Tổng hợp câu hỏi và đáp án môn Phiên dịch tiếng Anh 1
Hướng dẫn tìm nhanh trên trình duyệt: Ấn Ctrl+F sau đó nhập câu hỏi và nhấn Enter.
PART 1
Câu Hỏi 1: Listen and match the script with the appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
I have a confession to make when I owned a 5,000 square-foot home in the country I had 11 closets and 9 rolling racks filled with clothes. → A,
In fact, I was drowning in my big house, my life was spiralling out of control. The big house, the yard, the maintenance, the upkeep, the expense, the time, I saw no way out and I was afraid. → B,
It took a trip to a third-world country 8,000 miles from here for me to really rethink what mattered in my life. When my son Kevin who now lives in the Congo lived in Senegal, he was serving in the Peace Corps at the time I went to visit. → C,
I went to visit him in Senegal, and we took this trip. It was a gruelling 24-hour trek via every imaginable mode of transportation: the back of a pickup truck, cars with no working gauges, buses with holes in the floor. → D,
We finally arrived in his little village where we were so warmly greeted by the villagers. I was also humbled by the fact that they had swept the dirt paths clean for us within a minute. → E,
The village elder scooped up a live scrawny chicken and presented it to us. A gift – I knew in my head in my heart was of extreme value. That evening his African mother prepared a beautiful dinner for 15 people that included that little chicken. → F,
At that moment I realized these villagers have so few possessions, but they were filled with joy, and I wanted that. Several weeks later, I got on the plane to return home and I realized how profoundly impacted I was by what I had experienced. A few over the next couple of years I started asking myself these questions that really changed my life. → G,
If I buy more stuff, will I be happier? What really gives me joy? Why wouldn’t I want more of that? Did my life have to continue on this downward spiral? Or could I choose to actually create a life that I loved after all? → H,
For 40 years as an interior designer, I’ve been designing other people’s lives all over the country, why not design my own. In December 2015, at a Christmas party in my home, a gentleman asked “Rita, how much longer are you going to live in this big house by yourself?” → I,
I said “Oh, one year from now I’m gonna be living in a small apartment in Centre City Philadelphia. I have no idea where those words came from, but at that moment, I realized that my words created the future in which I would live. → J,
January 2016, I sat on the living room floor of my big home. I looked up and I cried, I had no idea where to begin. So, rather than making downsizing a project which is always harder, I decided to make it a game. I called my family and friends. Many of them are here right now and enrolled them in the possibility of helping me attack just one area of my home at a time for just four or five hours on Saturday or Sunday. So, week by week for an entire year, they helped me disperse stuff that I had collected over many few years. → K,
Downsizing is not without emotions at one point. I found my father’s alarm clock and I could hear him winding it to get up early to provide for our family. As my relationship with stuff changed the process got easier and easier and what I realized was things didn’t make me happy. A year later, here I am – senator City Philadelphia and my beautiful little jewel box apartment. I moved from my 5000 square foot home in the country to 867 square feet in Centre City. → L,
I gave away 95% of my possessions to people who needed them or wanted them. And I’m living on 5% of what I want. Sound I have all I want and all I need, and I’ve never been happier than I experienced in Senegal. I’m living in alignment with what matters most to me, more time with family and friends, more resources, more freedom to travel to learn to actually live the life that I designed for myself. → M,
A ripple effect of downsizing is that I also downsized my company’s workweek for a better work/life balance. We now work three days, and we play four and we actually grew the company by 27% last quarter so why might you choose to live with less, so you can live more. My challenge to you is to with your mind and with your heart, think of possibilities and ask yourself these simple questions. → N,
Is there an area of your life that is totally out of control? Are you willing to disrupt that part of your life that’s preventing you from living more? And what’s one thing that you will do today to begin living the life that you love? → O.
Câu Hỏi 2: Read sentences below and match them with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
A day in the life of the president of the United States. → A,
He’s the commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful military, head of his political party, and leader of the free world. → B,
His decisions can quell a crisis or trigger a war, and his words are heard across the globe. → C,
He’s the president of the United States, and he’s got the world’s toughest job. → D,
Plans and schedules can change in a heartbeat when a crisis happens, so there is no “typical day” for the president. → E,
Every day yields new challenges. But if all goes well for the president on a normal day in Washington, D.C., he’ll get about six hours of sleep before he starts it all over again. → F,
The president wakes up pretty early, and his routine usually includes a morning workout before heading into the office. → G,
He arrives at the Oval Office between 8:30 and 9 a.m. and gets a rundown on the day’s schedule from his personal secretary, Ferial Govashiri (right). At around 10 a.m., he receives the classified Presidential Daily Briefing from his National Security Advisor. Sometimes the briefing is delivered via tablet. → H,
The contents of the brief provide the president with new intelligence he needs to know and alert him to possible crises in the world. The day usually includes plenty of phone calls and meetings. If he’s in the middle of a legislative battle, the president will meet with congressional leaders on both sides. → I,
He’ll also meet with his own staff to discuss legislative strategies. There are also the ‘handshake sessions,’ where Obama briefly meets and greets people in the White House. → J,
He often gives talks to key constituent groups. On other days, the president will host a world leader. Here he is in 2012 with then-Afghan President Hamid Karzai. → K,
On rare occasions, he’ll talk to the press. And if he takes a short trip outside D.C. on the Marine One helicopter, he’s not going to escape the meetings. → L,
There’s often someone with him (like British PM David Cameron here) hoping for some of the president’s limited time. The end of the normal workday for President Obama is around 6 p.m. And he’ll usually have dinner with his family around 6:30 p.m. → M,
He tries to hang out with his daughters Malia and Sasha after dinner for a bit. But the work doesn’t totally stop. He often works on paperwork or writes until 11:30 or so. Then he tries to get in about a half-hour of reading before lights out → N,
Around midnight — but sometimes even later, he heads to bed. If he isn’t interrupted by a late-night phone call, he’ll get about six hours of sleep. → O.
PART 2
Câu Hỏi 1: Listen and match the script with the appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Last week we started looking at reptiles, including crocodiles and snakes. → A,
Today, I’d like us to have a look at another reptile – the lizard- and in particular, at some studies that have been done on a particular type of lizard whose Latin name is tiliqua rugosa. → B,
I’ll start with a general description. Sleepy lizards live in Western and South Australia, where they’re quite common. → C,
Unlike European lizards, which are mostly small, green, and fast-moving, sleepy lizards are brown, but what’s particularly distinctive about them is the colour of their tongue which is dark blue, in contrast with the lining of their mouth which is bright pink. And they’re much bigger than most European lizards. → D,
They have quite a varied diet, including insects and even small animals, but they mostly eat plants of varying kinds. → E,
Even though they’re quite large and powerful, with strong jaws that can crush beetles and snail shells, they still have quite a few predators. → F,
Large birds like cassowaries were one of the main ones in the past, but nowadays they’re more likely to be caught and killed by snakes. → G,
Actually, another threat to their survival isn’t a predator at all but is man-made-quite a large number of sleepy lizards are killed by cars when they’re trying to cross highways. → H,
One study carried out by Michael Freake at Flinders University investigated the methods of navigation of these lizards. Though they move slowly they can travel quite long distances. → I,
And he found that even if they were taken some distance away from their home territory, they could usually find their way back home as long as they could see the sky. They didn’t need any other landmarks on the ground. → J,
Observations of these lizards in the wild have also revealed that their mating habits are quite unusual. Unlike most animals, it seems that they’re relatively monogamous returning to the same partner year after year. And the male and female also stay together for a long time, both before and after the birth of their young. → K,
It’s quite interesting to think about the possible reasons for this. It could be that it’s to do with protecting their young-you’d expect them to have a much better chance of survival if they have both parents around. But in fact, observers have noted that once the babies have hatched out of their eggs, they have hardly any contact with their parents. → L,
So, there’s not really any evidence to support that idea. Another suggestion’s based on the observation that male lizards in monogamous relationships tend to be bigger and stronger than other males. So maybe the male lizards stay around so they can give the female lizards protection from other males. But again, we’re not really sure. → M,
Finally, I’d like to mention another study that involved collecting data by tracking the lizards. I was actually involved in this myself. So we caught some lizards in the wild and we developed a tiny GPS system that would allow us to track them, and we fixed this onto their tails. Then we set the lizards free again, and we were able to track them for twelve days and gather data not just about their location, but even about how many steps they took during this period. → N,
One surprising thing we discovered from this is that there were far fewer meetings between lizards than we expected- it seems that they were actually trying to avoid one another. So why would that be? Well, again we have no clear evidence, but one hypothesis is that male lizards can cause quite serious injuries to one another, so maybe this avoidance is a way of preventing this- of self-preservation, if you like. But we need to collect a lot more data before we can be sure of any of this. → O.
Câu Hỏi 2: Read sentences below and match them with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Zoo conservation programmes → A,
One of London Zoo’s recent advertisements caused me some irritation, so patently did it distort reality. → B,
Headlined “Without zoos you might as well tell these animals to get stuffed”, it was bordered with illustrations of several endangered species and went on to extol the myth that without zoos like London Zoo these animals “will almost certainly disappear forever”. → C,
With the zoo world’s rather mediocre record on conservation, one might be forgiven for being slightly skeptical about such an advertisement. → D,
Zoos were originally created as places of entertainment, and their suggested involvement with conservation didn’t seriously arise until about 30 years ago, when the Zoological Society of London held the first formal international meeting on the subject. → E,
Eight years later, a series of world conferences took place, entitled “The Breeding of Endangered Species”, and from this point onwards conservation became the zoo community’s buzzword. This commitment has now been clearly defined in The World Zoo Conservation Strategy (WZGS, September 1993), which although an important and welcome document does seem to be based on an unrealistic optimism about the nature of the zoo industry. → F,
The WZCS estimates that there are about 10,000 zoos in the world, of which around 1,000 represent a core of quality collections capable of participating in coordinated conservation programmes. This is probably the document’s first failing, as I believe that 10,000 is a serious underestimate of the total number of places masquerading as zoological establishments. → G,
Of course it is difficult to get accurate data but, to put the issue into perspective, I have found that, in a year of working in Eastern Europe, I discover fresh zoos on almost a weekly basis. The second flaw in the reasoning of the WZCS document is the naive faith it places in its 1,000 core zoos. → H,
One would assume that the calibre of these institutions would have been carefully examined, but it appears that the criterion for inclusion on this select list might merely be that the zoo is a member of a zoo federation or association. This might be a good starting point, working on the premise that members must meet certain standards, but again the facts don’t support the theory. → I,
The greatly respected American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) has had extremely dubious members, and in the UK the Federation of Zoological Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland has occasionally had members that have been roundly censured in the national press. These include Robin Hill Adventure Park on the Isle of Wight, which many considered the most notorious collection of animals in the country. → J,
This establishment, which for years was protected by the Isle’s local council (which viewed it as a tourist amenity), was finally closed down following a damning report by a veterinary inspector appointed under the terms of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981. As it was always a collection of dubious repute, one is obliged to reflect upon the standards that the Zoo Federation sets when granting membership. → K,
The situation is even worse in developing countries where little money is available for redevelopment and it is hard to see a way of incorporating collections into the overall scheme of the WZCS. Even assuming that the WZCS’s 1,000 core zoos are all of a high standard complete with scientific staff and research facilities, trained and dedicated keepers, accommodation that permits normal or natural behaviour, and a policy of cooperating fully with one another, what might be the potential for conservation? → L,
Colin Tudge, author of Last Animals at the Zoo (Oxford University Press, 1992), argues that “if the world”s zoos worked together in co-operative breeding programmes, then even without further expansion they could save around 2,000 species of endangered land vertebrates’. This seems an extremely optimistic proposition from a man who must be aware of the failings and weaknesses of the zoo industry, the man who, when a member of the council of London Zoo, had to persuade the zoo to devote more of its activities to conservation. → M,
Moreover, where are the facts to support such optimism? Today approximately 16 species might be said to have been “saved” by captive breeding programmes, although a number of these can hardly be looked upon as resounding successes. → N,
Beyond that, about a further 20 species are being seriously considered for zoo conservation programmes. Given that the international conference at London Zoo was held 30 years ago, this is pretty slow progress, and a long way off Tudge’s target of 2,000. → O.
PART 3
Câu Hỏi 1: Listen and match the script with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Phản hồi
Câu trả lời đúng là:
This person likes the band, and even paid a hundred dollars for the ticket, so no matter how loud the music, this person doesn’t think of it as noise. In contrast, think of a person living three blocks away from the concert hall. That person is trying to read a book, but cannot concentrate because of the music. And although the sound pressure levels are much lower in this situation, this person still thinks of the music as noise, and it may trigger reactions that can, in the long run, have health consequences → G,
Yet another important effect of noise is sleep disturbance. Sleep is a very active mechanism that recuperates us and prepares us for the next wake period. A quiet bedroom is a cornerstone of what sleep researchers call “a good sleep hygiene.” And our auditory system has a watchman function. It’s constantly monitoring our environment for threats, even while we’re sleeping. So noise in the bedroom can cause a delay in the time it takes us to fall asleep, it can wake us up during the night, and it can prevent our blood pressure from going down during the night. We have the hypothesis that if these noise-induced sleep disturbances continue for months and years, then an increased risk for cardiovascular disease is likely the consequence. However, we are often not aware of these noise-induced sleep disturbances, because we are unconscious while we’re sleeping.
→ L,
Whenever you leave a concert or a bar and you have that ringing in your ears, you can be certain that you have done some damage to your hearing, likely permanent. → D,
These are all likely reasons why studies have found that children who attend schools in noisy areas are more likely to lag behind their peers in academic performance. Another very important health effect of noise is the increased risk for cardiovascular disease in those who are exposed to relevant noise levels for prolonged periods of time. Noise is stress, especially if we have little or no control over it. Our body secretes stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol that lead to changes in the composition of our blood and in the structure of our blood vessels, which have been shown to be stiffer after a single night of noise exposure. → J,
Well, noise is defined as unwanted sound, and as such, both has a physical component, the sound, and a psychological component, the circumstances that make the sound unwanted. A very good example is a rock concert. A person attending the rock concert, being exposed to 100 decibels, does not think of the music as noise. → F,
However, noise affects our health in many different ways beyond hearing. They’re less well-known, but they’re just as dangerous as the auditory effects. So what do we mean when we talk about noise? → E,
Luckily, there are things we can do right now, both individually and as a society, to better protect our health and give us more of the benefits of the sounds of silence. → B,
I assume that most of you know that too much noise is bad for your hearing. → C,
Epidemiological studies show associations between the noise exposure and an increased risk for high blood pressure, heart attacks and stroke, and although the overall risk increases are relatively small, this still constitutes a major public health problem because noise is so ubiquitous, and so many people are exposed to relevant noise levels. A recent study found that US society could save 3.9 billion dollars each year by lowering environmental noise exposure by five decibels, just by saving costs for treating cardiovascular disease. There are other diseases like cancer, diabetes and obesity that have been linked to noise exposure, but we do not have enough evidence yet to, in fact, conclude that these diseases are caused by the noise. → K,
The sound of silence. Simon and Garfunkel wrote a song about it. But silence is a pretty rare commodity these days, and we’re all paying a price for it in terms of our health — a surprisingly big price, as it turns out. → A,
So why are quiet spaces so important? Because noise affects our health in so many ways beyond hearing. However, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find quiet spaces in times of constantly increasing traffic, growing urbanization, construction sites, air-conditioning units, leaf blowers, lawnmowers, outdoor concerts and bars, personal music players, and your neighbors partying until 3am. → H,
In 2011, the World Health Organization estimated that 1.6 million healthy life years are lost every year due to exposure to environmental noise in the Western European member states alone. One important effect of noise is that it disturbs communication. You may have to raise your voice to be understood. In extreme cases, you may even have to pause the conversation. It’s also more likely to be misunderstood in a noisy environment. → I.
Câu Hỏi 2: Read sentences below and match with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Phản hồi
Câu trả lời đúng là:
In Jonglei alone, the worst-affected state, they have displaced an estimated 400.000 people. More to the north, in Sudan, torrential rains had risen Nile water levels by 17.5 metres in August. Flooding destroyed millions of acres of farmland and killed innumerable cattle. → G,
Nile River floods are causing unprecedented havoc in South Sudan. Cordaid continues its humanitarian assistance to thousands of displaced and flood-affected people. → B,
They were preparing new Cordaid response activities. “To get there, we had to swim”, says Bashir. “Getting wet wasn’t an issue. Currents and crocodiles were.” → D,
When asked if and how climate change is behind all this, Arem is outspoken. “There is definitely a correlation”, he says. “Weather patterns have drastically changed over the years, with extreme downpours we didn’t see before.” “With 150.000 € of Cordaid funding, we will assist 9000 newly arrived people, giving them shelter material, water purifiers, and basic hygiene items.” The weather in Bor seemed fine lately, yet this is deceiving. → K,
In August and September, Cordaid rolled out a life-saving aid operation with funds from the START Network. Within a month, Bashir, Arem, and other frontline workers distributed blankets, buckets, water purifiers, hygiene items, and other essentials to 12.000 displaced persons in Kondei, near broken Nile banks and river levees. Cordaid continues to provide humanitarian assistance. Funds for this successful operation have now been depleted, but Cordaid continues to assist new arrivals. → I,
“In Jonglei State, it didn’t rain in the last weeks, yet levels continue to rise. This is because the rivers carry the rains from Uganda and elsewhere”, Arem explains. Recurring and increasingly extreme downpours and scorching droughts are killing the land. Water absorption capacity diminishes, leaving the land - and farmers – no time and no resources to deal adequately with the next rainy season or the next drought. → L,
For the first time in history, even the pyramids in Meroë are threatened by flooding. “The floods are uprooting communities and families all along the Nile River and its tributaries, across the country but particularly in Jonglei State, ” says Bashir. “They seek safety and shelter in makeshift camps on higher grounds. So far, few people seem to have drowned. Luckily, most people in these areas know how to swim.” → H,
One million people affected by the Nile river floods. → A,
“With 150.000 € of Cordaid funding, we will assist 9000 newly arrived people, giving them shelter material, water purifiers, and basic hygiene items. This offers a degree of protection, also against COVID-19”, Bashir explains. “We have procured the items in Juba. This week we will distribute them among the neediest in Kondei.” Undoubtfully, this will involve not only trucks but also canoes. And most probably swimming. → J,
The fact they had to swim this time, while in September and October life-saving humanitarian items for 12.000 people could still be carried out by wading through the water, shows how bad things have turned over the last weeks. “We have never seen this before”, says Arem. Biggest floods in living memory. Too often ‘unprecedented’ is an inflated word. → E,
“Even the elderly among the displaced we spoke to, say these floods surpass the ones of 1962”, Arem says. “There is definitely a correlation with climate change. Weather patterns have drastically changed over the years, with extreme downpours we didn’t see before.” The floods immediately affect over one million people in South Sudan. → F,
“The biggest challenge is getting there”, says aid workers Bashir James and Arem Deng whose job now includes swimming. Last week, both Arem, based in Jonglei State capital Bor, and Bashir, who works from national capital Juba, spent a few days in Kondai, one of the worst-affected sites, and a mile off the riverbanks in Bor South County. → C.
PART 4
Câu Hỏi 1: Read sentences below and match with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Similar to how there is no one way to solve a puzzle, there is no one way to manage a project. Luckily, there are many different project management methodologies that can help you keep all your project pieces on track → L, A good first project you could start with is something that has a definitive end date, such as planning a small event. → B,
If you’re looking for project management experience, one of the first steps you can take is to volunteer to manage your first project in the role you’re currently in. → A,
Because project management skills are so transferrable, you don’t need to be in a specific project management role to get started. → C,
Project management certifications
Some project management roles require you to receive certification before applying to a position. These are optional courses that you can take to boost your resume, but there is a small downside: certifications and structured classes can be expensive. If a role you’re looking to land requires a certain certification that’s out of your means, work with the team to see if they’re willing to support you to make the certification more affordable. Here are a few different project management certifications that you can apply for. → D, To be qualified for the CAPM certification, you must meet the following requirements:
– Must have a secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or a global equivalent)
– 23 hours of project management education completed by the time you sit for the exam → F,
CAPM certification
The Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification is a good certification for someone looking for an entry-level project management certification. The Project Management Institute (PMI) offers students the ability to combine a membership and the CAPM exam at a discounted rate.
→ E,
PRINCE2 certification
The Projects in Controlled Environments certification offers two different qualification levels: Foundation and Practitioner. The Foundation level certification offers an introduction to PRINCE2 principles while the Practitioner level teaches you how to apply those specific needs in a specific project scenario. You do not need to have any other qualifications to take the PRINCE2 Foundation level certification. For the PRINCE2 Practitioner level certification, you must have passed one of the following certifications: PRINCE2 Foundation, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), IPMA Level A (Certified Projects Director), IPMA Level B (Certified Senior Project Manager), IPMA Level C(Certified Project Manager), IPMA Level D (Certified Project Management Associate)
→ I,
PMP certification
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is one of the world’s leading project management certifications. This certification validates project leadership experience and expertise across industries.
→ G,
Available Scrum position certifications include:
Professional Scrum Master
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Professional Scrum Developer
Scaled Professional Scrum
Professional Agile Leadership
Professional Agile Leadership—Evidence Based Management
Professional Scrum with Kanban
Professional Scrum with User Experience → K,
Scrum certification
Scrum is a method of project management commonly used in engineering or development teams.
The Scrum methodology gives development teams more adaptability so they can focus on improving their products, faster. You can receive certification for different positions of the Scrum methodology. → J, To be qualified for the PMP certification, you must meet the following requirements:
– Have a four-year degree
– At least 36 months of experience leading projects
– 35 hours of project management education/training or CAPM Certification
OR
– 35 hours of project management education/training or CAPM Certification
– At least 60 months of experience leading projects
– 35 hours of project management education/training or CAPM certification → H.
Câu Hỏi 2: Listen and match the script with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Phản hồi
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Tip number three is prepare your meeting kit. Now that you’re purposeful with your meetings, you’re gonna have to have some things with you all the time, so when I do my brainstorming and resolution and risk management meetings, I have my sticky notes, my sharpies, my stickers for voting, my white paper, there’s tons of things that I have and I actually have a temporary container with all that stuff in it. So now that you know your meetings are of a purpose, then you need a good meeting kit to ensure that you have those things at your fingertips because the last thing you want to do is kill your flow of your meeting and having to walk it to grab something. You just lost precious time and you’re going to take a lot more energy and effort getting people up to that flow that you were originally at before you left. So that’s really important, is grab a meeting kit. → I,
Hi, my name is Adriana Girdler. I’m a Productivity Specialist, President of CornerStone Dynamics and MyVisual Vision.com. Today I’m going to share with you my top seven tips that I use all the time for running meetings, and why is this even something that you want to think about? → A, So let’s talk about the first section of meeting preparation. So tip number one is, I would like for you to ban all the update meetings and I want you to rethink your meetings, no more updates, that is probably the number one time waster I see all the time, meetings need to be purposeful they should be about resolution, brainstorming and any activity from like risk management approvals, things where when you’re bringing people in a room and you need them together in order to move forward on an issue or to create ideas, that’s what you use a meeting for, not updates. We have amazing technology so let’s use that technology, ban those update meetings, and you will see a huge difference. So from now on, in your pre-meeting preparation, is ask yourself, what meeting are you running? → F,
Tip number five, when you’re in your meetings, is to use specific tools to help ensure that your participants understand what is expected of them. Now there are three tools that I love using all the time, the first one is meeting rules. I’m a big proponent of meeting rules and I highly recommend it, in fact, that’s another download I have, is a free poster that you can download off my website CornerStoneDynamic.com and those I recommend you have in every single meeting room, and the first thing you do, is when your participants come in, is “hey let’s review the rules” and you go through all the rules. → K,
The second tool that I use all the time with my participants is I then talk about time outs. Like a referee, in a game, you have to call a timeout when a play is not done well. Now in a scenario for a meeting, it’s “hey I’m running out of time” or “you didn’t follow one of the session rules” so you call a time out. → L,
If it’s an update meeting, don’t even bother sending out that invite. I want you to put some sort of summary in an email and send it out to people that way, or do your one-on-ones and get your information but do not do a meeting for an update. That’s the greatest gift you can give to your team members and the biggest paradigm shift for you, in order to run meetings more effectively and efficiently. → G,
Because I get called to run meetings all the time with top organizations and this is something which over and over again I find to be tried and true, never fails me and I always get complimented on it. So take note, get your pen and paper out, and let’s start talking about how to run effective and efficient meetings. → B,
Tip number two, is get all your documentation in order, what? Yeah, yeah I know I know Adriana, that’s probably simple and everyone goes “of course we do it”, well how do you do it and when do you do it? A lot of times we get this meeting preparation the night before or a day before, and that’s just not enough time particularly when someone is on the agenda, in order to prepare what they need to do the meeting. So think about what is it that you need, now that you’re being purposeful with your meetings, prep things accordingly, think of your pre read, if you’re doing more brainstorming resolutions stuff, that stuff you will need and you will have to give it to the participants, so you have to think about that timing, and that’s really critical, and by the way if you’re looking for agendas, which are really important for a min meeting perspective, then you can go to my website below, saying actually it’s CornerStone Dynamics not MyVisual Vision, I gotta remember which one it was, at CornerStone Dynamics, and you can get a free agenda template. This video by the way has tons of downloads, so I want you to really contemplate going afterwards to the show-me section and checking out all those downloads that I’m going to have for you. → H,
So tip number four that is, arrive early to set up your meeting. If you’re a meeting facilitator or the organizer, please come early to ensure that you have everything there, as well as that you’re set up for any of those conference calls with screen-sharing, cause I don’t know how many times I’ve been in meetings where there’s been “technical issues”, the meeting was supposed to start at nine o’clock sharp, and we really didn’t get the ball rolling to 9:15 because we were dealing with “technical difficulties”. So the biggest tip from a meeting itself, is come and early, get everything set up, so when everyone walks in, you can just get going and start being effective and efficient. → J,
More and more I see meetings are becoming more ineffective and less efficient and I really can’t pinpoint why this is occurring. But all I know is we have to go to the root and teach people how to run proper meetings, so let’s go on to my tips that I want to share with you, now in order to even look at these tips we’ve got to think of meetings in kind of these three buckets. → D, So why are we even looking at this, well back in 2012 salary.com did a survey, and they found that the number one time-waster at work was ineffective meetings. They just wasted tons of time, and that went up from the number three spot in 2008, and I promise you it’s not getting any better. → C,
The first bucket is meeting preparation, the second bucket is actual meetings themselves, and then the third bucket is post meeting. Now if you look at a meeting and you consider in all those three stages, that’s a huge benefit, because meetings aren’t just the meeting that you are attending, it goes beyond that, it’s a preparation and the post as well. So on that note here are my top seven tips. → E.
PART 5
Câu Hỏi 1: Listen and match the script with the appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
This is Sal. Sal is a 15-year-old quarter horse. She is a mare. And Sal came to me as a gift Hfrom my husband. My husband was the prior owner of Sal, and he discovered, very quickly, that Sal was more horse than he could handle. So, as a solution to his problem, he thought he would just give her to me. And he did that because he thought – and he told this to me – “You two are so alike.” And to demonstrate that, we have a picture. → G,
to help them get more of what they want from their negotiations. → B,
And this is very good advice, but I am here today with a confession that I don’t always follow my very good advice. And I want to introduce you to my longtime negotiating counterpart. → F,
Her jaw is tight. Look at her ears. Clearly, I have a goal in mind but so does she, and it might not be the same thing. But my vision was good: what I wanted us to be as good. Let me show you what I had in my head about how we might look. This is Buck Brannaman and his horse Rebel. Look at these. Look at how they move together. The smoothness with which they move across the pasture. It’s stunning – the fluidity, the dance. → I,
One of the biggest challenges that we face in negotiations is that we view negotiations as a battle. And that battle is characterized by “I’m going to try to get stuff from you that you don’t want to give me; and I’m going to try to keep you from getting my stuff.” And if we view negotiations as a battle, we already have a problem. → C,
So this is Sal and me, but early on in our relationship. And we are about to attempt a relatively complex maneuver called the flying lead change. Look at my jaw: it’s tight, my lips: pressed. My eyes, if you can see them through the sunglasses, there’s a laser-like focus on where I need to be with my horse, and my reins have a death grip. But this is a move that requires both of us, both Sal and me. And if you look at Sal, you see she has a similar look on her face. → H,
It’s as if this man’s brain is attached directly to this horse’s feet. This is what I wanted. That was a good goal. So, I decided, “Yes.” And I started working hard on getting Sal to look like Rebel. And the harder and harder I pushed her, the more she got resistant, the more she got tight, the more she got anxious, the more we didn’t go forward. And it came to a head about three years ago. → J,
I focused on winning, on getting her to do what I wanted rather than problem-solving. And so if she saw herself alone – no support – she certainly didn’t see me as her support. What she saw was the thing that could protect her, her herd, was leaving, and now she was alone. She was isolated, and she was at risk. And so as we continued, I tried to keep her with me, but she wanted to go with them. And what happened was because she couldn’t go forward, the only thing she could do is go up. And she reared. → L,
Two of my friends and I were in the pasture. And they took off to go do something with their horses, but I decided that Sal and I should stay and work on a particular dance step that we were trying to achieve. And when they left, she got anxious, which is not surprising, because horses are prey animals, and their herds are their source of support. And when she was left alone, she was feeling very scared. And I made, of course, my first mistake in all of this. → K,
I’m going to suggest that what’s more important is that we look at negotiations as an opportunity for collaborative problem-solving, looking for a solution that makes me better off, better off than my alternatives, better off than my status quo. But because there is no command and control in negotiation, I cannot force you to say “Yes.” → D,
All I can do is present proposals where you believe it is in your interest to say “Yes.” And so, once I take that perspective on negotiation which highlights the importance of the other as well as me, so many more things open up to negotiation: whether it’s a new job – I’m trying to negotiate the terms of my employment contract – whether I’m trying to do an acquisition for my company; whether I’m in a meeting; whether I’m deciding with my spouse who’s going to take the dog out on a cold and rainy night; or whether I’m thinking about what the rules are that my offspring will have to follow and I will have to agree to when they use my car. → E,
I teach negotiation. I do research in negotiation. I write books in negotiation. And I work with students and executives → A.
Câu Hỏi 2: Read sentences below and match them with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Big Tech founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet Inc.’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page have fashioned themselves as modern-day autocrats of business, thanks to the way they have structured their initial public offerings and voting shares over the past decade. Zuckerberg owns the majority of Meta Platform Inc.’s voting shares, while billionaires Brin and Page control 51% of a special class of voting shares of Alphabet, giving them ultimate control of Google and YouTube. → D,
→ N,
For instance, when Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, the tiny target had no revenue — and he didn’t ask his board for permission. Seven years later Instagram was contributing $20 billion to Facebook’s annual sales. But look at it another way. Multiple studies have shown that the rise of Instagram, under Zuckerberg’s stewardship, has correlated with higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among teenagers and teen girls in particular. → G,
Maybe it’s just hard to remember your obligations to make money when you’re a billionaire. Maybe when you’re in an industry that idolizes visionaries, it’s easy to get lured into chasing the realization of your ideological or futuristic worldview. Maybe the billionaires who control today’s social media platforms actually need stricter checks and balances. → L,
→ O,
The site has made oodles of money but also caused psychological damage to children and adults, which Facebook’s own research has corroborated. Long-term, shareholders, too, can suffer from unfettered control. Zuckerberg steered Facebook into obsessively chasing an abstract business goal with the metaverse. → H,
Now Tesla’s shareholders are paying the price. As Musk borrowed more than $25 billion against Tesla as collateral, the carmaker’s shares have lost almost a quarter of their value in the past three weeks. If Musk sells part of his stake to keep supporting his personal agenda, that will depress the share price even more. → K,
He doesn’t want to buy Twitter to make it a better business — “I don’t care about the economics at all,” he recently said — but to realize his ideas about free speech. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is a hair’s breadth away from purchasing one of the world’s most influential publishing platforms. → B,
This dual-class share structure is unusual in business but common in the tech world thought to give start-up founders freedom to execute their long-term vision. The founders of Airbnb Inc. and Snap Inc. both have about 44% voting control of their respective companies thanks to dual-class structures. And while Musk owns just 20% of Tesla Inc., his board is stacked with long-time friends like Larry Ellison and Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk’s brother. → E,
Why isn’t he reshaping Facebook into a safer website that can thrive for years to come? Because no one, either from his team of sycophantic lieutenants or his deferential board, has pushed him to. Musk’s move on Twitter also is hard to square with the concept of fiduciary responsibility. He doesn’t want to buy Twitter to make it a better business — “I don’t care about the economics at all,” he recently said — but to realize his ideas about free speech. → J,
Zuckerberg’s board also has largely done his bidding over the years. All of this runs counter to modern ideas of corporate governance, which hold that is a good thing. Without those checks, tech leaders are free to make capricious decisions, according to David Office, a leadership professor at Harvard Business School, who spent close to three decades on the board of Intel Corp. Sometimes, those decisions can be good for business. → F,
While the initiative might eventually bear fruit, for now the move has already cost the company $10 billion. Meta’s stock has dropped 40% since the start of this year. → I,
Elon Musk and other tech billionaires are out of control. Elon Musk’s move on Twitter also is hard to square with the concept of fiduciary responsibility. → A,
→ M,
What’s actually disturbing about his deal to buy Twitter Inc. is the next part: He will be accountable to no one but himself. Musk can dissolve Twitter’s board when he takes the company private. If he doesn’t, any board that remains probably won’t have teeth. That’s nothing new in tech, where checks and balances are often passé. → C.
PART 6
Câu Hỏi 1: Listen and match the script with the appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là: Imagine a drone taking a vital piece of medical material to a hospital to ensure it doesn’t get stuck in traffic? Or helping watch over an important convoy to let people know on the ground if there is the trouble? There are many ways that drones could affect our world, the only question is, will we let them by 2050?
→ J,
The potential is there, and by that point, various upgrades to drones and their programming will no doubt make them all the more efficient, durable, and quick. And potentially, they could go beyond basic deliveries for people and do emergency work. → I, Trains ferry people and all sorts of cargo around in an efficient and reliable manner,
which is why they’ve been in use for hundreds of years. But…if we’re being honest here, while trains are efficient and reliable in certain ways…they aren’t exactly fast. Especially when it comes to passenger and freight trains.
→ K,
You know of the magnetic trains of Japan no doubt, but others like the Virgin Hyperloop are trying to push things even farther. “Passengers or cargo are loaded into the hyperloop vehicle and accelerate gradually via electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube. The vehicle floats above the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag.” → L, Drones right now can be incredibly sophisticated, and some TV shows actually use them for sweeping and aerial shots as the film, it’s very cool. But to do deliveries, that’d have to be a little more programmed, as human error no
doubt would be a very big buzzkill.
→ E, We have cars that are much safer than they’ve been in the past decade, and we’re even making fully electric cars that can help save the planet. There are even plans for self-driving cars and even self-driving Ubers that make the future of transportation very exciting. And that’s just ONE technology that we’re growing at a fast rate.
→ B, But more times than not the drones you are seeing are small, piloted by people who are
just trying to have some fun, or, are the ones that are used by the military right now
for strikes and surveillance. All very fun, but in the future, drones could be an integral part of our daily lives. You’ve likely seen shows and people talk about how in a few years drones could be the new delivery services.
→ D,
But by 2050? We might not only have drones delivering our packages, but we might also be looking up at the sky and seeing drones flying all over with incredible speeds and accuracy, and they potentially could all be run by AI! → H, From things in the air to new things for our bodies, join me as we explore 2050: What
Would-Be The Future Technology? (The World in 2050 Future Technology). We are in the year 2020, and if we’re being honest with ourselves, technology is incredibly advanced, and we’re making strides that can push things even farther. → A,
What about all the others that are out there? What will technology be like as we get closer and closer to 2050? Let’s start with the one that well and truly could happen very soon, drones. “Wait a minute, drones are already here!” and yes, they are. → C,
After all, it’s bad enough when delivery people don’t care enough about our packages that they just throw them onto the porch and potentially break stuff, the last thing we need is that to happen with drones. → G, Not that it’s impossible right now, it’s more of a question of numbers, logistics, costs,
and making sure that the deliveries themselves are done in a methodical and careful manner.
→ F.
Câu Hỏi 2: Read sentences below and match them with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Similarly, most of the new value added from software over the coming decades is expected to be driven, at least in part, by AI. Within the last decade, databases have evolved significantly in order to handle the new phenomenon dubbed “big data.” This refers to the unprecedented size and global scale of modern data sets, largely gathered from ethe computer systems that have come to mediate nearly every aspect of daily life. → D,
In general terms, AI refers to computational tools that are able to substitute for human intelligence in the performance of certain tasks. This technology is currently advancing at a breakneck pace, much like the exponential growth experienced by database technology in the late twentieth century. Databases have grown to become the core infrastructure that drives enterprise-level software. → C,
Additionally, new means of cyber attack will be invented to take advantage of the particular weaknesses of AI technology. Finally, the importance of data will be amplified by AI’s appetite for large amounts of training data, redefining how we must think about data protection. Prudent governance at the global level will be essential to ensure that this era-defining technology will bring about broadly shared safety and prosperity. → B,
For instance, YouTube receives over 400 hours of video content each minute (Brouwer 2015). For instance, researchers have trained computer models to identify an individual’s personality traits more accurately than their friends based exclusively on what Facebook posts they had liked. → E,
Artificial intelligence (AI) is truly a revolutionary feat of computer science, set to become a core component of all modern software over the coming years and decades. This presents a threat but also an opportunity. AI will be deployed to augment both defensive and offensive cyber operations. → A,
In this way, the adoption of AI technology can make even mundane and seemingly trivial data valuable. For instance, researchers have trained computer models to identify an individual’s personality traits more accurately than their friends can, based exclusively on what Facebook posts the individual had liked (Wu, Kosinski and Stillwell 2015). → I,
The main constraint on innovation is no longer the difficulty in recording and storing information, but the finding of useful insights among the sheer abundance of data now being collected. AI can notice patterns in mammoth data sets that are beyond the ability of human perception to detect. → H,
While the business and policy communities are still struggling to wrap their heads around the cyber realm’s newfound importance, the application of AI to cyber security is heralding even greater changes → K,
Hardly a day passes without a news story about a high-profile data breach or a cyber attack costing millions of dollars in damages. Cyber losses are difficult to estimate, but the International Monetary Fund places them in the range of US$100–$250 billion annually for the global financial sector (Lagarde 2012). Furthermore, with the ever-growing pervasiveness of computers, mobile devices, servers and smart devices, the aggregate threat exposure grows each day. → J,
One of the essential purposes of AI is to automate tasks that previously would have required human intelligence. Cutting down on the labour resources an organization must employ to complete a project, or the time an individual must devote to routine tasks, enables tremendous gains in efficiency. For instance, chatbots can be used to field customer service questions, and medical assistant AI can be used to diagnose diseases based on patients’ symptoms. → L,
Big data and AI have a special relationship. Recent breakthroughs in AI development stem mostly from “machine learning.” Instead of dictating a static set of directions for an AI to follow, this technique trains AI by using large data sets. → F,
For example, AI chatbots can be trained on data sets containing text recordings of human conversation collected from messenger apps to learn how to understand what humans say, and to come up with appropriate responses (Pandey 2018). One could say that big data is the raw material that fuels AI algorithms and models. → G.
PART 7
Câu Hỏi 1: Read sentences below and match them with appropriate translation to complete the task
Câu trả lời đúng là:
At times, you don’t even know why you feel down but you find yourself dreading getting up in the morning and are having trouble getting through the day. In any case, a little mood booster would be a good thing. But you may not want to involve your partner because they’ve got enough on their plate or because you don’t want to impose on them. Or you may find that your partner is just not up for working on your relationship right now. → C,
We’re not talking about heading off for the weekend or buying a new sports car; though if you can and want to, go for it. Rather, it’s those little moments that count. Take 20 minutes and read that book you’ve been wanting to finish for the longest time. Try the new chocolate you’ve been craving. Get takeout for the family so you don’t have to cook. There are no rules, just pick whatever works for you. And keep going; make it a habit. → G,
Using these easy, science-backed tweaks can make a big difference in your life. Every relationship has its ups and downs. In fact, life has its ups and downs. That’s totally normal – we wouldn’t be human if we did not have these mood swings. → B,
Commit to happy thoughts
There are so many benefits to positive thinking. It improves our immune system, it reduces anxiety, it makes it less likely that you will engage in unhealthy behavior, and it makes you happier! → K,
Share your happiness with others by doing them good as well. You don’t have to constrain that effort to your partner. Your children and other people will be grateful as well. → J,
And the best thing is: You have control over your thoughts.
Remember: You can find happy people everywhere, no matter where you go.
There are plenty of happy people in poor countries and desolate living situations or other hard circumstances. There are chronically ill people who feel their life is worthwhile and consider themselves happy (as well as lucky). Life is what you make of it. Choose to make the best of your life. → L,
Put your partner first
It’s no secret and it’s been confirmed in many research studies: When we help others, we help ourselves because it makes us happy to help others. But it’s also no secret that, in everyday life, we’re often just too busy to remember this truth; rather, we get tangled up in our to-do lists. → H,
5 Secrets to Being Happier Without Relying on Your Partner → A,
Treat yourself to a little something
Sometimes, in the thick of everyday life, we just need a little break. Particularly the ones among you with children know just how precious a few moments to yourself can be. Make some time for yourself or treat yourself. Yes, you deserve it. You are doing an awesome job day in and day out. And don’t forget, if you’re not doing well then, your partner and family are not doing well, either. That’s a fact that especially the mothers among us are prone to forget (myself very much included). → F,
Collect happy memories:
Take a trip down memory lane and remember why you fell in love with your partner. You got together with your partner for a reason.
Remember? What was it like when you first got together?
What did you cherish about them?
What were the little things you adored? → D,
Make a conscious effort to put your partner first.
Is your partner stressed?
Could they use someone to listen to them?
Can you take the weekly shopping off their back?
Haven’t they been interested in several weeks in trying that new restaurant?
Or, you could try to establish a new habit of paying it forward when something good happens to you. → I,
Research shows that happy people remember happy memories more often throughout the day. Choose the memories you reflect upon and make this fact work for you. With respect to your partner, make a list and keep it with you or put it in a drawer where you can find it. Look at it when you need a little pick-me-up or when your partner just did something annoying. → E.
Câu Hỏi 2: Listen and match the script with appropriate translation to complete the task
Câu trả lời của bạn chưa chính xác
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Today, only shadows remain of the people who experienced our distant past as their present. What Remains from our past → D,
Most other human species had died out, probably with a little help from us. Our ancestors’ biology had given them the necessary tools: A general intelligence to understand things, a social intelligence to understand each other and language to express abstract ideas and create new concepts. These were people just like you. They suffered and experienced joy, were bored, cried and laughed. → F,
Our ancestors used these bonus crops to bake the first bread and to brew the first beer. With every generation, they gathered deeper knowledge about the plants and animals around them. But there was a lot to learn. → H,
In that time, our numbers would explode by orders of magnitude, our technology and standard of living would improve to levels previously thought impossible and our self-conception would change forever. And all the future archaeologist has to learn about is your junk in the woods. While we can only hope this will be someone’s problem in 12,000 years, we have the same problem today. We are trying to reconstruct a revolution that took place 12,000 years ago. → C,
This early agriculture started to drastically reduce the space our ancestors needed to feed one individual. Which made it possible to stay in one place longer. Around 12,000 years ago these little pieces of progress had reached a critical mass. Most of the calories we consume today stem from about 15 different founder crops that human began to domesticate in earnest in the next few thousand years. What we call the agricultural revolution was not a thing that began suddenly one day. It was a slow process driven by small groups over many generations. Eventually, the gradual change gave rise to a new era. → I,
The first solid evidence for this stems from the Jordan Valley, where our ancestors collected wild wheat more than 20,000 years ago. They noticed that seeds in the ground made more plants the next year. If they put good ones in one place, the next year they had more of the good ones. This was a great supplement to hunting and gathering. You could prepare some crops, return next year, build a temporary settlement and have a secure food supply. → G,
For some two million years or roughly 80,000 generations, the life of our ancestors was basically the same. It was around 20,000 years, or 800 generations ago that the behaviourally modern humans began a process that would change our lifestyle forever. At first, gradually, for some of us. Then faster for more of us. And then suddenly for almost all of us. Back then there were about one million modern humans on earth. → E,
Imagine someone coming into your kitchen and taking a few tools, a pan, and your garbage. Then they bury everything in the woods. 12,000 years later an archaeologist is trying to figure out who you were. → A,
Even with more people dying younger, villages and towns grew. The number of humans on earth exploded. About 100 generations after the beginning of the Human era, there were already four million of us. This increased the need for food and forced people to come up with ever more efficient ways of producing calories – solidifying our new lifestyle. Going back to hunting and gathering would just have meant death by starvation for most. → L,
During the next few thousand years, progress would speed up and turn hunter-gatherers into farmers who lived in villages, towns, and then cities. When farmers moved into new areas, they replaced the nomadic tribes or turned them into farmers too. This was neither easy nor painless. In the early days, people had a diverse diet made of up to 250 different plants and animals. For some of the groups transitioning to agriculture, the variation in their diets declined drastically and some even seem to have been undernourished. → J,
Virtually every infectious disease caused by microorganisms that have adapted to humans arose in the last 10,000 years. Cholera, smallpox, measles, influenza, chickenpox, and malaria. Mortality, especially among children, rose drastically. Still, our numbers grew because living in the same place enabled women to bear far more children than before – and for a farmer, more kids mean more hands to work the fields. → K,
What was important to you, what video games you played, what you believed in, and what informed your decisions. Because you happened to live during a remarkable time in human history: The Planetary Revolution, when humanity transitioned, becoming a multi-planetary species. → B.
PART 8
Câu Hỏi 1: Read sentences below and match with appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington – it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to this cause. → K,
It’s the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America. → F,
Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House. And while she’s no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight and know that my debt to them is beyond measure. → I,
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference. → D,
In these prepared remarks provided by his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama calls himself the unlikeliest presidential candidate. → A,
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. → C,
It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this earth. → L,
I just received a very gracious call from Sen. McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he’s fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. → G,
To my campaign manager, David Plouffe; my chief strategist, David Axelrod; and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics – you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it done. But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to – it belongs to you. → J,
He thanks many members of his campaign, along with his enormous army of volunteers, and he warns supporters about what he calls the enormity of the tasks at hand that now face the U.S. He concludes by telling an anecdote about a 106-year-old African-American voter from Atlanta. → B,
It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of red states and blue states; we are, and always will be, the United States of America. → E,
I congratulate him and Gov. Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ahead. I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the vice-president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. → H.
Câu Hỏi 2: Listen and match the script with the appropriate translation to complete the task.
Câu trả lời đúng là:
Thank you for believing all the way – (cheers, applause) – to every hill, to every valley. You lifted me up the whole day, and I will always be grateful for everything that you’ve done and all the incredible work that you’ve put in. I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, even silly. And that provides plenty of fodder for the cynics who tell us that politics is nothing more than a contest of egos or the domain of special interests. → H,
I just spoke with Governor Romney, and I congratulated him and Paul Ryan on a hard-fought campaign. We may have battled fiercely, but it’s only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future. → E,
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. → A,
Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come → C,
In the weeks ahead, I also look forward to sitting down with Governor Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward. → F,
I want to thank my friend and partner of the last four years, America’s happy warrior, the best vice-president anybody could ever hope for, Joe Biden. And I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago. → G,
We want to pass on a country that’s safe and respected and admired around the world, a nation that is defended by the strongest military on Earth and the best troops this – this world has ever known – (cheers, applause) – but also a country that moves with confidence beyond this time of war to shape a peace that is built on the promise of freedom and dignity for every human being. → L,
It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family, and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people. → B,
Whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time – by the way, we have to fix that – (cheers, applause) – whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone (cheers, applause), whether you held an Obama sign or a Romney sign, you made your voice heard and you made a difference. → D,
But if you ever get the chance to talk to folks who turned out at our rallies and crowded along a rope line in a high school gym or – or saw folks working late at a campaign office in some tiny country far away from home, you’ll discover something else. You’ll hear the determination in the voice of a young field organiser who’s working his way through college and wants to make sure every child has that same opportunity. You’ll hear the pride in the voice of a volunteer who’s going door to door because her brother was finally hired when the local auto plant added another shift → I,
We want our kids to grow up in a country where they have access to the best schools and the best teachers – (cheers, applause) – a country that lives up to its legacy as the global leader in technology and discovery and innovation – (scattered cheers, applause) – with all of the good jobs and new businesses that follow. We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened up by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. → K,
These arguments we have are a mark of our liberty, and we can never forget that as we speak, people in distant nations are risking their lives right now just for a chance to argue about the issues that matter – the chance to cast their ballots like we did today. But despite all our differences, most of us share certain hopes for America’s future. → J.
