WORD FORMATION EXERCISES FOR GIFTED STUDENTS CÓ ĐÁP ÁN + GIẢI THÍCH - Phạm Ngọc Mai Mã A812560

WORD FORMATION EXERCISES

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

anyother 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

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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

openedup 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.

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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

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