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.
Although social changes in the United States were being wrought throughout most of the nineteenth–century, public awareness of the changes increased to new levels in the 1890's. The acute, growing public awareness of the social changes that had been taking place for some time was tied to tremendous growth in popular journalism in the late nineteenth century, including growth in quantity and circulation of both magazines and newspapers. These developments, in addition to the continued growth of cities, were significant factors in the transformation of society from one characterized by relatively isolated self–contained communities into an urban, industrial nation. The decade of the 1870's, for example, was a period in which the sheer number of newspapers doubled, and by 1880 the New York Graphic had published the first photographic reproduction in a newspaper, portending a dramatic rise in newspaper readership. Between 1882 and 1886 alone, the price of daily newspapers dropped from four cents a copy to one cent, made possible in part by a great increase in demand. Furthermore, the introduction in 1890 of the first successful linotype machine promised even further growth. In 1872 only two daily newspapers could claim a circulation of over 100,000, but by 1892 seven more newspapers exceeded that figure. A world beyond the immediate community was rapidly becoming visible.
But it was not newspapers alone that were bringing the new awareness to people in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Magazines as they are known today began publication around 1882, and, in fact, the circulation of weekly magazines exceeded that of newspapers in the period which followed. By 1892, for example, the circulation of the Ladies' Home Journal had reached an astounding 700,000. An increase in book readership also played a significant part in this general trend. For example, Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward, sold over a million copies in1888, giving rise to the growth of organizations dedicated to the realization of Bellamy's vision of the future. The printed word, unquestionably, was intruding on the insulation that had characterized United States society in an earlier period.
According to the passage, the New York Graphic's inclusion of photographs contributed to _______.
A. an increase in the number of people reading newspapers
B. a reduction in the cost of advertising
C. newspapers becoming more expensive
D. the closing of newspapers that did not use photographs
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Theo đoạn văn, sự bao gồm các bức ảnh trên tờ New York Graphic đã đóng góp vào _______.
A. sự gia tăng số lượng người đọc báo
B. giảm chi phí quảng cáo
C. việc báo trở nên đắt hơn
D. việc đóng cửa các tờ báo không sử dụng hình ảnh
Thông tin: The decade of the 1870's, for example, was a period in which the sheer number of newspapers doubled, and by 1880 the New York Graphic had published the first photographic reproduction in a newspaper, portending a dramatic rise in newspaper readership.
Tạm dịch: Ví dụ, thập niên 1870 là thời kỳ số lượng báo chí tăng gấp đôi, và đến năm 1880, Tờ New York Graphic đã xuất bản bản sao hình ảnh đầu tiên trên một tờ báo, cho thấy sự gia tăng mạnh mẽ về số lượng người đọc báo.
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Mặc dù những thay đổi xã hội ở Hoa Kỳ đã xảy ra trong hầu hết thế kỷ XIX, nhận thức của công chúng về những thay đổi đã tăng lên cấp độ mới trong những năm 1890. Nhận thức cộng đồng ngày tăng và càng gay gắt về những thay đổi xã hội đã diễn ra đôi khi gắn liền với sự phát triển khủng khiếp của báo chí phổ biến vào cuối thế kỷ XIX, bao gồm cả sự tăng trưởng về số lượng và lưu hành của cả báo và tạp chí. Những phát triển này, ngoài sự tăng trưởng liên tục của các thành phố, là những yếu tố quan trọng trong việc chuyển đổi xã hội từ việc mang đặc điểm của các cộng đồng khép kín tương đối biệt lập thành một quốc gia công nghiệp, đô thị. Ví dụ, thập niên 1870 là thời kỳ số lượng báo chí tăng gấp đôi, và đến năm 1880, Tờ New York Graphic đã xuất bản bản sao hình ảnh đầu tiên trên một tờ báo, cho thấy sự gia tăng mạnh mẽ về số lượng người đọc báo. Chỉ riêng từ năm 1882 đến 1886, giá của tờ báo hàng ngày đã giảm từ bốn xu một bản xuống còn một xu, một phần có thể là do nhu cầu tăng mạnh. Hơn nữa, sự ra đời vào năm 1890 của máy in li–nô thành công đầu tiên hứa hẹn sẽ còn tăng trưởng hơn nữa. Năm 1872 chỉ có hai tờ báo hàng ngày có thể yêu cầu lưu hành hơn 100.000 bản, nhưng đến năm 1892, có thêm bảy tờ báo vượt quá con số đó. Một thế giới bên ngoài cộng đồng gần gũi đã nhanh chóng trở nên hữu hình.
Nhưng không chỉ những tờ báo mang lại nhận thức mới cho người dân ở Hoa Kỳ vào cuối thế kỷ XIX. Tạp chí như chúng được biết đến ngày hôm nay đã bắt đầu xuất bản vào khoảng năm 1882, và trên thực tế, lượng phát hành của các tạp chí hàng tuần vượt quá các tờ báo trong giai đoạn tiếp theo. Đến năm 1892, chẳng hạn, số lượng phát hành của Tạp chí Ngôi nhà của Phụ nữ đã lên tới con số đáng kinh ngạc 700.000 bản. Lượng người đọc sách tăng cũng đóng một phần quan trọng trong xu hướng chung này. Ví dụ, tiểu thuyết không tưởng của Edward Bellamy, Nhìn về phía sau, đã bán được hơn một triệu bản vào năm 1888, làm tăng sự phát triển của các tổ chức dành riêng cho việc hiện thực hóa tầm nhìn của Bellamy về tương lai. Không nghi ngờ gì nữa, những từ ngữ được in, đang xâm nhập vào sự cô lập đặc trưng của xã hội Hoa Kỳ trong thời kỳ trước đó
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.
The term "Hudson River school" was applied to the foremost representatives of nineteenth–century North American landscape painting. Apparently unknown during the golden days of the American landscape movement, which began around 1850 and lasted until the late 1860's, the Hudson River school seems to have emerged in the 1870's as a direct result of the struggle between the old and the new generations of artists, each to assert its own style as the representative American art. The older painters, most of whom were born before 1835, practiced in a mode often self–taught and monopolized by landscape subject matter and were securely established in and fostered by the reigning American art organization, the National Academy of Design. The younger painters returning home from training in Europe worked more with figural subject matter and in a bold and impressionistic technique; their prospects for patronage in their own country were uncertain, and they sought to attract it by attaining academic recognition in New York. One of the results of the conflict between the two factions was that what in previous years had been referred to as the "American", "native", or, occasionally, "New York" school–the most representative school of American art in any genre–had by 1890 become firmly established in the minds of critics and public alike as the Hudson River school.
The sobriquet was first applied around 1879. While it was not intended as flattering, it was hardly inappropriate. The Academicians at whom it was aimed had worked and socialized in New York, the Hudson's port city, and had painted the river and its shores with varying frequency. Most important, perhaps, was that they had all maintained with a certain fidelity a manner of technique and composition consistent with those of America's first popular landscape artist, Thomas Cole, who built a career painting the Catskill Mountain scenery bordering the Hudson River. A possible implication in the term applied to the group of landscapists was that many of them had, like Cole, lived on or near the banks of the Hudson. Further, the river had long served as the principal route to other sketching grounds favored by the Academicians, particularly the Adirondacks and the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire.
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The organizers claim that the demonstration was a resounding success.
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Mail shots have proved to be the most cost–effective method of marketing our products.
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.
Although social changes in the United States were being wrought throughout most of the nineteenth–century, public awareness of the changes increased to new levels in the 1890's. The acute, growing public awareness of the social changes that had been taking place for some time was tied to tremendous growth in popular journalism in the late nineteenth century, including growth in quantity and circulation of both magazines and newspapers. These developments, in addition to the continued growth of cities, were significant factors in the transformation of society from one characterized by relatively isolated self–contained communities into an urban, industrial nation. The decade of the 1870's, for example, was a period in which the sheer number of newspapers doubled, and by 1880 the New York Graphic had published the first photographic reproduction in a newspaper, portending a dramatic rise in newspaper readership. Between 1882 and 1886 alone, the price of daily newspapers dropped from four cents a copy to one cent, made possible in part by a great increase in demand. Furthermore, the introduction in 1890 of the first successful linotype machine promised even further growth. In 1872 only two daily newspapers could claim a circulation of over 100,000, but by 1892 seven more newspapers exceeded that figure. A world beyond the immediate community was rapidly becoming visible.
But it was not newspapers alone that were bringing the new awareness to people in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Magazines as they are known today began publication around 1882, and, in fact, the circulation of weekly magazines exceeded that of newspapers in the period which followed. By 1892, for example, the circulation of the Ladies' Home Journal had reached an astounding 700,000. An increase in book readership also played a significant part in this general trend. For example, Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward, sold over a million copies in1888, giving rise to the growth of organizations dedicated to the realization of Bellamy's vision of the future. The printed word, unquestionably, was intruding on the insulation that had characterized United States society in an earlier period.
What does the author mean by the statement "A world beyond the immediate community was rapidly becoming visible" in paragraph 1?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of the following questions.
Banana fiber is used in the production of banana paper. Banana paper is used in two different senses: to (23) _______ to a paper made from the bark of the banana tree, mainly used for artistic purposes, or paper made from banana’s fiber, (24) _______ from an industrialized process, from the stem and the non–usable fruits. The paper can be either hand–made or made by machine. The volume of raw (25) _______ for making banana paper around the world on plantations is vast and largely unutilized. The market for banana paper is seen as a growth industry. (26) _______ 1988, in Costa Rica, companies like EcoPaper.com and Costa Rica Natural Paper have been producing 100% industrialized fine environmental and ecological paper derived from natural banana fibers, for the writing and stationery market.
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Jenny is telling Danny, her aunt, about her band 7.5 in IELTS test.
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Danny: “_______.”
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In order not to disturb our conversation, he took his seat quietly
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of the following questions.
Banana fiber is used in the production of banana paper. Banana paper is used in two different senses: to (23) _______ to a paper made from the bark of the banana tree, mainly used for artistic purposes, or paper made from banana’s fiber, (24) _______ from an industrialized process, from the stem and the non–usable fruits. The paper can be either hand–made or made by machine. The volume of raw (25) _______ for making banana paper around the world on plantations is vast and largely unutilized. The market for banana paper is seen as a growth industry. (26) _______ 1988, in Costa Rica, companies like EcoPaper.com and Costa Rica Natural Paper have been producing 100% industrialized fine environmental and ecological paper derived from natural banana fibers, for the writing and stationery market.
This industry (27) _______ numerous waste products such as: the plastic that wraps the bananas, plastic cords to tie the wrapping, damaged bananas and the pinzote (stems). An alarming quantity of over of 92% of water, 3% of resins and 2% glucose; the rest is vegetal fiber. This particular composition makes it decompose without the solid component being destroyed. This causes a severe impact on the surrounding ecosystems – much to the detriment of rivers and underground waters
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She now faces the daunting challenge of writing a successful sequel to her hugely popular first book.
