Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks from 25 to 29.
COULD COMPUTER GAMES BE GOOD FOR YOU AFTER ALL?
In Britain, the average young person now spend more money on games each year than on going to the cinema or renting videos. But is this certainly a bad thing? For years, newspaper sports have been (25) ____________ that children who spend too much time playing computer games become unsociable, bad- tempered, even violent as a (26) ____________. But new research, carried out in both Europe and the USA, suggests that the opposite may be true.
Indeed, playing some of the more complicated games may help people of all ages to improve certain skills. Researchers claim that this is because the games (27) ____________the brain work harder in certain ways. The fact that people play the games repeatedly (28) ____________that they get a lot of practice in these skills which are therefore likely to become highly developed. So rather than (29) ____________ up computer games, perhaps young people need to spend more time on them?
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (29) is...
A. stopping
B. ending
C. taking
D. giving
COULD COMPUTER GAMES BE GOOD FOR YOU AFTER ALL?
In Britain, the average young person now spend more money on games each year than on going to the cinema or renting videos. But is this certainly a bad thing? For years, newspaper sports have been (25) ____________ that children who spend too much time playing computer games become unsociable, bad- tempered, even violent as a (26) ____________. But new research, carried out in both Europe and the USA, suggests that the opposite may be true.
Indeed, playing some of the more complicated games may help people of all ages to improve certain skills. Researchers claim that this is because the games (27) ____________the brain work harder in certain ways. The fact that people play the games repeatedly (28) ____________that they get a lot of practice in these skills which are therefore likely to become highly developed. So rather than (29) ____________ up computer games, perhaps young people need to spend more time on them?
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (29) is...
A. stopping
B. ending
C. taking
D. giving
Give up / quit (v) sth / doing sth: từ bỏ
Đáp án D.