15000 bài tập tách từ đề thi thử môn Tiếng Anh có đáp án (Phần 54)

Tyler Perry

Perry had a rough childhood. He was physically and sexually abused growing up, got kicked out of high school, and tried to commit suicide___(44)__—once as a preteen and again at 22. At 23 he moved to Atlanta and took ___(45)___odd  jobs as he started working on his stage career.

In 1992 he wrote, produced, and starred in his first theatre ___(46)____, I Know I’ve Been Changed, somewhat informed  by his difficult upbringing. Perry put all his savings into the show and it failed miserably; the run lasted just one weekend and only 30 people came to watch.He kept  up with the production, working more odd  jobs and often slept in his car to get by. Six years later, Perry finally ___(47)___ through when, on its seventh run, the show became a success.He’s since gone on to have an extremely successful career __(48)___ a director, writer, and actor. In fact, Perry was named Forbes’ highest paid man in the field.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out (1) _____ much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a fact that some people who are very successful academically don’t have any common sense?

Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. (2) ______ scientists are now preparing advanced computer technology that will be able to “read” our brains, for the present tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence.

A person’s IQ is his intelligence (3) ____ it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946. By 1976 it had 1,300 members in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (4) ____ in the US.

People taking the tests are judged in relation to an average score of 100, and those (5) _____ score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2% of the population.

The Internet has truly transformed how students do their homework. (1) ____homework today still means spending time in the library, it’s for a different reason. Rather than using books for research, students today are (2) ______to the Internet to download enormous amounts of data available online. In the past, students were limited to their school’s (3) _________ of books. In many cases, they got to the school library and found out that someone had already taken the books they needed. Nowadays, such inconvenience can be avoided since the Internet never runs out of information. Students, however, do have to (4)_____sure that the information they find online is true. Teachers have also benefited from the homework which is done on the Internet. They do not need to carry students’ papers around with them any more. This is because online (5)______allow students to electronically upload their homework for their teachers to read and mark. Of course, this also means that students can no longer use the excuse that the dog ate their homework!

We can communicate not only through words (31) ______ through body language. Body language includes our posture, facial expressions, and gestures. Because body language is so important, you’ll want (32) ______ what yours is saying and how to interpret other people’s, too. Here are some examples of body language and its meaning. If your posture is slumped and your head is down, this could mean that you are sad or you lack (33) ________. If your posture is straight but relaxed, you are expressing confidence and friendliness. A smile is a sign of friendliness and interest. But people sometimes smile just to be polite. Friendliness and interest are expressed when a person’s eyes meet yours and then look away and meet yours again. A person (34) _______ doesn’t look away is expressing a challenge. Hand gestures can mean a person is (35) _____ in the conversation.