Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question from 18 to 25.
The principle of use and disuse states that those parts of organisms’ bodies that are used grown larger. Those parts that are not tend to wither away. It is an observed fact that when you exercise particular muscles, they grow. Those that are never used dimish. By examining a man’s body, we can tell which muscles he uses and which he doesn’t. We may even be able to guess his profession or his reaction. Enthusiasts of the “body-building” cult make use of the principle of use and disuse to “build” their bodies, almost like a piece of sculpture, into whatever unnatural shape is demanded by fashion in this peculiar minority culture. Muscles are not the only parts of the body that respond to use in this kind of way. Walk barefoot and you acquire harder skin on your soles. It is easy to tell a famer from a bank teller by looking at their hands alone. The famer’s hands are horny, hardened by long exposure to rough work. The teller’s hands are relatively soft.
The principle of use and disuse enables animals to become better at the job of surviving in their world, progressively better during their lifetime as result of living in that world. Humans, through direct exposure to sunlight, or lack of it, develop a skin color which equips them better to survive in the particular local conditions.
Too much sunlight is dangerous. Enthusiastic sunbathers with very fair skins are susceptible to skin cancer. Too little sunlight, on the other hand, leads to vitamin-D deficiency and rickets. The brown pigment melanin which is synthesized under the influence of sunlight, makes a screen to protect the underlying tissues from the harmful effects of further sunlight. If a suntanned person moves to a less sunny climate, the melanin disappears, and the body is able to benefit from what little sun there is. This can be represented as an instance of the principle of use and disuse: skin goes brown when it is “used”, and fades to white when it is not.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. How the principles of use and disuse change people’s concepts of themselves.
B. The changes that occur according to the principle of use and disuse
C. The way in which people change themselves to conform to fashion
D. The effects of the sun on the principle of use and disuse
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Đáp án B
Key word: the passage, mainly discuss.
Phân tích đáp án:
A. How the principle of use and disuse change people’s concepts of themselves: Cách nhưng quy luật về dung và không dung làm thay đổi khái niệm của con người về chính họ.
B. The changes that occur according to the principle of use and disuse: Những thay đổi tuỳ theo quy luật dung và không dung - Nội dung xuyên suốt bài (những thay đổi của người tập thể hình/ của da người tuỳ theo điều kiện nắng…)
C. The way in which people change themselves to conform to fashion: Cách mà người ta thay đổi để chạy theo thời trang - Chỉ là một nội dung nhỏ.
D. The effects of the sun on the principle of use and disuse: những ảnh hưởng của ánh nắng lên quy luật dung và không dùng - Hoàn toàn sai.
Đáp án chính xác là B.
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If we (34)________the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in order to show that it was a Question. They started to write Qo in place of the whole word, and the put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark “?”
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