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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 answer to each of the questions from 29 to 33.
For years 'bogus' was a word the British read in newspaper headlines but tended not to say. Its popularity among the teenagers of America changed that, although they didn't use it with its original meaning. It came from the Wild West. Its first appearance in print, in 1827, was in the Telegraph of Painesville, Ohio, where it meant a machine for making forgeries of coins. Soon, those 'bonuses' were turning out 'bogus money' and the word had undergone a change from noun to adjective.
By the end of the 19th century, it was well-established in Britain, applied to anything false, spurious or intentionally misleading. But the computer scientists of 1960 s America, to whom we owe so much linguistic innovation, redefined it to mean 'non-functional', 'useless', or 'unbelievable', especially in relation to calculations and engineering ideas. This was followed by its emergence among Princeton and Yale graduates in the East Coast computer community. But it was the adoption of the word by American teenagers generally, who used it to mean simply 'bad', that led to it being widely used by their counterparts in Britain.
Interestingly, 'bogus' is one of only about 1,300 English words for which no sensible origin has emerged. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection with a New England word, 'tantrobogus', meaning the devil. A rival US account sees it as a corruption of the name of a forger, called Borghese or Borges.
According to the passage, what did the word 'bogus' mean when it was first used?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 29 to 33.
For years 'bogus' was a word the British read in newspaper headlines but tended not to say. Its popularity among the teenagers of America changed that, although they didn't use it with its original meaning. It came from the Wild West. Its first appearance in print, in 1827, was in the Telegraph of Painesville, Ohio, where it meant a machine for making forgeries of coins. Soon, those 'bonuses' were turning out 'bogus money' and the word had undergone a change from noun to adjective.
By the end of the 19th century, it was well-established in Britain, applied to anything false, spurious or intentionally misleading. But the computer scientists of 1960 s America, to whom we owe so much linguistic innovation, redefined it to mean 'non-functional', 'useless', or 'unbelievable', especially in relation to calculations and engineering ideas. This was followed by its emergence among Princeton and Yale graduates in the East Coast computer community. But it was the adoption of the word by American teenagers generally, who used it to mean simply 'bad', that led to it being widely used by their counterparts in Britain.
Interestingly, 'bogus' is one of only about 1,300 English words for which no sensible origin has emerged. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection with a New England word, 'tantrobogus', meaning the devil. A rival US account sees it as a corruption of the name of a forger, called Borghese or Borges.
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Câu 2:
The word "emergence" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______
The word "emergence" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án B
Câu 3:
The word 'it' in paragraph 2 refers to _______
The word 'it' in paragraph 2 refers to _______
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án A
Câu 4:
All of the following are true about the word 'bogus' EXCEPT that _______
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp an A
Câu 5:
What is the passage mainly about?
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Chọn đáp án A
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Read the following advertisements/announcements and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 10 to 12.
Read the following advertisements/announcements and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 10 to 12.
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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 option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.
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a. You can turn off the lights when you leave a room, and you can unplug electronics when you're not using them.
b. Another way is to use public transportation instead of driving a car, walk or ride a bicycle for short distances.
c. There are many ways to save non-renewable energy.
d. Finally, you can recycle paper, plastic, glass, and metal to help reduce waste.
e. One way is to use less electricity.
a. You can turn off the lights when you leave a room, and you can unplug electronics when you're not using them.
b. Another way is to use public transportation instead of driving a car, walk or ride a bicycle for short distances.
c. There are many ways to save non-renewable energy.
d. Finally, you can recycle paper, plastic, glass, and metal to help reduce waste.
e. One way is to use less electricity.
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Tom and lan have a free afternoon, but _______ of them like crowds, so they are going to stay home.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Tom and lan have a free afternoon, but _______ of them like crowds, so they are going to stay home.
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