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 42 to 48.
Nepal has made important progress over the past few years to promote equality, but the country still has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. 41% of Nepalese girls are married before the age of 18.
Poverty is both a cause and consequence of child marriage in Nepal. Girls from the wealthiest families marry 2 years later than those from the poorest, who are seen as an economic burden, and who drop out of school and earn little money.
Food insecurity plays an important role too. Nepalese families that do not have enough food to eat are more likely to marry their daughters at a young age to decrease the financial burden. One study shows that 91% of people who had secure access to food married over the age of 19.
Dowry is also a common practice in many communities. Parents marry their daughters as soon as possible because the money they have to pay for the groom's family is higher if their daughter is older. Since 2010, the legal age of marriage is 20 for both men and women, or 18 with parental consent, according to the Nepalese Country Code.
The law states that punishment for child marriage is imprisonment for up to three years and a fine of up to 10,000 rupees (£102). But reports suggest that this law is rarely applied. There has been quite a lot of progress in Nepal over the past 3 years with a clear government commitment to ending child marriage and civil society cooperation. The Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare is currently developing Nepal's first national strategy on child marriage in collaboration with UNICEF Nepal and Girls Not Brides Nepal. However, the post-earthquake and post-fuel crisis environment has meant progress is slow and the national strategy has been delayed.
(Adapted from http://www.girlsnotbrides.org/)
Which of the following best serves as the title for the passage?A. Nepal Government in an attempt to reduce social inequality.
B. Child marriage - A completely tractable problem in Nepal.
C. Nepal's strategies to child protection programming.
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Đáp án D
Phương pháp giải:
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu – ý chính
Giải chi tiết:
Tiêu đề nào là phù hợp nhất cho bài đọc?
A. Chính phủ Nepal trong nỗ lực giảm bất bình đẳng xã hội.
B. Hôn nhân trẻ em - Một vấn đề khó giải quyết ở Nepal.
C. Chiến lược Nepal để thiết lập bảo vệ trẻ em.
D. Một loại lạm dụng trẻ em ở Nepal: Hôn nhân trẻ em.
Thông tin: Nepal has made important progress over the past few years to promote equality, but the country still has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. 41% of Nepalese girls are married before the age of 18… Nepalese families that do not have enough food to eat are more likely to marry their daughters at a young age to decrease the financial burden.
Tạm dịch: Nepal đã đạt được những tiến bộ quan trọng trong những năm qua nhằm thúc đẩy sự bình đẳng, nhưng quốc gia này vẫn là một trong những quốc gia có tỷ lệ tảo hôn cao nhất thế giới. 41% trẻ em gái Nepal kết hôn trước 18 tuổi… Các gia đình Nepal không đủ ăn thường cho con gái đi kết hôn khi còn trẻ để giảm gánh nặng tài chính.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 16 to 20.
Dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating are popular Halloween activities, but few probably (16) ______ these lighthearted fall traditions with their origins in Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic pagan festival.
For the Celts, who lived during the Iron Age in what is now Ireland, Scotland, the U.K. and (17) ______ parts of Northern Europe, Samhain (meaning literally, in modern Irish, “summer's end”) marked the end of summer and kicked off the Celtic new year. Ushering in a new year signaled a time of both death and rebirth, something that was doubly symbolic because it (18) ______ with the end of a bountiful harvest season and the beginning of a cold and dark winter season that would present plenty of challenges.
Eventually, Halloween became more popular in secular culture than All Saints' Day. The pagan-turned- Christian practices of dressing up in costumes, playing pranks and handing out offerings have evolved into popular traditions even for those (19) ______ may not believe in otherworldly spirits or saints. (20) ______, whether Halloween celebrants know it or not, they’re following the legacy of the ancient Celts who, with the festival of Samhain, celebrated the inevitability of death and rebirth.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 1 to 15.
Lady Gaga is an American singer, songwriter and actress, ______?
