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 questions.
It’s often said that we team things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before their piano practice 5 because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older.
Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to be late - I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn’t frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had a big meal, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated. Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas - from being able to drive a car, perhaps - means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten. I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.
It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you _____
A. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger
B. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger
C. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger
D. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger
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Chọn C.
Đáp án C.
Dịch câu hỏi: Trong đoạn cuối, tác giả muốn nói rằng sau này khi bạn trở lại học tập thì bạn ______
A. nên mất nhiều thời gian để học hơn khi bạn còn trẻ
B. không thể tập trung tốt như khi bạn còn trẻ
C. đôi khi có thể hiểu nhiều hơn khi bạn còn trẻ
D. thấy rằng bạn có thể nhớ lại rất nhiều điều bạn đã học khi còn trẻ
Thông tin: “And coming hack to it. with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, I could never grasp, was magical” (Và khi trở lại học cùng với một giáo viên có thể giải thích tại sao một số bài luyện tập lại hữu ích và tôi có thể tiếp thu những khái niệm âm nhạc mà hồi lên mười thi không thể, thật là kì diệu.)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Alice and Charles did not decide to move to a bigger house until after the birth of their second child.
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Don’t let time go ________ without doing anything about the situation.
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Many scientists _____ all their lives to working out answers to problems.
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She came in quietly_________not to wake the baby.
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In order to become a member of the country club, applicants have to meet the strict ____ set by the club president.
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_______ extremely bad weather in the mountains, we are no longer considering our skiing trip.
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__________ in UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites in 2003, Phong Nha Ke Bang is noted for its cave and grotto systems.
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Albert Einstein was such brilliant (A) a scientist that many of his colleagues (B) had to study (C) for several years (D) in order to form opinions about his theories.
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 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 28
Environmental pollution
Environmental pollution is a term that refers to all the ways by which man pollutes his surroundings. Man dirties the air with gases and smoke, (25) _______the water with chemicals and other substances, and damages the soil with (26) _______ many fertilizers and pesticides. Man also pollutes his surroundings in various other ways. For example, people ruin natural beauty by (27) _______ junk and litter on the land and in the water. They operate machines and motor vehicles that fill the air with disturbing noise.
Environmental pollution is one of the most serious propblems facing humankind today. Air, water, and soil are necessary to the survival of all living things. Badly polluted air can cause illness, and (28) _______ death.Polluted water kills fish and other (29) _______ life. Pollution of soil reduces the amount of land that is available for growing food.
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Nearly (A) chemical agents are harmful (B) to living tissues (C) if enough of them is taken (D).
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A lot of people _______ out of work if the factory closed down.
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We had waited for two hours and in the end they arrived.
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You should not send money to us by post under any circumstances.
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“I am in a bit of hurry, but I’ll ring you tomorrow”, he said.
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He would have been excused had he chosen to blow his ____ a little, but that is not his style.
