, because they're used to seeing it and that's also what you see in a war zone.
desensitized: bớt nhạy cảm
15. Parents often favour one child over another and, at its worst, parental________ (favour) can be one of the most profound and damaging emotional dynamics a child ever encounters. It can affect the rest of their lives.
favouritism: sự thiên vị
16. When Emma was widowed in 1879, she decided to leave her home in Koblenz, Germany, to start ________ (new) in Glasgow, and settled in the city by 1881.
anew: từ đầu
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