VII. Đọc điền có đáp án

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

With more teens committing suicide due to extreme, you're among an increasing number of parents (1) _______ are concerned about what to do if their teen is being bullied. (2) _______ , depending on the nature, (3) _______ and how long the bullying has lasted, you have different options as to whom you can go to see in order to stop it.

The first person, of course, is your own teen. Find out from your teen how bad the bullying is and how long it's been going on. If the bullying isn't severe and hasn't gone on long, you might want to discuss with your teen some things you can both do to end the bullying. The traditional advice of ignoring the bully might work, but it might not. (4) _______  option is to encourage your teen to stay close to his friends during the school day. You might also think about going directly to the bully's parents. However, this (5) _______ does have its risks, as the parents of the bully might either feel unable to control their own child or, worse, might not see any issue at all.

Here's a familiar scenario. It's the day before a big calculus exam, and you haven't studied for whatever reason (short on time, too many (6) _______ exams packed into the same day, etc.). Around 10 p.m., you finally sit down to review the calculus materials. Six hours later, you catch a short "nap" before rushing to school. You take the exam, and it seems to go fine. Although it wasn't your best effort, you pass and promise not to repeat the (7) _______ when it's time for your next one.

This is what's known as cramming. And while students, parents and educators have long known it's not ideal, in (8) _______ circumstances, it works to some degree. And by some degree, we mean it might save your GPA. (9) _______ , cramming doesn't provide long-term learning, according to Dr. Robert A. Bjork, distinguished research professor in the department of psychology at UCLA (10) _______ he focuses on how we learn versus how we think we learn.

Queen Elizabeth II, (11) _______  is in her 90s, has ruled longer than any other monarch in British history. But at this point, is the British monarch's role purely (12) _______ , or does she or he hold any real political power?

That turns out to be a complicated question. Even though the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, it doesn't have a single codified constitution like the United States. (13) _______ , the power balance between the Crown (the monarchy) and Parliament (the elected officials) is mediated by a set of rules known as constitutional "conventions," some of which are written down and (14) _______  that are based on custom and tradition.

According to some of the oldest traditions, the queen is the ultimate source of power in the British government; the British legislature is formally known as "The Queen in Parliament." But as we'll see, in modern practice the queen wields no real political power to act (15) _______  of the wishes of Parliament or the prime minister.

Surround sound first showed up with Walt Disney's "Fantasia" in 1941. To show the movie with surround sound, a movie theater had to spend $85,000 for a special setup that included custom loudspeakers and required two projectors, one running the film and one track of audio plus a second one (16) _______ to four special audio tracks.

Because of the (17) _______ , the full surround-sound system was only installed in two theaters: one in Los Angeles and (18) _______ in New York. Many theaters offered surround sound as the magnetic-based sound became popular, allowing four or even six channels of sound. Dolby A noise reduction allowed films to have stereo optical tracks. (19) _______ , even Dolby A couldn't compensate for the level of noise if more than two optical tracks were put on the film. A major breakthrough in surround sound came (20) _______ Dolby Stereo was created.