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 30 to 34
Humans generally spent more time working than do other creatures, but there is greater variability in industriousness from one human culture to the next than is seen in subgroups of any other species. For instance, the average French worker toils for 1,646 hours a year; the average American for 1,957 hours; and the average Japanese for 2,088.
One reason for human diligence is that people, unlike animals, can often override the impulses they may feel to slow down. They can drink coffee when they might prefer a nap or flick on the air-conditioning when the heat might otherwise demand torpor. Many humans are driven to work hard by a singular desire to gather resources far beyond what is required for survival. Squirrels may collect what they need to make it through one winter but only humans worry about collect bills, retirement, or replacing their old record albums with compact discs.
Among other primates, if you don't need to travel around to get food for that day, you sit down and relax, saidDr.Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlarita. "it's typically human to try to accumulate wealth and get more and more."
Much of the acquisitiveness is likely to be the result of cultural training. Anthropologists have found that most hunter-gatherer groups, who live day to day on the resources they can kill or forage and who stash very little away for the future generally work only three to five hours daily.
Indeed, an inborn temptation to reduce may lurk beneath even the most work-obsessed people, which could explain why sloth ranks with lust and gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins.
According to the author, humans are so industrious because ______
A. they have an inborn temptation to take it easy so that they can survive
B. they are stronger and better protected than animals, so they can easily gain more to survive
C. they need much more than animals need in order to survive
D. they can overcome the impulse to slow down and they work for gains beyond survival
Humans generally spent more time working than do other creatures, but there is greater variability in industriousness from one human culture to the next than is seen in subgroups of any other species. For instance, the average French worker toils for 1,646 hours a year; the average American for 1,957 hours; and the average Japanese for 2,088.
One reason for human diligence is that people, unlike animals, can often override the impulses they may feel to slow down. They can drink coffee when they might prefer a nap or flick on the air-conditioning when the heat might otherwise demand torpor. Many humans are driven to work hard by a singular desire to gather resources far beyond what is required for survival. Squirrels may collect what they need to make it through one winter but only humans worry about collect bills, retirement, or replacing their old record albums with compact discs.
Among other primates, if you don't need to travel around to get food for that day, you sit down and relax, saidDr.Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlarita. "it's typically human to try to accumulate wealth and get more and more."
Much of the acquisitiveness is likely to be the result of cultural training. Anthropologists have found that most hunter-gatherer groups, who live day to day on the resources they can kill or forage and who stash very little away for the future generally work only three to five hours daily.
Indeed, an inborn temptation to reduce may lurk beneath even the most work-obsessed people, which could explain why sloth ranks with lust and gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins.
According to the author, humans are so industrious because ______
A. they have an inborn temptation to take it easy so that they can survive
B. they are stronger and better protected than animals, so they can easily gain more to survive
C. they need much more than animals need in order to survive
D. they can overcome the impulse to slow down and they work for gains beyond survival
Theo tác giả, con người rất siêng năng vì ______
A. họ có một sự cám dỗ bẩm sinh gúp nó dễ dàng để họ có thể sống sót
B. họ mạnh hơn và được bảo vệ tốt hơn động vật, vì vậy họ có thể dễ dàng kiếm được nhiều hơn để sống sót
C. họ cần nhiều hơn động vật cần để tồn tại
D. họ có thể vượt qua sự thôi thúc chậm lại và họ làm việc vì lợi ích vượt ra ngoài sự sống còn
Thông tin ở câu đầu đoạn 2:
One reason for human diligence is that people, unlike animals, can often override the impulses they may feel to slow down.
(Một lý do cho sự siêng năng của con người là không giống như động vật, con người thường có thể gạt bỏ các sự thôi thúc chậm lại mà họ có thể cảm thấy.)
A. họ có một sự cám dỗ bẩm sinh gúp nó dễ dàng để họ có thể sống sót
B. họ mạnh hơn và được bảo vệ tốt hơn động vật, vì vậy họ có thể dễ dàng kiếm được nhiều hơn để sống sót
C. họ cần nhiều hơn động vật cần để tồn tại
D. họ có thể vượt qua sự thôi thúc chậm lại và họ làm việc vì lợi ích vượt ra ngoài sự sống còn
Thông tin ở câu đầu đoạn 2:
One reason for human diligence is that people, unlike animals, can often override the impulses they may feel to slow down.
(Một lý do cho sự siêng năng của con người là không giống như động vật, con người thường có thể gạt bỏ các sự thôi thúc chậm lại mà họ có thể cảm thấy.)
Đáp án D.