BỔ TRỢ NÂNG CAO TIẾNG ANH - 01 pot

BỔ TRỢ NÂNG CAO TIẾNG ANH - 01

I. Choose the best answer

Norman E. Borlaug was the first agricultural scientist to (1)… the Nobel Peace Prize,

and the fifteenth American to do (2)… . He was born in 1914 in Iowa, the son of a

farming family. In 1940, Borlaug earned his doctorate (3)… in plant pathology, and a few

years later he was (4)…by the Rockefeller Foundation to go (5)… to help introduce new

agricultural technology to farmers who were growing wheat. Borlaug’s goal was to

(6)…the quality low – yielding wheat that some farmers had been growing for centuries

(7)… he accomplished his goal. He developed new dwarf and semidwarf wheat that had

stronger stems and could hold (7)… heads of grain. In Mexico, for instance, the new

methods resulted in doubled wheat yields. As a result Mexico changed from a country

with a wheat (9)… to one that was a wheat exporter, For the introduction of these new

wheat growing methods, Borlaug was dubbed “father of the (10)… revolution”

1. A. receive B. have C. take D. accept

2. A. that B. as C. so D. this

3. A. certificate B. diploma C. bachelor D. degree

4. A. selected B. elected C. picked D. chosen

5. A. oversea B. abroad C. foreign D. out

6. A. improve B. develop C. increase D. extend

7. A. unless B. although C. and D. but

8. A. bigger B. heavier C. larger D. higher

9. A. lack B. length C. shortage D. inadequacy

10. A. green B. white C. new D. modern

II. Fill in the blank, change the verbs form if necessary

fall out

go ahead

go grey

go out

go up

let of

put up

take after

1. The building of the new bridge will … as planned

2. I see the price of bread has … again