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
School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out (1) much
knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a
fact that some people who are very successful academically don’t have any common sense?
Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually
tested by logic puzzles. (2)
scientists are now preparing advanced computer technology
that will be able to “read” our brains, for the present tests are still the most popular ways of
measuring intelligence.
A person’s IQ is his intelligence (3) it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ
tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946. By 1976 it had
1,300 members in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (4) in the
US. People taking the tests are judged in relation to an average score of 100, and those (5)
score
over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2% of the population.
Question 1:
A. what
B. how
C. which
D. why
Question 2:
A. Although
B. Until
C. Despite
D. Because
Question 3:
A. how
B. as
C. that
D. so
Question 4:
A. enormously
B. highly
C. considerably
D. mainly
Question 5:
A. which
B. whom
C. why
D. who
The Internet has truly transformed how students do their homework. (1) homework today still
means spending time in the library, it’s for a different reason. Rather than using books for
research, students today are (2) _
to the Internet to download enormous amounts of data
available online. In the past, students were limited to their school’s (3)
of books. In many cases,
they got to the school library and found out that someone had already taken the books they
needed. Nowadays, such inconvenience can be avoided since the Internet never runs out of
information. Students, however, do have to (4) sure that the information they find online is true.
Teachers have also benefited from the homework which is done on the Internet. They do not
need to carry students’ papers around with them any more. This is because online (5)
allow
students to electronically upload their homework for their teachers to read and mark. Of course,
this also means that students can no longer use the excuse that the dog ate their homework!
Câu 6: (1)