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 38 to 42.
American movies create myths about college life in the United States. These stories are entertaining, but they are not true. You have to look beyond Hollywood movies to understand what college is really like.
Thanks to the movies, many people believe that college students party and socialize more than they study. Movies almost never show students working hard in class or in the library. Instead, movies show them eating, talking, hanging out, or dancing to loud music at wild parties. While it is true that American students have the freedom to participate in activities, they also have academic responsibilities. In order to succeed, they have to attend classes and study hard.
Another movie myth is that athletics is the only important extracurricular activity. In fact, there is a wide variety of nonacademic activities on campus such as special clubs, service organizations, art, and theater programs. This variety allows students to choose what interests them. Even more important, after graduation, students' résumés look better to employers if they list a few extracurricular activities.
Most students in the movies can easily afford higher education. If only this were true! While it is true that some American college students are wealthy, most are from families with moderate incomes. Up to 80% of them get some type of financial aid. Students from middle and lower-income families often work part-time throughout their college years. There is one thing that many college students have in common, but it is not something you will see in the movies. They have parents who think higher education is a priority, a necessary and important part of their children's lives.
Movies about college life usually have characters that are extreme in some way: super athletic, super intelligent, super wealthy, super glamorous, etC. Movies use these stereotypes, along with other myths of romance and adventure because audiences like going to movies that include these elements. Of course, real college students are not like movie characters at all.
So the next time you want a taste of the college experience, do not go to the movies. Look at some college websites or brochures instead. Take a walk around your local college campus. Visit a few classes. True, you may not be able to see the same people or exciting action you will see in the movies, but you can be sure that there are plenty of academic adventures going on all around you.
The phrase “academic responsibilities” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to _________ .
A. learning duties
B. training skills
C. caring professions
D. teaching methods
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Đáp án A
Cụm từ “academic responsibilities” ở đoạn 2 đồng nghĩa với ______.
A. trách nhiệm học tập.
B. kĩ năng đào tạo.
C. nghề nghiệp chăm sóc.
D. kĩ năng giảng dạy.
Cụm danh từ: academic responsibilities: trách nhiệm học tập = A. learning duties.
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The rhinoceros will become _________ if people continue to hurt them.
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“I passed the driving test yesterday.” “ _________ !”
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"Are you still going to Florida for vacation?” “Yes, but I really _________ because I don’t have much money.”
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William won first _________ in the tennis competition.
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It is common knowledge that sportmen _________ themselves in good fonn by regular swimming.
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My mother made me _________ at home at night.
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He asked the children _________ too much noise.
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Boys! Put your toys _________. It is time to go to bed. Don't stay _________ late.
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The picture was painted by Laura, _________ is being shown in an exhibition.
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_________ extremely bad weather in the mountains, we re no longer considering our skiing trip.
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Reviewers often _________ books as “hard to put down” or “hard to pick up again”.
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There are several different kinds of faults in reading which are usually more exaggerated with foreign learners
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_________ he had enough money, he refused to buy a new car.
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Instead _________ petrol, cars will only run _________ solar energy and electricity.
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 27
How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a (25) _______. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed (26) _______ certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. These sounds, (27) _______ spoken or written in letters, are called words. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words that appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary (28) _______. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can (29) _______ men to tears. We should, therefore, learn to choose our words carefully, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar.
