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.
HOME LIFE
"Parents today want their kids spending time on things that can bring them success, but (25) ___________ we've stopped doing one thing that's actually been a proven predictor of success-and that's household chores," says Richard Rende, a (26) ___________ psychologist in Paradise Valley, Ariz, and co-author of forthcoming book "Raising Can-Do Kids." Decades of studies show the benefits of chores-academically, emotionally and even professionally. Giving children household chores at an early age (27) ___________ to build a lasting sense of mastery, responsibility and self-reliance, according to research by Marty Rossmann, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. In 2002, Dr. Rossmann analyzed data from a longitudinal study (28) ___________ followed 84 children across four periods in their lives-in preschool, around ages 10 and 15, and in their mid-20s. She found that young adults who began chores at ages 3 and 4 were more likely to have good relationships with family and friends, to achieve academic and early career success and to be self-sufficient, as (29) ___________ with those who didn't have chores or who started them as teens. Chores also teach children how to be empathetic and responsive to others' needs, notes psychologist Richard Weissbourd of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (26) is...
A. develop
B. developing
C. developed
D. developmental
Đáp án D: developmental
Kiến thức kiểm tra: Từ loại/ sự lựa chọn từ
Giải thích chi tiết:
Ta cần có tính từ đứng trước danh từ "spychologist" để bổ nghĩa cho danh từ này, để nói xem đây là nhà tâm lý học thuộc lĩnh vực nào.
Tính từ "developmental" nghĩa là liên quan đến sự phát triển của ai đó/ cái gì. Cả cụm "developmental spychologist" nghĩa là "nhà tâm lý học nghiên cứu về sự phát triển".
Các phương án khác từ loại không đúng hoặc không hợp nghĩa:
A. develop (v): phát triển
B. developing (adj): đang phát triển
C. developed (adj): đã phát triển
Đáp án D.
 

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