Bộ 20 đề luyện thi Chuyên Anh năm 2023 có đáp án (Đề 95)
5927 lượt thi 80 câu hỏi 60 phút
Text 1:
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions
Ancient people made clay pottery because they needed it for their survival. They used the pots they made for cooking, storing food, and carrying things from place to place. Pottery was so important to early cultures that scientists now study it to learn more about ancient civilizations. The more advanced the pottery in terms of decoration, materials, glazes and manufacture, the more advanced the culture itself. The artisan who makes pottery in North America today utilizes his or her skill and imagination to create items that are beautiful as well as functional, transforming something ordinary into something special and unique. The potter uses one of the Earth’s most basic materials, clay. Clay can be found almost everywhere. Good pottery clay must be free from all small stones and other hard materials that would make the potting process difficult. Most North American artisan-potters now purchase commercially processed clay, but some find the clay they need right in the earth, close to where they work. The most important tools potters use are their own hand; however, they also use wire loop tools, wooden modeling tools, plain wire, and sponges. Plain wire is used to cut away the finished pot from its base on the potter’s wheel. After a finished pot is dried of all its moisture in the open air, it is placed in a kiln and fired. The first firing hardens the pottery, and it is then ready to be glazed and fired again. For areas where they do not want any glaze, such as the bottom of the pot, artisans paint on melted wax that will later burn off in the kiln. They then pour on the liquid glaze and let it run over the clay surface, making any kind of decorative pattern that they want.
Text 2:
Read the following passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks
Sports Photography Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed together. At the arrival of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner (41) ______ in every history of photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and photographer Harold Edgerton (42) ______ the limits of photographic technology with his study of a (43) ______ of milk hitting the surface of a dish. Another advance was the development of miniature cameras in the late 1920s, which made it possible for sports photographers to (44) ______ their cumbersome cameras behind. The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport. Paradoxically, it was of benefit to still photographers. People who watched a sports event on TV, with all its movement and action, (45) ______ the still image as a reminder of the game. Looking back, we can see how (46) ______ sports photography has changed. (47) ______ sports photographers were as interested in the stories behind the sport as in the sport itself. Contemporary sports photography (48) ______ the glamour of sport, the colour and the action. But the best sports photographers today do more than (49) ______ tell the story of the event, or make a (50) ______ of it. They capture in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants, emotions with which people looking at the photographs can identify.
Text 3:
Danh sách câu hỏi:
Câu 20:
Betty: “Wally, the bracelet is beautiful, but really, you shouldn’t have!” Wally: “ ______.”
Câu 27:
The weather was getting worse, so Joe was forced to give up his attempt to climb the summit.
Câu 49:
But the best sports photographers today do more than (49) ______ tell the story of the event
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