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3. Sir Adrian was a true gentleman. He was ________ (fail) polite to everyone he met
within the business and was on first name terms with many of them, regardless of where
they worked.
4. An eight-month inquiry by the all party group on ________ (mind) found frontline
public servants could be less likely to fall ill with stress, or quit altogether, if they engage
in the increasingly popular meditation practice.
7. Slavoj Žižek was born in communist Yugoslavia in 1949, and received a thorough
grounding in Marxism and the principles of ________ (dialect) materialism.
10. Proposals to protect the right of mentally ________ (capacity) people to be involved
in important decisions about their life have been published by the government.
11. Authorities in the US state of Michigan have charged a taxi driver with six counts of
murder after he went on a random shooting spree on Saturday. Jason Brian Dalton, 45,
remained ________ (express) as the charges were read in court on Monday.
12. Around 40% of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year, the report
says, running "significant risks of ________ (moral), loss of self-esteem and mental
health problems"
13. A former migrant has returned home to Senegal after becoming ________ (heart)
with life as an illegal migrant in Spain. After six years, Babacar Dialor Faye never got his
legal documents and had to live on ________ (hand) from the Red Cross.
14. Kids have become ________ (sense) to violence. Someone's been shot, and kids are
playing up and down the streets on their bikes, because they're used to seeing it and that's
also what you see in a war zone.
15. Parents often favour one child over another and, at its worst, parental________
(favour) can be one of the most profound and damaging emotional dynamics a child ever
encounters. It can affect the rest of their lives.
favouritism: sự thiên vị
16. When Emma was widowed in 1879, she decided to leave her home in Koblenz,
Germany, to start ________ (new) in Glasgow, and settled in the city by 1881.
anew: từ đầu
17. Anti-terrorism police patrol units are to be introduced across London boroughs. This
tactic was endorsed by Lord Harris in his review of London's ________ (prepare) for a
terror attack, commissioned by the mayor.
18. Reports of memory loss with long-term cannabis use are nothing new, and an
influential paper published last year provided evidence that smoking marijuana has a(n)
________ (delete) effect on intelligence.
deleterious: có hại
21. She has become increasingly ________ (opinion) and verbalises her opinions
forcefully without any insight into their effect on others.
23. ________ who want to fund the restoration of a derelict arts centre in Cheltenham
have pleaded with other bidders to let it become community-run (benefit)
24. He was a bad influence on the child, who was at a(n) ________ (impress) age.
25. Membership talks were launched in 2005, but progress has been slow, as several EU
states have serious ________ about Turkish EU membership. (give)
26. He has such great power and yet talked with such ________(humble). There aren’t
many people in politics who are as charismatic as President Obama.
humility: sự khiêm nhường
27. For many people Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is the most influential figure in
the history of western classical music. His extraordinary talent was already clearly
evident as a young man, ________ (mercy) surviving a somewhat unconventional
upbringing during which his eccentric father would often force him to take music lessons
in the middle of the night.
28. How often have you seen rich people take to the stress, shouting that they are earning
too much? Protesters are typically blue-collar workers yelling that the minimum page has
to go up, or that their jobs should not go overseas. Concern about ________ (fair) is
always ________(symmetry), stronger in the poor than the rich. And the ________ (lie)
emotions are not as ________(loft) as the ideal itself. Children become
thoroughly________ (indignation) as the slightest discrepancy in, say, the size of their
slice of pizza compared to their sibling’s.
fairness: sự công bằng, asymmetrical: không đều nhau, underlying: cơ sở, cơ bản, lofty:
kiêu kỳ, indignant: căm phẫn
29. Many teachers expressed serious ________ (give) about the new tests.
prohibitive: đắt đỏ
31. ________ is an economic theory which states that a progressively greater level of
consumption is beneficial to the consumers. (consume)
32. If your credit card debt is mounting and yet you can't stop spending, you could be a
________(shop).
33. The number of people suffering from shopping addiction has . ________ (TAKE) the
number of drug and drink addicts combined.
overtaken: vượt
34. Everyone has heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; few of his son Franz Xaver. A
new CD collection ________ (title) The Other Mozart celebrates Franz's music - in all its
haunting, ________ (melancholy) innocence. The 27 songs are brief slivers of ideas,
________ (develop) shadows of what might have been, reaching a beautiful fulfillment in
the later works. But it is clear that the music never reaches the heights of his genius
father. Franz was the youngest of Mozart's children, and his mother's hopes and
ambitions focused on him following the ________ (mature) death of his father. The very
best teachers were automatically available to Franz's, who made his public debut as a
singer, aged five. The songs bring to light Franz's ________. (piano) accomplishments;
the piano parts are extremely demanding. The songs hint at Franz's love for a woman;
they speak time and again of unattainable love and ________ (fulfil) longing.
________ (realist), however, the fact remains that this music, had it been written by a
composure of any other name, would probably have remained buried in the archives.
entitled: cho quyền, melancholic: u buồn, underdeveloped: chưa phát triển hoàn toàn,
premature: sớm, pianistic: thuộc về piano, unfulfilled: không thành, realistically: thực tế
là
35. The region has several medium-sized towns and cities, but no major ________
(urban)
36. When you're on a cross-country flight, it's tough to tolerate the ________ crying of a
baby. (cease)
37. Our ________ mind registers things which our conscious mind is not aware of.
(conscious)
38. They were now faced with seemingly ________ technical problems (mount).
39. The report should distinguish clearly between ________ fact, firm opinion and mere
speculation (dispute)
41. Finland’s metalworkers' union chief Riku Aalto has criticised government proposals
to alter nationwide labour conditions as ________and unprofessional (amateur).
amateurish: nghiệp dư
43. The organization insists that it is ________ and does not identify with any one
particular party (politics)
44. The new regulations will be ________ for small businesses. (burden)
45 Solon replies that birds like peacocks are ________ in their beauty. (compare)
incomparable: vô song
48. He was confused and ________ and I didn't get much sense out of him. (cohere)
49. Gradually she began to notice one or two little ________ in his character. (perfect)
50. They’re concerned about the ________ of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (build)
buildup: sự tích tụ
51. Karen has always felt ________ by her famous elder sister. (shadow)
overshadowed: bị làm lu mờ
52. An increasing number of tests are available for detecting foetal ________ (normal).
54. All points on a circle are ________ (distant) from the centre.
55. The worsening situation forced the company to ________ (size) from 39 employees
to 7.
56. The new version of the program comes with a much better user ________(face).
57. Who will be the main ________ of the cuts in income tax? (benefit)
58. The parents showed remarkable ________(bear) toward their defiant and unruly son.
59. A(n) ________(mean/menace) has been committed but the offender has not been
caught.
60. I keep getting ________ (contrary) advice - some people tell me to keep it warm and
some tell me to put ice on it.
61. He gazed at her with ________ (smell) eyes, wishing she wasn't married.
smouldering/smoldering: âm ỉ
62. He had a(n) ________ (rival) knowledge of south Arabian society, religion, law and
customs.
63. The ship is an exact ________ (reply) of the original Golden Hind.
66. ________ (brain) on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising
business where it began in the 1930s.
68. Their contributions to science have earned them a(n) ________ (last) place in history.
69. She appeared on television to make a(n) ________ (passion) plea for help.
70. No one will raise moral psychology of the question of obesity, for fear of sounding
________(passion) and ________(reaction).
71. We should take a more ________ (passion) view and consider the long-term effects
of Briant's work.
dispassionate: không thiên vị
72. The solutions ________ (compass) a wide range of options to suit all tastes and
pockets.
74. The aim of the report is to ________ (lucid) the main points of the new regulations.
75. Some things are ________ (alien) true: Water is wet, gra is green (kind of), dogs bark
and houses prices rise
76. Jack tried to ________ (one) for his rudeness by sending her some flowers.
77. By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who
pledged to ________ (law) abortion altogether had been elected.
outlaw: cấm
78. Tootle seems to be essentially a(n) ________ (caution) tale, warning the child to stay
on the narrow road of virtue.
79. The country's great influence in the world is ________ (proportion) to its relatively
small size.
80. In the US, a school ________ (intend) is in charge of the schools in a particular area.
83. Mick was stubborn and ________ (dominate) with a very bad temper.
85. The final whistle was greeted with ________ (triumph) cheers from players and
spectators.
86. She has never traced back her ________ (line), but believes her grandparents were
from Aberdeenshire.
87. She was a devout Catholic and, so far as I am aware, ________ (assail/salient)
morally.
88. In the field of ________ (diet), standards of practice have been developed for
practitioners in the field.
90. A(n) ________ (reach) and comprehensive strategy, carefully integrated with broader
plans for health care reform, is required.
92. Trading can be characterized as a pure, ________ (cumber) personal choice with an
immediate outcome.
unknowingly: vô tình
95. Some say he was reborn as an undead god, others that he was simply a(n) ________
spirit.
96. This book is about people who claim to have ________ (normal) abilities such as ESP
and mind-reading.
97. The refugees slept in ________ (shift) tents at the side of the road.
98. The inheritance of ________ (mode) company structures from the past, reinforced by
further concentration, produced very rigid company organisation.
99. In the ________ (mingle) of news and commercials we have a struggle of sorts
between two different orientations.
100. Two hijackers used fake explosives to _______ (command) the airliner.