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100 BÀI OPEN CLOZE TEXT (DẠNG 10 CÂU) TỦ CHUYÊN/ HSG ANH 1 1. CHESS TOURNAMENT All tournament chess games are played with a chess clock – that is two clocks joined together. When one player make his move, he presses a button which stops his clock and starts his opponent’s clock. (1) ____________ fails to keep up the time limit, no (2) ____________ what the position on the board, loses the game. Weekend tournaments with a fast time limit and long sessions of play of (3) ____________ to twelve hours a day are very strenuous and result in fatigue and time troubles. The play is quite sharp. Active, attacking chess is the (4) ____________ of the day and it is difficult to maintain a sustained, precise defence (5) ____________ such play. A score of the game must be (6) ____________ as play goes on. Each move is written down on a score sheet, which has to be handed to the tournament officials in the end of each round. The only thought in everybody’s head is to win. Talent and youth – that’s (7) ____________ is needed for success at chess, (8) ____________ the emphasis on youth. Some approach the board with a slow, purposeless manner (9) ____________ giving you a second glance – you simply don’t count. They seem to imply that the outcome is (10) ____________ foregone conclusion for them; you only have to accept them with good grace. 2. Early civilisations, as (1) ____________ to merely primitive early societies, seem to have a common positive characteristic in that they change human (2) ____________ of things. They bring together the cooperative efforts of large number of people, usually bringing them together physically in large agglomerations. Civilisation is usually marked by urbanisation. It would be a bold individual that was willing to draw a precise (3) ____________ at the moment when the balance tipped (4) ____________ a dense pattern of agricultural villages clustered (5) ____________ a religious centre or a market to reveal the first true city. However, it is perfectly reasonable to say that more than any (6) ____________ institution has provided the critical mass which produces civilisation. Inside the city, the surpluses of wealth produced by agriculture made possible other things (7) ____________ of civilised life. They provided for the upkeep of a priestly (8) ____________ which elaborated a complex religious structure, leading to the construction of great buildings (9) ____________ more than merely economic functions, and in due (10) ____________ to the writing down of literature. 3. It is said that we never stop learning until the day we die. Broadening our horizons has never been