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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C ,or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.  

  Ask anyone over forty to make a comparison (51)____ the past and the present and nine (52)____ ten people will tell you that things have been getting (53)____ worse for as long as they can remember. Take the weather for example, which has been behaving rather strangely lately. Everyone remembers that in their childhood the summers were(54)____ hotter, and that winter always included abundant falls of snow just when the school holidays had started. Of course, the food in those days was far superior too, as nothing was imported and everything was fresh. Unemployment was negligible, the pound really was worth something, and you could buy a sizeable house even if your means were limited. And above all, people were (55)____ better in those days, far more friendly, not inclined to crime or violence, and spent their free time making model boats and tending their stamp collections (56)____ than gazing at the television screen for hours on end. As we know that this picture of the past (57)____ cannot be true, and there are plenty of statistics dealing with health and prosperity which prove that it is not true, why is it that we all have a (58)____ to idealize the past ? Is this simply nostalgia? Or is it rather that we need to believe in an image of the world which is (59)____ the opposite of what we see around us? Whichever it is, at least it leaves us with a nagging feeling that the present could be better, and perhaps (60)____ us to be a little more critical about the way we live.

   Ask anyone over forty to make a comparison (51)____ the past and the present and nine (52)____ ten people will tell you that things have been getting 

A. between
B. from
C. with
D. In

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Đáp án: A

Câu hỏi cùng đoạn

Câu 2:

the past and the present and nine (52)____ ten people will tell you that things have been getting

A. to
B. out of
C. or
D. from

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: B

Câu 3:

ten people will tell you that things have been getting (53)____ worse for as long as they can remember.

A. virtually
B. so
C. steadily
D. out

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: C

Câu 4:

Everyone remembers that in their childhood the summers were(54)____ hotter, and that winter always included abundant falls of snow just when the school holidays had started.

A. considerably
B. at least
C. rarely
D. not only

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: A

Câu 5:

And above all, people were (55)____ better in those days, far more friendly, not inclined to crime or violence, and spent their free time making model boats

A. more
B. somehow
C. whatsoever
D. as

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: D

Câu 6:

And above all, people were (55)____ better in those days, far more friendly, not inclined to crime or violence, and spent their free time making model boats and tending their stamp collections (56)____ than gazing at the television screen for hours on end.

A. usually
B. different
C. other
D. rather

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: D

Câu 7:

As we know that this picture of the past (57)____ cannot be true, and there are plenty of statistics dealing with health and prosperity which prove that it is not true

A. especially
B. hardly
C. simply
D. specifically

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Đáp án: C

Câu 8:

and there are plenty of statistics dealing with health and prosperity which prove that it is not true, why is it that we all have a (58)____ to idealize the past ?

A. tendency
B. custom
C. habit
D. practice

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: A

Câu 9:

Or is it rather that we need to believe in an image of the world which is (59)____ the opposite of what we see around us?

A. utterly
B. widely
C. quite
D. rather

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: C

Câu 10:

Whichever it is, at least it leaves us with a nagging feeling that the present could be better, and perhaps (60)____ us to be a little more critical about the way we live.

A. makes
B. encourages
C. reassures
D. supports

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verified Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án: B

CÂU HỎI HOT CÙNG CHỦ ĐỀ

Câu 1

A. Signs of aging are easier to detect in animals than in plants.
B. The outward signs of aging may be seen in old people.
C. Aging occurs in every living thing after it has reached maturity.
D. Not all signs of aging are visible.

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Đáp án: C

Câu 2

A. No one knows the answer of the teacher’s question.
B. No one knows how to answer of teacher’s question.
C. No one knows the answer to the teacher’s question.
D. No one knows to answer the teacher’s question.

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Đáp án: C

Câu 3

A. became famous
B. turned back
C. changed
D. diminished

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Câu 5

A. through
B. over
C. in for
D. down with

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Câu 6

A. won’t
B. needn’t
C. can’t
D. mustn’t

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