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.
There are many different metaphors used to describe culture. My favorite one is the iceberg. I think, it demonstrates so vividly what can happen to us if we believe only in the visible and ignore or underestimate the invisible part. The hidden part of our culture is that part which we know instinctively because we absorbed it from childhood on. It's handed down to us from generation to generation. We could also say, it's the "thinking" and "feeling" part of culture: habits, assumptions, attitudes, desires, values, tastes, etc.
Now, if we are in a new culture, our customary evaluations and interpretations are likely not to be on target because we see everything through our own cultural glasses. Imagine yourself in a new city trying to get around with a map from your own hometown. It wouldn't take long for you to get lost and completely frustrated! When we experience an encounter in the new culture that puzzles us, the most common reaction is to judge it through our own cultural glasses.
I want to propose an alternate approach to our initial gut reaction. Instead of immediately and instinctively judging a situation through our own glasses, we might first just pause and notice what is happening and then realize that this is a cultural learning situation. Remember the iceberg metaphor! The new culture becomes your mirror that shows you a hidden part of your own culture. What an opportunity for personal growth and new insight! You can compare two different approaches, that of the new culture and of your own culture. This gives you a choice. Now you can decide what fits best for you or even take the best from both sides.
(Source: https://english-magazine.org/)
According to paragraph 3, what is the advice for people facing unfamiliar cultural events?
A. Making friends with local people helps people familiarize with the culture better.
B. It's advisable to learn about a culture before travelling to exotic places.
C. It's a real win-win situation to combine the knowledge from different cultures.
D. Sometimes it is wise to judge from your own cultural lens and sometime it isn't.
There are many different metaphors used to describe culture. My favorite one is the iceberg. I think, it demonstrates so vividly what can happen to us if we believe only in the visible and ignore or underestimate the invisible part. The hidden part of our culture is that part which we know instinctively because we absorbed it from childhood on. It's handed down to us from generation to generation. We could also say, it's the "thinking" and "feeling" part of culture: habits, assumptions, attitudes, desires, values, tastes, etc.
Now, if we are in a new culture, our customary evaluations and interpretations are likely not to be on target because we see everything through our own cultural glasses. Imagine yourself in a new city trying to get around with a map from your own hometown. It wouldn't take long for you to get lost and completely frustrated! When we experience an encounter in the new culture that puzzles us, the most common reaction is to judge it through our own cultural glasses.
I want to propose an alternate approach to our initial gut reaction. Instead of immediately and instinctively judging a situation through our own glasses, we might first just pause and notice what is happening and then realize that this is a cultural learning situation. Remember the iceberg metaphor! The new culture becomes your mirror that shows you a hidden part of your own culture. What an opportunity for personal growth and new insight! You can compare two different approaches, that of the new culture and of your own culture. This gives you a choice. Now you can decide what fits best for you or even take the best from both sides.
(Source: https://english-magazine.org/)
According to paragraph 3, what is the advice for people facing unfamiliar cultural events?
A. Making friends with local people helps people familiarize with the culture better.
B. It's advisable to learn about a culture before travelling to exotic places.
C. It's a real win-win situation to combine the knowledge from different cultures.
D. Sometimes it is wise to judge from your own cultural lens and sometime it isn't.
Theo đoạn 3, lời khuyên cho những người phải đối mặt với một sự kiệnvăn hóa xa lạ là gì?
A. Kết bạn với người dân địa phương giúp mọi người làm quen với văn hóa tốt hơn
B. Thật tuyệt vời khi tìm hiểu về một nền văn hóa trước khi đi du lịch đến những nơi kỳ lạ
C. Nó là một tình huống đôi bên cùng có lợi để kết hợp kiến thức từ các nền văn hóa khác nhau
D. Đôi khi thật khôn ngoan khi đánh giá từ lăng kính văn hóa của chính bạn và đôi khi là không
Căn cứ vào thông tin đoạn ba:
You can compare two different approaches, that of the new culture and of your own culture. This gives you a choice. Now you can decide what fits best for you or even take the best from both sides. (Bạn có thể so sánh hai cách tiếp cận khác nhau, một của nền văn hóa mới và còn lại là của nền văn hóa của bạn. Điều này cho bạn một sự lựa chọn. Bây giờ bạn có thể quyết định cái gì là phù hợp nhất với bạn hoặc thậm chí tận dụng tốt nhất từ cả hai bên.)
A. Kết bạn với người dân địa phương giúp mọi người làm quen với văn hóa tốt hơn
B. Thật tuyệt vời khi tìm hiểu về một nền văn hóa trước khi đi du lịch đến những nơi kỳ lạ
C. Nó là một tình huống đôi bên cùng có lợi để kết hợp kiến thức từ các nền văn hóa khác nhau
D. Đôi khi thật khôn ngoan khi đánh giá từ lăng kính văn hóa của chính bạn và đôi khi là không
Căn cứ vào thông tin đoạn ba:
You can compare two different approaches, that of the new culture and of your own culture. This gives you a choice. Now you can decide what fits best for you or even take the best from both sides. (Bạn có thể so sánh hai cách tiếp cận khác nhau, một của nền văn hóa mới và còn lại là của nền văn hóa của bạn. Điều này cho bạn một sự lựa chọn. Bây giờ bạn có thể quyết định cái gì là phù hợp nhất với bạn hoặc thậm chí tận dụng tốt nhất từ cả hai bên.)
Đáp án C.