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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 (41) is...
A. cost
B. charge
C. average
D. up
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 (41) is...
A. cost
B. charge
C. average
D. up
Kiến thức: Sự kết hợp từ
Giải thích:
at a cost of + số tiền: với chi phí ...
One point three (1.3) million advertisements for cereal are broadcast on American television every year at a(n) (41) cost of $762 million for airtime.
Tạm dịch: 1,3 triệu quảng cáo cho ngũ cốc được phát trên truyền hình Mỹ mỗi năm với chi phí 762 triệu đô la cho thời gian phát sóng.
Giải thích:
at a cost of + số tiền: với chi phí ...
One point three (1.3) million advertisements for cereal are broadcast on American television every year at a(n) (41) cost of $762 million for airtime.
Tạm dịch: 1,3 triệu quảng cáo cho ngũ cốc được phát trên truyền hình Mỹ mỗi năm với chi phí 762 triệu đô la cho thời gian phát sóng.
Đáp án A.