Question 24. Can you break down our expenses by month and by region? A. distribute
B. separate
C. combine
D. isolate
Question 25. During the recession, many small companies were eradicated. A. destroyed completely
B. abolished
C. erased
D. established
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A team of experts from Glasgow University in the UK discovered that former professional football players are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than (26)_______ people. The experts looked at whether or not heading a football could lead to brain ________ (27) and also looked into the deaths of 7,676 ex-soccer players who played in Scotland professionally between 1900 and 1976. Then, they ______ (28) to compare the deaths of the former soccer players to the deaths of 23,000 people who did not regularly play football and found that the football players suffered from a lot more brain injuries.
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The research was requested by the Football Association and the Professional Footballers’ Association in the UK after the death of English football player Jeff Astle, whose family was convinced he died (29)_______ playing football, in 2002. Researcher Dr Willie Stewart said his research showed _______ (30) former football players were more likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, motor neurone disease and Parkinson’s disease, but were less likely to die of common diseases, such as heart disease and lung cancer. (Adapted from http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com) C. other
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C. suffering
D. devastation
Question 28. A. proceeded
B. progressed
C. advanced
D. forwarded
Question 29. A. as a result
B. as a result of
C. in spite of
D. instead of
Question 30. A. which
B. that
C. what
D. who
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Wildlife conservationists are celebrating this week as the silver-backed chevrotain – a deer-like species thought to be extinct for 30 years – has been spotted in Vietnam. "There was a question mark hanging over its current status," Andrew Tilker, Asian species officer at Global Wildlife Conservation, told New Scientist. "Erasing that question mark was a huge deal for us."
On Monday, Tilker and his colleagues published a paper in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution detailing their use of camera traps to snap photos of the elusive silver-backed chevrotain, also known as the Vietnam mouse-deer. Each trap was equipped with motion and heat sensors that triggered it to photograph anything that passed nearby – and on more than 200 occasions, the traps snapped photos of silver-backed chevrotains in the forests near Nha Trang. Not only were the images the first confirmed detections of the species since 1990, but they were also the first-ever images of the animals in the wild. The silver-backed chevrotain is adorable. But that’s not why the species’ detection is so important. The loss of a single species can have a domino effect on an ecosystem, causing other Phát hành PDF bởi Ths Nguyễn Thanh Tú Đăng ký Word doc qua Zalo 0905779594 Email thanhtuqn88@gmail.com