I have talked with my parents and decided _____ abroad for higher education.
The boys _____ loudly upstairs. Please tell them to stop making noise.
Experts believe that in the near future humans will _____ by robots.
_____ more responsible for their environment, certain species would not be on the verge of extinction.
I learned to play _____ guitar when I was at university.
_____ for tickets to the show that people queued day and night.
Recent research has found that learning _____ brain cells work at optimum levels.
TikTok, _____ allows users to create and share videos, has become more and more popular.
Hanoi is _____ than many other cities in the north of Vietnam.
Can you help me _____ a new dress for the year-end party at my company?
John volunteered to help the elderly in a nursing home, and this _____ his family by surprise.
Indian wedding _____ are known for colorful costumes and interesting traditions.
My mother has a very _____ lifestyle. She exercises every morning and eats more vegetables than meat.
The university has recently _____ great efforts to develop online programs to meet the current needs of education.
My sister and I spend most nights fighting over who is going to turn _____ the lights.
Both parents are equally responsible for bringing _____ their kids in the best manner possible.
The company is looking for someone who has a/an _____ for detail with exceptional communication skills.
The search has been in progress for six days, and hopes of locating the missing soldiers are now beginning to _____.
Getting enough sleep is a simple way to improve the _____ of life.
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each question.
As I sit down at my desk at home to write this brief column on the value of housework, I also find myself staring at a very large pile of laundry. Most families today in the United States do not have someone at home whose full-time job is to care for children and others, clean the house and take care of other domestic chores. Certainly, that is not the case at my house. Yet, these chores still need to get done. Clean clothes and dinner on the table at a reasonable hour are the kinds of things that make a house a home, at least in our imaginations.
Paying women wages for doing housework presumes that women are and should be the ones who do housework and that they do not already have a paying job. In most families in the United States today, men and women are sharing housework (although women still do a lot more than men do, men are doing more each year), and most women work outside the home. So a more practical solution is to encourage greater household sanity by addressing the long-term rise in family hours of work and the long-term stagnation of family wages. If all adults work outside the home then someone will need to be paid to care for children, and the elderly and take care of the laundry. Yet, for most families, the costs of these important services are beyond their family budgets. For the bottom 80 percent of all U.S. families, incomes are the same today as they were over a decade ago, after factoring in inflation, which means affordable high-quality childcare and solutions for ailing elders (let alone being able to outsource some of the household chores) are quite frankly out of reach.
Another solution would be to make it possible for more families to have adults work just a little bit less than full time. Surveys show that this is something people would like. If everybody were to put in 30 or 35 hours a week, then there would be enough time to not only do well at work but also do some of those chores at home. Laundry, of course, takes a lot less time to do today than it did 50 years ago. But it still takes time. And with two jobs and no one at home all day, that extra added burden after work is a real chore. Perhaps a magical chore-completing household elf could help shoulder all the chores.
As stated in the first paragraph, the writer is _____.
According to the passage, which statement is NOT correct about most American families?
What does the word "they" in paragraph 2 refer to?
Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word 'burden' in the third paragraph?
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each question.
There is an insidious irony to climate change. When it gets hotter, more and more people are using their air conditioners, which in turn contributes to global warming. Air conditioner sales are surging worldwide, especially in emerging economies such as China, India, and Indonesia, where rising incomes make air conditioners more affordable and a warmer, more humid climate makes them a necessity. The International Energy Agency predicts that around two-thirds of the world's houses could have an air conditioner by 2050 and the demand for energy to cool buildings could triple.
Keeping buildings cool contributes to global warming in two ways. Air conditioners not only run on electricity, but they can release chemicals with a strong heat-trapping effect as well. Air conditioners account for 16 percent of the total electricity used in residential and commercial buildings around the world. This is significantly less than emissions caused by heating buildings - heaters run on natural gas, oil, or electricity. But since the 2000s, demand for air conditioning and refrigeration systems has grown twice as fast as that for heating systems, at an average of four percent per year. Globally, there are over two billion air conditioner units in use today. The units precisely control the temperature and humidity in shops, laboratories, or server rooms. They ensure that people feel as comfortable on a transatlantic flight as they do at home. But all that comes at a cost. Unless we switch to fully renewable electricity, the boom in air conditioning will generate more emissions and contribute to global warming, making hot summers even hotter.
With every new air conditioner installed, the risk of a leak increases. The technology behind modern air conditioners hasn't changed significantly since 1902 when the air conditioner unit sent air through coils filled with cold water and cooled the air while removing moisture from the room. All air conditioners use refrigerant, a cold substance that absorbs the heat inside a building. These refrigerants are useful but problematic. They can escape through joints, cracks, or holes in the piping and contribute to global warming. The leakage of so-called fluorinated gases was particularly high by 2014. It accounted for about three percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, so the European Union adopted a law to cap the amounts of gases sold. The refrigerant R-410A, which has the potential to trap thousands of times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, is still widely used worldwide.
Which is the best title of the passage?
What does the author probably mean by "all that comes at a cost"?
Which of the following is NOT stated about air conditioners?
The author's attitude towards air conditioners can be described as _____.
Complete the text below with the correct form of the words in capitals.
In Japan, the tradition of folding square-shaped paper to make various shapes is known as origami. This form of paper artwork can range from simple to complex. Cranes, hats, animals, and flowers are among the most popular origami (CREATE) you may come across. Although there are no (MANDATE) stages in doing origami, the keys to remember are to fold not only in the correct places but also in the proper order. Beginners can start with simple figures, and move on to the more complex as their (ABLE) improve. A person who is skilled at origami can make a crane, for example, in just a few short minutes. A string of 1,000 paper cranes is considered a symbol of (LONG). It is also traditional to give this to people who are ill or (HOSPITAL), as a wish for their recovery.
Writing a paragraph (of approximately 150 words) to answer the following question:
What problems do you think students face when studying online?