Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.Befo...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.

Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded bottles and soiled nappies at the edge of every road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong?

The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-permanent reminder of what a tatty little country we have now. Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will take anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered; the idea was killed before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags.

What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined initiative, both individual and collective, before it is too late. The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor, they behave squalidly. No much of Britain looks pretty squalid. What will it look like in five years?

What is the tone of the passage?

A. informative

B. persuasive

C. pessimistic

D. frustrated

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

18 tháng 7 2018

Đáp án B

Giọng điệu của bài văn này là gì?

A. giàu thông tin B. thuyết phục C. bi quan D. nản lòng, bực bội

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags,...

DM

Dương Minh

22 tháng 6 2018

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.

Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded bottles and soiled nappies at the edge of every road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong?

The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-permanent reminder of what a tatty little country we have now. Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will take anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered; the idea was killed before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags.

What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined initiative, both individual and collective, before it is too late. The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor, they behave squalidly. No much of Britain looks pretty squalid. What will it look like in five years?

The word “alternative” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.

A. freedom

B. disruption

C. change

D. option

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

22 tháng 6 2018

Đáp án D

Từ “alternative” trong đoạn văn gần nghĩa nhất với __________.

A. sự tự do B. sự phá vỡ, sự chia rẽ

C. sự thay đổi D. sự lựa chọn, sự thay thế, khả năng

Căn cứ vào thông tin trong câu sau: “The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast municipal rubbish tip.” (Nhiều sự thay thế tiếp tục trượt dốc đến khi chúng ta có một đất nước giống như một bãi rác đô thị khổng lồ.)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags,...

DM

Dương Minh

22 tháng 9 2017

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.

Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded bottles and soiled nappies at the edge of every road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong?

The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-permanent reminder of what a tatty little country we have now. Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will take anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered; the idea was killed before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags.

What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined initiative, both individual and collective, before it is too late. The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor, they behave squalidly. No much of Britain looks pretty squalid. What will it look like in five years?

The word 'they in the last paragraph may refer to ________.

A. people

B. the environment

C. much of Britain

D. cleanliness

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

22 tháng 9 2017

Đáp án A

Từ “they” trong đoạn văn cuối nhằm để cập đến ________.

A. con người B. môi trường

C. phần lớn nước Anh D. sự sạch sẽ

Căn cứ vào thông tin trong can sau: “If things around them are clean and tidy, peop1e behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor, they behave squalidly." (Nếu mọi thứ xung quanh sạch sẽ và ngăn nắp, con người cũng sạch sẽ và gọn gàng. Nếu họ bị bao quanh bởi sự bẩn thỉu, họ sẽ cư xử một cách bủn xỉn.)

=> They ở đây thay thế cho một danh từ chỉ người và từ dữ liệu ở trên ta suy ra được they ở đây để chỉ people.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags,...

DM

Dương Minh

3 tháng 12 2018

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.

Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded bottles and soiled nappies at the edge of every road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong?

The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-permanent reminder of what a tatty little country we have now. Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will take anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered; the idea was killed before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags.

What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined initiative, both individual and collective, before it is too late. The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor, they behave squalidly. No much of Britain looks pretty squalid. What will it look like in five years?

The writer says that it is a good time to see Britain before the trees have leaves because ____________.

A. Britain looks perfect

B. you can see Britain at its dirtiest

C. you can see how dirty Britain is now

D. the grass has thickened on the verges

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

3 tháng 12 2018

Đáp án C

CHỦ ĐỀ POLLUTION

Nhà văn nói rằng đây là thời điểm tốt để nhìn thấy nước Anh trước khi những cái cây mọc là bởi vì _________.

A. nước Anh trông có vẻ hoàn hảo

B. bạn có thể thấy Anh là nước bẩn nhất

C. bạn có thể thấy nước Anh bây giờ bẩn như thế nào

D. cỏ đã dày trên các bờ ven đường

Căn cứ vào thông tin trong câu sau: "Before the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become.”

(Trước khi cỏ mọc dày trên những con đường ven đường và những chiếc lá bắt đầu mọc trên cây là thời điểm hoàn hảo để nhìn xung quanh và xem nước Anh đã trở nên bẩn thỉu như thế nào.)

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 below.Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years; but they have been talking for much longer,...

DM

Dương Minh

1 tháng 5 2019

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

1 tháng 5 2019

Để thể hiên rằng học viết cần phải nỗ lực, tác giả đưa ra ví dụ về ___________

A. những người tìm hiểu nguyên lý cơ bản của lời nói

B. trẻ em khuyết tật nặng

C. những người thông minh không thể viết

D. những người nói nhiều ngôn ngữ

Dẫn chứng: “On the other hand, it takes a special effort to learn to write. In the past many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill……..,”

Tạm dịch: mặt khác, nó cần một nỗ lực đặc biệt để học viết. Trong quá khứ nhiều thành viên thông minh và hữu ích của xã hội đã không có được kỹ năng đó…..,

Đáp án C

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 below.Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years; but they have been talking for much longer,...

DM

Dương Minh

5 tháng 10 2019

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

5 tháng 10 2019

Tác giả trong bài đọc tranh luận rằng _________

A. Nói là ngôn ngữ cơ bản hơn viết

B. viết trở nên quá quan trọng trong xã hội ngày nay

C. tất cả những người học để nói chuyện phải tìm hiểu để viết

D. tất cả các ngôn ngữ cần phải có một hình thức viết

Dẫn chứng: “Furthermore, we all learn to talk well before we learn to write; any human child who is not severely handicapped physically or mentally will learn to talk: a normal human being cannot be prevented from doing so.”

Tạm dịch:Hơn nữa, tất cả chúng ta học cách nói tốt trước khi chúng ta học viết; bất kỳ đứa trẻ nào mà không bị khuyết tật nghiêm trọng về thể chất hay tinh thần sẽ học nói: một người bình thường không thể bị ngăn cản làm việc đó

Đáp án A

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 below.Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years; but they have been talking for much longer,...

DM

Dương Minh

4 tháng 10 2017

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

4 tháng 10 2017

Chúng ta thường nghĩ viết thật hơn nói bởi vì_________

A. viết là ngôn ngữ thứ yếu

B. con người đã viết trong ít nhất 5000 năm

C. nó rất quan trọng trong nền văn hóa của chúng ta.

D. Mọi người đã viết kể từ khi có con người

Dẫn chứng: Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech.”

Tạm dịch: Bởi vì viết trở nên rất quan trọng trong nền văn hóa của chúng ta, đôi khi chúng ta nghĩ về nó thực hơn lời nói

Đáp án C

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 below.Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years; but they have been talking for much longer,...

DM

Dương Minh

20 tháng 5 2017

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

20 tháng 5 2017

Theo bài đọc, kỹ năng viết __________________

A. được thể hiện hoàn hảo bằng lời nói

B. thể hiện lời nói nhưng không hoàn hảo

C. phát triển từ lời nói không hoàn hảo

D. là không hoàn hảo, nhưng ít hơn so với lời nói

Dẫn chứng: “When writing did develop, it was derived from and represented speech, although imperfectly. ”

Tạm dịch: Khi viết đã phát triển, nó được bắt nguồn từ và thể hiện lời nói, mặc dù không hoàn hảo.

Đáp án B

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 below.Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years; but they have been talking for much longer,...

DM

Dương Minh

19 tháng 3 2018

1

NH

Nguyen Hoang Hai

19 tháng 3 2018

Từ “advantage” ở đoạn cuối gần nghĩa nhất với………….

A. các nguyên lý B. kỹ năng C. sự thống trị D. lợi ích

Advantage = benefit: lợi ích, thuận lợi.

Đáp án: D

Dịch bài

Bởi vì viết trở nên rất quan trọng trong nền văn hóa của chúng ta, đôi khi chúng ta nghĩ về nó thực hơn lời nói. Tuy nhiên, suy nghĩ một chút sẽ thấy tại sao lời nói lại là chủ yếu và viết là thứ yếu với ngôn ngữ. Con người đã viết (như chúng ta có thể nói từ bằng chứng còn sót lại) ít nhất 5000 năm; nhưng học đã nói chuyện lâu hơn thế, chắc chắn kể từ khi có con người.

Khi viết đã phát triển, nó được bắt nguồn từ và thể hiện lời nói, mặc dù không hoàn hảo. Thậm chí ngày nay, có ngôn ngữ nói được mà không có hình thức viết. Hơn nữa, tất cả chúng ta học cách nói tốt trước khi chúng ta học viết; bất kỳ đứa trẻ nào mà không bị khuyết tật nghiêm trọng về thể chất hay tinh thần sẽ học nói: một người bình thường không thể bị ngăn cản làm việc đó. Mặt khác, nó cần một nỗ lực đặc biệt để học viết. Trong quá khứ nhiều thành viên thông minh và hữu ích của xã hội đã không có được kỹ năng đó, và ngay cả ngày nay nhiều người nói ngôn ngữ với hệ thống viết cũng không bao giờ học đọc hoặc viết, trong khi một số người tìm hiểu những nguyên lý cơ bản của những kỹ năng này làm như vậy chỉ không hoàn hảo.

Tuy nhiên, để khẳng định tính ưu việt của lời nói vượt trên viết không phải là chê bai cái sau. Một lợi thế mà viết có trên lời nói là nó lâu dài hơn và làm có thể các ghi chép mà bất kỳ nền văn minh nào cũng phải có. Do đó, nếu nói làm chúng ta người hơn, viết lại làm cho chúng ta văn minh.