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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN AND THINK
What is the point of the education system? Although this question may seem ridiculous at first glance, it is actually not stupid as it sounds. The reason it is (20)__________trying to answer is that schools and university clearly emphasise academic achievement, passing exams and gaining (21)________much more than acquiring skills such as raising children or car maintenance. But why is it? Why do they neglect to teach practical skills at school? One answer may be that schools don't exist to help us gain useful knowledge about the world. At school, what we are (22) ________learning is how to learn effectively. The idea is that we can then make use of that ability later on in life when we come to deal (23)_______ more practical aspects of day-to-day living. However, some people argue that the current system is in fact a failure because it doesn't actually teach children how to become good thinkers. Learning how to learn is one thing. Learning how to think is quite (24)_______.
Câu hỏi:(20)__________
- A. cost
- B. value
- C. worth
- D. price
Lời giải tham khảo:
Đáp án đúng: C
A. cost (n): giá, chi phí
B. value (n): giá trị, giá cả
C. worth (adj): đáng, xứng đáng
D. price (n): giá, giá mặc định
=> worth + Ving: đáng, xứng đáng
The reason it is (20) worth trying to answer is that schools and university clearly emphasise academic achievement.
Tạm dịch: Lý do đáng để cố gắng trả lời câu hỏi này là các trường học và đại học nhấn mạnh rõ thành tích học tập.
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CÂU HỎI KHÁC
- Choose the word whose underlined word is pronounced differently from the others: horn, vehicle, hippo, habitat
- Choose the word whose underlined word is pronounced differently from the others: computer, communication, command, complicated
- Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others: applicable, automation, artificial, evolution
- Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others: workforce, high-flyer, handshake, headhunt
- Many wildlife _________ have been set up in this country.
- Thanks to the A.I. applications, Internet users ____________into a new language inreal time.
- Employers always want job ___________to be able to demonstrate their skills and qualities
- Being a flight attendant is a _________job. You may have to work long hours onlong haul flights and not get enough sleep.
- When the factory closed, about a hundred people were __________redundant.
- If I had a computer, I ___________the assignment yesterday.
- The young boy denied________the womens money.
- He has an ________response to water and feel very calm when he's underwater.
- It is ________ book that just a some people like it.
- The early we leave, the sooner we will arrive.
- Find the mistake: This is the girl for which I am waiting.
- Find the mistake: An increased number of city dwellers has made the obsolete infrastructure worse and required a lot of repairs in these days.
- By the time we will arrive, everybody will have left.
- He complained with his friends about the terrible working condition at that factory.
- Oil and gas prices have raised so rapidly in the past few months that somecommuters have been forced to alter their travelling habits.
- The reason it is (20)__________trying to answer is that schools and university clearly emphasise academic
- emphasise academic achievement, passing exams and gaining (21)________much more than acquiring skills such as
- At school, what we are (22) ________learning is how to learn effectively.
- that ability later on in life when we come to deal (23)_______ more practical aspects
- Learning how to think is quite (24)_______.
- Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a feature of the 1880s “ Golden Age”?
- The word” somewhat” in line 21 is closest in meaning to ____.
- The word inception” in line 8 is closest in meaning to ____.
- The word lavish in line 11 is closest in meaning to____.
- What is the passage talking about?
- Which of the following is true of the way the game was played by wealthy gentlemen at its inception?