often controlling situations for your own advantage in a way that is slightly unpleasant and causes people not to trust you:
In the film she's depicted as a very cold and calculating character.
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conniving
shrewd approving
Sly & devious
- artful
- artfully
- artfulness
- backdoor
- conniving
- cunning
- cunningly
- devious
- deviously
- deviousness
- ducking
- ducking and diving idiom
- foxy
- guile
- legerdemain
- Machiavellian
- sneaky
- tricky
- underhand
- wily
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/ˈkæl·kjəˌleɪ·t̬ɪŋ/using other people or situations as a way to get something you want, esp. in a selfish or secret way:
hokcoten
04-06-2009, 07:31 PM
Đầu ti�n l� tớ muốn hỏi mọi ng thi thế n�o? tớ l�m sai t�m lum cả :[
c�n đ�y l� chỗ tớ thắc mắc n�y:
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word for each of the blanks from 1 to 5.
It can be shown in facts and figures that cycling is the cheapest, most convenient, and most
environmentally desirable form of transport [1]______ towns, but such cold calculations do not mean much
on a frosty winter morning. The real appeal of cycling is that it is so [2]______. It has none of the difficulties
and tensions of other ways of travelling so you are more cheerful after a ride, even through the rush hour.
The first thing a non-cyclist says to you is: �But isn�t it [3] ______ dangerous?� It would be foolish to
deny the danger of sharing the road with motor vehicles and it must be admitted that there are an alarming [4]
______ of accidents involving cyclists. However, although police records [5] ______ that the car driver is
often to blame, the answer lies with the cyclist. It is possible to ride in such a way as to reduce risks to a
minimum.
Question 1: A. in B. at C. to D. on
Question 2: A. boring B. careful C. enyoyable D. excited
Question 3: A. expectedly B. strangely C. terribly D. comfortably
Question 4: A. size B. number C. deal D. digit
Question 5: A. point B. indicate C. display D. exhibit
tại sao c�u 3 lại l� C? tớ chọn A :[
wellfrog
05-06-2009, 01:08 AM
Đầu ti�n l� tớ muốn hỏi mọi ng thi thế n�o? tớ l�m sai t�m lum cả :[
c�n đ�y l� chỗ tớ thắc mắc n�y:
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word for each of the blanks from 1 to 5.
It can be shown in facts and figures that cycling is the cheapest, most convenient, and most
environmentally desirable form of transport [1]______ towns, but such cold calculations do not mean much
on a frosty winter morning. The real appeal of cycling is that it is so [2]______. It has none of the difficulties
and tensions of other ways of travelling so you are more cheerful after a ride, even through the rush hour.
The first thing a non-cyclist says to you is: �But isn�t it [3] ______ dangerous?� It would be foolish to
deny the danger of sharing the road with motor vehicles and it must be admitted that there are an alarming [4]
______ of accidents involving cyclists. However, although police records [5] ______ that the car driver is
often to blame, the answer lies with the cyclist. It is possible to ride in such a way as to reduce risks to a
minimum.
Question 1: A. in B. at C. to D. on
Question 2: A. boring B. careful C. enyoyable D. excited
Question 3: A. expectedly B. strangely C. terribly D. comfortably
Question 4: A. size B. number C. deal D. digit
Question 5: A. point B. indicate C. display D. exhibit
tại sao c�u 3 lại l� C? tớ chọn A :[
C�u đ� nếu chọn A sẽ mang nghĩa :" c� phải người ta mong chờ n� kh�ng nguy hiểm?"=> c�u l�ng nh�ch , chuyện đ� c�n phải hỏi , chứ c� ai lại mong nguy hiểm đ�u , hỏi = thừa !