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 from 37 to 43.
[Đoạn mở đầu của bài đọc không có trong các trang được cung cấp.]
...write Holmes stories until 1927. Among the most famous of all the works featuring Holmes are The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Blue Carbuncle, and A Scandal in Bohemia.
One of the reasons that Sherlock Holmes was so popular concerns the method he employs to solve his cases: logic. Together with his partner, Dr. Watson, Holmes uses his powers of observation to detect clues that can help him solve the cases he accepts. Holmes has an incredibly sharp mind that enables him to determine who the guilty party is or what the problem is. Holmes also is a master of disguise, which he proves many times, and he is skilled at boxing as well as sword fighting.
While Holmes often solves cases that are unrelated to one another, he has a nemesis with whom he comes into both direct and indirect conflict in several stories. That person is Professor Moriarty, the leader of a crime ring in London. In one of the stories, The Final Problem, Holmes and Moriarty fight one another and fall to their deaths by plunging down a steep cliff near a waterfall. When he wrote that story, Doyle had tired of Holmes and wanted to kill off the character. He then refrained from writing about Holmes for many years but public demand for more detective stories induced him to bring Holmes back from the dead and to continue writing.
(Adapted from Reading Intermediate)
...write Holmes stories until 1927. Among the most famous of all the works featuring Holmes are The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Blue Carbuncle, and A Scandal in Bohemia.
One of the reasons that Sherlock Holmes was so popular concerns the method he employs to solve his cases: logic. Together with his partner, Dr. Watson, Holmes uses his powers of observation to detect clues that can help him solve the cases he accepts. Holmes has an incredibly sharp mind that enables him to determine who the guilty party is or what the problem is. Holmes also is a master of disguise, which he proves many times, and he is skilled at boxing as well as sword fighting.
While Holmes often solves cases that are unrelated to one another, he has a nemesis with whom he comes into both direct and indirect conflict in several stories. That person is Professor Moriarty, the leader of a crime ring in London. In one of the stories, The Final Problem, Holmes and Moriarty fight one another and fall to their deaths by plunging down a steep cliff near a waterfall. When he wrote that story, Doyle had tired of Holmes and wanted to kill off the character. He then refrained from writing about Holmes for many years but public demand for more detective stories induced him to bring Holmes back from the dead and to continue writing.
(Adapted from Reading Intermediate)
Question 41. In paragraph 4, the phrase "refrained from" is closest in meaning to_______.
Question 41. In paragraph 4, the phrase "refrained from" is closest in meaning to_______.
Chọn một phương án bên dưới để kiểm tra đáp án ngay:
Đáp án chính thức: C
Hướng dẫn giải chi tiết
Kiến thức: Đọc – Từ vựng
Giải thích: Trong đoạn 4, cụm từ "refrained from" gần nghĩa nhất với _______.
A. tiếp tục
B. tiếp tục
C. hoãn lại
D. vẫn còn
Thông tin:
He then refrained from writing about Holmes for many years but public demand for more detective stories induced him to bring Holmes back from the dead and to continue writing.
Tạm dịch:
Sau đó, ông không viết về Holmes trong nhiều năm nhưng nhu cầu của công chúng về nhiều truyện trinh thám hơn đã khiến ông đưa Holmes trở về từ cõi chết và tiếp tục viết.
Choose C.
Giải thích: Trong đoạn 4, cụm từ "refrained from" gần nghĩa nhất với _______.
A. tiếp tục
B. tiếp tục
C. hoãn lại
D. vẫn còn
Thông tin:
He then refrained from writing about Holmes for many years but public demand for more detective stories induced him to bring Holmes back from the dead and to continue writing.
Tạm dịch:
Sau đó, ông không viết về Holmes trong nhiều năm nhưng nhu cầu của công chúng về nhiều truyện trinh thám hơn đã khiến ông đưa Holmes trở về từ cõi chết và tiếp tục viết.
Choose C.