Câu hỏi:
12/03/2020 327Read 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 35 to 42.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "icebox" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented.
Making an efficient ice box was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.
But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.
The author describes Thomas Moore as having been "on the right track" in the third paragraph to indicate that ________.
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Trả lời:
Trong đoạn 3, tác giả mô tả ông Thomas Moore đã “đi đúng hướng” để chỉ ra rằng ______.
A. con đường đến siêu thị đi qua trang trại của ông Moore
B. Moore là một thương gia thật thà
C. Moore là người nông dân giàu có
D. Thiết kế của Moore khá là thành công
Thông tin: But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track.
Tạm dịch: Nhưng ngay từ năm 1803, một nông dân rất khéo léo ở Maryland, Thomas Moore, đã khá thành công.
Chọn D
Đã bán 152
Đã bán 114
Đã bán 132
Đã bán 47
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
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Câu 2:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions
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Câu 3:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
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Câu 4:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
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Câu 5:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions
Tom was encouraged by my success. He decided not to quit his work.
Câu 6:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions
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Câu 7:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
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