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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.
There have never been so (29)___________ people living in cities in quake zones because the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city. We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a (30)__________ —pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips.
Research in the U.S. may support Kato’s theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas Fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. (31)________ an earthquake hit again, it was years of schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two “slips’—places (32)_______ the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred.
We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does (33)_______ in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (33) is...
A. take place
B. go on
C. come up
D. follow on
There have never been so (29)___________ people living in cities in quake zones because the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city. We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a (30)__________ —pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips.
Research in the U.S. may support Kato’s theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas Fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. (31)________ an earthquake hit again, it was years of schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two “slips’—places (32)_______ the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred.
We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does (33)_______ in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (33) is...
A. take place
B. go on
C. come up
D. follow on
Kiến thức về cụm động từ
A. take place (v): diễn ra
B. go on (v): tiếp tục
C. come up (v): đến, xuất hiện, xảy ra
D. follow on (v): theo sau
Dịch nghĩa: We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does (33)______ in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.
(Chúng tôi đang tìm hiểu thêm về những hiện tượng hủy diệt này mỗi ngày. Trong tương lai, chúng ta có thể theo dõi các trận động đất và thiết kế một hệ thống cảnh báo sớm. Vì vậy, nếu trận động đất lớn tiếp theo không xảy ra ở Tokai, khoảng 100 dặm về phía tây nam Tokyo, theo như một số nhà khoa học nghĩ, các công dân của Tokai có thể được cảnh báo trước.)
A. take place (v): diễn ra
B. go on (v): tiếp tục
C. come up (v): đến, xuất hiện, xảy ra
D. follow on (v): theo sau
Dịch nghĩa: We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does (33)______ in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.
(Chúng tôi đang tìm hiểu thêm về những hiện tượng hủy diệt này mỗi ngày. Trong tương lai, chúng ta có thể theo dõi các trận động đất và thiết kế một hệ thống cảnh báo sớm. Vì vậy, nếu trận động đất lớn tiếp theo không xảy ra ở Tokai, khoảng 100 dặm về phía tây nam Tokyo, theo như một số nhà khoa học nghĩ, các công dân của Tokai có thể được cảnh báo trước.)
Đáp án C.