Bài Tập Trắc Nghiệm Chuyên Đề: Chọn nghĩa từ theo ngữ cảnh câu điền khuyết (Tiếng Anh Lớp 10, 11, 12)

To bring up children, many qualities are required. Apart from love, patience, and understanding, a sense of humour is important. In fact, it is quite an art to transform a child’s bad mood into behavior everyone in the family can live with. Another aspect of child rearing is teaching children limits and rules so that children are aware of what their rights and what other people’s are, too. Setting limits on must occur on a daily basis because temporary measures will not be effective enough. A common mistake, however, is that parents often become far stricter than necessary. Instead, they must be willing to allow their children the opportunity to explore and learn from experience. Moreover, parents must know the importance of routine as it gets children to become used to certain everyday activities. For example, eating at the same time as their parents gets children into the habit of sitting at a table and teaches them how to conduct themselves properly. Overall, child rearing is certainly a challenge and a learning experience.

Getting work experience is a good way for young people who are still at school to see whether they would enjoy a particular career. Future employers like to know about their work experience (26) ____ they think is important for them in the process of recruiting employees. And young people get the chance to consider (27) ______ possibilities for a future career with working professionals. In addition, they will find these professionals’ advice specially helpful when thinking about the different choices they will have to (28) ____. Work experience often involves uncomfortable situations, (29) ____ people who are in such situations can learn how to behave appropriately in front of clients and how to respond to things in the workplace. Appearance is also important and they need to dress suitably whether they are going for a job as an engineer or an IT specialist, or a job which is perhaps less technical but equally (30) ____, such as medical doctor or a teacher.

People have been recording information in the form of writing since ancient times. Latin - the language of religion, and French - the language of the rich and powerful, were the preferred languages in the Middle Ages in Europe. Subjects were usually connected to religion, trade and government although historians have also come across love letters which people wrote to stay in touch. After the invention of the printing press, books and documents became readily available. This, together with improvements in education and the spread of postal services, permitted families and friends to convey messages to each other by letters. Maintaining contact was much easier than it had ever been. In recent years, though, everything has changed. Mobile phones, emails and text messages which have been increasingly popular are replacing letters. Why bother writing a letter when you can make a small talk on the phone for very little cost? However, most people would agree that there is something very special about receiving a handwritten letter.

Since the invention of the Internet, the world has become a different place. People are sending messages, apparently up to 60 billion a day, and it usually takes only seconds to deliver them. (34) ____ are we now forgetting how to communicate face-to-face? Without a doubt there are (35) _____challenges, but there are also examples of when the Internet has changed someone’s life for the better. Look at Tara Taylor’s case, a mother (36) _____lives in the USA: when she uploaded a photo of her daughter to Facebook, a facefriend (37) _____a problem with one of the child’s eyes, so Tara took her to the doctor. It turned out that the girl had a rare disease, but her sight was saved! The story of communication is, in many (38) _____, the story of the human race: we have always shared knowledge and built relationships, whatever means of communication we use.

Imagine you are buying an apple in a supermarket. Which do you choose, one with a small brown mark, or one without? Be honest – you’d go for the apple (26)______ looks perfect. Supermarkets do this too, but on a much larger scale when buying fruit and vegetables from farmers. And what (27)______ of the ones with marks on them? They are thrown away. So are the ones that are a funny shape or size. (28)______ reason for waste is that people buy more food than they can eat and supermarkets do everything they can to encourage this, for example with offers like ‘Buy one, get one free’. Developed countries waste about 650 million tons of food each year and so do developing countries. (29)______, the waste happens for very different reasons. As the world’s population grows, this problem will only (30)______, so we need to take action urgently.

Many people say that schooldays are the best days of their life, and they often feel that this should be a period of enjoyment. However, exams often make them unhappy, and many students prefer having no exam at all. They say the exams which they have to take often make them worried, and they have no time to relax. Others, on the other hand, say that exams help students study better. They will have to study throughout the year, and if they do well, they will become more interested in studying. There are some students who prefer only final exams. They say that they have to work hard for two months a year and so they have more time for their leisure activities. They think that this is a better way of assessing students' knowledge and ability in the subjects they are studying.

Fairy tales are the stories that adults, especially parents, tell young children. In view of their name, it is surprising that hardly any of them are actually about fairies. Although most fairy tales have happy endings, the stories usually deal with very frightening situations - children abandoned in the forest, terrifying giants, cruel stepmothers. However, despite being scared when they are told the stories, children will often ask to hear them over and over again. Many psychologists believe that what fairy tales do, in addition to stimulating children's imagination, is to show that there are problems in the world and they can be overcome. Just like adults, children have fears and worries: theirs are of things such as abandonment, loss, injuries, witches. Fairy tales present real problems in a fantasy form that children are able to understand. This, it is claimed, allow them to confront their fears and to realise, if ever in their unconscious mind, that no matter how difficult the circumstances, there are always ways of coping.