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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.
In "Cerealizing America", Scott Bruce and Bill Crawford remark that the cereal industry uses 816 million pounds of sugar per year. Americans buy 2.7 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year. If (39) _________end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year's consumption would (40) _________ to the moon and back. One point three (1.3) million advertisements for cereal are broadcast on American television every year at a(n) (41) _________of $762 million for airtime. Only automobile manufacturers spend more money on television advertising than the makers of breakfast cereal.
(42) _________of the boxed cereals found in supermarkets contain large amounts of sugar and some contain more than 50\% sugar. Cereal manufacturers are very clever in their marketing, making many cereals appear much healthier than they really are by "fortifying" them with vitamins and minerals. Oh, (43). _________- you now have vitamin-fortified sugar!
Before you eat any cereal, read the ingredient list and see how high sugar appears on the ingredient
list. Then check the "Nutrition facts" panel.
(From "Foods That Burn Fat, Foods That Turn to Fat" by Tom Ventulo)
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (39) is...
A. laying
B. lay
C. laid
D. to lay
In "Cerealizing America", Scott Bruce and Bill Crawford remark that the cereal industry uses 816 million pounds of sugar per year. Americans buy 2.7 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year. If (39) _________end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year's consumption would (40) _________ to the moon and back. One point three (1.3) million advertisements for cereal are broadcast on American television every year at a(n) (41) _________of $762 million for airtime. Only automobile manufacturers spend more money on television advertising than the makers of breakfast cereal.
(42) _________of the boxed cereals found in supermarkets contain large amounts of sugar and some contain more than 50\% sugar. Cereal manufacturers are very clever in their marketing, making many cereals appear much healthier than they really are by "fortifying" them with vitamins and minerals. Oh, (43). _________- you now have vitamin-fortified sugar!
Before you eat any cereal, read the ingredient list and see how high sugar appears on the ingredient
list. Then check the "Nutrition facts" panel.
(From "Foods That Burn Fat, Foods That Turn to Fat" by Tom Ventulo)
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (39) is...
A. laying
B. lay
C. laid
D. to lay
Kiến thức:
Rút gọn câu điều kiện loại 2
Giải thích:
Hai mệnh đề cùng chủ ngữ \Rightarrow có thể rút gọn
Câu mang nghĩa bị động \Rightarrow rút gọn theo công thức: If+ P2, S + would + V_nguyên thể
If (39) laid end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year's consumption...
Tạm dịch Nếu đặt sát nhau, các hội ngũ cốc rỗng từ mức tiêu thụ của một năm...
Rút gọn câu điều kiện loại 2
Giải thích:
Hai mệnh đề cùng chủ ngữ \Rightarrow có thể rút gọn
Câu mang nghĩa bị động \Rightarrow rút gọn theo công thức: If+ P2, S + would + V_nguyên thể
If (39) laid end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year's consumption...
Tạm dịch Nếu đặt sát nhau, các hội ngũ cốc rỗng từ mức tiêu thụ của một năm...
Đáp án C.