Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
MODERN SCIENCE
It seems entirely natural to us that there are teams of scientists in universities and (1)............. institutions around the world, attempting to discover the way the world works. (2).............. , it hasn’t always been that way. Although the scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could (3)............ the cause of natural events just by the power of thought. During the 17th century, more and more people began to realize that they could test their scientific ideas by designing a relevant experiment and seeing what happened. A lot of (4)......... was made in this way by individual scientists. These men and women often worked alone, carrying out research into many different areas of science, and they often received very little (5).............. for their hard work. At the start of the 20th century, though, it became clear that science was becoming more complicated and more expensive. The individual scientists disappeared, to be replaced by highly qualified teams of experts. Modern science was born.
(3).........................
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Lời giải:
Báo saiKiến thức: Cụm động từ
Giải thích:
solve something: giải quyết vấn đề (không đi với “out”)
work out something: tìm ra đáp án, cách giải quyết
come out: xuất bản
give out: ban, phát
Although the scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could (3) work out the cause of natural events just by the power of thought.
Tạm dịch: Mặc dù phương pháp khoa học hiện nay đã bốn hoặc năm trăm năm tuổi, nhưng người Hy Lạp cổ đại chẳng hạn, tin rằng họ có thể tìm ra nguyên nhân của các sự kiện tự nhiên chỉ bằng sức mạnh của tư tưởng.
Chọn B