Câu hỏi: 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 35 to 42.
Herman Melville, an American best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. He traveled extensively and used his knowledge gained during his travels as a basis for his early novels. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redburn (1849). In 1841, Melville set out on a whaling ship headed for the South Seas. After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahiti and Moorea. This South Sea island sojourn was a backdrop to the novel Omoo (1847). After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White Jacket (1850) describes this lengthy voyage as a navy seaman.
With the publication of these early adventure novels, Melville developed a strong and loyal following among readers eager for his tales of exotic places and situations. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity started to diminish. Moby Dick, on one level the saga of the hunt for the great white whale, was also a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of humanity against the universe. The public was not ready for Melville's literary metamorphosis from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is ironic that the novel served to diminish Melville's popularity during his lifetime is the one for which he is best known today.
A "frigate" in paragraph 1 is probably____________
A. an office
B. a ship
C. a troop
D. a fishing boat
Herman Melville, an American best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. He traveled extensively and used his knowledge gained during his travels as a basis for his early novels. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redburn (1849). In 1841, Melville set out on a whaling ship headed for the South Seas. After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahiti and Moorea. This South Sea island sojourn was a backdrop to the novel Omoo (1847). After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White Jacket (1850) describes this lengthy voyage as a navy seaman.
With the publication of these early adventure novels, Melville developed a strong and loyal following among readers eager for his tales of exotic places and situations. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity started to diminish. Moby Dick, on one level the saga of the hunt for the great white whale, was also a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of humanity against the universe. The public was not ready for Melville's literary metamorphosis from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is ironic that the novel served to diminish Melville's popularity during his lifetime is the one for which he is best known today.
A "frigate" in paragraph 1 is probably____________
A. an office
B. a ship
C. a troop
D. a fishing boat
Đáp án B: a ship
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Câu hỏi suy luận/ Xác định nghĩa của từ trong ngữ cảnh
Giải thích chi tiết:
Một frigate trong đoạn 1 có thể là ____________
A. một văn phòng
B. một con tàu
C. một đoàn quân
D. một tàu đánh cá
Bối cảnh:
After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn.
(Sau ba năm xa nhà, Melville gia nhập một____________ (hải quân) đang quay trở về Đông Mỹ quanh khu vực Cape Horn).
Dựa vào những từ khóa như 'naval' ("hải quân"), Cape Horn (một địa danh trên biển), joined up ('gia nhập'), có thể thấy 'frigate' phải là một thứ gì đó liên quan đến biển nhưng không thể là tàu đánh cá.
Do vậy, phương án B là phù hợp nhất.
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Câu hỏi suy luận/ Xác định nghĩa của từ trong ngữ cảnh
Giải thích chi tiết:
Một frigate trong đoạn 1 có thể là ____________
A. một văn phòng
B. một con tàu
C. một đoàn quân
D. một tàu đánh cá
Bối cảnh:
After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn.
(Sau ba năm xa nhà, Melville gia nhập một____________ (hải quân) đang quay trở về Đông Mỹ quanh khu vực Cape Horn).
Dựa vào những từ khóa như 'naval' ("hải quân"), Cape Horn (một địa danh trên biển), joined up ('gia nhập'), có thể thấy 'frigate' phải là một thứ gì đó liên quan đến biển nhưng không thể là tàu đánh cá.
Do vậy, phương án B là phù hợp nhất.
Đáp án B.