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TÀI LIỆU LIVESTREAM ĐỘC QUYỀN
CHỌN LỌC NHỮNG BÀI ĐỌC ĐIỀN - ĐỌC HIỂU HAY NHẤT (BUỔI 5)
Dành riêng cho khóa học Plus 2 thuộc COMBO PRO 3M PLUS
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word
or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5
Do you ever get bored with the same old sports? If you're tired of tennis, fed up with football or bored
of basketball, don't worry There are plenty of new and unusual sports out there for you to try (1)
of these are a mix of existing sports, sometimes with a local element added Bossaball, (2) , is a mix of football and volleyball, played on an inflatable pitch with a trampoline in the middle To make it more exciting, it also has elements of Brazilian martial arts!
If you are very good at horse riding, you could try the national sport of Afghanistan, buzkashi The game (3) _ players on horseback trying to get hold of a dead goat Another unusual sport that will
be (4) to most of us is roshambo, which began in China about 2000 years ago and spread gradually to the rest of the world Played by young and old, in the UK it is known as 'rock-paper- scissors'
It is surprising that it is called a sport and taken so seriously: there's a World Rock Paper Scissors Society and a league (5) holds championships every year So, whatever kinds of sport you like, there is something new and interesting for you to try
(Adapted from Mindset for IELTS by Greg Archer and Lucy Passmore)
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 6 to 12
Imagine it: no more deleting an inbox full of 'unbeatable offers' Email could soon be a thing of the past if Thierry Breton, CEO of the information technology services company Atos, is accurate in his predictions Breton has told his staff to stop sending each other emails, complaining that they waste time
and are outmoded He also predicted that companies would have a problem in the future because of all
this useless information
Internal email will be phased out over 18 months at Atos The 75,000 staff will instead use instant messaging and chat-style services inspired by social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter Atos staff used to spend between 5 and 20 hours a day dealing with email, but Breton's replacements have cut this by up to 20%, the firm claims His strategy has been already adopted by teenagers, who are increasingly rejecting email Email use is down 31% among the 12-17 age group, with a further 21%
slump among those aged 18-24 Mobile Instant Messaging (IM) services such as Blackberry Messenger
Trang 2The proportion of companies sending more than 50,000 emails each month is increasing and is currently around 60% Although this looks good for the future of email, the majority of what is sent is unwanted Tim Walters, senior analyst at the technology research company Forrester Research, said that, even though email wastes a great deal of time, it's still used daily by 85% of workers He added: 'Email isn't a beast to be killed Sometimes it's the most appropriate tool for communication.' What could replace email in the workplace? Breton has introduced the Atos Wiki, which allows all employees to communicate with each other, and Office Communicator, the company's online chat system which allows video conferencing, file and application sharing
Although email might be dying, it will take time to disappear, thanks to its proven success For example, without a ready audience through email, the website Groupon would not have built a network
of 143 million subscribers And more than 107 trillion emails will be sent this year On the other hand, despite the popularity of instant messages, the IM industry is hampered by services which do not communicate with each other
(Adapted from Laser by Malcolm Mann and Steve Taylore-Knowles)
Question 6 Which could be the best title for the passage?
Question 8 According to paragraph 1, what did Thierry Breton predict about the future of email?
Question 12 Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
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