WORD FORMATION AND OPEN CLOZE (Tuyển tập) - luyện thi học sinh giỏi Tiếng Anh cấp tỉnh, TP, Olympic 30-4 Quốc gia có đáp án Mã A704819

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PRACTICE TEST 1

1. Democracy died after a period of (cease) wars, imperial expansion abroad, and the rise of demagoguery at home.

incessant/ceaseless: triền miên, không dứt

2. The consequences of (compel) gambling are comparable to those of any other addictive disease and are not simply those of financial loss.

compulsive: có tính ép buộc

3. The prison service has the twin goals of punishment and (habit).

rehabilitation: sự phục hồi

4. The first (conceive) is that legal study at university is exclusively for students who intend becoming solicitors or advocates.

misconception: sự hiểu sai

5. Too late, she remembered the (settle) effect such comments would have on Johnny.

unsettling: đáng lo

6. Some economists are now predicting the danger of (run) inflation.

runaway: xảy ra rất nhanh

7. The (narrate) in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.

narrative: câu chuyện

8. They were now faced with seemingly (mount) technical problems.

insurmountable: không thể vượt qua

9. When you come down on him too hard, you may only intensify his own (critic)

self-criticism: tự phê bình

10. Your speech should not have been (lace) with these facts beside the point.

interlaced: trộn lẫn

11. Their views lie outside the (stream) of current medical opinion.

mainstream: xu hướng

12. The teachers are fair and avoid (favour) and scapegoating.

favouritism: sự thiên vị

13. She has become (mesh) in a tangle of drugs and petty

crime. enmeshed: vướng vào

14. Do not set your goals too high or else you will always be failing and there is nothing more (moral).

demoralising: làm nản lòng

15. The demise of the industry has caused (tell) misery to thousands of hard- working tradesmen.

untold: đáng kể

16. Attracting the banks are the (surge) economy and reforms that have opened up industries to foreign capital.

resurgent: hồi sinh

17. The ordinary reader is impressed by the tone and manner of publication, and the words chosen to (head) a story.

headline: đặt tiêu đề

18. At all events, it was this group of the (possess) that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution.

dispossessed: nghèo

19. (prey) pricing by large supermarkets was threatening the livelihood of smaller businesses.

predatory pricing: chính sách hạ giá để tiêu diệt đối thủ

20. He is a (voice) critic of the president's stance on

abortion. vociferous: mạnh mẽ

21. She made several (par) remarks about the manager she dislikes.

disparaging: làm mất danh dự

22. As women we tend to be (face) and make light of what we have achieved.

self-effacing: khiêm tốn

23. GEW lamp dimming promise uptime at least 1500 hours, raised productivity and reduces (time).

downtime: thời gian chết của máy móc

24. Would you mind if I took one of the pictures as a (keep)?

keepsake: vật lưu niệm

25. Mania usually alternates with depression, to form a (pole)

disorder. bipolar (disorder): bệnh trầm cảm

26. This was too we a (hole) for the tax planners: no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax.

loophole: kẽ hở

27. The teacher said that he found it difficult to cope with a class of (affect) teenagers.

disaffected: bất bình

28. He is (fail) polite and tries desperately to understand other people's views.

unfailingly: luôn luôn

29. The court (turn) that decision on the grounds that the Prosecution had withheld crucial evidence.

overturned: lật đổ

30. Some of these statements are misleading and some downright (amend).

mendacious: sai sự thật

31. The state (fast) refused to settle this matter at any time.

steadfastly: kiên quyết

32. What is illustrated by these photographs is as much the culture of shamelessness as the reigning admiration for (apology) brutality.

unapologetic: không biết hối lỗi

33. The judge found that in her case there were (mitigate)

circumstances. mitigating: làm dịu bớt

34. He impressed his audience by the (profound) of his knowledge.

profundity: sự uyên thâm