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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.
One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media - particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. Today, it's not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hurdred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What's more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live newscasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma - not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potential trauma - at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.
According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts___________
A. are full of dangerous diseases such as flu
B. send out live newscasts paired with text across the screen
C. are forced to publicise an alarming increase in crime
D. send out frightening stories about potential dangers
One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media - particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. Today, it's not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hurdred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What's more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live newscasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma - not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potential trauma - at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.
According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts___________
A. are full of dangerous diseases such as flu
B. send out live newscasts paired with text across the screen
C. are forced to publicise an alarming increase in crime
D. send out frightening stories about potential dangers
Đáp án D: send out frightening stories about potential dangers
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Tìm thông tin chi tiết trong bài đọc
Giải thích chi tiết:
Theo bài đọc, khi không có đủ tin tức nóng hổi thật sự, các bản tin phát sóng ____________
A. đầy rẫy những căn bệnh nguy hiểm, ví dụ như bệnh cúm
B. truyền đi những bản tin trực tiếp kèm theo dòng chữ chạy ngang ở phía dưới màn hình
C. bị buộc phải công bố sự gia tăng đáng báo động của tội phạm
D. truyền đi những câu chuyện đáng sợ về những hiểm họa tiềm tàng
Căn cứ vào từ khóa "not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts" trong câu hỏi, ta có thể tìm thấy câu trả lời ở đoạn 4, cụ thể là câu: "Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future." – Điều làm cho vấn đề tồi tệ hơn là khi tin tức nóng hổi thật sự bị khan hiếm, phần lớn bản tin phát sóng đầy rẫy những câu chuyện đáng sợ về những thứ có thể sẽ đe dọa đến sức khỏe, sự an toàn, tài chính, các mối quan hệ, số đo vòng eo, đường viền tóc trên trán, hoặc sự tồn tại trong tương lai."
Để làm tốt câu này, ngoài việc xác định và tìm từ khóa trong bài đọc, còn phải chú ý đến vấn đề từ/cụm từ đồng nghĩa, cụ thể:
• not enough (không đủ) = scarce (thiếu, khan hiếm)
• frightening stories = scare stories (những câu chuyện đáng sợ)
• potential (tiềm tàng) = possibly might (có lẽ) .
• dangers (những mối nguy hại) = threaten (đe dọa)
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Tìm thông tin chi tiết trong bài đọc
Giải thích chi tiết:
Theo bài đọc, khi không có đủ tin tức nóng hổi thật sự, các bản tin phát sóng ____________
A. đầy rẫy những căn bệnh nguy hiểm, ví dụ như bệnh cúm
B. truyền đi những bản tin trực tiếp kèm theo dòng chữ chạy ngang ở phía dưới màn hình
C. bị buộc phải công bố sự gia tăng đáng báo động của tội phạm
D. truyền đi những câu chuyện đáng sợ về những hiểm họa tiềm tàng
Căn cứ vào từ khóa "not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts" trong câu hỏi, ta có thể tìm thấy câu trả lời ở đoạn 4, cụ thể là câu: "Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future." – Điều làm cho vấn đề tồi tệ hơn là khi tin tức nóng hổi thật sự bị khan hiếm, phần lớn bản tin phát sóng đầy rẫy những câu chuyện đáng sợ về những thứ có thể sẽ đe dọa đến sức khỏe, sự an toàn, tài chính, các mối quan hệ, số đo vòng eo, đường viền tóc trên trán, hoặc sự tồn tại trong tương lai."
Để làm tốt câu này, ngoài việc xác định và tìm từ khóa trong bài đọc, còn phải chú ý đến vấn đề từ/cụm từ đồng nghĩa, cụ thể:
• not enough (không đủ) = scarce (thiếu, khan hiếm)
• frightening stories = scare stories (những câu chuyện đáng sợ)
• potential (tiềm tàng) = possibly might (có lẽ) .
• dangers (những mối nguy hại) = threaten (đe dọa)
Đáp án D.