Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions

Almost one hundred people have died as a direct result of food _______ in the capital

A. lacking 

B. shortage 

C. desire 

D. famine

VI. Fill each blank with one suitable word.

The greatest enemy of forests is fire. Every year millions of acres of forests are …1… by forest fires. Most of these fires are started …2… man. More forest fires can be traced to campers, and smokers …3… to any other …4…

Some of the people who start forest fires do …5… because …6… ignorance. They do not …7… to know that …8… is important to watch a camp fire …9… and to put the fire …10… with water when they leave. It is …11… important to know that camp fire should be built only in safe …12…, and that forest soil will often burn because it is so …13… of plant materials. In …14… weather, such soil may …15… ablaze by a camp fire.

Nowadays, students are addicted to social networks, so it causes them a lack of direct communication with the outside world.

A. Nowadays, being addicted to social networks causes students a lack of direct communication with the outside world.

B. Nowadays, students are addicted to social networks, because it causes them a lack of direct communication with the outside world.

C. Nowadays, students are addicted to social networks , it causes them a lack of direct communication with the outside world.

D. Nowadays, it causes students a lack of direct communication with the outside world.

Use the words provided to fill the blanks

Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes (1)......as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before noon (2)......many people of Tokyo were cooking their midday meals. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the (3).......began to shake. As a result, small fires broke out everywhere and (4).....spread. The fire engines were prevented for going to help as many of the roads had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire fighting equipment (5)......most of the water pipes had burst. Consequently, over ninety percent of the damage was caused by the (6)......rather than by the collapse of the buildings. Most of those (7).......died were not killed in the earthquake itself but in the fires, which followed. If the earthquake had occurred (8)......night while people were sleeping, far fewer would have died

Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before noon when the habitants of Tokyo were cooking their midday meals. Thousand of stoves were overturned as soon as the earth began to shake. As a result , small fires broke out everywhere and quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because many of the roads had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire fighting equipment as most of the water pipes had burts. Consequently, over ninety percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than by the collapse of buildings

These sentences are T or F

1. A hundred thousand people were killed in Tokyo in 1923 because of an earthquake

2. The earthquake began a minute before midnight

3. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because most of the water pipes had burts

4. Over ninety percent of the damage was caused by fire

Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow

Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before noon when the habitants of Tokyo were cooking their midday meals. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the earth began to shake. As a result, small fires broke out everywhere and quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because many of the roads had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire-fighting equipment as most of the water pipes had burst. Consequently, over ninety percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than by the collapse of buildings.

How many people were killed in the earthquake?

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Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow

Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before noon when the habitants of Tokyo were cooking their midday meals. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the earth began to shake. As a result, small fires broke out everywhere and quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because many of the roads had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire-fighting equipment as most of the water pipes had burst. Consequently, over ninety percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than by the collapse of buildings.

Why was the fire engines prevented from going to help?

___________________________________________________________

Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow

Almost a hundred thousand people were killed and half a million homes destroyed as a result of an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923. The earthquake began a minute before noon when the habitants of Tokyo were cooking their midday meals. Thousands of stoves were overturned as soon as the earth began to shake. As a result, small fires broke out everywhere and quickly spread. The fire engines were prevented from going to help because many of the roads had cracked open. It was impossible to use fire-fighting equipment as most of the water pipes had burst. Consequently, over ninety percent of the damage was caused by fire rather than by the collapse of buildings.

When did the Tokyo earthquake 1923 happen?

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Reading 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.

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes are recognized (25) _______ vibration, shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. The vibrations may vary in (26) _______. They are caused mostly by slippage within geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. The underground point of (27) _____ of the earthquake is called the focus. The point directly above the focus on the surface is called the epicenter. Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usually the secondary events (28) _______ they trigger, such as building collapse, fires, tsunamis (seismic sea waves) and volcanoes, that are actually the human disaster. Many of these could possibly be avoided by better construction, safety systems, early warning and (29) _______ planning.

(Encarta, DVD, 2009)

Điền vào câu 27

A. source

B. origin

C. center

D. epicenter