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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 from 26 to 30.
Instant messaging enables you to get (26) ____________touch with somebody immediately and talk in real time to that person in a (27) ____________artificial while seemingly urgent way. Instant messaging discourages self-censoring, voice clues, or reality-based feedback loop. If you're angry with one another (or even if you're not), you may end (28) ____________typing something that you might not have said if you had a little longer to think it through. Although you do get an instant response, it's not the same as a conversation, so things like tone, (29) ____________ of humour, body language, and irony really do get (30) ____________in typing. No matter how you cut it, communicating through the Internet really is simply typing. Chat rooms are another part of the fantasy world of the Internet. They've been known to be very disruptive to relationships even when they're not suggestive or pornographic, and when they are.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (28) is...
A. out
B. off
C. up
D. on
Instant messaging enables you to get (26) ____________touch with somebody immediately and talk in real time to that person in a (27) ____________artificial while seemingly urgent way. Instant messaging discourages self-censoring, voice clues, or reality-based feedback loop. If you're angry with one another (or even if you're not), you may end (28) ____________typing something that you might not have said if you had a little longer to think it through. Although you do get an instant response, it's not the same as a conversation, so things like tone, (29) ____________ of humour, body language, and irony really do get (30) ____________in typing. No matter how you cut it, communicating through the Internet really is simply typing. Chat rooms are another part of the fantasy world of the Internet. They've been known to be very disruptive to relationships even when they're not suggestive or pornographic, and when they are.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (28) is...
A. out
B. off
C. up
D. on
- end up + V-ing: kết thúc, cuối cùng, kết quả của một tình trạng nào đó
"If you're angry with one another (or even if you're not), you may end up typing something that you might not have said if you had a little longer to think it through." (Nếu các bạn đang giận nhau (hoặc thậm chí nếu không phải như vậy), có thể bạn sẽ kết thúc với việc gõ ra điều gì đó mà bạn sẽ không nói nếu có thêm thời gian suy nghĩ kỹ.)
"If you're angry with one another (or even if you're not), you may end up typing something that you might not have said if you had a little longer to think it through." (Nếu các bạn đang giận nhau (hoặc thậm chí nếu không phải như vậy), có thể bạn sẽ kết thúc với việc gõ ra điều gì đó mà bạn sẽ không nói nếu có thêm thời gian suy nghĩ kỹ.)
Đáp án C.