25 CÂU HỎI
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence.
The school was closed for a month because of serious ______ of fever.
A. outcome
B. outburst
C. outset
D. outbreak
The campaign raised far more than the ______ of $20.000.
A. aim
B. object
C. goal
D. target
We have a ______ future ahead with little comfort, food or hope.
A. cruel
B. pessimistic
C. grim
D. fierce
Only thoroughly unpleasant people leave the ______ of their picnics to spoil the appearance of the countryside.
A. rest
B. remainder
C. remains
D. rester
An almost ______ line of traffic was moving at a snail’s pace through the town.
A. continuous
B. constant
C. continual
D. stopping
Medieval travelers’ tales of fantastic creatures were often fascinating but not always ______
A. credible
B. creditable
C. credulous
D. imaginable
Don’t be late for the interview, ____ people will think you are a disorganized person
A. unless
B. otherwise
C. if not
D. or so
My friends have just moved to a new flat in a residential area on the ______ of Paris.
A. suburbs
B. outside
C. outskirts
D. side
You are being thoroughly ______ in refusing to allow this ceremony to take place.
A. unrequited
B. unrepresentative
C. unreliable
D. unreasonable
“But so”, I told him, “you are my own ______.”
A. heart and heart
B. body and soul
C. flesh and blood
D. skin and bone
But there seems little (1)_____ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course
A. evidence
B. concern
C. doubt
D. likelihood
that plastic has brought enormous (2)_____ even environmental ones.
A. pleasures
B. benefits
C. savings
D. profits
It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3)_____ – it’s the way society choose to use and (4)_____ them.
A. poison
B. disaster
C. disadvantage
D. evil
It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3)_____ – it’s the way society choose to use and (4)_____ them.
A. dispose
B. store
C. endanger
D. abuse
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – non-renewable natural (5)_____
A. resources
B. processes
C. products
D. fuels
We (6)_____ well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away.
A. remove
B. import
C. consign
D. consume
A high (7)_____ of our annual consumption is in the (8)_____ of packaging
A. portion
B. amount
C. proportion
D. rate
A high (7)_____ of our annual consumption is in the (8)_____ of packaging
A. way
B. kind
C. form
D. type
and this (9)_____ about seven per cent by weight of our domestic (10)_____
A. takes
B. makes
C. carries
D. constitutes
and this (9)_____ about seven per cent by weight of our domestic (10)_____
A. refuse
B. goods
C. requirements
D. rubble
Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (11)_____ is growing fast
A. manufacture
B. plant
C. factory
D. industry
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (12)_____ than coal and one (13)_____ of ‘recovery’ strongly (14)_____ by the plastic manufacturers is the (15)_____ of waste plastic into a fuel.
A. degree
B. value
C. demand
D. effect
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (12)_____ than coal and one (13)_____ of ‘recovery’ strongly (14)_____ by the plastic manufacturers is the (15)_____ of waste plastic into a fuel.
A. measure
B. mechanism
C. method
D. medium
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (12)_____ than coal and one (13)_____ of ‘recovery’ strongly (14)_____ by the plastic manufacturers is the (15)_____ of waste plastic into a fuel.
A. desired
B. argued
C. favored
D. presented
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (12)_____ than coal and one (13)_____ of ‘recovery’ strongly (14)_____ by the plastic manufacturers is the (15)_____ of waste plastic into a fuel.
A. conversion
B. melting
C. change
D. replacement