Đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn phương án đúng (ứng với A, B, C hoặc D) cho mỗi chỗ trống.
When I first entered general practice I was living in a small community on the east coast of Lake Huron. People expected me to be (21) …….. of their last physician, and they were both disappointed and upset when this didn’t turn out to be the case. Although I had few (22) …….. companions, I was a young, unmarried, and attractive woman who had been through one of the best medical schools in the country, and I had reasonable regard for my own qualities. It was upsetting at first when professional (23) …….. was ignored and my patients insisted on second opinions for the most trivial of conditions, but things became even more difficult when people started to spread malicious (24) …….. about my private life.
However, I decided that I would not let myself be made (25) …….. even if there were enough reasons to make anyone feel (26) ……… I followed my father’s cure for a problem – plain old hard work. I got up early every morning, (27) …….. to my office, and followed my profession. This was in the ‘30s and the level of poverty was (28) ……… Children didn’t have enough to eat and mothers couldn’t feed them. Because I was sympathetic and able to give practical help in some cases, my surgery became a (29) …….. for women trying to escape from the threat of domestic violence and the trap of poverty and too many children. And ironically, as I (30) …….. the poorest people in the community, the middle class began to think that maybe I had something to offer and started to beat a path to my surgery door.
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Lời giải:
Báo saiGiải thích: Companion: người bạn, người đồng hành. Like-minded: cùng tư tương, chí hướng. Smilar: tương tự. Corresponding: đúng với, tương ứng với. Matching: tương hợp. → Tôi có ít người bạn cùng tư tương.
Tạm dịch: Mặc dù tôi có ít người bạn cùng chí hướng, nhưng tôi là một phụ nữ trẻ, chưa lập gia đình và hấp dẫn, đã từng học qua một trong những trường y tốt nhất trong nước, và tôi đã coi trọng phẩm chất của mình một cách hợp lý.