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100 BÀI OPEN CLOZE TEXT (DẠNG 10 CÂU) TỦ CHUYÊN/ HSG ANH 2 easier, as the twenty-first century (1) ____________ ever more opportunities for learning and developing our skills. And if you don’t want to (2) ____________ out in the job market and settle for a poorly-paid, boring job, there’s (3) ____________ excuse these days. Thousands of online courses allow you to work at your own (4) ____________, while you are doing a full-time job. Although be careful that you don’t (5) ____________ off more than you can chew! Modern-day society puts a lot of pressure on people, many of (6) ____________ have had to take out loans and run up enormous overdrafts, just to survive. The situation they find (7) ____________ in is often not of their own making but rather that of the global economy. Facing (8) ____________ to difficult situations by doing something about it rather than running away and coming up with new ways of solving these problems is the (9) ____________ to survival, and ongoing education helps you do this. Don’t (10) ____________ around complaining. Get out there and do something about it. Remember, actions speak louder than words! 4. THE LOWLY FROG The frog, one of the world’s most common amphibians, (1) ____________ an important role in nature. In addition to merely providing children with endless entertainment, it is responsible for controlling the slug population in gardens everywhere. Slugs survive by dining on plants (2) ____________ vegetables, much to the chagrin of gardeners. The common frog’s annual (3) ____________ period occurs in the spring. The lowly creature begins its existence as an egg in frog spawn, and after the tadpole stage (4) ____________ into the four-legged hopper in a process which can take as (5) ____________ as two years, depending on variety of frog. There are about 2000 species of frog, in (6) ____________ the large bullfrog is one of the largest and most common in America. Like so many species in nature, the frog (7) ____________ an ever-growing number of threats to its continued existence. Record numbers of frogs have been wiped out in recent years due to viruses (8) ____________ through their food supply, which includes small fish that may be farmed or imported from abroad. Environmental factors may also be to blame such as increasing concentrations of chemicals or metals transmitted through the food chain, which can damage the animal’s immune system and (9) ____________ it susceptible to disease. In (10) ____________ to these various threats, several wildlife organizations dedicated to the study and protection of frogs have sprung up in recent years. 5. THE TROUBLE WITH SCHOOL

100 BÀI OPEN CLOZE TEXT (DẠNG 10 CÂU) TỦ CHUYÊN/ HSG ANH 4 7. Urbanization has been a constant (1) ____________ in human development for the past ten thousand years. (2) ____________ there has always been the necessity for a minimum - sometimes a very substantial minimum - of the (3) ____________ to work the land, such surplus individuals as can be sustained have tended to gather in cities. Two thousand years ago, the cities of antiquity formed an administrative (4) ____________ for the surrounding area, and a refuge from attack. In the Middle Ages, it was the city folk (5) ____________ were the first to break the stultifying grip of feudalism, and it was in the cities of Northern Italy that the phenomenon of the Renaissance was (6) ____________. Today only a fraction of mankind lives in the country, and the (7) ____________ which does so is decreasing. Mega-cities with populations exceeding ten million are common, and they will become even (8) ____________ in the coming decades. While many (9) ____________ of city life are unattractive- pollution, stress, and separation from (10) ____________ to name but a few - more and more of humanity seems to be choosing an urban existence. Adjusting to this fact is going to be one of the major challenges of the coming century. 8. The number of people in Britain receiving a new diagnosis of (1) ____________ such as asthma, eczema and hay fever is increasing by five percent every year. (2) ____________ is some evidence to show that Britain’s obsession with rules and regulations to ensure cleanliness in the home, supermarket and workplace is reflected in the number of allergy sufferers. One theory is (3) ____________ we have far less (4) ____________ to dirt and germs during child hood than we used to have, so our bodies do not have the opportunity to develop resistance to allergens. While we may (5) ____________ down on the unhygienic to food and general living which people had in the (6) ____________, there are some lessons we could learn today by maybe being a bit (7) ____________ cautious. (8) ____________ would dispute the importance of medical advances. These include vaccinations given routinely to children which have revolutionized our lives by providing immunity to some life-threatening (9) ____________. There is, however, some controversy over whether they actually weaken our immune (10) ____________ and are being given unnecessarily for diseases which are not dangerous. 9. Anyone who has (1) ____________ been to a yoga or meditation class will know the enormous benefits of something as simple and natural as breathing. Inhale slowly and steadily, and you can relax your entire body. Stop and focus on the flow of (2) ____________ breath you take in and out, and you can quieten and