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I.           Read the following passage and choose the best answer.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, there have been a lot of discussions about new security measures in airports and other public spaces. Defenders of civil liberties are worried that our fear of terrorism is a danger to our freedoms and privacy.

Now the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the US has ordered American airlines to give them data on millions of passengers. This is the country’s latest attempt to improve security checks on airline passengers. The plan is called “Secure Flight.” It compares passenger records, from credit card numbers to addresses, with names on terrorist watch lists.

However, the plan is causing privacy concerns both in the US and abroad. [A] It has been said that European Union data protection officials had “huge concerns” about the US government’s first attempt at computerized screening of passengers. [B] That effort was ended because of European fears that the government would have access to too much personal information.

[C] If the European Union determines that Secure Flight violates its privacy laws, airlines will have a problem. If they obey the TSA’s orders, they risk being fined by the European Union for violating EU privacy laws. [D] If they obey the European Union, they risk being fined by the United States.

1.     What is the topic of the passage?

A. The European Union asking airlines for data about passengers

B. The question of personal property and US law

C. Privacy concerns in a post-September 11th world

D. The risks that airlines face from the US and the European Union

2.     According to the passage, the US government’s first plan for computerized screening

A. was accepted by the European Union                              

B. was ended because of protests from Americans

C. was ended because of protests from Europeans              

D. was strongly supported by the airlines

3.     Which is the best place for the following sentence “Overall, this is a very difficult situation for the airlines”?

A. [A]                                  B. [B]                                        C. [C]                                 D. [D]

4.     The word ‘they’ refers to ______.

A. EU privacy laws              B. airlines                                  C. the United States                     D. fines

5.     If the airlines obey European Union privacy laws, ______.

A. they could be fined by the United States                           B. they could be fined by other airlines

C. they won't be able to fly into Europe                                 D. they won't be able to fly into the United States

6.     Which information is NOT in the passage?

A. The new plan is called "Secure Flight."

B. European officials have concerns about computerized screening.

C. Airlines can be fined if they disobey the new laws.

D. Airline officials are against the new laws.

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3 tháng 8 2021

1. C

2.C

3.C

4. B

5. A

6.C

Ko bt đúng hay sai nữa

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.The development of writing (1) ______ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the (2) ______. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China that date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the (3) _______ around...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

The development of writing (1) ______ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the (2) ______. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China that date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the (3) _______ around Mesopotamia (mordern-day Iraq), where the ancent Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (4)________ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called "aleph" and "beth", which in Greek became "alpha" and "beta", which gave us the (5) ________ word "alphabet".

Question 1

A. did

B. had

C. made

D. took

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17 tháng 6 2018

Đáp án: C

Giải thích: cấu trúc "to make a difference" : tạo nên sự khác biệt, làm nên sự khác biệt.

28 tháng 8 2017

Television is an important invention of the twentieth century. It has been ....so... popular that now we can't imagine what life would be ...like.... if there were no television. Television is a major ....means.... of communication. It brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. Through ....television..... , viewers can see and learn about people, places and things in faraway lands.Television .....widens...... our knowledge by introducing to us new ideas .....which.... may lead us to new hobbies and recreations. In addition ....to..... the news, television provides us with a variety of programs that can satisfy .....every..... taste. Most people now seem to like spending their evenings .....watching..... television. It is more convenient for them to sit at home watching TV ....than..... to go out for amusements anywhere else.

28 tháng 8 2017

Television is an important invention of the twentieth century. It has been ..SO..... popular that now we can't imagine what life would be ....LIKE... if there were no television. Television is a major ....MEANS.... of communication. It brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. Through .....TELEVISION... , viewers can see and learn about people, places and things in faraway lands.Television .....WIDEN...... our knowledge by introducing to us new ideas .....WHICH.... may lead us to new hobbies and recreations. In addition .....TO.... the news, television provides us with a variety of programs that can satisfy .....MANY..... taste. Most people now seem to like spending their evenings ......ON.... television. It is more convenient for them to sit at home watching TV .......THAN.. to go out for amusements anywhere else.

12 tháng 8 2020

omplete using the correct form of the words in bold type.

In our ( 1.live).life.... whether at home, in the car or at work we are constantly bombarded by (2.advertise)advertisements..... Their role is to grab our attention and make products (3. attract)..... enough so that people will want to buy them (4.immediate).... There has been a lot of ( 5.discuss)...... on the powerful effects of advertising. Are ads really (6. use).use.... to us? Some would ask if the adverts are (7.true).true... Do they give us a fair and (8. real)..reality..idea of the product? People are rarely in (9.agree)..agreement. on any of these questions, but the fact is that ads are (10. help).helful... in lettering people know the wide variety of goods available

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Read the following passage and do the tasks below: Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming. According to an increasingly vocal minority, however, we should be asking ourselves how much of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems, as so often is the case that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study. Yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting...
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Read the following passage and do the tasks below:

Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming. According to an increasingly vocal minority, however, we should be asking ourselves how much of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems, as so often is the case that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.

Yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting warmer, with one of the world's leading weather predictors stating that air temperatures have shown an increase of just under half a degree Celsius since the beginning of the twentieth century. And while this may not sound like anything worth losing sleep over, the international press would have us believe that the consequences could be devastating. Other experts, however, are of the opinion that what we are seeing is just part of a natural upward and downward swing that has always been part of the cycle of global weather. An analysis of the views of major meteorologists in the United States showed that less than 20% of them believed that any change in temperature over the last hundred years was our own fault - the rest attributed it to natural cyclical changes.

There is, of course, no denying that we are still at a very early stage in understanding weather. The effects of such variables as rainfall, cloud formation, the seas and oceans gases such as methane and ozone, or even solar energy are still not really understood, and therefore the predictions that we make using them cannot always be relied on. Dr. James Hansen, in 1988, was predicting that the likely effects of global warming would be a rising of world temperature which would have disastrous consequences for mankind: “a strong cause and effect relationship between the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere ". He has now gone on record as stating that using artificial models of climate as a way of predicting change is all but impossible. In fact, he now believes that, rather than getting hotter, our planet is getting greener as a result of the carbon dioxide increase, with the prospect of increasing vegetation in areas which in recent history have been frozen wastelands.

In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that as our computer-based weather models have become more sophisticated, the predicted rises in temperature have been cut back. In addition, if we look at the much reported rise in global temperature over the last century, a close analysis reveals that the lion's share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before man began to "poison" his world with industrial processes and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of the twentieth century.

So should we pay any attention to those stories that scream out at us from billboards and television news headlines, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-based machinery and ever more sophisticated forms of transport is creating a nightmare level of greenhouse gas emissions, poisoning his environment and ripping open the ozone layer? Doubters point to scientific evidence, which can prove that, of all the greenhouse gases, only two percent come from man-made sources, the rest resulting from natural emissions. Who, then, to believe: the environmentalist exhorting us to leave the car at home, to buy re-usable products packaged in recycled paper and to plant trees in our back yard? Or the skeptics, including, of course, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we are making a mountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury's still out as far as I am concerned!

Question 1-6: Choose the appropriate letters (A, B, C or D), based on the information from the passage.

1. The author ........

A believes that man is causing global warming

B believes that global warming is a natural process

C is sure what the causes of global warming are

D does not say what he believes the causes of global warming are

2. As to the cause of global warming, the author believes that ........

A occasionally the facts depend on who you are talking to

B the facts always depend on who you are talking to

C often the facts depend on which expert you listen to

D you should not speak to experts

3. More than 80% of the top meteorologists in the United States are of the opinion that .........

A global warming should make us lose sleep

B global warming is not the result of natural cyclical changes, but man-made

C the consequences of global warming will be devastating

D global warming is not man-made, but the result of natural cyclical changes

4. Our understanding of weather ...........

A leads to reliable predictions

B is variable

C cannot be denied

D is not very developed yet

5. Currently, Dr. James Hansen's beliefs include the fact that .......

A it is nearly impossible to predict weather change using artificial models

B the consequences of global warming would be disastrous for mankind

C there is a significant link between the climate now, and man's changing of the atmosphere

D Earth is getting colder

6. Which of these is the best title for this text?

A Global Warming is for real

B Global warming - media hype or genuine threat?

C Weather changes over the last 100 years

D Global Warming - the greatest threat to mankind

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19 tháng 2 2019

Read the following passage and do the tasks below:

Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming. According to an increasingly vocal minority, however, we should be asking ourselves how much of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems, as so often is the case that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.

Yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting warmer, with one of the world's leading weather predictors stating that air temperatures have shown an increase of just under half a degree Celsius since the beginning of the twentieth century. And while this may not sound like anything worth losing sleep over, the international press would have us believe that the consequences could be devastating. Other experts, however, are of the opinion that what we are seeing is just part of a natural upward and downward swing that has always been part of the cycle of global weather. An analysis of the views of major meteorologists in the United States showed that less than 20% of them believed that any change in temperature over the last hundred years was our own fault - the rest attributed it to natural cyclical changes.

There is, of course, no denying that we are still at a very early stage in understanding weather. The effects of such variables as rainfall, cloud formation, the seas and oceans gases such as methane and ozone, or even solar energy are still not really understood, and therefore the predictions that we make using them cannot always be relied on. Dr. James Hansen, in 1988, was predicting that the likely effects of global warming would be a rising of world temperature which would have disastrous consequences for mankind: “a strong cause and effect relationship between the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere ". He has now gone on record as stating that using artificial models of climate as a way of predicting change is all but impossible. In fact, he now believes that, rather than getting hotter, our planet is getting greener as a result of the carbon dioxide increase, with the prospect of increasing vegetation in areas which in recent history have been frozen wastelands.

In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that as our computer-based weather models have become more sophisticated, the predicted rises in temperature have been cut back. In addition, if we look at the much reported rise in global temperature over the last century, a close analysis reveals that the lion's share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before man began to "poison" his world with industrial processes and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of the twentieth century.

So should we pay any attention to those stories that scream out at us from billboards and television news headlines, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-based machinery and ever more sophisticated forms of transport is creating a nightmare level of greenhouse gas emissions, poisoning his environment and ripping open the ozone layer? Doubters point to scientific evidence, which can prove that, of all the greenhouse gases, only two percent come from man-made sources, the rest resulting from natural emissions. Who, then, to believe: the environmentalist exhorting us to leave the car at home, to buy re-usable products packaged in recycled paper and to plant trees in our back yard? Or the skeptics, including, of course, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we are making a mountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury's still out as far as I am concerned!

Question 1-6: Choose the appropriate letters (A, B, C or D), based on the information from the passage.

1. The author ........

A believes that man is causing global warming

B believes that global warming is a natural process

C is sure what the causes of global warming are

D does not say what he believes the causes of global warming are

2. As to the cause of global warming, the author believes that ........

A occasionally the facts depend on who you are talking to

B the facts always depend on who you are talking to

C often the facts depend on which expert you listen to

D you should not speak to experts

3. More than 80% of the top meteorologists in the United States are of the opinion that .........

A global warming should make us lose sleep

B global warming is not the result of natural cyclical changes, but man-made

C the consequences of global warming will be devastating

D global warming is not man-made, but the result of natural cyclical changes

4. Our understanding of weather ...........

A leads to reliable predictions

B is variable

C cannot be denied

D is not very developed yet

5. Currently, Dr. James Hansen's beliefs include the fact that .......

A it is nearly impossible to predict weather change using artificial models

B the consequences of global warming would be disastrous for mankind

C there is a significant link between the climate now, and man's changing of the atmosphere

D Earth is getting colder

6. Which of these is the best title for this text?

A Global Warming is for real

B Global warming - media hype or genuine threat?

C Weather changes over the last 100 years

D Global Warming - the greatest threat to mankind

24 tháng 2 2019

bn có chắc đáp án ntn ko ạ

Identify ten mistakes in the Tex by understanding them and correct them. Write your answer in the space provided in the column on the right The filming and photography in news programmes are very important in bringing the stories to life and making us realise what events effect people .but the traditional techniques of filming are slow changing and not everyone is happyos With this Wiewers have recently complain that camerawork on news programmes, while Very artistic and clever ,is more...
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Identify ten mistakes in the Tex by understanding them and correct them. Write your answer in the space provided in the column on the right

The filming and photography in news programmes are very important in bringing the stories to life and making us realise what events effect people .but the traditional techniques of filming are slow changing and not everyone is happyos With this

Wiewers have recently complain that camerawork on news programmes, while Very artistic and clever ,is more suited to feature Films and documentaries. Apparently much of us are distracted by clever camerawork and our attention is taken away from real focus, which is the story

Several techniques have been criticised. One of this is the circling camera .this is when the cameraman goes round the person whose is talking so that at one point we see the back of his head. Another technique is when the camera is not hold steadily and shakes. It gives the impressive of slight panic and is often used in film today. The BBC insists thatcamerawork like this is a sign of artic and technology progress and is interesting and attactive ,particularly to a younger audience. But how appropriate is it to have a circling camera when reporting on something less ordinary as interestest rates

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II. Read the following passage anf fill in the blanks with suitable words. Language is a (1) .......of communication so each nation has its own (2).......However some nation have the same language. According (3)......the speakers' use of language, it is called the first, second or (4).......language. Among the languages used by most people in the (5)......is English. This doesn't mean that English is (6).....by greater number of speakers (7)........any other languages, for it is easily...
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II. Read the following passage anf fill in the blanks with suitable words.

Language is a (1) .......of communication so each nation has its own (2).......However some nation have the same language. According (3)......the speakers' use of language, it is called the first, second or (4).......language. Among the languages used by most people in the (5)......is English. This doesn't mean that English is (6).....by greater number of speakers (7)........any other languages, for it is easily outnumberes by Chinese in this respect. However it is (8)........most international of languae because it provides ready access to the world scholarship and world trade. That is the (9)........why millions (10)....men and women try to master it.






III. Read the passage below and write T next to the true sentence; write F next to the false one

A LANGUAGE EVERYONE KNOWS

There is one language we all speak, no matter what country we live in; the language of numbers.

The language of numbers is called MATHEMATICS. You are learning it in school now. The simplest kind is called ARITHMATIC. In high school and college you will learnnother kind of mathematics. To help all of us with mathematics, machine have been invented. They let us do problems faster and with fewer mistake. We know that the abacus or countingboard was first of these machines. It was invented many thousands of years ago, but it is still being used in China, Japan and other countries. Today, computers are used all over the world. These computers seem to think. Of courae, they reallydon't. They do only what people tell them to do. But they do it much better and faster than a person. Inside m acomputer may look very confusing to you. But the people who run it know just what to do. They can make a computer store up facts and give them to other people. They can make it slove hard problems and help us to live better. Like people all over theo world, these machines speak the same language : NUMBERS

1. ....... The simplest kind of mathemaitcs is Arithmetics

2. ....... In high school and college you will learn arithmetic.

3. .......Machines do problems faster than men.

4. .......The counting board is no longer being used in the world.

5. .......Computers were invented a thousand years ago.

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29 tháng 9 2019

Language is a means of communication so each nation has its own language. However some nations have the same language. According to the speakers' use of language, it is called the first, second or foreign language. Among the languages used by most people in the world is English. This does not mean that English is spoken by greater number of speakers than any other languages, for it is easily outnemberred by Chinese in this respect. However, it is the most international of languages because it provides ready access to the world scholarship and world trade. That is the reason why millions of men and women try to master it.
Dịch văn bản sau sang Tiếng Việt: We live in a dynamic world, and habitats are always undergoing changes at all sorts of levels. However, natural changes usually occur at a slow pace so that impacts on individual species tend to be slight - at least in the short term When the pace of change is greatly accelerated, there may be no time for individual species to react to new circumstances, and the effects can be disastrous. Briefly, this is the reason that rapid habitat loss is...
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Dịch văn bản sau sang Tiếng Việt:

We live in a dynamic world, and habitats are always undergoing changes at all sorts of levels. However, natural changes usually occur at a slow pace so that impacts on individual species tend to be slight - at least in the short term
When the pace of change is greatly accelerated, there may be no time for individual species to react to new circumstances, and the effects can be disastrous. Briefly, this is the reason that rapid habitat loss is regarded as the chief cause of species endangerment, and there is no force more powerful in this regard than human beings. To some extent, every part of the earth has been affected by human activities, especially during this past century. This applies on virtually every scale, from the loss of microbes in soils that once supported tropical forests, to the extinction of fish and other aquatic species in polluted freshwater habitats, to changes in global climate caused by the release of greenhouse gases. From the perspective of an individual human lifetime, such changes may be hard to detect and their effects on individual species may be hard to predict. But the lesson is clear enough. For example, although many countries have had plans to grow many tropical forests, they are highly susceptible to destruction because the soils in which they grow are poor in available nutrients. Centuries may be required to bring back a forest that was cut down or burnt out in the space of a few years. Many of the world's severely threatened animals and plants live in such forests, and it is certain that huge numbers of them will disappear if present rates of forest loss continue. Habitats in the world are unchangeable and fixedly exist.

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7 tháng 10 2018

Chúng ta sống trong một thế giới năng động, và môi trường sống luôn luôn trải qua những thay đổi ở tất cả các cấp độ. Tuy nhiên, những thay đổi tự nhiên thường xảy ra ở tốc độ chậm để tác động đến từng loài có xu hướng nhỏ - ít nhất là trong ngắn hạn
Khi tốc độ thay đổi được tăng tốc đáng kể, có thể không có thời gian để các loài cá thể phản ứng với hoàn cảnh mới, và các hiệu ứng có thể là thảm họa. Tóm lại, đây là lý do khiến mất môi trường sống nhanh chóng được coi là nguyên nhân chính gây nguy hiểm cho loài, và không có lực lượng nào mạnh hơn trong vấn đề này so với con người. Ở một mức độ nào đó, mọi phần của trái đất đã bị ảnh hưởng bởi các hoạt động của con người, đặc biệt là trong thế kỷ qua. Điều này áp dụng trên hầu hết mọi quy mô, từ việc mất vi khuẩn trong đất đã từng hỗ trợ rừng nhiệt đới, đến sự tuyệt chủng của cá và các loài thủy sinh khác trong môi trường nước ngọt bị ô nhiễm, thay đổi khí hậu toàn cầu gây ra bởi việc thải khí nhà kính. Từ quan điểm của một đời người, những thay đổi như vậy có thể khó phát hiện và ảnh hưởng của chúng đối với từng loài có thể khó dự đoán. Nhưng bài học là đủ rõ ràng. Ví dụ, mặc dù nhiều quốc gia đã có kế hoạch trồng nhiều khu rừng nhiệt đới, chúng rất dễ bị phá hủy bởi vì các loại đất mà chúng phát triển rất nghèo trong các chất dinh dưỡng sẵn có. Nhiều thế kỷ có thể được yêu cầu mang lại một khu rừng bị cắt giảm hoặc bị đốt cháy trong không gian vài năm. Nhiều loài động vật và thực vật bị đe dọa nghiêm trọng trên thế giới sống trong các khu rừng như vậy, và chắc chắn rằng một số lượng lớn chúng sẽ biến mất nếu tỷ lệ mất rừng hiện tại tiếp tục. Môi trường sống trên thế giới là không thể thay đổi và tồn tại cố định.

P/S:ggdịch is freehiha~

7 tháng 10 2018

chụy Google dịch đọc méo hiểu gì nên mới lết xác lên đây đấy -.-

Read the passage and then choose the best answer. The British ship H.M.S Breadalbane sank in the Canadian Arctic on August 21 1853, after being crushed by encroaching ice while on a rescue mission. The 31 crewmen aboard escaped over the ice to a companion vessel as the Breadalbane went down in 15 minutes. Canadian scientists now report that after a three-year search of records about the ship, they have located it sitting upright in 110 meters of water. Using a robot camera device, they said...
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Read the passage and then choose the best answer.

The British ship H.M.S Breadalbane sank in the Canadian Arctic on August 21 1853, after being crushed by encroaching ice while on a rescue mission. The 31 crewmen aboard escaped over the ice to a companion vessel as the Breadalbane went down in 15 minutes.

Canadian scientists now report that after a three-year search of records about the ship, they have located it sitting upright in 110 meters of water. Using a robot camera device, they said they have taken remarkably clear pictures of the Breadalbane, which has been well preserved by the ice and the supercold water "What we have is a treasure trove of 19th century Arctic exploration." reported one scientist. Located 1000 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, the Breadalbane is the world's northernmost known shipwreck.

  1. According to the passage, the Breadalbane was sailing where it was on August 21, 1853, mainly to
    A. explore the area in which it sank. B. defend that area for the British government.
    C. find a northwest passage to the Orient. D. save the lives of other people.

  2. What happened to the Breadalbane's crew?
    A. Some survived but most perished. B. Most survived but a few perished.
    C. All perished in the accident. D. All were rescued by another ship.

  3. The scientists can prove they have found the exact location of the Breadalbane because they
    A. have taken underwater photos of the ship.
    B. dived down to the wreck to explore it
    C. managed to refloat the boat using modern engineering techniques.

D. retrieved some objects from the wreck with the ship's name on them.

  1. The reason that the scientists called the wreck a "treasure trove" is that they expect it to yield a lot of

A. precious metals. B. valuable foreign goods. C. precious stones. D. valuable information.

  1. The main reason that they can be sure to expect to learn a great deal about 19th century Arctic exploration from the wreck is that
    A. no other ship ever sank in waters so far north.
    B. water currents are gentle there so the ship was not moved.
    C. the camera they are using is a robot.
    D. the ship has been extremely well preserved by the severe cold.

  2. The principal historical distinction of this wreck when compared with other is that
    A. it has lain underwater for so long.
    B. the scientists expect to become wealthy from its discovery.
    C. no other has been found so far north.
    D. until now it has been impossible to take pictures in such icy waters.

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4 tháng 4 2018

Đáp án: B

Dịch: Các tòa nhà chọc trời của nó và Tượng Nữ thần Tự do tạo nên một cảnh tượng tuyệt đẹp.