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100 BÀI WORD FORM DẠNG ĐOẠN VĂN (10 CÂU) ÔN THI HSG/CHUYÊN ANH 1 1. This famous sailing ship was built in 1869 and originally used for the (1. SPEED) ___________ transportation of tea between China and England. However, the (2. CONSTRUCT) ___________ of steam ships and the opening of the Suez Canal, which was (3. PASS) ___________ for such ships as the Cutty Sark, stole some of her initial glory. She was not a strong (4. COMPETE) ___________ in the sea races from China to England but later, between 1885 and 1895, she was (5. RIVAL) ___________ for speed as she carried wool between Melbourne and New York. After working history and several changes in (6. OWNER) ___________, the ship was (7. LOVE) ___________ restored in the fifties and a dry dock was built so that the Cutty Sark could be used as a museum. (8. DONATE) ___________ are once again being requested as there is urgent need of (9. FAR) ___________ work on the ship. Strangly, the figurehead represents a beautiful witch in a Scottish poem who was pursuing a man at great speed on a grey horse. At the time, she had been wearing only a short shirt or “Cutty Sark”. Few people know that this is the (10. DERIVE) ___________ of the name. 2. Performance Art began in the 1960s in the US and was originally a term used to describe a live event that often included poets, (1. MUSIC) ___________, film makers and so on, in (2. ADD) ___________ to visual artists. There were earlier (3. PRECEDE) ___________ for this art form, including the Dadaists in France, who combined poetry and visual arts, and the Bauhaus in Germany, whose members used live theatre (4. WORK) ___________ to explore the (5. RELATION) ___________ between space, sound and light. By 1970, Performance Art was a (6. GLOBE) ___________ term and its definition had become more specific. Performances had to be live and they had to be art, not theatre. Performance Art could not be bought, sold or traded. Performance artists saw their movement as a means of taking art directly to the public, thus completely eliminating the need for galleries, agents, (7. ACCOUNT) ___________ and any other aspect of (8. CAPITAL) ___________. In effect, it became a social commentary on the need to maintain the absolute (9. PURE) ___________ of art. One relatively recent form of Performance Art is ‘mobbing’, an email-driven experiment in organizing groups of people who suddenly (10. MATERIAL) ___________ in public places, interact with others according to a very loosely planned scenario, and they disappear just as suddenly as they appeared.
100 BÀI WORD FORM DẠNG ĐOẠN VĂN (10 CÂU) ÔN THI HSG/CHUYÊN ANH 2 3. The explosive growth in the number of closed-circuit television (CCTV) ___________ (1. SURVEY) system in recent years is transforming cities centres in some countries. For some people, the cameras have a ___________ (2. PSYCHOLOGY) benefit, taking comfort in the ___________ (3. BELIEVE) that they are being watched and protected. In some neighbourhoods, there are even socially ___________ (4. INCLUDE) CCTV systems, which allow local ___________ (5. RESIDE) to tune in to community TV and watch what is happening outside their front doors. People know the cameras can be ___________ (6. HELP) in solving crimes, but are they right to believe that cameras are keeping them safer? According to one university professor of ___________ (7. CRIME), they are not. He conducted a study of 14 CCTV systems and found that, in general, the ___________ (8. INSTALL) of cameras has ___________ (9. SURPRISE) little impact on crime. In only one of the 14 areas could a ___________ (10. SIGNIFY) drop in crime levels be linked to CCTV. 4. Many years ago, a young man was traveling one night through a forest (1. INHABIT) ___________ by Duergars, an evil race of fairies, who liked nothing better than to lure (2. SUSPECT) ___________ humans to their death. As he was making his way down the narrow path, he looked at the (3. TOWER) ___________ pine trees. Black (4. THUNDER) ___________ heavy with rain were racing across the sky, and he knew that he would soon have to find shelter. Presently he saw the glow of a fire on the hillside and left the path to clamber up the steep slope that led to the (5. ENTER) ___________ of the cave. He stood at the entrance and looked in. It was a vast, empty cavern whose sides rose up to a (6. VAULT) ___________ ceiling. On the ground in the centre a space had been cleared and a warm fire was throwing (7. FLICKER) ___________ shadows across the floor. He went cautiously towards the fire and sat down. As his eyes slowly grew used to the dim light, the (8. MENACE) ___________ face of a Duergar begun to (9. EMERGENCE) ___________. The creature was sitting (10. MOTION) ___________ on the opposite side of the fire; it stared at him through its slanting green eyes but said nothing. 5. POWER NAPS Power napping is an effective, and under-used tool. It is a quick, intense sleep which (1. DRAMA)
100 BÀI WORD FORM DẠNG ĐOẠN VĂN (10 CÂU) ÔN THI HSG/CHUYÊN ANH 3 ___________ improves alertness. These naps are especially useful for those whose sleep is constrained by a (2. DEMAND) ___________ schedule: for example, mothers of small children or travelling business (3. EXECUTE) ___________. However, the conditions must be right and practice is required for maximum effect. Power naps should be short, between ten and twenty-five minutes, to prevent (4. ORIENT) ___________ on awakening in such a short time, but (5. ACQUIRE) ___________ of the habit is simply a question of practice. At the (6. OUT) ___________, it is more important to relax for a while than actually fall asleep. Power napping is not a good idea if you find it difficult to wake up at the (7. DESIGN) ___________ time or have problems sleeping at night after a power nap in the day. The kind of dozing that can (8. COMPANY) ___________ a sensation of overwhelming (9. SLEEP) ___________ is not a true power nap, but a desperate attempt to compensate for a poor sleep routine. However, with practice, you will find that power naps can lead to a welcome (10. ENHANCE) ___________ of your performance when you need it most. 6. One of the most lethal poisons on Earth, ten thousand times more deadly than cyanide, is tetrodotoxin, more concisely known as TTX. Its (1. POTENT) ___________ is well known in East Asia, where it regularly kills diners who have braved the (2. CAPRICE) ___________ delicacy known as fugu or puffer fish. This toxin has a (3. TERROR) ___________ method of operation: twenty-five minutes after exposure, it begins to paralyse its victims, leaving the victim fully aware of what is happening. Death usually results, within hours, from (4. SUFFOCANT) ___________ or heart failure. There is no known antidote. If lucky patients can (5. STAND) ___________ the symptoms for twenty-four hours, they usually recover without (6. FAR) ___________ complications. It is no ordinary poison. What is strange about its occurrence is that it is found in such a wide range of creatures, from algae to angelfish spanning entire kingdoms of life. It is rather unlikely that such an unusual toxin evolved independently in so many (7. RELATE) ___________ animals. Marine biologists have discovered that the poison is produced by bacteria living in the gut of its host. The best explanation is that a (8. BIOLOGY) ___________ relationship exists between host and the (9. WELCOME) ___________ guest, where (10. MICROBIC) ___________ exchange poison for nutrients, providing a valuable defensive weapon for its host.