SOUTH KOREAN COACH PARK HANG-SEO ON THURSDAY ANNOUNCED A LIST OF 28 P...
Câu 43: South Korean coach Park Hang-seo on Thursday announced a list of 28 players who
will prepare for the January AFC U23 Championship.
A. A list of 28 players who will prepare for the January AFC U23 Championship is announced
by South Korean coach Park Hang-seo on Thursday.
B. A list of 28 players who will prepare for the January AFC U23 Championship has been
announced by South Korean coach Park Hang-seo on Thursday.
C. A list of 28 players who will prepare for the January AFC U23 Championship was
D. A list of 28 players who will prepare for the January AFC U23 Championship were
Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions
from 44 to 50.
There is a common expression in the English language referring to a blue moon. When people
say that something happens “only once in a blue moon
,” they mean that it happens only
very rarely, once in a great while.
This
has been around for at least a century and a half; there
are references to this expression that date from the second half of the nineteenth century.
The expression “a blue moon
” has come to refer to the second full moon occurring in any
given calendar month. A second full moon is not called a blue moon because it is particularly
blue or is any different in hue from the first full moon of the month. Instead, it is called a blue
moon because it is so rare. The moon needs a little more than 29 days to complete the cycle
from full moon to full moon. Because every month except February has more than 29 days,
every month will have at least one full moon (except February, which will have a full moon
unless there is a full moon at the very end of January and another full moon at the very
beginning of March). It is on the occasion when a given calendar month has a second full moon
that a blue moon occurs. This does not happen very often, only three or four times in a decade.
The blue moons of today are called blue moons because of their rarity and not because of their
color; however, the expression “blue moon” may have come into existence in reference to
unusual circumstances in which the moon actually appeared blue. Certain natural phenomena of
gigantic proportions can actually change the appearance of the moon from Earth. The eruption
of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883 left dust particles in the atmosphere, which clouded the sun
and gave the moon a bluish tint. This particular occurrence of the blue moon may have given
rise to the expression that we use today. Another example occurred more than a century later.
When Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, the moon again
took on
a blue tint.
(Adapted from Longman Complete Course for the TOEFL Test)