Câu hỏi 1 (10 điểm):
Exercise 1:TRUE/ FALSE/ NOT GIVEN
Reading passage | Questions | TRUE/ FALSE/ NOT GIVEN | |
| 1 | An accident that occurred in the skies over the Grand Canyon in 1956 resulted in the establishment of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to regulate and oversee the operation of aircraft in the skies over the United States, which were becoming quite congested. The resulting structure of air traffic control has greatly increased the safety of flight in the United States, and similar air traffic control procedures are also in place over much of the rest of the world. | The FAA was created as a result of the introduction of the jet engine. | |
| 2 | As a student at the City of London School, Perkin became immersed in the study of chemistry. His talent and devotion to the subject were perceived by his teacher, Thomas Hall, who encouraged him to attend a series of lectures given by the eminent scientist Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution. | Michael Faraday was the first person to recognize Perkin’s ability as a student of chemistry. | |
| 3 | Perkin’s scientific gifts soon caught Hofmann’s attention and, within two years, he became Hofmann’s youngest assistant | Perkin employed August Wilhelm Hofmann as his assistant. | |
| 4 | At the time, quinine was the only viable medical treatment for malaria. The drug is derived from the bark of the cinchona tree, native to South America, and by 1856 demand for the drug was surpassing the available supply. | The trees from which quinine is derived grow only in South America. | |
| 5 | During his vacation in 1856, Perkin spent his time in the laboratory on the top floor of his family’s house. He was attempting to manufacture quinine from aniline, an inexpensive and readily available coal tar waste product. | Perkin hoped to manufacture a drug from a coal tar waste product. | |
| 6 | Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. With her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel, she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and was then the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. | Marie Curie’s husband was a joint winner of both Marie’s Nobel Prizes. | |
| 7 | Based on the results of this research, Marie Curie received her Doctorate of Science, and in 1903 Marie and Pierre shared with Becquerel the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of radioactivity. The births of Marie's two daughters, Irène and Eve, in 1897 and 1904 failed to interrupt her scientific work. | Marie stopped doing research for several years when her children were born. | |
| 8 | The sudden death of her husband in 1906 was a bitter blow to Marie Curie, but was also a turning point in her career: henceforth she was to devote all her energy to completing alone the scientific work that they had undertaken. On May 13, 1906, she was appointed to the professorship that had been left vacant on her husband's death, becoming the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. | Marie took over the teaching position her husband had held. | |
| 9 | Many experts give California high marks for making progress on preparedness in recent years, after some of the largest fires in state history scorched thousands of acres, burned thousands of homes, and killed numerous people. | Many experts believe California has made little progress in readying itself to fight fires. | |
| 10 | Stung in the past by criticism of bungling that allowed fires to spread when they might have been contained, personnel are meeting the peculiar challenges of the neighborhood - and canyon-hopping fires better than previously, observers say. | Personnel in the past have been criticized for mishandling fire containment. |
