Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. By...

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

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

The word "trigger" in the ﬁrst paragraph could be best replaced by ________.

A. cause

B. prevent

C. encourage

D. promote

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Dương Hoàn Anh

13 tháng 1 2017

Đáp án A

Từ "trigger” trong đọan 1 có thể được thay thế bởi từ ________.

A. gây ra B. ngăn cản
C. khuyến khích D. thúc đẩy

Từ đồng nghĩa: trigger (gây ra) = cause

“Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?” (Liệu sự nóng lên toàn cầu có gây ra những thay đổi thảm khốc, hay chúng ta có thế tìm ra con đường thoát khỏi khủng hoảng biến đổi khí hậu hay không?).

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis? Making predictions is, by...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

15 tháng 4 2018

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

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

Which of the following best describes the author’s attitude about the life in 2050?

A. pessimistic

B. optimistic

C. doubtful

D. anxious

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

15 tháng 4 2018

Đáp án B

Từ nào trong các từ sau mô tả chính các nhất thái độ của tác giả đối với cuộc sống trong năm 2050?

A. bi quan B. lạc quan
C. nghi ngờ D. 1o lắng

Căn cứ thông tin toàn bài:

Đa phần các dự đoán trong bài viết đều nói về mặt thay đổi tích cực của cuộc sống trong năm 2050. Nên thái độ của tác giả là khá lạc quan

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis? Making predictions is, by...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

5 tháng 11 2018

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

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

What is the problem caused by advanced technology for future humans in paragraph 5?

A. It makes people likely to live in the Virtual reality

B. It will be unsafe for people to drive their cars on the roads.

C. Long haul drivers may become unemployed.

D. People’s lives will be getting worse.

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Dương Hoàn Anh

5 tháng 11 2018

Đáp án C

Công nghệ tiến bộ gây ra vấn đề nào cho con người trong tương lai ở đoạn 5?

A. Nó khiến cho mọi người có khả năng sống trong thực tế ảo.

B. Sẽ không còn an toàn cho mọi người lái xe ra đường.

C. Các lái xe đường dài có thể bị thất nghiệp.

D. Cuộc sống của con người sẽ tồi tệ hơn.

Từ khóa: problem/ adVanced technology

Căn cứ vào thông tin đoạn 5:

"Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete."

(Các chiếc xe tự lái sẽ khiến các con đường an toàn hơn, lái xe hiệu quả hơn và cung cấp các phương tiện nhanh hơn. Một phiên bản xe tự lái lớn hơn - xe tải không người lái - có thể khiến các lái xe đường dài dần trở nên lỗi thời).

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis? Making predictions is, by...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

25 tháng 12 2018

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

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

Which of the following predictions in paragraph 2 is NOT true?

A. The world population will grow considerably.

B. The humans will have a longer life span.

C. Urbanization trends will increase the separation between home and workplace.

D. More and more inhabitants choose urban areas to live.

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

25 tháng 12 2018

Đáp án C

Dự đoán nào trong đoạn 2 sau đây là không đúng?

A. Dân số thế giới sẽ tăng trưởng đáng kể.

B. Con người sẽ có tuổi thọ dài hơn.

C. Xu hướng đô thị hóa sẽ làm tăng sự ngăn cách giữa nhà và nơi làm việc.

D. Nhiều người dân chọn khu đô thị để sống hơn.

Từ khóa: Predictions/ not true

Căn cứ thông tin đoạn 2:

"Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Ioel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a signiﬁcantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home

and work.”

(Sự thay đổi nhân khẩu trong dân số thế giới và tốc độ tăng trưởng dân số chắc chắn sẽ rất nhanh. Nhà sinh vật - toán học của Đại học RockefeIIer, Joel Cohen, nói rằng có khả năng đến năm 2050, đa số người dân thế giới sẽ sống ở vùng đô thị, và sẽ có tuổi thọ trung bình cao hơn đáng kể so với mọi người ngày nay. Nhà lý thuyết về thành thị, Richard Florida, cho rằng xu hướng đô thị hóa sẽ tái tạo lại hệ thống giáo dục Hoa Kỳ, làm cho nền kinh tế suy giảm về kinh doanh bất động sản và xóa bỏ sự phân chia giữa nhà ở và nơi làm việc).

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis? Making predictions is, by...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

8 tháng 5 2018

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

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

According to paragraph 4, the following countries are damaged by the migrations, EXCEPT ________.

A. the countries in the Middle East

B. Germany

C. the United Kingdom

D. the Netherlands

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

8 tháng 5 2018

Đáp án A

Theo đoạn văn 4, đất nước nào sau đây bị thiệt hại do những người di cư gây ra?

A. các nước Trung Đông B. Đức C. Vương quốc Anh D. Hà Lan

Từ khóa: countries/ damaged/ migrations

Căn cứ thông tin đoạn 4:

“Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union."

(Một lượng lớn người di cư từ các nước đang phát triển như Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico và các nước Trung Đông có thể làm xáo trộn chính phủ các nước Phương Tây và gây hại cho sự thống nhất của các nước Pháp, Đức, Tây Ban Nha, Hà Lan, Bồ Đào Nha và Vương quốc Anh dưới sự bảo trợ của Liên minh châu Âu).

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis? Making predictions is, by...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

16 tháng 3 2018

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

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

The word “disrupt” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

A. settle

B. establish

C. disturb

D. replace

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

16 tháng 3 2018

Đáp án C

Từ “disrupt” trong đoạn 3 gần nghĩa nhất _________.

A. định cư B. thiết lập C. làm xáo trộn D. thay thế

Từ đồng nghĩa: disrupt (phá vỡ, làm xáo trộn) = disturb

"Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the

European Union."

(Một lượng lớn người di cư từ các nước đang phát triển như Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico và các nước Trung Đông có thể làm xáo trộn chính phủ các nước Phương Tây và gây hại cho sự thống nhất của các nước Pháp, Đức, Tây Ban Nha, Hà Lan, Bồ Đào Nha và Vương quốc Anh dưới sự bảo trợ của Liên minh châu Âu).

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis? Making predictions is, by...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

12 tháng 1 2017

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

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

What does the word "who" in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Daniel Okrent

B. New York Times

C. author

D. traditional model

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

12 tháng 1 2017

Đáp án A

Từ “Who" trong đoạn cuối đề cập đến từ nào?

A. Daniel Okrent B. thời báo New York

C. tác giả D. mô hình truyền thống

Căn cứ thông tin đoạn cuối:

"Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who

believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals" reporting and publishing on niche topics." (Trong khi đó, Internet vẫn tiếp tục chuyển đổi hoàn toàn phương tiện truyền thông, phá hủy mô hình truyền thống của tổ chức truyền thông, tác giả và là cựu biên tập viên Thời báo New York, Daniel Okrent cho biết, ông tin rằng các loại tổ chức truyền thông phổ biến nhất trong tương lai sẽ là “cá nhân và các liên minh cá nhân nhỏ” chuyên báo cáo và xuất bản các chủ đề thích hơp.)

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. Fill in the appropriate word in question 28 THE FUTURE OF WATER Many of us often wonder what the future holds; some believe major advances in technology will occur which will result in improvements to our everyday lives. Scientists have predicted shortages in fossil fuels and changes in the weather patterns of the world....

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

9 tháng 10 2018