- Câu hỏi 569153:
Listen to Gilles Philips, a journalist, talk about the effects of file-swapping technology on the music industry. Choose the best option for question 1-6.
What mistakes has the music industry made in the past?
A. It has ignored the importance of reality TV.
B. It has concentrated too much on short-term profit.
C. It hasn’t spent enough on marketing.
- Câu hỏi 569154:
Listen to Gilles Philips, a journalist, talk about the effects of file-swapping technology on the music industry. Choose the best option for question 1-6.
The speaker thinks the music industry should
A. make file-sharers pay fines.
B. listen to their customers
C. change their client base
- Câu hỏi 569155:
My brother loves to fix cars.
A. He’s good at repairing mechanical things.
B. He has a car that he likes to repair.
- Câu hỏi 569162:
Read the text and do the activities that follow.
The 1001 night
The Thousand and one nights is probably one of the most famous books in the world. It is a collection of stories first told by travelers from Persia, Arabia, India and China between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. In later years professional storytellers also told the stories in coffee houses in Turkey, Egypt and many other countries. The Thousand and one nights contains well-known stories like Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, so people often think they are just for children – but they were originally for adults.
Shahrazad’s story
There was once an Indian King called Shahriyar. One day King Shahriyar found his wife with another man so he killed her and her lover. After that the King married a different woman everyday and killed her the next morning before she could stop loving him. This continued for three years.
Shahrazad was the clever and beautiful daughter of the King’s adviser. When her father told her what was happening, she decided to marry the King. Shahrazad’s father tried to stop her because he knew she was going to die. But Shahrazad had a plan to save herself and all the women in the kingdom. The King and Shahrazad got married a few days later.
After the wedding, while the King was drinking with his friends, Shahrazad went to find her sister. ‘I need your help,’ said Shahrazad. ‘Come to the palace this evening and ask me to tell you a story’.
So that night, Shahrazad was getting ready for bed when her sister came to visit her. She began telling her sister a story called The Fisherman and the Genie. While she was telling the story, the King came into the room. He started listening to her story too, and became more and more interested.
Shahrazad continued telling the story all night, but she stopped just before the end and said, ‘The morning’s here, husband. Am I going to die now?’. ‘No, no’, said the King. ‘Tell me the end of the story’. ‘I’ll tell you this evening, but not before’, said Shahrazad with a smile.
That night Shahrazad finished the story – and then immediately began another. This continued night after night. The King never heard the end of a story until the next evening. He couldn’t kill his wife because he always wanted to know how each story ended.
As time passed, the King fell in love with Shahrazad. He knew he could never kill her because he couldn’t live without her and her stories. To show Shahrazad he really loved her, the King married her again. The stories Shahrazad told the King became the stories of The Thousand and one nights.
Choose the best answer
Who listened to Shahrazad’s story?
A. the King
B. both
C. her sister
- Câu hỏi 569164:
Mô tả câu hỏi
palace advisor save Genie
Match the words with their definitions (1-5)
- The official home of a person of very high rank, especially a King or Queen. ......
- To make someone or something safe from danger, harm or destruction. ......
- A magical creature in old Arabian stories that will do what you want when you call. ......
- Someone whose job is to give advice because they know a lot about a subject. ......
- Câu hỏi 569178:
Office workers “admit being rude”
Most office workers say they are rude or bad-mannered at work. Two out of three workers regularly arrive late for meetings, most ignore emails and three out of four use bad language. In a survey of 1,000 workers, two-thirds say that pressure of work is the reason for bad manners.
Other common examples of bad office etiquette include ignoring colleagues and answering mobile phone calls during meetings. Using mobile phones in meetings is impolite and distracts others, research by the University of Surrey shows. If you respond to call when speaking to somebody, it means that the phone call is more important than the person, the survey said. If you answer a call during a meeting, it could mean that the meeting is not important.
Mr Jacobs, managing director of Office Angels, a recruitment firm say it is easy for people to forget their manners in the working environment, which is often very informal and very busy. Workers can forget proper etiquette such as introducing people at meetings, and this is often bad for working relationships.
Psychologist Dr Colin Gill believes that people are not as polite as they were twenty years ago. He said: ‘Courtesy is no longer something that is so much respected in our society.’ People think it is ‘stuffy to be polite or formal.’
Now some organisations are actually investing money in training their junior managers to be polite. Office Angels is encouraging people to arrive on time for meetings, turn off mobile phones and avoid bad manners at work is such a simple thing to do,’ Mr Jacobs says, ‘ and it can have a dramatic impact on improving your working environment and your relationships with others.’
The author wants to ………………………….
A. give specific figures of bad manners at work
B. give advice on how to behave politely at work
C. give specific examples of bad manners at work
- Câu hỏi 569183:
She’s .....................over her weight.
A. Obsessive
B. Obsessed
C. Obsess
D. Obsession
- Câu hỏi 569191:
Circle the answer that matches the meaning of each bold word or phrase.
Teens who are looking for a quick afternoon do-it-yourself project would likely enjoy creating items out of duct tape.
A. a band of cloth
B. thing made from plastic
- Câu hỏi 569192:
Circle the answer that matches the meaning of each bold word or phrase.
As more adults get involved with do-it-yourself (DIY) projects, it's only natural for teens to want projects of their own.
A. a skill you need to do a project
B. the art or practice of doing one’s own decorating, repairs…
- Câu hỏi 569194:
Mô tả câu hỏi
Choose /s/, /z/ or /iz/ for the correct pronunciation of the underlined syllables.
| Classes |
...... |
Tapes |
...... |
| Chiefs |
...... |
Cups |
...... |
| Books |
...... |
Boxes |
...... |
| potatoes |
...... |
Rivers |
...... |
| Dishes |
...... |
Seas |
...... |
