(Viên chức Mầm non) 600 câu trắc nghiệm Trọng tâm tiếng Anh có đáp án - Phần 10

TEST 5

English is the most international of languages. A Dane and a Dutch person meeting in Rome will almost automatically find themselves speaking to each other English. The pilots of Soviet planes approaching Cairo will use English to ask for landing instructions. Malaysian lecturers use English when addressing their Malaysian students in Kuala Lumpur. To people in Africa, Asia and South America, English is an important language to master, not merely because it is the language of Britain, of the United States but because it provides ready access to world scholarship and world trade. It is understood more widely than any other languages. It is true then, that a great many people – and a great many peoples – are involved in the use of English. Millions of men and women in four continents have English as their first language, and millions in every part of the world use it as their second or foreign language.

TEST 6

After inventing dynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late. Nobel preferred not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just to weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to mankind. Originally there were five awards: literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, and peace. Economics was added in 1968, just sixty–seven years after the first awards ceremony. Nobel’s original legacy of nine million dollars to 125,000 dollars. Every year on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death, the awards (gold medal, illuminated diploma, and money) are presented to the winners. Sometimes politics plays an important role in the judges’ decisions. Americans have won numerous science awards, but relatively few literature prizes. No awards were presented from 1940 to 1942 at the beginning of World War II. Some people have won two prizes, but this is rare; others have shared their prizes.

TEST 7

In 1920, after some thirty-nine years of problems with diseases, high costs, and politics, the Panama Canal was officially opened, finally linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the fifty-mile canal zone instead of travelling some seven thousand miles around Cape Horn. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the canal and costs an average of fifteen thousand dollars, one-tenth of what it would cost an average ship to round the Horn. More than fifteen thousand ships pass through its locks each year. The French initiated the project; but sold their rights to the United States. The latter will control it until the end of the twentieth century when Panama takes over its duties.

TEST 8

In many old cities in Europe, there are narrow twisting roads with many shops huddling together along the two sides. These commercial places are not so modern and convenient as those called shopping centers in modern cities, especially in the suburbs of the big cities in the United States. shopping centers have developed rapidly because of the shift of the population to the suburbs, the growing use of and dependence upon the automobile and the heavy traffic in downtown areas. A shopping centre is a large group of stores facing a huge central mall which may be covered, heated and air – conditional. A Shopping center is also surrounded by a parking area with space for thousands of cars. We can buy all kinds of food and get anything we need in a shopping centre. Unlike a supermarket where groceries are chiefly sold, a shopping centre provides us with all services besides food. We can get our hair cut, eyes examined, clothes washed; we can book our tickets for a world tour and even enrol in special classes. Shopping centers are, therefore, very convenient for customers, but they lack the “sense of closeness” as felt in older commercial centers.