15000 bài tập tách từ đề thi thử môn Tiếng Anh có đáp án (Phần 57)

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In European and North American cultures, body language behaviors can be divided into 2 groups: open or closed and forward or backward.

Open/closed postures are the easiest to (21)__________. People are open to messages when they show open hands, face you fully, and have both feet on the ground. This indicates that they are (22)__________ to listen to what you are saying, even if they are disagreeing with you. When people are closed to messages, they have their arms folded or their legs crossed, and they may turn their bodies away. This body language usually means that people are rejecting your message.

Forward or backward behavior reveals an active or a passive (23)__________ to what is being said. If people lean forward with their bodies toward you, they are actively engaged in your message. They may be accepting or rejecting it, but their minds are on (24)__________ you are saying. On the other hand, if people lean back in their chairs or look away from you, or perform activities such as drawing or cleaning their eyeglasses, you know that they are either passively taking in your message or that they are ignoring it. In (25)__________ case, they are not very much engaged in the conversation.

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Few people now realize the reality of global warming and its effects on the world’s climate. Many scientists (26) ______ the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase in the world’s temperatures and are convinced that, more than ever before, the Earth is at (27) ______ from the forces of the wind, rain and sun. According to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts, even more severe and causing sea levels all around the world to rise.

Environmental groups are putting pressure on governments to take action to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide which is given (28) ______ by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problems at its source. They are in  (29) ______ of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which could then replace existing power (30) ______. Some scientists, however, believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow, we would have to wait several hundred years to notice the results. Global warming, it seems, is to stay.

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Schools exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of test we take. They find out how much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, it isn't a (31) ______that some people who are very academically successful don't have any common sense? Intelligence is the speed  (32) ______which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. Although scientists are now preparing (33) ______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 their intelligence as it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ tests are (34)______ 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, largely in the US.

People taking the tests are judged  in (35) ______to an average score of 100, and those who score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2 percent of the population. Anyone from the age of six can take tests. All the questions are straightforward and most people can answer them if allowed enough time. But that's the problem, the whole point of the test is that they're against the clock.

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BOOKS

Nearly all the discoveries that have been made through the ages can (36) ______  in books. The invention of the book  is one  of  humankind's  (37) ______    achievements, the importance  of which can not be evaluated . Books are very useful, providing us with both entertainment and information. The production of books began in Ancient Egypt, though not in  the  form  that  is  accessible  to  us  today.The  books  read  by  Romans,  (38) ______, have some similarities to the ones we read now. Until the middle of the 15th century, in Europe, all books were written by hand. They (39)  ______  often  beautifully  illustrated  and  always  rare  and  expensive.  With  printing  came  the  possibility  of cheap,  large  publication  and  distribution  of  book  making  (40)  ______    more  widespread  and reliable.