A MORE COMMERCIAL TUNE Roger Press, 40, has changed his career. After spending five years (31)________

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Nguyen Hoang Hai

5 tháng 1 2018

ĐÁP ÁN A

Specializes (v.): chuyên môn

Focuses (v.): tập trung

Concentrates (v.): tập trung

Dedicates (adj.): tinh tế

To specialize in something: chuyên môn hóa vào cái gì.

To focus/concentrate on something: tập trung vào cái gì;

To dedicate oneself to something: dốc sức vào cái gì.

= to devote oneself to something.

A year ago I left EMI and formed a new company, New Media Systems, which specializes in multimedia programs.

Một năm trước tôi rời EMI và thành lập một công ti mới. Hệ thống truyền thông mới, chuyên môn hóa vào các chương trình đa phương tiện.

A MORE COMMERCIAL TUNE Roger Press, 40, has changed his career. After spending five years (31)_________a concert pianist, he has gone into business, recently setting up his own company. After leaving university I decided to (32)__________myself to a career in music. I loved performing, but it was hard work. I played at concerts in Europe and America, made recordings and got reviews. But after a while I felt I had gone as far as I could. Unless you’re one of the world’s top 20 pianists,...

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Dương Minh

14 tháng 12 2019

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Nguyen Hoang Hai

14 tháng 12 2019

ĐÁP ÁN B

Lastly (adv.): cuối cùng, sau cùng At last (adv.): cuối cùng = in the end.

At the end of something: vào thời điểm cuối của cái gì;

Lately (adv.): gần đây.

But I felt free and at last I knew 1 was getting serious about life.

Nhưng tôi cảm thấy tự do và cuối cùng tôi biết mình đang nghiêm túc về cuộc sống của mình.

* Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.A MORE COMMERCIAL TUNE Roger Press, 40, has changed his career. After spending five years (31)_________a concert pianist, he has gone into business, recently setting up his own company. After leaving university I decided to (32)__________myself to a career in music. I loved performing, but it was hard work. I played...

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Dương Minh

31 tháng 12 2019

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Nguyen Hoang Hai

31 tháng 12 2019

ĐÁP ÁN A

Devote (v.): cống hiến Take (v.): cầm, lấy

Assign (v.): chỉ định Employ (v.): thuê

To devote oneself to something: cống hiến/ tập trung hết mình vào cái gì;

After leaving university I decided to devote myself to a career in music. I loved performing, but it was hard work.

Sau khi rời trường đại học, tôi quyết định cống hiến hết mình cho sự nghiệp âm nhạc. Tôi yêu biểu diễn, nhưng công việc rất vất vả.

* Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.A MORE COMMERCIAL TUNE Roger Press, 40, has changed his career. After spending five years (31)_________a concert pianist, he has gone into business, recently setting up his own company. After leaving university I decided to (32)__________myself to a career in music. I loved performing, but it was hard work. I played...

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Dương Minh

9 tháng 8 2019

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Nguyen Hoang Hai

9 tháng 8 2019

ĐÁP ÁN D

A. like (adj.): giống nhau, như nhau B. working (v.): làm việc

c. how (adv.): thế nào D. as (adv.): cũng, là

Spend time as a: dành thời gian làm việc gì.

After spending five years as a concert pianist, he has gone into business, recently setting up his own company.

à Sau khi dành 5 năm làm công việc của một nhạc sĩ dương cầm trong các buổi hòa nhạc, ông đã ra kinh doanh riêng, và gần đây đã lập công ti riêng của mình.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.Rain pounded down on the roof. I was trying to read but the sound was too loud. I couldn’t help myself from being a little grumpy. I wanted to be outside playing, but the rain was keeping me inside.My mom had gone to the grocery store, and my dad was spending Saturday at the office. I had planned to spend the day hiking, but Mother Nature...

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Dương Minh

13 tháng 3 2018

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NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

13 tháng 3 2018

Đáp án C

Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

Từ “company” ở đoạn cuối gần nghĩa nhất với.....

time: thời gian space: không gian

friend: bạn bè business: kinh doanh

company (n): bạn bè = friend

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take...

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Dương Minh

22 tháng 12 2019

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older.

Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30,1 went to a college and did courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to be late - I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn’t frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.

Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.

In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated. Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas - from being able to drive a car, perhaps - means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.

I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.

The writer’s main point in paragraph 2 is to show that as people grow up, __________.

A. they cannot learn as well as younger learners

B. they have a more positive attitude towards learning

C. they tend to leam less as they are discouraged

D. they get more impatient with their teachers

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Nguyen Hoang Hai

22 tháng 12 2019

Đáp án B.

Keywords: main point, paragraph 2, as people grow up. Toàn bộ nội dung đoạn 2 nói về trải nghiệm học tập của tác giả khi đi học đầy đủ, không ngại hỏi, không ngại bài về nhà.. .vân vân. Như vậy tác giả muốn chỉ ra rằng khi ta lớn thường có thái độ tích cực hơn về việc học.

Chọn đáp án B. they have a more positive attitude towards learning.

Các đáp án còn lại đều sai thông tin:

A. they cannot leam as well as younger learners: họ không thể học như những người trẻ được.

C. they tend to learn less as they are discouraged: họ có xu hướng học ít đi vì không được động viên.

D. they get more impatient with their teachers: họ trở nên thiếu kiên nhẫn hơn với giáo viên.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.Rain pounded down on the roof. I was trying to read but the sound was too loud. I couldn’t help myself from being a little grumpy. I wanted to be outside playing, but the rain was keeping me inside.My mom had gone to the grocery store, and my dad was spending Saturday at the office. I had planned to spend the day hiking, but Mother Nature...

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Dương Minh

1 tháng 1 2019

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

1 tháng 1 2019

Đáp án C

Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Martha đã nghĩ điều gì về việc đi ra ngoài?

A. Trời quá nóng B. Trời quá lạnh

C. Rất tuyệt D. Quá ẩm ướt để đi bộ

Thông tin: I was very happy to have some company.

Tạm dịch: Tôi rất hạnh phúc khi có bạn bè

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42. FIRST TIME IN THE AIRWhen John Mills was going to fly in an airplane for the first time, he was frightened. He did not like the idea of being thousands of feet up in the air. "I also didn't like the fact that I wouldn't be in control," says John."I'm a terrible passenger in the car. When somebody else is driving, I tell them what to so. It...

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Dương Minh

4 tháng 1 2019

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.

FIRST TIME IN THE AIR

When John Mills was going to fly in an airplane for the first time, he was frightened. He did not like the idea of being thousands of feet up in the air. "I also didn't like the fact that I wouldn't be in control," says John.

"I'm a terrible passenger in the car. When somebody else is driving, I tell them what to so. It drives everybody crazy."

However John couldn't avoid flying any longer. It was the only way he could visit his grandchildren in Canada.

"I had made up my mind that I was going to do it, I couldn't let my son, his wife and their three children travel all the way here to visit me. It would be so expensive for them and I know Tom's business isn't doing so well at the moment - it would also be tiring for the children - it's a nine-hour flight!" he says.

To get ready for the flight John did lots of reading about airplanes. When he booked his seat, he was told that he would be flying on a Boeing 747, which is better known as a jumbo jet. "I needed to know as much as possible before getting in that plane. I suppose it was a way of making myself feel better. The Boeing 747 is the largest passenger aircraft in the world at the moment. The first one flew on February 9th 1969 in the USA. It can carry up to 524 passengers and 3.400 pieces of luggage. The fuel for airplanes is kept in the wings and the 747's wings are so big that they can carry enough fuel for an average car to be able to travel 16,000 kilometers a year for 70 years. Isn't that unbelievable? Even though I had discovered all this very interesting information about the jumbo, when I saw it for the first time, just before I was going to travel to Canada, I still couldn't believe that something so enormous was going to get up in the air and fly. I was even more impressed when I saw how big it was inside with hundreds of people!"

The biggest surprise of all for John was the flight itself. "The take-off itself was much smoother than I expected although I was still quite scared until we were in the air. In the end, I managed to relax, enjoy the food and watch one of the movies and the view from the window was spectacular. I even managed to sleep for a while!

"Of course," continues John, "the best reward of all was when I arrived in Canada and saw my son and his family, particularly my beautiful grandchildren. Suddenly, I felt so silly about all the years when I couldn't even think of getting on a plane. I had let my fear of living stop me from seeing the people I love most in the world. I can visit my son and family as often as I like now!"

How did John feel about his fears in the end?

A. He thought he had wasted time being afraid.

B. He realized it was okay to be afraid.

C. He hoped his grandchildren weren't afraid of flying.

D. He realized that being afraid kept him safe.

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NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

4 tháng 1 2019

ĐÁP ÁN A

Cuối cùng thì ông John đã cảm thấy thế nào về những nỗi sợ?

A. Ông nghĩ mình đã phí thời gian để sợ hãi

B. Ông nhận ra khá ổn khi sợ hãi

C. Ông hy vọng cháu mình sẽ không sợ bay

D. Ông nhận ra việc sợ hãi giúp ông được an toàn

Dẫn chứng: Suddenly, I felt so silly about all the years when I couldn't even think of getting on a plane. I had let my fear of living stop me from seeing the people I love most in the world. I can visit my son and family as often as I like now! (Đột nhiên, tôi cảm thấy rất ngớ ngẩn về tất cả những năm tháng khi tôi thậm chí không dám nghĩ về việc bước lên máy bay. Nỗi sợ hãi đã ngăn tôi được gặp những người tôi yêu thương nhất trên đời. Bây giờ tôi có thể thăm con trai và gia đình của tôi thường xuyên!)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take...

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Dương Minh

29 tháng 1 2017

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older.

Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30,1 went to a college and did courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to be late - I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn’t frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.

Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.

In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated. Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas - from being able to drive a car, perhaps - means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.

I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.

It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you __________.

A. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger

B. find that you can recall a lot of things you leamt when younger

C. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger

D. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger

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NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

29 tháng 1 2017

Đáp án C.

Keywords: implied, last paragraph, learn later in life.

Clue: “at the age of ten, I could never grasp.. .suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect”: ở tuổi lên mười, tôi không bao giờ có thế nắm bắt... đột nhiên tôi có thể hiểu tại sao thực hành làm cho hoàn hảo.

- to grasp: nắm chặt, thấu hiểu vấn để

Ex: He grasped my hands: Anh ấy đã nắm chặt tay tôi.

How can I grasp this hard thing: Sao tôi có thể hiểu được điều khó khăn này.

Đoạn văn nói về việc tác giả tập đàn piano lúc nhỏ, và dần lớn lên bỗng hiểu được sâu hơn những bài học, thực hành đó.

Đáp án đúng là C. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger: thi thoảng có thể hiểu được nhiều hơn lúc còn nhỏ.

Các đáp án còn lại là sai.

A. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger: thường nghĩ là sẽ phải mất thời gian lâu hơn khi còn nhỏ để học hỏi.

B. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger: thấy rằng bạn có thể nhớ lại rất nhiều điều bạn đã học được khi còn nhỏ.

D. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger: không thể tập trung cũng như khi bạn còn trẻ.