KEY OPEN 2 A belated confession
“I have been having a crush on you for the past 4 years, I never had the guts/courage to tel
you, but I can’t be so cowardly anymore.” said T. as he caught Th.’s hand in the crowd watching fireworks.
Th. was taken aback by T.’s words, because he appeared out of nowhere and also never had
she expected a boy, so silent and seemed uninterested in class’ business, would like her.
“T.? Why are you here? I thought you said you wouldn’t come.”
“-Listen, we don’t have much time left, I’m moving to another country, this wil be the
last night we can be together until a few more years” “Why didn’t you tel -“
“-I realized that I had made a mistake, a huge one. I had always been such an introvert, never
made an effort to make friends, but you always tried to befriend me, you truly changed me, and
so I don’t want to lose you.”
No more words were said, they slowly turned to the sky. Little does T. know, Th. had also had
something for him, but she had been afraid that her friends would’ve teased her. Ever since her
boyfriend dumped/left her and her friends turned their back on her, T. has always been there
for her, he never talks much, mostly listen, but that’s enough for her.
At that very moment, she knew she didn’t want to let him go, but then it was too late. He’d
always been stoic, never wanted others to worry about him, so he decided to keep it a secret
before he leaves. That night, there wasn’t only his first kiss but also her first time feeling truly cared about and loved.
Vì là be cowardly: Nhát => never had the guts/courage: Có đủ dũng cảm Taken aback: Bị làm sốc
Vì xem fireworks => Thời điểm buổi tối => Last night ESC Dear members of ESC,
As you’ve probably noticed, ESC has ___undergone___ major changes in the last few weeks.
Here is the weekly ____report/news/newsletter___ regarding the changes:
- President Jay has decided to ___stand/step___ down, farewel party wil be held on the 3rd
of July. Thank you and goodbye Jay!
- “Obstacles” and “Tremor” are voted as the most emotional photos submitted last week and wil
be displayed in the hal , the former was taken by David P. and the ___latter___ was by John A.
- The monthly examination is ___on____ the way, we wish you the best of luck! Remember, if
you score less than 50, you wil be eliminated and wil have to ____take___ the next month’s entrance exam.
- We have ____managed____ to reach an agreement with the Media Department after lengthy
discussion. You wil be seeing a much more lively atmosphere ___at___ the next meeting.
Also, here’s a sneak peak of the new film, made entirely by ESC staffs! We’d like to thank
Jonathan for ___staying___ up al night to cope with the deadline.
That’s __all/it____! Have a fine week, we’l see you again next week. Các điểm lưu ý:
To undergo change: Trải qua thay đổi
Stand/step down: Từ chức
Khi đề cập 2 vật, vật đầu tiên được nhắc tới là former, vật sau là latter
Be on the way: Đang diễn ra
Vì là after lengthy discussion (khó khăn) => managed to
Stay up all night: Thức suốt đêm The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy comprising 3 films: The Fel owship of the Ring, The Two
Towers and The Return of the King. They are directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel
The Lord of The Rings written by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Set in the imaginary/fictional Middle-Earth lore, the films tel the story of the hobbit Frodo
Baggins as he, together with his companions, is on a quest to destroy the One Ring, thus
ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron.
The series was a success, being one of the highest-grossing film series. The films also won 17
out of 30 total Academy Award nominations, with the last film winning al of its 11 Academy
Award nominations, making it one of the most Academy Awards received films.
I’m tel ing you, this has gotta be one of the most hated ____1__subjects__ at school. Taken
from Greek, φιλοσοφία, which means"love of wisdom", ____2_in___ which you contemplate
every matter people could think of, from the ____chữ cái đầu "e", cái gì liên quan tới cả loài
người____ of mankind to cosmic phenomenons, anything can be argued about.
Philosophy is believe to help improve thinking, as it requires you to, wel , think, therefore better
your memory and _____wards___ off dementia. However, this isn’t proven to be true, as
people are interested in different topics, they may not want to do research into the “fundamental,
basic” subjects that most people are ____tìm hiểu những chủ đề cơ bản mà đa phần mọi
người đều được .... có kiến thức sâu về nó, chữ cái đầu "e"____ to have a wide knowledge
of. It does make you sound ____wiser___ to your friends in a discussion, but it certainly doesn’t
help improve your chances of good employment, would you expect a janitor to have thorough
experience with Marxism–Leninism?
The problem with studying philosophy is that it lacks ____Utility = ứng dụng, ứng dụng đi liền
với cụm từ... chữ cái đầu "p"____ utility, which is a menace to the amount of students
enrol ing for Philosophy ____Môn Triết ở cấp 3 thì bắt buộc rồi, vậy thì HS mà có lựa chọn
đăng ký phải là bậc ĐH thôi, chữ cái đầu "M"_____. Philosophy departments usual y try to
convince people that many successful people have studied philosophy in col ege. For instance,
Princeton department lists wel -known people from non-related fields but studied philosophy and
then ____9_jumps___ to the conclusion that philosophy can be useful for a lot of jobs. But that
is a poor _____ở đây đang chê bai việc lists well-known people, chữ cái đầu "c"_____, as
many famous people can’t show how philosophy helped them to be successful. hilosophy
I’m tel ing you, this has gotta be one of the most hated 1 s ubjects at school. Taken from Greek,
φιλοσοφία, which means"love of wisdom", 2 in which you contemplate every matter people
could think of, from the 3 evolution of mankind to cosmic phenomenons, anything can be argued about.
Philosophy is believe to help improve thinking, as it requires you to, wel , think, therefore better
your memory and 4 staves/wards off dementia. However, this isn’t proven to be true, as people
are interested in different topics, they may not want to do research into the “fundamental, basic”
subjects that most people are 5 expected to have a wide knowledge of. It does make you
sound 6 smarter/wiser to your friends in a discussion, but it certainly doesn’t help improve your
chances of good employment, would you expect a janitor to have thorough experience with Marxism–Leninism?
The problem with studying philosophy is that it lacks 7 practical utility, which is a menace to the
amount of students enrol ing for Philosophy 8 Major. Philosophy departments usual y try to
convince people that many successful people have studied philosophy in col ege. For instance,
Princeton department lists wel -known people from non-related fields but studied philosophy and
then 9 jumps to the conclusion that philosophy can be useful for a lot of jobs. But that is a
poor 10 choice, as many famous people can’t show how philosophy helped them to be successful.
Stave/ward off: Phòng tránh
Kiến thức cơ bản mà mọi người được mong đợi là hiểu biết sâu về chúng => expected
Practical utility: Ứng dụng thực tiễn
Philosophy Major: Chuyên ngành Triết học Cannibalism?
We’ve al had moments where we felt desperate to eat anything. But what if your only option
was human flesh? Most of us have heard of cannibalism but what happens when you eat humans?
If we look at insects, snails, fish or amphibians, we can see that cannibalism is abundant. But
when it comes to mammals, cannibalism is more rare, often triggered by environmental
stressors like when rabbits eat their young under stressful situations.
In the 20th century, medicinal cannibalism was used in Europe where human blood was
prescribed as a remedy. Without proper care and preparation, you run the risk of contracting
any bloodborne disease like Hepatitits or Ebola that your victim may be carrying.
Your thigh is around 10 thousand calories, your heart 700 and your entire body around 81
thousand calories. But about half of these calories come from Adipose or fat tissue so you
aren’t the best meat for those on a diet.
Anecdotal accounts say we taste somewhere between pork and veal, and a cute culinary robot
identified us as bacon. There’s stil an even greater risk in something cal ed Prion. Prion could
be understood as an infectious protein. They can change healthy proteins, causing a chain reaction and creating disease.
In the 1950s, researchers discovered that several members of the Foray people, a tribal group
in Papua New Guinea were suffering from a disease cal ed “Kuru”, which caused those
infected to lose control of their emotions then bodily functions, eventual y succumbing to death.
It turns out that Kuru was a Prion disease which was contracted through their funeral practices.
The Foray people believed it was better for the body to be eaten by the people who loved
them than by worms or insects.
So while eating human flesh isn’t necessarily always bad for you, especial y if it lacks Prions,
doing so carries incredibly high risks that probably isn’t worth it.\ Orangutans Language
Orangutans are highly developed......animals/primates/mammals.......At the National Zoo in
Washington D.C, Rob Shumaker ..........leads/runs....... the Orangutan Language Project which
shows that orangutans can communicate through language. Shumaker believes that orangutans
in........captivity..........need a stimulating physical and mental enviroment. The zoo al ows the
orangutans to move around freely with.......choices.........of where to go. They also choose
whether to participate in the language programme or not. Shumaker works with Inda and Azie,
who are sister and brother orangutans. Inda is learning a vocabulary of symbols that she
connects with everyday ……activities/objects……She performs computer exercise to test
what she knows. Inda uses the symbols to indicate words and to form ……simple……
sentences. However, Azie isn’t always interested in communicating as her sister.
Shumaker’s project is part of an exhibit cal ed Think Tank, which explores the……process……
of thinking. The programme involves zoo visitors and brings animal research to the public. Think
Tank ……seeks/aims……to educate people and increase conversation effort. Shumaker adds
that by learning more about mental abilities of orangutans, people’s ………love/care/regard/… for them wil increse.
Cats of al kinds are present in the legends, religion, mythology, and history of many
different .......cultures...... Cave paintings created by early humans display different types of
wild cats who are now....endangered/extinct...., or no longer around. Many of these great
beasts saw humans as food, but were hunted by humans....in.....return. Cats similar to the ones
kept as.....pets..... today started showing up in artwork thousands of years ago. For example,
the ancient Egyptians believed cats were the sacred, or special, animal of a goddess named
Bast. They believed that Bast often appeared.......as....... a cat, so many ancient Egyptians
respected and.......worshiped/honoured...... cats and kittens. However, other cultures feared
cats or thought that they brought il nesses and bad luck. Today, with mil ions kept as pets in
homes around the world, cats have become important members of many families. No one
knows for.....sure.....when how cats became very popular household pets. It s possible that
people noticed how cats hunted mice and rats, so they set food and milk out to keep the cats
near their homes. This helped to prevent too many of these.......strays/rodents...... from coming
into homes and eating people's food or spreading sickness Nuclear impact
70 years ago, the nuclear bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki exploded and
to this day remained the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare. But with around
50,000 warheads remaining in the world, what happens if we have a nuclear war?
The impact of a single nuclear bomb depends on many factors like the weather, weapon design
and geographical layout of where the bomb hits, and if it explodes in the air or on the ground.
Approximately 35% of the energy comes in the form of thermal radiation or heat. Since thermal
radiation travels at approximately the speed of light. The flash of light and the heat come several
seconds before the blast wave. And this causes flashblindness to anyone looking.
A temporary blindness of a few minutes.
Thermal radiation burns happen closer to the burn with 1st degree burns occurring around
11km, 2nd degree burns at 10km and 3rd degree burn destroying skin tissue at 8km. 3rd degree
burn that covers over 24% of the body wil likely be fatal without quick medical care. The
Hiroshima explosion was estimated to be 300,000 degrees Celcius, which is 300 times harder
than the process of cremation (in which dead bodies are incinerated)
When a 1 megaton bomb explodes, within a 6km radius, there would be an estimated 180 tons
of force on the wal of every two-story buildings, with wind speed at around 255 km/ hour.
Within a 1km radius, the peak pressure is four times greater, and wind speed reaches 756
km/hour. The human body can endure this amount of pressure, however, the wind would create
fatal col isions with nearby objects. So, deaths would largely be from col apsed buildings.
If you happen to survive al above, now you have to worry about radiation. Not al radiation are
harmful, we’re exposed to different forms of radiation everyday like our phones but ionizing
radiation at the center of a nuclear bomb has enough energy to rip electrons from atoms.
Then there is the fal out, when a bomb is detonated on or near the surface of the earth, the blast
creates a crater and the material that used to be deposited in the crater is carried up into the air
as vaporized dirt particles forming the familiar mushroom cloud. These particles become
radioactive and eventual y condense, and come back down as fal out. Depending on wind
conditions, radioactive fal out can travel for hundreds of miles. For the most part, you can’t
detect fal out with your senses.
Luckily, fal out radiation decays very quickly, and within 2 weeks, material wil have declined to
about 1% of its initial radiation level. But you’d have to stay in a shelter until then. So what if a
multi-bomb nuclear war broke out? A recent study imagined 100 bombs similar to the size of the
Hiroshima bomb detonated if India and Pakistan went to war, these countries have relatively
smal stockpile compared to the US, China and Russia, however, they would stil cause huge damage.
After the nuclear exchange, 5 megatons of black carbon would immediately enter the
atmosphere, causing global temperatures to fal and receive 9% less rain annual y. Though
these changes sounds smal , they could be enough to trigger crop failures and eventual y famine.
2, pinnacle = thời kì đỉnh cao, vì thế cần 1 tính từ miêu tả sự đỉnh cao đó
3, Đây là 1 phrasal verb, để ý 2 chỗ
- ranking among the most popular and favored mangas
- its omnipresence not only on the internet but also in real life
4, trong mọi câu truyện, phim thì người ta thường đề cao tính sáng tạo, mới mẻ, không lặp lại của ....
5, Cốt truyện .... tới những khó khăn mà Naruto, đừng nhìn các câu phía sau mà nghĩ khó quá, nó đơn giản lắm
6, Gợi ý: Nhân vật gì mà liên quan tới tiêu đề của truyện
7, Mình không biết gợi ý sao nên cho chữ cái đầu "f" Kết hợp 1 cái gì đó để cứu thế giới
9, Cái gì mà để chứng minh tác phẩm của tác giả 10, Chữ cái đầu "e" Journey of a decade
To the grief of mil ions of fans al over the world, the last chapter of Naruto was (1)
__Released/Published___ on 4th August 2015, marking the end of this pre-eminent series.
During its pinnacle, Naruto reigned (2) ___supreme__ in the manga world ranking among the
most popular and favored mangas such as Doraemon and Ushio&Tora, (3) ___attested__ to by
its omnipresence not only on the internet but also in real life. Since its first publication in March
2000, Naruto has gained significant popularity for both its fascinating drawings and original (4)
__storyline/plot___. The story is (5) __concerned___ with al the hardships that Naruto, the
main and (6) ___eponymous__ character, went through to achieve everyone’s recognition and
realize his dream of becoming Hokage (Leader of the Hidden leaf vil age), who assumes the
responsibility for thwarting the plans of the evil forces. Naruto together with his childhood friend
Sasuke underwent inumerable battles and separation as wel when Sasuke joined the Akatsuki.
In the end, they combined (7) __forces___ with the ninja al iance to defeat their archenemy and
(8) __pacify/save___ the world. Over the last decade, the series has never ceased to inspire
and enrich our knowledge with its priceless sentimental values . Having this great success to his
(9) __credit___, Masashi Kishimoto, the author of this phenomenal series, though no prolific
writer, has proved himself a distinguished artist in the profession, thereby earning the utmost
respect from al his fans and other mangakas. Though having come to an end, Naruto has
obviously found an (10) __echo__ in the hearts of mil ions of readers and wil continue to
entrance the next generations doubtlessly. For the time being, we can take a short rest to recal
the wondrous time we have been through while waiting for Kishimoto’s next auspicious work of art.