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 phrases that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When I was at school, sports day was the highlight of the year. Let me set the scene. First of all, on sports day, it was always bound (26) _________ rain. Sunny weather? No such luck. Despite the previous two months of soaring temperatures, as likely as not, on the morning of the games, The temperature would plummet. So, imagine a hundred (27) _________ small children, dressed in tight shorts and thin vests, shivering in the cold, unaware of the heartbreak that lies in store for them. Swept up by the excitement and desperate to win, tempers soon get frayed. One girl finds herself disqualified from the egg and spoon race despite giving it everything she's got, and another boy, (28) _________ jealous of the winner of the sack race, makes the mistake of being rude to him within earshot of the teachers. Scores of tiny children, bitterly disappointed at tasting defeat for the first time, break down and cry. Twenty years on, I'm certainly not (29) _________ any young, but I do have some really lasting (30) _________ of those days at school!
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (29) is...
A. putting
B. getting
C. going
D. coming
When I was at school, sports day was the highlight of the year. Let me set the scene. First of all, on sports day, it was always bound (26) _________ rain. Sunny weather? No such luck. Despite the previous two months of soaring temperatures, as likely as not, on the morning of the games, The temperature would plummet. So, imagine a hundred (27) _________ small children, dressed in tight shorts and thin vests, shivering in the cold, unaware of the heartbreak that lies in store for them. Swept up by the excitement and desperate to win, tempers soon get frayed. One girl finds herself disqualified from the egg and spoon race despite giving it everything she's got, and another boy, (28) _________ jealous of the winner of the sack race, makes the mistake of being rude to him within earshot of the teachers. Scores of tiny children, bitterly disappointed at tasting defeat for the first time, break down and cry. Twenty years on, I'm certainly not (29) _________ any young, but I do have some really lasting (30) _________ of those days at school!
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (29) is...
A. putting
B. getting
C. going
D. coming
Tạm dịch: Twenty years on, I'm certainly not_____any younger: 20 năm nữa, tôi chắc chắn sẽ chẳng thể trẻ trung hơn.
Trong câu này, sau chỗ trống là một tính từ so sánh hơn nên ta loại putting và coming. Trong 2 phương án còn lại là going và getting thì chỉ có "getting" mới có thể đi kèm với tính từ để mang nghĩa "là, trở nên, trở thành" nên chọn làm đáp án.
Lưu ý thêm: come true: trở thành sự thật.
Trong câu này, sau chỗ trống là một tính từ so sánh hơn nên ta loại putting và coming. Trong 2 phương án còn lại là going và getting thì chỉ có "getting" mới có thể đi kèm với tính từ để mang nghĩa "là, trở nên, trở thành" nên chọn làm đáp án.
Lưu ý thêm: come true: trở thành sự thật.
Đáp án B.