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.
In the United States, it is important to be on time, or punctual, for an appointment, a class, a meeting, etc... This may not be true in some other countries, however. An American professor discovered this difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian university. The two-hour class was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m, and end at 12 a.m. On the first day, when the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom. Many students came after 11 a.m. Although all of the students greeted the professor as they arrived, few apologised for their lateness. Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students’ behavior.
In American university, students are expected to arrive at the appointed hour. On the other hand, in Brazil, neither the teacher nor the students always arrive at the appointed hour. Classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States, but they also end at the scheduled time. In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at noon, many remained past 12:30 to discuss the class and ask more questions. While arriving late may not be important in Brazil, neither is staying late.
The explanation for these differences is complicated. People from Brazilian and North American cultures have different feelings about lateness. In Brazil, the students believe that a person who usually arrives late is probably more successful than a person who is always on time. In fact, Brazilians expect a person with status or prestige to arrive late, while in the United States, lateness is usually considered to be disrespectful and unacceptable. Consequently, if a Brazilian is late for an appointment with a North America, the American may misinterpret the reason for the lateness and become angry.
As a result for his study, the professor learned that the Brazilian students were not being disrespectful to him. Instead, they were simply behaving the appropriate way for a Brazilian student in Brazil. Eventually, the professor was able to adapt his own behavior to feel comfortable in the new culture.
It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A. Most American students anive after the class has begun
B. Most Brazilian students leave immediately when the class is finished
C. Brazilian students often come late and leave early
D. For most Americans, being late is unacceptable
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Đáp án D
Ta có thể suy ra từ đoạn văn rằng_______
A. Phần lớn sinh viên Mỹ đến lớp sau khi giờ học đã bắt đầu.
B. Phần lớn sinh viên Brazil rời lớp ngay khi hết tiết.
C. Sinh viên Brazil thường đến trễ về sớm.
D. Đối với đa số người Mỹ, trễ giờ là việc không thể chấp nhận.
Câu gần cuối đoạn 3 có ý: “in the United States, lateness is usually considered to be disrespectful and unacceptable.”
“tại Mỹ, việc trễ giờ được đánh giá là thiếu tôn trọng và không thể chấp nhận được.”
Các đáp án còn lại:
A. sai vì sinh viên Mỹ coi trọng sự đúng giờ.
B, C sai vì sinh viên Brazil thường đến muộn và ở lại muộn sau khi hết tiết.
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.
They recommend that the hotel should be redecorated.
Parents can express a_________for the school their child attends.
Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.
In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.
The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.
The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.
Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves and preserves.
Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas whether as sanctuaries,parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, c or D on your answ er sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
John does a lot of exercise. He’s still very fat.
Up until the middle of the 19th century, there were no_______and well established anny nursing systems for casualties.
I can t ride my bike__________there isn t any ah in one of the tires.
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
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A woman had a narrow escape when the car came round the comer.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlinedpart that needs correction in each of the following questions
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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
