Câu hỏi: 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 from 25 to 29.
Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oaldand, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, (25)__________when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college. After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, which laid the early (26) __________for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the (27) __________between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters, and became the longest-running New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into a major motion picture for (28) __________Tan co-wrote the screenplay. Tan's other works have also been (29) __________into several different forms of media.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (25) is...
A. however
B. moreover
C. so
D. but
Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oaldand, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, (25)__________when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college. After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, which laid the early (26) __________for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the (27) __________between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters, and became the longest-running New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into a major motion picture for (28) __________Tan co-wrote the screenplay. Tan's other works have also been (29) __________into several different forms of media.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (25) is...
A. however
B. moreover
C. so
D. but
Giải thích: Dựa vào nghĩa của câu, liên từ but (nhưng - được dùng để diễn tả sự đối lập) là phù hợp nhất.
Đáp án D.