XI:
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 66 to 75.
Sudoku
Are you a fan of the popular logical puzzle that (66) ___________ by the name Sudoku? Even if you’re not, the chances are you know somebody who is. Once (67) ___________known outside Japan, this addictive brain teaser has become a common feature of newspaper puzzle pages all over the world.
Sudoku’s great success (68) ___________ much to its simplicity. The game (69) ___________ for neither mathematical ability nor (70) ___________ knowledge and there are just a few sentences of straightforward instructions to read before you can play. The only skill required is the ability to recognize the difference between nine different symbols, and these don’t even have to be numbers.
Some clever marketing has helped the game. Western newspapers worked hard at promoting the game. Without this, it is unlikely that it would have (71) ___________ off and become quite such a runaway success. The same also (72) ___________ from its Japanese name that made people in many parts of the world (73) ___________. It as a superior kind of puzzle compared to those you usually find in newspapers and magazines.
But the popularity of Sudoku reached a peak in 2006, if the number of (74) ___________ on one leading website is anything to go by. Newspapers responded by (75) ___________ up with new kinds of logical puzzles, all with simple rules and Japanese names. But for true Sudoku fans, only the real thing will do.
Trả lời câu hỏi dưới đây:
__________(67)
Đáp án là C. Once hardly known outside Japan: Một khi hầu như không được biết đến bên ngoài Nhật Bản
Các từ còn lại: thinly: mỏng manh; rarely: hiếm khi ( chỉ tần xuất ); briefly: tóm gọn