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Tuấn Minh Ngọc

CÂU 35–38

35. When you want to relax, you’ll have one of the world’s ______ cities at your feet, with more than 40% green space and open water to enjoy.

A. greener

B. greenest

C. mostly green

D. green mostly

• Phân tích:
• Cấu trúc “one of the … cities” phải đi với tính từ ở dạng so sánh nhất: “one of the world’s greenest cities.”
• “greener” (so sánh hơn) không đúng; “mostly green/green mostly” là trạng từ, không hợp.

36. Let me know when you come to Ha Noi and I’ll ______.

A. take you out

B. bring you around

C. cheer you up

D. show you around

• Phân tích:
• “show someone around” = dẫn ai đó đi tham quan.
• “take you out” chỉ dẫn bạn đi ăn/đi chơi; “cheer you up” = làm ai vui; “bring you around” sai cấu trúc.

37. We expected her at nine but she finally ______ at eleven.

A. turned up

B. turned out

C. came over

D. grew up

• Phân tích:
• “turn up” = đến, xuất hiện (cuối cùng cô ấy xuất hiện lúc 11h).
• “turned out” = hóa ra; “came over” = ghé thăm; “grew up” = lớn lên.

38. Ann is taking extra lessons to ______ what she missed while she was sick.

A. take back

B. get on well with

C. keep up with

D. look

• Phân tích:
• “keep up with” = theo kịp, bắt kịp (theo kịp bài vở đã bỏ lỡ).
• “take back” = rút lại; “get on well with” = hòa hợp với ai; “look” không đủ nghĩa.

EX21. Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each blank.

It is only in America that cities are no longer regarded as the richest of man’s built environments. Urban decay is as old as (1) ______ but urban blight is something else again: it occurs when (2) ______ city economies are undermined by the flight of the middle class to the suburbs. This process has gutted many American cities in the period (3) ______ World War II. The suburbanites still depend on the city for their livelihood but no longer (4) ______ much to its sustenance. The creation of metropolitan governmental authorities encompassing a city and its suburbs would do much to balance the (5) ______ inequities which have arisen and help to assure the financial health of cities.

1. Urban decay is as old as ______.

A. villages

B. cities

C. areas

D. regions

• Phân tích:
• “Urban decay” gắn với thành phố, nên “as old as cities” (cũ như thành phố).

2. it occurs when ______ city economies are undermined

A. healthiness

B. health

C. healthy

D. healthily

• Phân tích:
• Cần danh từ “tình trạng khỏe mạnh” của nền kinh tế → healthiness.
• “health” chung chung; “healthy” tính từ; “healthily” trạng từ.

3. in the period ______ World War II.

A. since

B. for

C. over

D. since

• Phân tích:
• Diễn tả khoảng thời gian kéo dài từ WW2 đến nay → “since World War II”.

4. but no longer ______ much to its sustenance.

A. to contribute

B. contributing

C. contributes

D. contribute

• Phân tích:
• Sau “no longer” tiếp theo là động từ nguyên mẫu không “to”: “no longer contribute”.

5. to balance the ______ inequities

A. economic

B. economy

C. economize

D. economist

• Phân tích:
• “inequities” cần tính từ bổ nghĩa → “economic inequities” (bất bình đẳng kinh tế).