Bộ 3 đề thi giữa kỳ 2 Tiếng Anh 11 năm 2023-2024 có đáp án - Đề 2

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Post Office service is (1) _______ developing with some certain inventions. The first envelopes were made (2) _________ cloth, animal skins, or vegetable parts. The Babylonians wrapped their messages in thin sheets of clay that were then baked. In 1653, a Frenchman, De Valayer established a postal system in Paris. He set up mail boxes and delivered any letters placed in them if they used envelopes which only he sold. (3) ______ enemy put live mice into the letter boxes and ruined De Valayer's business.

A schoolmaster from England, Rowland Hill (4) ________ the adhesive postage stamp in 1837, an act for (5) _______ he was knighted. Through his efforts the first stamp in the world was issued in England in 1840. Hill created the first uniform postage rates that were based on weight, rather than size.

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Scientists around the world have been studying the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean known as EL Nino. The appearance of EL Nino is known to affect the weather around the world. Scientists still do not completely understand it. Yet they now find they can use it to tell about the future in different areas of the world.

One example is the work of two scientists at Columbia University in New York, Mark Cane and Gordon Eshel. A scientist of Zimbabwe, Roger Buckland worked with them. They have found that when EL Nino appears, Zimbabwe has little or no rain. This means corn crops in Zimbabwe are poor. The last EL Nino was in 1991 to 1993. That was when south-eastern suffered a serious lack of rain.

The scientists wrote about their recent work in the publication "Nature". Their computer program can tell when an EL Nino will develop up to a year before it does. They suggest that this could provide an effective early warning system for southern Africa, and could prevent many people from starving.

Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.

Choose one word whose stress pattern is different

Choose one word whose stress pattern is different

Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others.

Solar energy is used to _________ satellites.

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