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 28 to 34
China - Missing Women
In China the growing difference between the genders is giving signals of alarm to Government authorities. According to the latest census figures, 119 boys are born for every 100 girls. [A■] This striking difference is expected to shoot up by the year 2020 with almost 40 million unsettled bachelors. This distribution of the social ecology would create havoc in the future. The social leaders are trying to pressurize the masses into producing more females. The Government has embarked on policies extending innumerable incentives to the families bearing girls.
Monetary support, free education, guaranteed employment is being gifted to parents who gift the country with a girl child. The Government is trying to persuade people to suppress their personal preferences and regulate their community behavior according to the new blueprint to stimulate the girl ratio. [B■] Sometimes the Government tries to woo them and sometimes it uses stein policies to force them into it.
Consequent to the population explosion, the Government introduced, in the 80's, one child policy in China. Any additional pregnancy had to be terminated. This was aimed to put a check on the teeming millions. [C■] The policy had no relation to extermination of girl child in the womb. But the policymakers had no idea about its long term impact. People, with a patriarchic mindset, came up with their preference for a single male child. The idea of a happy family became 'parents with a single male child'.
The Chinese culture has always promoted sons over daughters because the society has been dominated by males. In villages, where hard work is needed to sustain the agriculture, a boy is always preferable due to his superior physical strength compared to that of a girl. [D■] In such circumstances, looking forward to a male baby seems justified. If people have to limit their families, it is obvious they would prefer a boy over a girl child. This problem has been accentuated by the use of ultrasound scanning which helps determine the sex of the fetus. This technology has played a crucial role in creating gender imbalance.
Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence can be added to the passage:
“Another reason is that daughters have to leave their parents after marriage to enrich their husband's family.”
Where would the sentence best fit?
A. [A■]
B. [B■]
C. [C■]
D. [D■]
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Đáp án D
Nhìn vào bốn ô vuông [■] cho biết câu sau có thể được thêm vào ở đâu trong đoạn văn:
“Một lý do khác là con gái phải rời cha mẹ sau khi kết hôn làm giàu gia đình chồng họ.”
Câu nào phù hợp nhất?
Đoạn văn 3 đang nói về lý do con trai được ưa thích hơn con gái, cho nên điền vào chỗ trống D là phù hợp.
Dịch bài
Ở Trung Quốc, sự cách biệt đang tăng lên về giới tính đang tạo ra dấu hiệu báo động cho Chính phủ. Theo số liệu điều tra dân số mới nhất, 119 bé trai được sinh ra trên mỗi 100 bé gái. Sự cách biệt đáng chú ý này dự kiến sẽ tăng lên vào năm 2020 với gần 40 triệu người độc thân. Sự phân bố này của bộ sinh thái xã hội sẽ gây ra sự tàn phá trong tương lai. Các nhà lãnh đạo xã hội đang cố gắng tạo áp lực lên dân chúng để sinh thêm nhiều bé gái. Chính phủ đã bắt tay vào các chính sách mở rộng vô số ưu đãi cho các gia đình có con gái. Hỗ trợ tiền tệ, giáo dục miễn phí, công việc được bảo đảm đang được tặng cho các cha mẹ có con gái. Chính phủ đang cố gắng thuyết phục mọi người kìm nén sở thích cá nhân của họ và điều chinh hành vi của cộng động theo kế hoạch mới để kích thích tỷ lệ nữ. Đôi khi Chính phủ cố gắng lôi kéo họ và đội khi họ sử dụng chính sách gốc để buộc họ thực hiện.
Kết quả của bùng nổ dân số, vào những năm 80, chính phủ đã giới thiệu chính sách một con ở Trung Quốc. Bất kỳ thai kỳ bổ sung nào cũng phải chấm dứt. Điều này nhằm mục đích kìm nén hàng triệu người đông đúc. Chính sách này không có liên quan đến việc loại bỏ đứa con gái trong bụng mẹ. Nhưng các nhà hoạch định chính sách không biết về ảnh hưởng lâu dài của nó. Con người, với tư duy gia trưởng, thích một đứa con trai. Ý niệm về một gia đình hạnh phúc trở thành ‘cha mẹ với một đứa con trai’.
Văn hoá Trung Hoa luôn luôn đề cao con trai hơn con gái vì xã hội đã bị thống trị bởi nam giới. Ở nhiều làng, nơi cần sự chăm chỉ để duy trì nông nghiệp, một chàng trai luôn thích hợp hơn do sức mạnh thể chất của mình cao hơn so với một cô gái. Một lý do khác là con gái phải rời cha mẹ sau khi kết hôn làm giàu gia đình chồng họ. Trong những trường hợp như vậy, mong muốn một đứa con trai có vẻ hợp lý. Nếu mọi người phải giới hạn gia đình của họ, rõ ràng họ sẽ thích một cậu bé hơn một cô gái. Vấn đề này đã được nêu bật bằng việc sử dụng siêu âm giúp xác định giới tính thai nhi. Công nghệ này đã đóng một yếu tố quyết định trong việc tạo ra sự mất cân bằng giới.
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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 35 to 42.
Overpopulation, the situation of having large numbers of people with too few resources and too little space, is closely associated with poverty. It can result from high population density, or from low amounts of resources, or from both. Excessively high population densities put stress on available resources. Only a certain number of people can be supported on a given area of land, and that number depends on how much food and other resources the land can provide. In countries where people live primarily by means of simple farming, gardening, herding, hunting, and gathering, even large areas of land can support only small numbers of people because these labour intensive subsistence activities produce only small amounts of food.
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