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Câu 6:

If____________, those areas will not be available to future generations any longer.

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Câu 12:

 I hope you won’t take _________ if I tell you the truth.

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Câu 16:

The more satisfied employees are, ______________ to the company.

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Câu 31:

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.

     How might volunteering contribute to lower blood pressure? Performing volunteer work could increase physical activity among people who aren’t otherwise very active, says lead study author Rodlescia Sneed, a doctoral candidate in social and health psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. It may also reduce stress. “Many people find volunteer work to be helpful with respect to stress reduction, and we know that stress is very strongly linked to health outcomes,” she says.

     As with any activity thought to improve health, researchers are trying to identify the specific characteristics of volunteering that provide the greatest benefit. For example, how much time would you need to put into volunteer work to lower your blood pressure or live longer? In the Carnegie Mellon study, 200 hours of volunteering per year correlated to lower blood pressure. Other studies have found a health benefit from as little as 100 hours of volunteering a year. Which types of volunteer activities improve health the most? No one really knows. Sneed speculates that mentally stimulating activities, like tutoring or reading, might be helpful for maintaining memory and thinking skills, while “activities that promote physical activity would be helpful with respect to cardiovascular health, but no studies have really explored this.”

     One key for deriving health benefits from volunteering is to do it for the right reasons. A 2012 study in the journal Health Psychology found that participants who volunteered with some regularity lived longer, but only if their intentions were truly altruistic. In other words, they had to be volunteering to help others—not to make themselves feel better.

      The Greek philosopher Aristotle once surmised that the essence of life is “To serve others and do good.” If recent research is any indication, serving others might also be the essence of good health.

(Source: https://www.health.harvard.edu/)

What does the passage mainly discuss?

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Câu 32:

The word “It” in paragraph 2 refers to _______.

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Câu 33:

According to paragraph 2, what information about volunteer work has NOT been supported by research?

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Câu 35:

According to paragraph 4, what is the lesson from one of the greatest intellectual figures in history?

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Câu 36:

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.

      The reason women appear to be at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than men might be due to a number of genetic, anatomical and even social influences, researchers have suggested.

      Recent figures show about 65% of those with living with dementia in the UK are women, with a similar statistic seen in the US for Alzheimer’s disease, while dementia is the leading cause of death for women in England. Alzheimer’s disease is only one of the types of dementia, but the most common form. While one explanation is that dementia risk increases with age, and women have longer life expectancies than men, new research suggests there might be more to the matter, including that protein tangles found within neurons and linked to Alzheimer’s disease might spread differently in women’s brains than men’s.

      The study, presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles by researchers from Vanderbilt University and which has not yet been peer-reviewed, used scans from a method called positron emission tomography. That allowed them to look at the way clumps of a protein called tau were spread in the brains of 123 men and 178 women without cognitive problems, as well as 101 men and 60 women with mild cognitive problems – although not yet diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Cognitively normal older people often have small amounts of tau in certain areas of their brain.

      From the data the team could build maps showing which areas of the brain show similar signals relating to tau in the scans, suggesting they are somehow connected. “Based on that we kind of try to reconstruct the pattern of spread,” Dr Sepideh Shokouhi, who is presenting the research, told the Guardian. “It is kind of like reconstructing a crime scene.” The team says the results suggest these maps look different in women and men, suggesting tau might be able to spread more rapidly across the female brain.

     Other research presented at the conference – and also not yet peer reviewed – added weight to the idea that there might be differences between men and women that affect dementia risk. Research by scientists at the University of Miami has revealed a handful of genes and genetic variants appear to be linked to Alzheimer’s disease in just one biological sex or the other. While the actual importance of these factors has yet to be unpicked, and the study only looked at white participants, the team says it underscores that there could be a genetic reason for differences in the risk of dementia in men and women, and the way it develops.

(Adapted from https://www.theguardian.com)

Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?

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Câu 39:

As mentioned in paragraph 3, positron emission tomography is a method to __________.

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Câu 40:

What does the word “their” in paragraph 3 refer to?

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Câu 41:

According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

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Câu 43:

It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ____________.

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Câu 44:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

“What happens to what we throw away?", Mary wonders.

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Câu 45:

Dr. Mercer decided not to accept the research grant at Harvard because he is going to take six months off to spend more time with his family.

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Câu 46:

Textbooks can't provide students with the latest information as a mobile device can.

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Câu 48:

- A: "I need to stop eating such unhealthy foods."

- B: “___________________.”

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Câu 49:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Technology allows for remote working. This expands women's options.

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Câu 50:

She teaches children with special needs. Many of them have severe learning difficulties.

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