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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
Why do people like to chew gum? Some people say they like the taste. (26)________say they can think better if they chew gum. Some people chew it when they have some boring work to do. Others chew gum when they are nervous. Gum is a mixture of things. For many years gum companies made gum from chicle. Chicle is a natural gum from a tree in Mexico and Central America. Now companies use plastic and rubber made from petroleum (27)________of chicle. Gum must be soft so that you can chew it. A softener keeps it soft. The gum company makes the softener from vegetable oil. A sweetener makes the gum sweet. The sweetener is usually sugar. Then the company (28)________ the flavor. Thomas Adams made the first gum from chicle in 1836. (29)___________, chewing gum was not new. The Greeks chewed gum from a tree (30)________ 2,000 years ago. Mayan Indians in Mexico chewed chicle. Indians in the Northeastern United States taught Europeans to chew gum from a tree there. People first made bubble gum in 1928. Children like to blow bubble with bubble gum. Some university students do, too.
(Adapted from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
Câu hỏi:(26) _________
- A. The other
- B. Others
- C. The others
- D. Other
Lời giải tham khảo:
Đáp án đúng: B
Others: những người khác
Others say they can think better if they chew gum.
Dịch: Những người khác nói rằng họ có thể suy nghĩ tốt hơn nếu họ nhai kẹo cao su.
Các cấu trúc còn lại:
- other + N: người khác, cái khác
- the other: người còn lại
- the others: những người còn lại
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