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XII. Read the passage carefully, then mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answers from question 43 to 50:
Some companies seem to have a knack for revolutionizing any market that they enter. They produce innovative new products that sell in huge numbers, change people’s expectations and become world famous. In the movie world, for example, you may know Pixar and Dreamworks. Online, you are probably familiar with the Google and Facebook. In the computer world, there is one name that instantly comes to mind. That company is Apple.
The beginning of Apple is a legendary story. In 1976, twenty-one year old Steve Jobs started the company from his family home in California. He worked with computer scientist Steve Wozinak, and businessman Ronald Wayne, to develop, build, and market a persomal computer, their first product. These first computers were not very slick or professional, but they were definitely innovative. The Apple I was the first low-cost computer system to have built-in video capabilities. This means it was able to display its output on a TV screen. Following the success of Apple I, Apple launched a second computer in 1977. This model came with its own monitor and keyboard and was called the Apple II increased when it was chosen as the platform for the first spreadsheet program, called VisiCalc. This made the Apple II popular with business users as well.
Apple’s next innovative success came in January 1984 when it released the Apple Macintosh. It was the first commercially successful computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). Before the Macintosh, computer users operated their computer by typing instructions on a keyboard. Now they could operate their computer by pointing and clicking on the GUI with a mouse The Macintosh inspired many similar operating system, including Microsoft Windows.
Visionary founder, Steve Jobs, left Apple in 1985 and the company’s reputation for innovation seemed to leave with him. However, when Jobs returned to his old job in 1996, he quickly revitalized the company. Most people are familiar with Apple’s success since Job’s return. Starting in 1998 and continuing to the present day, Apple has release several new and very popular production including the iMac (1998), the iPod (2001), the iPhone (2007), and finally the iPad (2010). All these products combined stylish good looks with a powerful, simple to use, operating system – a combination that is very popular with customers. These days, Apple’s reputation for innovation is second to none.
Câu hỏi:It can be inferred from the first paragraph that____.
- A. many people have heard of Pixar and Dreamworks
- B. some people have heard of Pixar and Dreamworks
- C. Pixa and Dreamworks are two movie- making companies
- D. Pixar and Dreamworks are similar companies to Apple
Lời giải tham khảo:
Đáp án đúng: C
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- Indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others: followed rained stopped believed
- Indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others: pressure depression possibly aggression
- Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: wonderful educate destruction popular
- Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress: maintain beauty decide receive
- Choose the best option: Demands have been ____ for the immediate distribution of food to the refugees.
- Choose the best option: His name is on the ____ of my tongue, but I just can’t think of it.
- Choose the best option: ____by the brain and nerves, the nervous system allows us to move, talk, and feel emotions.
- Choose the best option: I don’t need a car; we live ___ easy reach of the shops.
- Choose the best option: They _____ hard to solve the maths problem when Ted came up with the answer.
- Choose the best option: The meat price _____ so high now if it hadn’t been for the African swine fever months ago.
- Choose the best option: A fire must have readily available supply of oxygen. _____, it will stop.
- Choose the best option: In order to ____ their goals in college, students need to invest the maximum amount of time, money and energy in their studies.
- Choose the best option: Mary attempted to ____ herself with her new boss by volunteering to take extra work.
- Choose the best option: Students can gain _____ benefits from learning to work together.
- Choose the best option: They expect ____ to the farewell party but they weren’t.
- Choose the best option: Sir Humphrey has been ____ MP for five years.
- Choose the best option: Many people were shocked by ____ for leaking out the secrets.
- Choose the best option: The new sports complex will accommodate an Olympic- sized swimming pool and other ____, including a fitness center and a spa, to name just a few.
- Indicate the sentence which has the same meaning as the given one: We have to cancel our project due to lack of capital.
- Indicate the sentence which has the same meaning as the given one: I cant explain but Tommy is being very rude lately.
- Have you got any free time next week? Mandy asked.
- Indicate the word(s) that is CLOSET in meaning to the underlined part: When the company is privatized, you should avail yourself of the opportunity and buy some shares.
- Indicate the word(s) that is CLOSET in meaning to the underlined part: Many species have become extinct each year before biologists can identify them.
- Indicate the word(s) that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part: Inadequate supply of oxygen to the blood can cause death within minutes.
- Indicate the word(s) that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part: Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred in here.
- I wonder if you could do something for me.' - “………………..” I'm afraid I won't come. No, thanks. What's it like? It depends on what it is.
- 'Do you like the advanced training course you're taking, James?' - “…………………….” By and large, yes. No, not everyone.
- But in most industrial countries, people are so (28)……to paper
- that its (29)………….. in their daily lives passes largely unnoticed.
- At one (30)………, paper was in short supply and was used mainly for important documents, but more recently, growing economies
- new technologies have (31)……….a dramatic increase in the amount of paper used.
- (32)…….is likely to be one of growth and interdependence.
- The main idea of this paragraph is that ____.
- According to the paragraph, children ingest pesticides by way of _____.
- Pesticides residues wind up in poultry, eggs, and butter because____.
- A lesson that can be learned from the use of pesticides by washing our fruits and vegetables:
- Which of the following sentences is an opinion?
- As the roles of people in society change, so does the rules of conduct in certain situations.
- Japanese initially used jeweled objects to decorate swords and ceremonial items.
- The science and technology industries have grown up steadily over the last decade.
- He helped us a lot. We could manage to finish the work.
- You should have an early night. You dont feel tired.
- Choose the best option: It can be inferred from the first paragraph that____.
- Why does the writer mention Pixar, DreamWorks, Google, and facebook in paragraph 1?
- According to the passage, which of the following words best describes Apple’s first computer?
- What did Apple launch in 1977?
- What was special about Apple’s Macintosh?
- Which sentence about Apple is TRUE?
- Which sentence about Apple is NOT TRUE?
- What can be the best title for the passage?
