TUYỂN TẬP 30 TEST SYMNONYMS

Bears spend much of their time looking for food, and they are not choosy, gorging on insects, berries, fussy... Distribution Scientists say there is enough water in the world for every

TUYỂN TẬP 30 TEST SYMNONYMS

TEST 1

1 There are many museums devoted to the decorative arts and many house museums, but rarely in the

specializing in

United States is a great collection displayed in a great country, house

2 Winterthur remains then, a house in which a collection of furniture and architectural elements has been

assembled.

brought together

3 The changes have coincided with developing concepts of the American arts, increased knowledge on

evolving the part of collectors and students, and a progression toward the achievement of a historical effect in

period-room displays

4 But "sound films, or talkies, did not suddenly appear after years of silent screenings.

projection

5 This system was only effective for a single song or dialogue sequence.

Progression

TEST 2

1 The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics, was Rudolph Dirks's "Katzenjammer

combine

Kids," based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century

2 The "Kids" strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips.

model

3 It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strips had become a staple of

regular feature

daily newspapers around the country

4 Compared with the tides, the waves created by the wind are surface movements felt no more than a hundred

5 In reality, however, the pull of remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated by the control of the Moon actually

and, to a lesser extent, the Sun

6 Just as the Moon rises later each day by fifty minutes, on the average, so, in most places, the time of HIGH

-tide is correspondingly later each day.

similarly

7 Twice each month, at the quarters, of the Moon, when the Sun, Moon, and H)arth lie at the apexes of a

triangular configuration and the pull of the Sun and Moon are opposed, the moderate tidal movements'

arrangement

called neap tides occur

TEST 3

1 Bears spend much of their time looking for food, and they are not choosy, gorging on insects, berries,

fussy

nuts, small mammals, ham sandwiches, and garbage with equal relish.

2 He and his crew once captured a male bear that weighed in at 611 pounds.

caught

3 But easy living for the bears carries a price: those that stalk garbage dumps are easier targets for

bears hunters and those that visit camps - if not injure - visitors

4 The removal programmes do not always work; bears released 100 miles or more from their place of

moving

capture have reappeared in their old haunts

5 breeds in the northern United States and Alaska, and was nearly, wiped out during the nineteenth century.

killed off

6 Recently, populations of mute swabs- an exotic species introduced to North America from Europe in the early

1900s- have begun increasing by an alarming 30 to 40 percent annually in some states.

a worrisome 30-40 percent

7 Mutes,/however, semi-domesticated and accustomed to people, can nest in pairs of as many as three or four

on one small coastal pond, which can burden delicate and environmentally essential brackish ponds.

Endanger

TEST 4

1 As centuries passed and human cultures evolved and blossomed, humans began to organize their knowledge

of nature into the broad field of natural history fluorished

2 Thus, an extract made from a heart -shaped leaf might be prescribed for a person suffering from

substance

heart problems

3 Nevertheless, the overall contributions of these early observers provided the rudiments of our present

knowledge of drugs and their uses

beginning

TEST 5

1 Is your company a sitting duck for hackers?

target to be attacked by hackers in the future

2 And, there's also a new target In the past, hackers gained notoriety from breaking into big companies' networks.

secretly entering the networks of big companies without permission

3 Investigations may be brief and superficial, as overloaded investigators pursue bigger problems.

Work

4 All forms of energy are inter-convertible by appropriate processes.

able to change into each other and vice versa

TEST 6

1 Distribution Scientists say there is enough water in the world for everyone but some countries have a

2

lot of water and some have only a little

2 There are huge forests in Amazon area of Brazil In other parts of the world there is only desert.

very big

3 The Reverend Williams, an eloquent speaker, played an important role in the community since so

powerful many people's lives centered around the church

4 ML's childhood was not especially eventful.

memorable

5 King never forgot the community spirit he had known as a child, nor did he forget the racial prejudice that was a seemingly insurmountable barrier that kept black Atlantans from mingling with whites.

TEST 7

1.However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late.

predicted

2 he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to

3 Nobel's original legacy of nine million dollars was invested, and the interest on this sum is used

bequest

for the awards which vary from $30,000 to $125,000

4 George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district.

given the responsibility of

5 Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance Following the

Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and

vehemently for those departments - the Treasury,

TEST 8

1. In 1900, the society was approved by Congress, and since then it has developed until each county in the

US and its possessions is served by a Red Cross chapter.

an authorized section of a bigger organization

2. Membership dues and voluntary contributions support the organizations and pay for their services.

certain fees for taking part in an organization

3. In the early 1790s, a French scientist began the construction of a system of message stations, each of

them was 32 km apart.

away from each other

4. The word "foundation" is closest in meaning to basis.

TEST 9 Griffith also broke his scenes into a number of different shots, timing their lengths to create increasing

excitement as well as a rhythmic momentum never before achieved on film.

TEST 10

1 Singapore has effectively utilized its limited land area (240 square miles) to become a world leader in

industrialization, used

2 The celebration of the merger of one of the world's outstanding examples of capitalism with a major

combination communist nation was watched by the entire world

3 Changing out of pyjamas into clothes in the morning and making the bed (or more correctly asking nurses to

do so) was for me the substitute for getting up in normal everyday life.

replace

4 This was always a really nice moment, not only physically - we really cherished having another person in our

TEST 11

1 Instead, it relies on submissions from teenagers.

acceptance

2 Printed on newsprint, the magazine is a far cry from the slick teen magazines on newsstands.

be very different from

3 Calves stay with their mothers for several years,

Baby doiphins

4 Another dolphin mimicked the scraping of the pool's observation window by a diver, even copying the

imitated

sound of the air-demand valve of the scuba gear while releasing a stream of bubbles from his blowhole

5 At Sarasota Bay in Florida, Randall Wells and his team have observed groups of juvenile male bottlenose

dolphins behaving like boisterous teenage boys.

lively

TEST 12

1 People are talking about it, practicing it, and discovering new ways to be sensitive to the environment.

friendly

2 The motto of the recycling movement is " Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle"

belief

3 In some part of the world, returning bottles for money is a common practice.

deed

4 When people collect and recycle aluminum (for new cans), they help save one of the world's precious

5 Interpreting is not only a mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A into the same

6 Rather, it's a complex art in which thoughts and idioms that have no obvious counterparts from tongue

on the contrary

to tongue - or words that have several meanings must quickly be transformed in such a way that the message is clearly and accurately expressed to the listener

4

TEST 13

1 Inspired by another movement in art called Dadaism, the Surrealist movement has been one of the

most influential art movements in the twentieth century

2 They never altered or revised what they wrote because that would have interfered with the purity of the creation changed

3 Surrealist painters, a group that include such famous names as Miro, Dali, and Ernst, displayed a wide

4 Though Breton was the founder of this movement, his strong leadership style brought about dissent, which

resulted in several of the painters officially breaking away from the movement.

Defecting

5 This time, having concluded that picture-writing was cumbersome, he made symbols for the sounds of

TEST 14

1 Although electric vehicles will not be truly practical until a powerful, compact battery or other

concentrated

dependable source of current is available, transport experts foresee a new assortment of electric vehicles

2 Commuters will be able to rent a variety of electric cars to suit their needs: light trucks, one-person three-wheelers, small cars, or electric/gasoline hybrid cars for longer trips, which will no doubt take place

combination

on automated freeways capable of handling five times the number of vehicles that can be carried by freeway today

3 English is spoken as a first language in the US, in Australia, in New Zealand, in most of Canada, in certain

nations of Africa, and in other areas of the world.

Countries

TEST 15

1 It's fun to begin a drawing with just one or two bold, simple lines on a fresh, blank sheet of paper;

empty

2 This knowledge has caused egg sales to plummet in recent years, which in turn has brought about the

drop abruptly development of several alternatives to eating regular eggs

3 These egg substitutes are not really eggs, but they look somewhat like eggs when they are cooked.

a little

4 Egg producers claim that their product has been portrayed unfairly.

described

5 They cite scientific studies to back up their claim.

support

6 And, in fact, studies on the relationship between eggs and human cholesterol levels have brought mixed results.

The results are inconclusive

TEST 17

1 At the time, the disease posed a serious threat to people in more than thirty nations.

risk

2 By April of 1.978 WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease

separated but health workers continued to search for new cases for two additional years to be completely sure

3 Enveloped by an ocean of air consisting of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, the planet is the only one in

containing

our solar system known to harbor life.

support

4 As viewed from space, Earth's distinguishing characteristics are its blue waters and white clouds.

characteristics that set it apart from other planets

TEST 18

1 Since life began eons ago, thousands of creatures have come and gone.

ages

2 Sadly, we can no longer attribute the increasing decline in our wild animals and plant species to "natural"

processes assign

3 Many species are dying out because of exploitation, habitat alteration or destruction, pollution, or the

overuse introduction of new species of plants and animals to an area

4 The sun today is a yellow dwarf star, it is fueled by thermonuclear reactions near its center that convert

hydrogen to helium powered

5 The Sun has existed in its present state for about 4 billion, 600 million years and is thousands of times

larger than the Earth condition

TEST 19

1 They find that the phones are more than a means of communication - having a mobile phone shows that they

are cool and connected method

2 Mobile phone companies are worried about the negative publicity of such ideas.

widespread opinion about bad effects of cell phones

3 What is it that makes mobile phones potentially harmful?

possibly

4 Good source of these vitamins have high oil or fat content, and the vitamins are stored in the body's fatty

5 Whether a certain amount of fat in the diet is essential to human health is not definitely known.

6

required for

6 Two fatty acids, linoleum and arachnid acids prevent these abnormalities and hence are called essential fatty

acids

end of growth, bad skin, and damaged reproductive systems

7 In addition to providing energy, fats have other functions in the body.

jobs

TEST 20

1 In the late 19th and early 20,h centuries, several European nations instituted public-welfare programs.

introduced

2 But while this vision of America's National Parks is wholly accurate and sufficiently breathtaking, there's

more

extremely impressive

3 Each of these 388 places has a unique appeal - from the natural to the manmade, from the ethereal to the factual, from the subtle to the overwhelming - with the whole collection offering vacationers a nearly endless

range of interests and activities in which to explore and indulge.

enjoy yourself

TEST 21

1 However, unlike reptiles, amphibians never have claws on their toes or scales on their bodies.

plates covering the bodies of certain animals

2 Amphibians were the first creatures to spend sizable amounts of their lives on land.

large

3 This comes in handy when they hibernate amount of oxygen they need through their skin.

useful

4 Some amphibians undergo what is known as a "double metamorphosis" changing not only from gill

breather to lung breather but also from vegetarians to insectivores

change both their methods of breathing and their feeding habits

5 Caudate amphibians, such as newts and salamanders, mostly have long tails and stubby legs.

thick and short

6 Children exposed to high doses of lead often suffer permanent nerve damage, mental retardation,

short attention spans, distractibility, poor academic performance, and behavioral problems

7 Microscopic lead particles from paint are absorbed into bloodstream when the children ingest flakes of

chipped paint, plaster or paint dust from suckling, or chewing on toys and other objects painted with lead-fragmented

based paint

8 Children living in older, dilapidated houses are particularly at risk.

TEST 22

1 The basic principle of radar is exemplified by what happens when one shouts in a cave.

2 Besides being of critical importance to pilots, radar is essential for air traffic control, tracking ships at sea,

3 For example, while it is acceptable to read a magazine in a coffee shop, it is inappropriate to do the same in a

more luxurious setting.

elegant

4 And, if you are eating in a very rustic setting it may be fine to tuck your napkin into your shirt, but if

unsophisticated

you are in a sophisticated urban restaurant this behavior would demonstrate a lack of manners.

5 It is safe to say, however, that in virtually every restaurant it is unacceptable to indiscriminately throw your

6 The conclusion we can most likely draw from the above is that while the types and locations of

infer restaurants determine etiquette appropriate to them, some rules apply to all restaurants

TEST 23

1 Hut life bustles down below: a cubic inch of topsoil may contain billions of creatures.

Is very active

2 Furthermore, those upstairs and downstairs forest denizens live closely linked lives.

related

3 It also provides a bulwark against predators that roam the surface world.

barrier

4 Soil creatures must be specially equipped in order to travel easily through their dark, constricting realm.

limiting

5 While ants travel relatively far from their nests, earthworms work small ai'eas, reprocessing vast amounts of

6 What forms of life were able to make such a drastic change in lifestyle?

radical

7 It turns out that some fossils can be extracted from these sediments by putting the rocks in an acid bath.

removed

8 In many instances the specimens are less than one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter.

cases

9 Although they were entombed in the rocks for hundreds of millions of years, many of the fossils consist

trapped

of the organic remains of the organism

TEST 24

8

1 In this era of increased global warming and diminishing fossil fuel supplies, we must begin to put a greater

priority on harnessing alternative energy sources.

capturing

2 Conservation conflicts arise when natural-resource shortages develop in the face of steadily increasing

spring up demands from a growing human population

3 For example, a river may supply water for agricultural irrigation, habitat for fish, and water-generated

electricity for a factory provide

4 Farmers, fishers, and industry leaders vie for unrestricted access to this river, but such freedom could destroy

the resource, and conservation methods are necessary to protect the river for future use.

ways

TEST 25

1 Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours.

swimming close to the seabed

2 Conversely, fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way.

contrarily

3 They use their whole, vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the water as

4 Without a vehicle, divers often became sluggish, and their mental concentration was severely limited.

slow moving

5 Direct observations of the ocean floor can be made not only by divers but also by deep-diving submarines in the water and even by the technology of sophisticated aerial photography from vantage points above the surface

of more than seven miles and cruise at depths of fifteen thousand feet.

travel at a constant speed

6 In addition, radio-equipped buoys can be operated by remote control in order to transmit information back to

TEST 26

1 When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let weekly newspapers keep tabs on their newspaper carriers- and her office was a bedroom at home, with a shoebox under the bed

to hold the company's cash

keep tabs on = keep records of

shoebox under the bed = point out that initially the financial resources of Sandra Kurtzig's busi

ness were limited

2 They still face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and

obstacles finance world is still dominated by men, and old attitudes die hard

3 Women are still excluded from most executive suites.

not permitted in

4 With the onset of summer thunderstorms, however, the toads respond to the vibrations of drumming raindrops

and emerge, as if fallen from the sky with the rain, to begin their brief and frantic mating season.

excited

5 From that point it's a race against the elements for the young, who must hatch and mature with

weather remarkable speed before the pool evaporates beneath the searing desert sun

6 After gorging themselves on.insects, the young toads, like their parents, burrow underground, where

devouring

they will lie dormant awaiting the next summer's storms

TEST 27

1 Located in modern day Cambodia near Lake Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Asia, Angkor was the

seat of power for the Khmer Empire from the ninth to the fifteenth century.

location

2 The temples and palaces of Angkor were constructed around a series of artificial reservoirs and canals which

were annually flooded to capacity by the Mekong River Man-made

3 Therefore it is speculated that the Khmer Empire may have fallen victim to its own decrepit infrastructure.

deteriorated

4 Part of the desert stretched over southwest Arizona, part over southeast California and the rest over northwest

Mexico Somewhat surprisingly, 80% of Arizona's population lives in the desert area, in towns

such as Tucson and Phoenix, although this unique area only accounts for 20%> of Arizona's total territory.

land area

5 The desert area is remarkable for its cacti, the main form of vegetation that can exist in such inhospitable

TEST 28

1 Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial

larger problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare

2 Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its

drying

3 Its population are largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth Yet they are not

emaciated.

unhealthy

4 Furthermore, the extension of the telegraph, combined with the invention of the steam-driven rotary printing

press by Richard M Hoe in 1846, revolutionized the world of journalism

transformed

TEST 29

1 What is alarming about the case of the Bengal tiger is that this extinction will have been caused

Distressing situation

almost entirely by the poachers who, according to some sources, are not always interested in material

illegal hunters gain but in personal gratification

2 This is an example of the callousness that is contributing to the problem of extinction Animals such as

10