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 28 to 34.

        Though Edmund Halley was very famous because of his achievements as an astronomer, he was a scientist of diverse interests and great skill. In addition to studying the skies, Halley was also deeply interested in exploring the unknown depths of the oceans. One of his lesser-known accomplishments that were quite remarkable was his design for a diving bell that facilitated exploration of the watery depths.

        The diving bell that Halley designed had a major advantage over the diving bells that were in use prior to his. Earlier diving bells could only make use of the air contained within the bell itself, so divers had to surface when the air inside the bell ran low. Halley’s bell was an improvement in that its design allowed for an additional supply of fresh air that enabled a crew of divers to remain underwater for several hours.

        The diving contraption that Halley designed was in the shape of a bell that measured three feet across the top and five feet across the bottom and could hold several divers comfortably; it was open at the bottom so that divers could swim in and out at will. The bell was built of wood, which was first heavily tarred to make it water repellent and was then covered with a half-ton sheet of lead to make the bell heavy enough to sink in water. The bell shape held air inside for the divers to breathe as the bell sank to the bottom.

        The air inside the bell was not the only source of air for the divers to breathe, and it was this improvement that made Halley’s bell superior to its predecessors. In addition to the air already in the bell, air was also supplied to the divers from a lead barrel that was lowered to the ocean floor close to the bell itself. Air flowed through a leather pipe from the lead barrel on the ocean floor to the bell. The diver could breathe the air from a position inside the bell, or he could move around outside the bell wearing a diving suit that consisted of a lead bell-shaped helmet with a glass viewing window and a leather body suit, with a leather pipe carrying fresh air from the diving bell to the helmet.

The expression “ran low” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to

Note 45

SỰ KẾT HỢP TỪ VỚI CÁC DANH TỪ THÔNG DỤNG

 Advice

-    follow/ take/ listen to/get on sb’s advice (nghe theo lời khuyên của ai)

-    get/ obtain/ receive advice (nhận lời khuyên)

Bill

-    pay/ settle/ pick up a bill (trả một hóa đơn)

-    be landed with/ face a bill (chịu một hóa đơn)

-    an unpaid bill (một hóa đơn chưa thanh toán)

Career

-    at the height/ peak of one’s carreer (ở đỉnh cao sự nghiệp)

-    embark on a career (dấn thân vào một nghề)

-    have a careeer in (có sự nghiệp trong lĩnh vực)

-    climb the career ladder (thăng tiến nghề nghiệp)

-    week/ ruin one’s career (hủy hoại sự nghiệp của mình)

-    a promising/ brilliant career (sự nghiệp đầy hứa hẹn)

Chance

-    get/have a chance (có cơ hội)

-    give/ offer/ provide a chance (tạo cơ hội)

- jump at/ seize/ grab a chance (nắm lấy cơ hội)

-    not stand a chance of doing sth (không có khả năng làm gì)

-    sheer/ pure chance (sự tình cờ hoàn toàn)

-    good/ fair/ high/strong chance (khả năng cao)

-    minimal/ slight/ little chance (khả năng mong manh)

Demand

-    meet/ satisfy/cope with a demand (đáp ứng/ thỏa mãn nhu cầu)

-    increase/ boost/ stimulate demand (tăng nhu cầu)

-    big/ huge/ great/ considerable/ enormous/ strong demand (nhu cầu lớn/ cao)

Difference

-    make a difference (tạo ra/ mang sự khác biệt)

-    make all the difference (thay đổi lớn)

-    tell the difference (phân biệt)

-    feel/ know/ notice/ see/ perceive/ the difference (cảm nhận, nhận thức sự khác biệt)

-    considerable/ enormous/ profound/ dramatic/ sharp difference (sự khác biệt đáng kể, rõ rệt)

-    with a difference (đặc biệt khác thường)

Difficulty

-    have/ experience/ encounter/ face/ get into/ run into difficulties (gặp khó khăn)

-    do sth with/ without difficulty (làm gì một cách khó khăn/ dễ dàng)

-  solve/ cope with/ deal with difficulties (giải quyết khó khăn)

-    overcome/ surmount difficulties (vượt qua khó khăn)

-    great/ enormous/ considerabke/ serious difficulty (khó khăn lớn, nghiêm trọng)

Fault

-    find/ locate/ identify/ discover fault (tìm lỗi)

-    correct/ fix/ repair/ recify a fault (sữa chữa một lỗi)

-    be all/ entirely one’s own fault (hoàn toàn do lỗi của ai)

-    be hardly one’s own fault (hầu như không phải lỗi của ai)

-    at fault (chịu trách nhiệm về một sai lầm)

Favour

-    do sb a favour (làm giúp ai điều gì)

-    ask a favour (hỏi xin một ân huệ)

-    owe sb a favour (mang ơn ai)

-    return a favour (đáp lại một ân huệ)

-    find/ gain/ win favour (có được sự ủng hộ)

-    in favour of sth (ủng hộ, tán thành cái gì)

Habit

-    be in/ have the habit of (có thói quen)

-    form/ get into/ fall into/ make/ develop/ acquire a habit (hình thành, tạo thành một thói quen)

-    change a habit (thay đổi một thói quen)

-    break/ give up/ get out of a habit (bỏ một thói quen)

-    by habit (do thói quen)

-    out of habit (vì thói quen)

Measure

-    adopt/ take/ implement/ impose/ inưoduce a measure (thực hiện/ áp dụng một giải pháp)

-    appropriate/ effective/ necessary/ practical measure (giải pháp thích hợp/ hiệu quả/ cần thiết thực tế)

-  short-term/ temporary measure (giải pháp tạm thời)

Occupation

-    follow/ take up an occupation (theo một nghề)

-    choose an occupation (chọn một nghề)

-    give up one’s occupation (bỏ nghề)

Opportunity

-    have/ find/ get an opportunity (có/ tìm được một cơ hội)

-    have ample/ considerable/ plenty of opportunity (có nhiều cơ hội)

-    have limited/ little/ not much opportunity (có ít cơ hội)

-    a good/ great/ wonderful/ golden opportunity (cơ hội tốt, cơ hội tuyệt vời, cơ hội vàng)

Problem                      .

-    encounter/ be faced with/ confront/ be confronted with/ face a problem (gặp phải một vấn đề)

-    solve/ deal with/ clear up/ overcome/ address/ tackle a problem (giải quyết/ vượt qua một vấn đề)

-    big/ great/ serious/ acute problem (vấn đề lớn/ nghiêm trọng)

Popularity

-    gain/ grow/ enjoy popularity (ngày càng được ưa thích)

-  at the peak of sbV sth’s popularity (ở đỉnh cao của sự nổi tiếng)

-    an increase/ a rise in popularity (sự ưa chuộng, gia tăng)

-    a decline/ drop in popularity (giảm/ ít nổi tiếng)

Relationship

-    have/ enjoy a close/ good relationship (có mối liên hệ gần gũi/ tốt)

-    build (up)/ develop/ establish/ foster a relationship (xây dựng/ thiêt lập mối quan hệ)

-    improve/ strengthen a relationship (cải thiện, củng cố mối quan hệ)

Standard

-    set a Standard (đưa ra, lập ra một tiêu chuẩn)

-    meeư achieve/conform to/ comply with standards (đáp ứng, đảm bảo tiêu chuẩn)

-    raise/ improve standards (nâng cao/ cải thiện chất lượng)

Subject

-    bring up a subject (đưa ra một đề tài)

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