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 from 35 to 42.
In the West, cartoons are used chiefly to make people laugh. The important feature of all these cartoons is the joke and the element of surprise which is contained. Even though it is very funny, a good cartoon is always based on close observation of a particular feature of life and usually has a serious purpose.
Cartoons in the West have been associated with political and social matters for many years. In wartime, for example, they proved to be an excellent way of spreading propaganda. Nowadays cartoons are often used to make short, sharp comments on politics and governments as well as on a variety of social matters. In this way, the modern cartoon has become a very powerful force in influencing people in Europe and the United States.
Unlike most American and European cartoons, however, many Chinese cartoon drawings in the past have also attempted to educate people, especially those who could not read and write. Such cartoons about the lives and sayings of great men in China have proved extremely useful in bringing education to illiterate and semiliterate people throughout China. Confucius, Mencius and Laozi have all appeared in very interesting stories presented in the form of cartoons. The cartoons themselves have thus served to illustrate the teachings of the Chinese sages in a very attractive way.
In this sense, many Chinese cartoons are different from Western cartoons in so far as they do not depend chiefly on telling jokes. Often, there is nothing to laugh at when you see Chinese cartoons. This is not their primary aim. In addition to commenting on serious political and social matters, Chinese cartoons have aimed at spreading the traditional Chinese thoughts and culture as widely as possible among the people.
Today, however, Chinese cartoons have an added part to play in spreading knowledge. They offer a very attractive and useful way of reaching people throughout the world, regardless of the particular country in which they live. Thus, through cartoons, the thoughts and teachings of the old Chinese philosophers and sages can now reach people who live in such countries as Britain, France, America, Japan, Malaysia or Australia and who are unfamiliar with the Chinese culture.
Until recently, the transfer of knowledge and culture has been overwhelmingly from the West to the East and not vice versa. By means of cartoons, however, publishing companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore are now having success in correcting this imbalance between the East and the West.
Cartoons can overcome language barriers in all foreign countries. The vast increase in the popularity of these cartoons serves to illustrate the truth of Confucius’s famous saying “One picture is worth a thousand words.”
The word “imbalance” in paragraph 6 refers to ______.
A. the mismatch between the East cartoons and the West cartoons
B. the dominant cultural influence of the West over the East
C. the influence of the East cartoons over the West cartoons
D. the discrimination between the West culture and the East culture
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Đáp án là B.
Dịch câu hỏi : Từ “imbalance” ở đoạn 6 ở đây liên quan đến _________.
A. sự không phù hợp giữa phim hoạt hình phương Đông và phim hoạt hình phương Tây
B. ảnh hưởng văn hóa thống trị của phương Tây đối với phương Đông
C. ảnh hưởng của phim hoạt hình phương Đông đối với phim hoạt hình phương Tây
D. sự phân biệt giữa văn hóa phương Tây và văn hóa phương Đông
Thông tin ở đoạn này: “Until recently, the transfer of knowledge and culture has been overwhelmingly from the West to the East and not vice versa. By means of cartoons, however, publishing companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore are now having success in correcting this imbalance between the East and the West.”
(Cho mãi đến tận gần đây, sự chuyển giao ngôn ngữ và văn hoá đã lấn át từ phương Tây sang phương Đông và không phải ngược lại. Nhờ phim hoạt hình, tuy nhiên, những công ty sản xuất ở Đài Loan, Hồng Kong và Singapore bây giờ đang thành công trong việc khôi phục sự mất cân bằng giữa phương Đông và phương Tây.)
=> đáp án: Sự ảnh hưởng vượt trội của Phương Tây so với Phương Đông
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Mary said (A) her friends that she would (B) never walk alone (C) in the forest after dark (D).
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The fans ________when their team scored a goal.
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Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is ____; if it were destroyed, no amount of money could ever replace it.
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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 word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 28
These days in business, people have to face many challenging questions when designing and implementing new projects in undeveloped areas of the countryside. One issue which has to be faced is whether it is possible to introduce new technology without destroying the local environment. Economic (25) ______ and environmental conservation are often seen as natural enemies. It is unfortunate that in the past this has often been true, and it has been necessary to choose between (26) ________ the project or protecting the environment. However, by taking environmental considerations (27) ______ at an early stage in a project, companies can significantly reduce any impact on local plants and animals. For example, in southern Africa, a company called CEL was asked to put up 410 km of a power transmission line without disturbing the rare birds which inhabit that area. The project was carried out with (28) _____ disturbance last summer. What may surprise many business people is the fact that this consideration for local wildlife did not in any way slow down the project. Indeed, the necessary advance planning combined with local knowledge and advanced technology, (29) ______ that the project was actually completed ahead of schedule. CEL was contracted to finish the job by October and managed to do so two months earlier.
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_____ does not circle around the earth was proven by Galileo.
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I had to get up early,___________I’d have missed the train.
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Emotions are complicated (A) psychological phenomena those (B) we cannot sum up (C) in everyday (D) terms.
