Bài Tập Trắc Nghiệm Chuyên Đề: Từ nối trong văn bản (Tiếng Anh Lớp 10, 11, 12)

Managing your finances properly is essential for a stable and secure life. (30) ______, many people struggle with budgeting and saving and give up their financial plans sooner or later, eventually leading (31) ______ overspending and financial stress. Here are some tips to well manage your pocket: ● Invest some of your money if possible. ● Have a bank account with an increasing amount of savings (32) ______ month by setting realistic financial goals. ● Buy (33) ______ within your price range. ● Track your spending carefully to avoid (34) ______ expenditure on unnecessary purchases. ● Prioritise things that bring you lasting happiness and financial security to get your money's (35) ______!

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.

When trying to understand our own or other people’s behaviour, we tend to oversimplify things. We use one or two adjectives to sum each other up. For example, we may think of some friends as having a generally hopeful and positive outlook while others are considered pessimistic and negative. Of course, in reality none of us is so easily defined. The truth is that we are all made up of characteristics which are inconsistent and contradictory: we can be serious and reliable with our colleagues at work but we are more unpredictable and emotional with our nearest and dearest at home. With one person we can be very cautious, but with another one, we are adventurous thrill-seekers. So, can people be neatly divided into personality types? Or do we alter our personality according to the differences in our changing moods and situations? Perhaps the idea that personality is fixed is just a meaningless misconception. Maybe we can never truly understand ourselves or other people.

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.

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.

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 which looks perfect. Supermarkets do this too, but on a much larger scale when buying fruit and vegetables from farmers. And what happens of the ones with marks on them? They are thrown away. So are the ones that are a funny shape or size. Another 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. However, the waste happens for very different reasons. As the world’s population grows, this problem will only worsen, so we need to take action urgently.

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. (26) ____ are we now forgetting how to communicate face-to-face? Without a doubt there are (27) _____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 (28) _____lives in the USA: when she uploaded a photo of her daughter to Facebook, a facefriend (29) _____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 (30) _____, 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.

Teenagers having exams may feel stressed for different reasons. Their future may depend on their exam results. And many of them will probably be afraid that their performances will not be as good as their friends’ and may feel worried about being compared negatively to them. They may feel so exhausted by the amount of studying which they need to do. To obtain a good result, they may have to give up many leisure activities such as doing sports and listening to music. Teenagers who suffer from exam stress may show a variety of symptoms including loss of appetite, being unable to sleep and a lack of motivation to study. Therefore, it is important for teachers and parents to watch out for these signs and to be as supportive and encouraging as possible.

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.

Teenagers having exams may feel stressed for different reasons. Their future may depend on their exam results. And many of them will probably be afraid that their performances will not be as good as their friends’ and may feel worried about being compared negatively to them. They may feel so exhausted by the amount of studying which they need to do. To obtain a good result, they may have to give up many leisure activities such as doing sports and listening to music. Teenagers who suffer from exam stress may show a variety of symptoms including loss of appetite, being unable to sleep and a lack of motivation to study. Therefore, it is important for teachers and parents to watch out for these signs and to be as supportive and encouraging as possible.

Social networking sites are now estimated to have over 700 million users worldwide. As users can create their own profiles, you might expect them to portray themselves in the best possible light. When putting up a profile, it would be (26) _____ for them to present flattering images, choose sophisticated and discerning interests, and carefully express their thoughts to appear more intelligent than in real life. (27) _____, according to a recent study conducted on 250 Facebook users, this is not the case. Far from being idealised versions of themselves, most users' profiles (28) _____ closely to what they are really like and show their true personalities including their both psychological weaknesses and natural physical flaws. It's not entirely clear why online profiles depict users' personalities so accurately. It could be that users want to portray themselves as they really are, or that people attempt to present an ideal image of themselves but fail to do so. One thing seems clear: social networking sites can in no way be considered a false online world (29) _____ is idealised and removed from reality; rather, they are simply (30) _____ way in which people choose to interact with each other.

Presenting yourself in the best possible light to a prospective employer is what job applications are all about. (34) _____ when you put together a compelling CV, write your concise covering letter and check your Linkedin profile, you might also want to 'Google' yourself and see what comes up, because increasingly that's what employers are doing. Your online identity, in (35) _____ your Facebook profile, could in fact be considered the ultimate CV- a personal, honest and spontaneous description of how you see yourself and how those (36) _____ know you see you. That's not to say that a potential employer is necessarily going to disapprove of your silly behaviors on a night out with friends, indeed, they might be looking for an extrovert character. But it does mean they will be examining your real interests and motivations and mining (37) _____ sites for clues to your true character. So if you say in your CV that you're a motivated, loyal team player and then criticize your employer to friends on Facebook, that's probably not going to go (38) _____ Try Googling yourself and then ask: 'Would you hire you?'

In many countries going through difficult economic times, job openings for new graduates can be few and far between. In this competitive environment, relevant work experience can help job seekers stand out from the crowd, and many organisations now offer temporary placements, called internships. The problem with numerous internships, however, is that they are unpaid, and this often puts young people off applying for them. Employers and interns sometimes come to mutually beneficial arrangements, however. Dinesh Pathan, applying for an internship with an IT company, negotiated a deal in which he would be given travel expenses only for two weeks, and then, as long as he could show his marketing work was adding value, he would be paid a wage. The arrangement worked well: Dinesh had an incentive to work hard, and he ended up feeling 'not so much an intern as a temporary staffer'. HR consultant Denise Baker says similar arrangements are common. What is more, 'if interns do well, employers would often rather make them full employees than recruit people whom they don't know'.

Advances in technology have generated revolutionary applications that could change the face of education as we know it today. Online learning, also known as electronic learning, may (33) ___ the future of education thanks to recent developments in the Internet and multimedia technologies. It is anticipated that cyberspace institutions or online universities will replace traditional educational (34) ___. Virtual classrooms will be multi-functional, acting simultaneously as learning platforms, forums and (35) ___ networks. They will be geared towards promoting the acquisition of knowledge as a life- long endeavour, (36) ___ occurs through global collaboration. Cyberspace institutions can go a long way towards achieving this as they are able to liberate us from the limitations of time and space. Flexibility of time and location makes e-learning a highly accessible, international resource. (37) ___, prospective students will, regardless of age, background or origin, have unlimited access to both formal and informal learning opportunities. The pursuit of knowledge will consequently become an end in itself and not a means to an end.

Nowadays, television occupies a large portion of children's time. From when they start in preschool, children spend more time watching television than participating in any other activity except sleeping. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing. The results of some research suggest that there is considerable overlap between the comprehension processes activated while reading and the processes that take place during a period of television viewing. If this is so, it may very well be the case that children who learn comprehension skills from television viewing before they ready to read are equipped with some very important tools when they later learn to read. It has been noted that children are frequently better at recalling televised stories they have watched compared to those they have simply heard. Due to the fact that it is a visual medium, television can present information more concretely than written and spoken text, making it an ideal medium in which to cultivate some of the skills and knowledge needed for later reading.