AN DƯƠNG VƯƠNG HIGH SCHOOL READING TEST 22

FULL NAME ________________________

PASSAGE 1
The next online revolution has started. It is gathering (1) ____ at breakneck speed. It began on November the 30th when
the tech company OpenAI released its ChatGPT chatbot. This is a search box you can have a conversation with. It can
provide the answer to (2) ____ much any request you make, in (3) ____ grammar. Should you require a 300-word text
about a movie star written in the style of Shakespeare, you will (4) ____ it. ChatGPT has spread like wildfire across social
media. Analysts have (5) ____ it a game changer. Hot on the heels of ChatGPT comes Google's Bard chatbot. This was
launched on February the 6th. A Google-Microsoft battle for supremacy over the future of online search is now (6) ____.
There are countless questions regarding how chatbots will shake (7) ____ the Internet and our world. Educators are
worrying about "the end of homework" as bots can instantly provide (8) ____ essays and answers to a grade-A standard.
Workers are concerned the bots are a genuine threat to all (9) ____ of jobs. On the day Microsoft added ChatGPT to its
Bing search engine, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated: "It's a new day in search." Google (10) ____ people's fears
about the emergence and possible threats of chatbots. It said: "AI can (11) ____ our understanding of information and turn
it into useful knowledge more efficiently - making it easier for people to get to the (12) ____ of what they're looking for
and get things done."
Which of these words go in the above text?
1. (a) pact (b) apace (c) space (d) pace
2. (a) putty (b) potty (c) petty (d) pretty
3. (a) prefect (b) perfect (c) perfected (d) perfection
4. (a) write (b) require (c) get (d) search
5. (a) daubed (b) dabbed (c) dubbed (d) dabbled
6. (a) unfolding (b) unnerving (c) unyielding (d) unedifying
7. (a) across (b) up (c) around (d) down
8. (a) convincing (b) arguing (c) collaborating (d) styling
9. (a) etiquette (b) manner (c) behaviour (d) conduct
10. (a) alloyed (b) allied (c) allayed (d) arrears
11. (a) shorten (b) lengthen (c) deepen (d) heighten
12. (a) pancreas (b) stomach (c) lungs (d) heart

SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1. revolution a. persuasive
2. pace b. control
3. dubbed c. arrival
4. supremacy d. speed
5. unfolding e. fretting
6. worrying f. boost
7. convincing g. sea change
8. emergence h. productively
9. deepen i. developing
10. efficiently j. nicknamed
Paragraph 1
1. gathering pace a. Of a sequence of events being revealed or disclosed.
2. breakneck speed b. Becoming faster and faster.
 3. dubbed c. Following closely.
4. game changer d. Amazingly and extremely fast.
5. hot on the heels of e. An event, idea, or procedure that effects a significant shift in the current
way of doing or thinking about something.
6. supremacy f. Gave an unofficial name or nickname to someone or something.
7. unfolding g. The state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power,
or status.
Paragraph 2
8. shake up h. Make radical changes to the organization or structure of an institution or
system.
9. convincing i. Find or determine the most important or essential facts or meaning.
10. all manner of j. Capable of causing someone to believe that something is true or real.
11. emergence k. In a way that achieves maximum productivity with minimum wasted
effort or expense.
12. threat l. Many different kinds of.
13. efficiently m. The process of coming into being, or of becoming important.
14. get to the heart of n. A person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
PASSAGE 2
Times are (1) ____ for many people. Prices are (2) ____ around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic and Ukraine War
have pushed up food and energy bills. In some countries, the price of energy has (3) ____. In other countries, food is 20
per
cent more expensive than a year ago. A group of wealthy business leaders who (4) ____ multi-billion-dollar companies
has asked their governments to tax them more. The leaders met at a meeting of global leaders in Davos, Switzerland. The
group of multi-millionaires and billionaires actually protested (5) ____ the streets. They called for governments to
increase taxes for people like them. They marched in the streets with left-(6) ____ activists. The protestors wanted fairer
tax systems.
The World Economic Forum has been (7) ____ in Davos, Switzerland since 1971. World leaders meet there once a year to
discuss global problems. The group of wealthy business people called themselves the Patriotic Millionaires. A UK
millionaire said: "It's (8) ____ that our political leaders listen to those who have the most but know the least about the
economic impact of this cost of (9) ____ crisis." He said many super-rich people "pay (10) ____ little in taxes". He added:
"The only acceptable (11) ____ from this conference is to tax the richest and tax us now." Another millionaire at the
protest said: "We have hit the end of the (12) ____ when another quarter of a billion people will be pushed into extreme
poverty this year."
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
1. (a) hard (b) hardly (c) harden (d) hardens
2. (a) arising (b) raising (c) rising (d) rise
3. (a) triplet (b) trio (c) tripled (d) tripped
4. (a) down (b) disown (c) drown (d) own
5. (a) at (b) to (c) in (d) of
6. (a) leg (b) wing (c) arm (d) tentacle
7. (a) grasped (b) held (c) gripped (d) touched
8. (a) scourges (b) outrageous (c) ages (d) courageous
9. (a) enliven (b) lively (c) living (d) livelihood
10. (a) well known (b) famously (c) unknown (d) infamously
11. (a) income (b) overcome (c) come (d) outcome
12. (a) cash (b) century (c) tether (d) line