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 questions from 36 to 42.
A small but growing group of scholars, evolutionary psychologists, are being to sketch the contours of the human mind as designed by natural selection. Some of them even anticipate the coming of a field called "mismatch theory", which would study maladies resulting from contrasts between the modern environment and the "ancestral environment". The one we were designed for. There is no shortage of such maladies to study. Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the third most common cause of death among young adults, after car wrecks and homicides.
Evolutionary psychology is a long way from explaining all this with precision, but it is already shedding enough light to challenge some conventional wisdom. It suggests for example, that the nostalgia for the nuclear family of the 1950s is in some way misguided-that the model family of husband at work and wife at home is hardly a "natural" and the healthful living arrangement, especially for the wives. Moreover, the bygone lifestyles that do look fairly by commercialism. Perhaps the biggest surprise from evolutionary psychology is it depiction of the "animal" in us. Freud, and various thinkers since, saw "civilization" as an oppressive force that thwarts basic animal instincts and urges and transmutes them into psychopathology. However, evolutionary psychology suggests that a large threat to mental health may be the way civilization thwarts civility. There is a gentler, kinder side of human
nature, and it seems increasingly to be a victim of repression in modern society
Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A. How evolutionary psychology manages modern society
B. The problems of illness caused by modern society
C. The importance of ancestral environment
D. Evolutionary psychologists' views on the nuclear family
Giải bởi qa.haylamdo.com
Đáp án B
Giải thích: Bài văn nói về những vấn đề sức khỏe, đặc biể là sức khỏe tinh thần bị ảnh hưởng bởi xã hội. Phương án A, C, D chỉ là một chi tiết nhỏ trong bài nên không thể coi đó là ý khái quát chủ đề được.
Dịch nghĩa: Đâu là chủ đề chính của bài văn?
A. tâm lí học tiến hóa xoay chuyển xã hội hiện đại như thế nào
B. vấn đề bệnh tật gây ra bởi xã hội hiện đại
C. tầm quan trọng của môi trường thời xưa
D. quan điểm của những nhà tâm lí học tiến hóa về gia đình hạt nhân
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following questions.
The repeated commercials on TV distract many viewers from watching their favourite films
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
His boss has had enough of his impudence, and doesn’t want to hire him any more
Most Americans don’t object _____ being called by their first names.
The new school complex cost ______ the city council had budgeted for.
For this recipe to be successful, you _____ cook the meat for at least two hours in a moderate oven
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
The existence of many stars in the sky _______ us to suspect that there may be life on another planet
I had a red pen but I seem to have lost it; I think I’d better buy ______ one.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
No matter what different, various music types have one thing in common: touching the hearts of listeners
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
“Why don’t you ask your boss for a rise?” he asked me
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
Good clerks are happy to wait for their customers
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
Tony has not rarely missed a play or concert since he was seventeen years old.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
DO SMALLER CLASSES REALLY HELP?
In an experiment in Canada, ten-year-old children were put in classes of four sizes: 16, 23, 30 and 37 children in (31)____ class. Their teachers said that the smaller classes would result in more individual attention and better marks. However, when the children were (32)____, those in the smaller classes didn’t get higher marks than the others, except in mathematics. Moreover, children in the larger classes said they liked school (33)____ as much. Perhaps the most surprising result was the difference between what teachers expected and the actual results obtained. More than 90% of the teachers expected the smaller classes to (34)____ well. After teaching these smaller classes, over 80% of the teachers thought the pupils had done better. However, according to the researchers, nothing of the (35)____ happened. Class size seemed to make a difference only to the teachers’ own attitudes - and not to the results they obtained. (Source: “Longman Tests in Contexts” by J.B. Heaton)
Điền ô số 32
