WORD FORM (PASSAGE) - 22 BÀI LUYỆN THI VÀO LỚP 10 CHUYÊN ANH Mã A896253

WORD FORM (PASSAGE)

1.The Warrunmbungle National Park

The Warrungungle National Park is (0) …………..increasing in (1)… ………..with visitors in Australia. Walking, camping and rock climbing are the favourite leisure-time (2) ……………in this area,but the landscape and wildlife, which are (3) ………..varied, also attract (4) ………and naturalist throughout the different seasons of the year. Visitors share the park with hundred of native animals, such as kangaroos and koalas. The wonderful (5)…… ……….in Warrumbungle National Park is the result of (6) …………volcanic activity over a massive area. This produced the many (7) ……………..rock formations and numerous lakes visible today, and also the rich soil which enables the abundant vegetation topgrow and flourish. Walking tracks in the park are clearly marked, and visitors are (8)…… …..to keep to these. Many of the walks can be done by children and some are (9) ………….for pushchairs and wheelchairs. A relatively easy, but highly rewarding, walk in the 5-kilometre trek up to Belougery Split Rock, where visitors may be lucky enough to see eagles flying overhead. More (10) ………….walkers can try the more demanding 15- kilometere walk to Camp Pincham.The view there is unforgettable, but it will take even the fittest walker four or five hours to get there.

2. Capital punishment, also called death penalty, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. Capital punishment should be distinguished from (11)_____ executions carried out without due process of law. The term death penalty is sometimes used (12) ________ with capital punishment, though imposition of the penalty is not always followed by execution (even when it is upheld on appeal), because of the possibility of (13)_ ______ to life imprisonment. Capital punishment for murder, treason, arson, and rape was widely employed in ancient Greece under the laws of Draco, though Plato argued that it should be used only for the (14) _____. The Romans also used it for a wide range of offenses, though citizens were exempted for a short time during the republic. It also has been sanctioned at one time or another by most of the world’s major religions. Followers of Judaism and Christianity, for example, have claimed to find justification for capital punishment in the (15) _____ passage ‘Whosoever sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed’ (Genesis 9:6). Yet capital punishment has been (16) ____ for many crimes not involving loss of life, including adultery and blasphemy. The ancient legal principle Lex talionis (talion) – ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life’ – which appears in the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, was invoked in some societies to ensure that capital punishment was not (17) _________ applied. Capital punishment has long engendered considerable debate about both its morality and its effect on criminal behaviour. Supporters of the death penalty believe that those who commit murder, because they have taken the life of another, have forfeited their own right to life. By contrast, opponents of capital punishment, following the writings of Cesare Beccaria, argue that, by (18) ______ the very behaviour that the law seeks to repress –killing –capital punishment is (19) _______in the moral message it conveys. Moreover,

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