TUYỂN TẬP 30 TEST SYMNONYMS
TEST 1
1. There are many museums devoted to the decorative arts and many house museums, but rarely in the 
specializing in

United States is a great collection displayed in a great cou ntry, house.
2. Winterthur remains then, a house in which a collection of furniture and architectural elements has been  
assembled.
brought together

3. The changes have coincided with developing concepts of the American arts, increased knowledge on 
     evolving

the part of collectors and students, and a progression toward the achieve ment of a historical effect in period­
room displays.

4. But "sound films, or talkies, did not suddenly appear after years of silent screenings.
projection
5. This system was only effective for a single song or dialogue sequence.
     Progression

TEST 2
1. The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics, was Rudolph Dirks's "Katzenjammer 
  combine

Kids," based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century.
2. The "Kids" strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips.
           model

3. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strips had become a staple of 
regular feature

daily newspapers around the country.
4. Compared with the tides, the waves created by the wind are surface movements felt no more than a hundred
fathoms below the surface.
detected
5. In reality, however, the pull of remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated by the control of the Moon 

actually
and, to a lesser extent, the Sun.
6. Just as the Moon rises later each day by fifty minutes, on the average, so, in most places, the time of
correspondingly later each day.

HIGH

­tide is 

similarly
7. Twice each month, at the quarters, of the Moon, when the Sun, Moon, and H)arth lie at the apexes of a
triangular configuration and the pull of the Sun and Moon are opposed, the moderate tidal movements' 
                    arrangement

called neap tides occur.
TEST 3

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1. Bears spend much of their time looking for food, and they are not choosy, gorging on insects, berries, 
fussy
nuts, small mammals, ham sandwiches, and garbage with equal relish.


2. He and his crew once captured a male bear that weighed in at 611 pounds.
caught
3. But easy living for the bears carries a price: those that stalk garbage dumps are easier targets for
bears
hunters and those that visit camps - if not injure - visitors.
4. The removal programmes do not always work; bears released 100 miles or more from their place of 
moving
capture have reappeared in their old haunts.

5. breeds in the northern United States and Alaska, and was nearly, wiped out during the nineteenth century.
killed off
6. Recently, populations of mute swabs- an exotic species introduced to North America from Europe in the early
1900s- have begun increasing by an alarming 30 to 40 percent annually in some states.
a worrisome 30­40 percent
7. Mutes,/however, semi­domesticated and accustomed to people, can nest in pairs of as many as three or 
four on one small coastal pond, which can burden delicate and environmentally essential brackish ponds.
Endanger

TEST 4
1. As centuries passed and human cultures evolved and blossomed, humans began to organize their knowledge
of nature into the broad field of natural history.
fluorished
2. Thus, an extract made from a heart -shaped leaf might be prescribed for a person suffering from
substance
heart problems.
3. Nevertheless, the overall contributions of these early observers provided the rudiments of our present
knowledge of drugs and their uses.
     beginning


TEST 5
1. Is your company a sitting duck for hackers? 
target to be attacked by hackers in the future
2.  And,   there's   also   a   new   target.   In   the   past,   hackers   gained   notoriety   from  breaking   into   big 
companies' networks.

secretly entering the networks of big companies without permission
3. Investigations may be brief and superficial, as overloaded investigators pursue bigger problems.
Work
4. All forms of energy are inter­convertible by appropriate processes.
able to change into each other and vice versa

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TEST 6
1. Distribution Scientists say there is enough water in the world for everyone but some countries have a 
supply
lot of water and some have only a little.
2. There are huge forests in Amazon area of Brazil. In other parts of the world there is only desert.

very big
3. The Reverend Williams, an eloquent speaker, played an important role in the community since so
powerful
many people's lives centered around the church.
4. ML's childhood was not especially eventful.
memorable
5. King never forgot the community spirit he had known as a child, nor did he forget the racial prejudice that
was a seemingly insurmountable barrier that kept black Atlantans from mingling with whites.
Invariable


   associating

TEST 7
1.However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late.
predicted
2. he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to 
mankind. Originally,

valuable

3. Nobel's original legacy of nine million dollars was invested, and the interest on this sum is used 
bequest
for the awards which vary from $30,000 to $125,000.

4. George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district.
given the responsibility of
5. Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the
Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and 
           vehemently
for those departments ­ the Treasury,

TEST 8

1. In 1900, the society was approved by Congress, and since then it has developed until each county in the
US and its possessions is served by a Red Cross chapter.
an authorized section of a bigger organization

2. Membership dues and voluntary contributions support the organizations and pay for their services.
certain fees for taking part in an organization


3. In the early 1790s, a French scientist began the construction of a system of message stations, each of
them was 32 km apart.
away from each other

4. The word "foundation" is closest in meaning to  basis.
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TEST 9
Griffith also broke his scenes into a number of different shots, timing their lengths to create increasing
excitement as well as a rhythmic momentum never before achieved on film.
development
TEST 10
1. Singapore has effectively utilized its limited land area (240 square miles) to become a world leader in
industrialization,
used
2. The celebration of the merger of one of the world's outstanding examples of capitalism with a major 
combination
communist nation was watched by the entire world.

3. Changing out of pyjamas into clothes in the morning and making the bed (or more correctly asking nurses to
do so) was for me the substitute for getting up in normal everyday life.
replace
4. This was always a really nice moment, not only physically ­ we really cherished having another person 
in our room, somebody to talk to.
         interested

TEST 11
1. Instead, it relies on submissions from teenagers.

acceptance
2. Printed on newsprint, the magazine is a far cry from the slick teen magazines on newsstands.

be very different from
3. Calves stay with their mothers for several years,
Baby doiphins
4. Another dolphin mimicked the scraping of the pool's observation window by a diver, even copying the 
imitated
sound of the air­demand valve of the scuba gear while releasing a stream of bubbles from his blowhole.

5. At Sarasota Bay in Florida, Randall Wells and his team have observed groups of juvenile male 
bottlenose dolphins behaving like boisterous teenage boys.

lively
TEST 12
1. People are talking about it, practicing it, and discovering new ways to be sensitive to the environment.
friendly
2. The motto of the recycling movement is "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle".
belief

3. In some part of the world, returning bottles for money is a common practice.
deed
4.  When people collect and recycle aluminum (for new cans), they help save one of the world's  precious  
resources.
Invaluable

5. Interpreting is not only a mechanical process of converting  one sentence in language A into the same 
sentence in language B.

     changing


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6. Rather, it's a complex art in which thoughts and idioms that have no obvious counterparts from tongue 
on the contrary
to tongue - or words that have several meanings must quickly be transformed in such a way that the message is
clearly and accurately expressed to the listener.
TEST 13
1. Inspired by another movement in art called Dadaism, the Surrealist movement has been one of the
Influence

trend

most influential art movements in the twentieth century.
2. They never altered or revised what they wrote because that would have interfered with the purity of the
creation.
changed
3. Surrealist painters, a group that include such famous names as Miro, Dali, and Ernst, displayed a  wide 
variety of style and content.

    exhibited

4. Though Breton was the founder of this movement, his strong leadership style brought about dissent, 
which resulted in several of the painters officially breaking away from the movement.

Defecting
5. This time, having concluded that picture-writing was cumbersome, he made symbols for the sounds of 
Cherokee language.


    awkward

TEST 14
1. Although electric vehicles will not be truly practical until a powerful, compact battery or other 
concentrated
dependable source of current is available, transport experts foresee a new assortment of electric vehicles 
entering everyday life:
imagine

2. Commuters will be able to rent a variety of electric cars to suit their needs: light trucks, one-person threewheelers, small cars, or electric/gasoline hybrid cars for longer trips, which will no doubt take place
combination
  on  automated  freeways  capable  of handling   five times the  number  of  vehicles  that  can  be  carried  by  
freeway today.

3. English is spoken as a first language in the US, in Australia, in New Zealand, in most of Canada, in certain
nations of Africa, and in other areas of the world.
Countries

TEST 15
1. It's fun to begin a drawing with just one or two bold, simple lines on a fresh, blank sheet of paper;
empty
2. This knowledge has caused egg sales to plummet in recent years, which in turn has brought about the
drop abruptly
 development of several alternatives to eating regular eggs.
3. These egg substitutes are not really eggs, but they look somewhat like eggs when they are cooked.

a little
4. Egg producers claim that their product has been portrayed unfairly.
          described


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5. They cite scientific studies to back up their claim.

support
6. And, in fact, studies on the relationship between eggs and human cholesterol levels have brought  mixed 
results.

The results are inconclusive
TEST 17
1. At the time, the disease posed a serious threat to people in more than thirty nations.
risk
2. By April of 1.978 WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease
        separated
 but health workers continued to search for new cases for two additional years to be completely sure.
3. Enveloped by an ocean of air consisting of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, the planet is the only one in 

containing
our solar system known to harbor life.

support
4. As viewed from space, Earth's distinguishing characteristics are its blue waters and white clouds.
characteristics that set it apart from other planets.
TEST 18
1. Since life began eons ago, thousands of creatures have come and gone.
ages
2. Sadly, we can no longer attribute the increasing decline in our wild animals and plant species to 
"natural" processes.
         assign

3. Many species are dying out because of exploitation, habitat alteration or destruction, pollution, or 
the 
overuse
introduction of new species of plants and animals to an area.
4. The sun today is a yellow dwarf star, it is fueled  by thermonuclear reactions near its center that 
convert hydrogen to helium.
         powered
5. The Sun has existed in  its present  state  for about 4 billion, 600 million years and is thousands of 
times larger than the Earth.  
          condition
TEST 19
1. They find that the phones are more than a means of communication ­ having a mobile phone shows that 
they are cool and connected.

          method

2. . Mobile phone companies are worried about the negative publicity of such ideas.

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widespread opinion about bad effects of cell phones
3. What is it that makes mobile phones potentially harmful?
possibly
4. Good source of these vitamins have high oil or fat content, and the vitamins are stored in the body's fatty tissues.
accumulated in

5. Whether a certain amount of fat in the diet is essential to human health is not definitely known.
required for
6. Two fatty acids, linoleum and arachnid acids prevent these abnormalities and hence are called essential fatty 

acids.

end of growth, bad skin, and damaged reproductive systems
7. In addition to providing energy, fats have other functions in the body.
jobs
TEST 20
1. In the late 19th and early 20  centuries, several European nations instituted public­welfare programs.
,h

introduced
2. But while this vision of America's National Parks is wholly accurate and sufficiently breathtaking, there's 
more.
extremely impressive

3. Each of these 388 places has a unique appeal - from the natural to the manmade, from the ethereal to the
factual, from the subtle to the overwhelming - with the whole collection offering vacationers a nearly endless
range of interests and activities in which to explore and indulge.
enjoy yourself
TEST 21
1. However, unlike reptiles, amphibians never have claws on their toes or scales on their bodies.
plates covering the bodies of certain animals
2. Amphibians were the first creatures to spend sizable amounts of their lives on land.
large
3. This comes in handy when they hibernate amount of oxygen they need through their skin.
useful
4. Some amphibians undergo what is known as a "double metamorphosis" changing not only from gill breather 
to lung breather but also from vegetarians to insectivores.

change both their methods of breathing and their feeding habits
5. Caudate amphibians, such as newts and salamanders, mostly have long tails and stubby legs.

thick and short
6. Children exposed to high doses of lead often suffer permanent nerve damage, mental retardation,
in contact with

experience

short attention spans, distractibility, poor academic performance, and behavioral problems.

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7. Microscopic lead particles from paint are absorbed into bloodstream when the children ingest flakes of 
chipped  paint, plaster or paint dust from suckling, or chewing on toys and other objects painted with  
lead­

fragmented
based paint.
8. Children living in older, dilapidated houses are particularly at risk.
broken down

in danger
TEST 22

1. The basic principle of radar is exemplified by what happens when one shouts in a cave.
Illustrated

yells

2. Besides being of critical importance to pilots, radar is essential for air traffic control, tracking ships 
at sea, and for tracking weather systems and storms.

    searching 
for
3. For example, while it is acceptable to read a magazine in a coffee shop, it is inappropriate to do the same in a more
luxurious setting.

elegant
4. And, if you are eating in a very rustic setting it may be fine to tuck your napkin into your shirt, but if 
unsophisticated
you are in a sophisticated urban restaurant this behavior would demonstrate a lack of manners.

Cultured

tact

5. It is safe to say, however, that in virtually every restaurant it is unacceptable to indiscriminately throw your food 
on the floor.

randomly

6. The conclusion we can most likely draw from the above is that while the types and locations of 
infer
restaurants determine etiquette appropriate to them, some rules apply to all restaurants.
TEST 23
1. Hut life bustles down below: a  cubic inch of topsoil may contain billions of  creatures.
Is very active
2. Furthermore, those upstairs and downstairs forest denizens live closely linked lives.
related
3. It also provides a bulwark against predators that roam the surface world.
barrier
4. Soil creatures must be specially equipped in order to travel easily through their dark,  constricting 

realm.

limiting

5. While ants travel relatively far from their nests, earthworms work small ai'eas, reprocessing 
vast amounts of soil into fertile "waste".
 
converting

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6. What forms of life were able to make such a drastic change in lifestyle?
radical
7. It turns out that some fossils can be extracted from these sediments by putting the rocks in an acid 
bath.
removed
8. In many instances the specimens are less than one­tenth of a millimeter in diameter.
cases
9. Although they were entombed in the rocks for hundreds of millions of years, many of the fossils consist 
trapped
of the organic remains of the organism.

TEST 24
1. In this era of increased global warming and diminishing fossil fuel supplies, we must begin to put a greater
priority on harnessing alternative energy sources.
capturing
2. Conservation conflicts arise  when   natural­resource   shortages   develop   in   the   face   of   steadily 
increasing 
spring up

demands from a growing human population.
3. For example, a river may supply  water for agricultural irrigation, habitat for fish, and water­
generated electricity for a factory.           provide
4. Farmers, fishers, and industry leaders vie for unrestricted access to this river, but such freedom could 
destroy the resource, and conservation methods are necessary to protect the river for future use.

ways
TEST 25
1. Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours.
swimming close to the seabed
2. Conversely, fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way.
contrarily
3. They use their whole, vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate  through the 
water as they move.
sway
4. Without a vehicle, divers often became sluggish, and their mental concentration was severely limited.
slow moving
5. Direct observations of the ocean floor can be made not only by divers but also by deep-diving submarines in the water
and even by the technology of sophisticated aerial photography from vantage points above the surface of more than seven
miles and cruise at depths of fifteen thousand feet.

travel at a constant speed

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6. In addition, radio-equipped buoys can be operated by remote control in order to transmit information 
back to land­based laboratories via satellite.
 
data

TEST 26
1. When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let weekly newspapers keep tabs on their 
newspaper carriers­ and her office was a bedroom at home, with a shoebox under the bed 

to hold the company's cash.
keep tabs on = keep records of
shoebox   under   the   bed   =  point   out   that   initially   the   financial   resources   of   Sandra   Kurtzig's   busi
ness were limited

2. They still face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and 
obstacles
finance world is still dominated by men, and old attitudes die hard.
3. Women are still excluded from most executive suites.
not permitted in
4. With the onset of summer thunderstorms, however, the toads respond to the vibrations of drumming raindrops
and emerge, as if fallen from the sky with the rain, to begin their brief and frantic mating season.
excited
5. From that point it's a race against the elements for the young, who must hatch and mature with 
   weather
remarkable speed before the pool evaporates beneath the searing desert sun.
6. After gorging themselves on.insects, the young toads, like their parents, burrow underground, 
where 
           devouring
they will lie dormant awaiting the next summer's storms.
TEST 27
1. Located in modern day Cambodia near Lake Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Asia, Angkor was the seat of 
power for the Khmer Empire from the ninth to the fifteenth century.

location
2. The temples and palaces of Angkor were constructed around a series of artificial reservoirs and canals 

which were annually flooded to capacity by the Mekong River.
Man­made
3. Therefore it is speculated that the Khmer Empire may have fallen victim to its own decrepit infrastructure.
deteriorated

4. Part of the desert stretched over southwest Arizona, part over southeast California and the rest over northwest
Mexico. Somewhat surprisingly, 80% of Arizona's population lives in the desert area, in towns 
such   as   Tucson   and   Phoenix,   although   this   unique   area   only   accounts   for   20%>   of   Arizona's   total 
territory.

land area
5. The desert area is remarkable for its cacti, the main form of vegetation that can exist in such inhospitable 
conditions.
harsh
TEST 28

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1. Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater  part of the tissues of all living things, the 
crucial 
    larger
problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare.
2. Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those   forms  unable   to   withstand   its 
desiccating effects.

the bobcat

drying
3. Its population are largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not 

emaciated.

unhealthy
4. Furthermore, the extension of the telegraph, combined with the invention of the steam-driven rotary printing press by
Richard M. Hoe in 1846, revolutionized the world of journalism. 

transformed
TEST 29
1. What is alarming about the case of the Bengal tiger is that this extinction will have been caused
Distressing

situation

almost entirely by the poachers who,   according   to   some   sources,   are   not   always   interested   in 
material 
illegal hunters
gain but in personal gratification.
2. This is an example of the callousness that is contributing to the problem of extinction. Animals 
such as 
Insensitivity
the   Bengal   tiger,   as   well   as   other   endangered   species,   are   a   valuable   part   of   the   world's 
ecosystem.
3. Some countries, in an effort to circumvent the problem, have allocated  large  amounts  of   land  to 
animal reserves.
   set aside
4. They then charge admission to help defray the costs of maintaining the parks, and they often must 
also 
                                                     make a payment on
depend on world organizations for support.
5. The shark is the victim of a warped attitude of wildlife protection; we strive only to protect the 

distorted
beautiful, non­threatening parts of our environment.
6. During the 1980s, environmentalists in the United States protested the use of driftnets for tuna fishing  
objected to
in the Pacific Ocean since these nets also caught dolphins.
7. The environmentalists generated enough political and economic pressure to prevent tuna companies 
produced

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from buying tuna that had been caught in driftnets.
8. They are extremely efficient animals, feeding on wounded or dying animals, thus performing an important role in nature
of weeding out the weaker animals in a species.

getting rid of something that is unwanted
9. Just the fact that species such as the Great White Shark have managed to live in the oceans for so 

surviving was difficult
many millions of years is enough proof of their efficiency and adaptability to changing environments.

evidence
10. It is time for us humans, who may not survive another 1,000 years at the rate we are damaging the  
planet, to cast away our fears and begin considering the protection of sharks as an important part of a 

to throw off
program for protection of all our natural environment.

TEST 30
1. The goal of the WTO is to make trade grow by removing legal barriers between countries.

obstacles
2. A second way to improve trade is to lower tariffs.
taxes
3. They can be given priority in making deals with other countries.
importance
4. However, because life was hard and the necessities of day-to-day living took up their time, it was 
everyday
common for recreation to be combined with activities necessary for survival.

existence
5. The women would bring food and have a much needed and infrequent opportunity to relax and chat 
 talk

with friends, the children would play together exuberantly, and the men would hold lively competitions 
 enthusiastically
that involved rolling logs from place to place as quickly as possible.

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