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02/04/2020 718Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on our answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
In the explosion of the linguistic life cycle, it is apparent that it is much more difficult to learn a second language in adulthood than a first language in childhood. Most adults never completely master a foreign language, especially in Phonology – hence the ubiquitous foreign accent. Their development often “fossilizes” into permanent error patterns that no teaching or correction can undo. Of course, there are great individual differences, which depend on effort, attitudes, amount of exposure, quality of teaching and plain talent, but there seems to be a cap for the best adults in the best circumstances
Many explanations have been advanced for children’s superiority; they exploit Motherese (the simplified, repetitive conversation between parents and children), make errors unself-consciously, are more motivated to communicate, like to conform, are not set in their ways, and have not first language to interfere. But some of these accounts are unlikely, based on what is known about how language acquisition works. Recent evidence is calling these social and motivation explanations into doubt. Holding every other factor constant, a key factor stands out: sheer age
Systematic evidence comes from the psychologist Elissa Newport and her colleagues. They tested Korean and Chinese – born students at the University of Illinois who had spent a least ten years in the United States. The immigrants were give a list of 276 simple English sentences, half of them containing some grammatical error. The immigrants who came to the United States between the age of 3 and 7 performed identically to American – born students. Those who arrived between ages 8 and 15 did worse the latter they arrived, and those who arrived between 17 and 39 did the worst of all, and showed huge variability unrelated to their age of arrival
The word “unrelated” in paragraph 3 is closet in meaning to ___
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Unrelated - không liên quan
Đáp án A – không liên kết
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B – không quen thuộc
C – không phân loại
D – không xác định được
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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.
The last time I went to the museum was a year ago.
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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.
I think you should stop smoking.
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Câu 3:
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.
John was not here yesterday. Perhaps he was ill
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Câu 4:
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.
She gets up early to prepare breakfast so that her children can come to school on time.
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Câu 5:
Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
We _____ on the beach now if we hadn’t missed the plane
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Câu 6:
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The government is determined to ____ terrorism
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Câu 7:
Mark the letter A, B, C, D on our answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction
Harry, alike his colleagues, is trying hard to finish hart work early
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