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.
Christ the Redeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. The face was created by the Romanian (46) ______ Gheorghe Leonida. The statue is 30 metres tall, not including its 8-metre pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres wide. By (47) ______, it is approximately two-thirds the height of the Statue of Liberty's height from base to torch.
The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), (48)_______ is located at the peak of the 700-metre Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is listed as (49) ______ of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The statue, (50) ______ was constructed between 1922 and 1931, is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (48) is...
A. but
B. so
C. and
D. for
Christ the Redeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. The face was created by the Romanian (46) ______ Gheorghe Leonida. The statue is 30 metres tall, not including its 8-metre pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres wide. By (47) ______, it is approximately two-thirds the height of the Statue of Liberty's height from base to torch.
The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), (48)_______ is located at the peak of the 700-metre Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is listed as (49) ______ of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The statue, (50) ______ was constructed between 1922 and 1931, is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (48) is...
A. but
B. so
C. and
D. for
The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), (48)_____is located at the peak of the 700- metre Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio.
Bức tượng nặng 635 tấn (625 dài, 700 tấn ngắn) và nằm trên đỉnh núi Corcovado cao 700 mét trong Công viên Quốc gia Rừng Tijuca nhìn ra thành phố Rio.
Bức tượng nặng 635 tấn (625 dài, 700 tấn ngắn) và nằm trên đỉnh núi Corcovado cao 700 mét trong Công viên Quốc gia Rừng Tijuca nhìn ra thành phố Rio.
Đáp án C.