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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 36 to 42.
Railroads reshaped the North American environment and reoriented North American behavior. "In a quarter of a century", claimed the Omaha Daily Republican in 1883, "they have made the people of the United States homogeneous, breaking through the peculiarities and provincialisms which marked separate and unmingling sections."
The railroad simultaneously stripped the landscape of the natural resources, made velocity of transport and economy of scale necessary parts of industrial production, and carried consumer goods to households; it dispatched immigrants to unsettled places, drew emigrants away from farms and villages to cities, and sent men and guns to battle. It standardized time and travel, seeking to annihilate distance and space by allowing movement at any time and in any season or type of weather. In its grand and impressive terminals and stations, architects recreated historic Roman temples and public baths, French chateaus and Italian bell towers " edifices that people used as stages for many of everyday life's high emotions: meeting and parting, waiting and worrying, planning new starts or coming home.
Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people over spots, spotlight the romance of railroading. (The twentieth-Century Limited sped between Chicago and New York in twenty hours by 1915). Equally important to everyday life were the slow freight transport chugging through industrial zones, the morning and evening commuter locals shuttling back urban terminals, and the incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, or switching, yards. Moreover, in addition to its being a transportation pathway equipped with a mammoth physical plant of tracks signals, crossings, bridges, and junctions, plus telegraph and telephone lines the railroad nurtured factory complexes, warehouses, and generating stations, forming along its right-of-way what has aptly been called "the metropolitan corridor" of the American landscape.
All of the following were true of impressive passenger terminals EXCEPT______________
A. their architecture was influenced by the architecture of Europe
B. luxury express trains traveled between them
C. they were usually located in small towns
D. they were important to many commuters
Railroads reshaped the North American environment and reoriented North American behavior. "In a quarter of a century", claimed the Omaha Daily Republican in 1883, "they have made the people of the United States homogeneous, breaking through the peculiarities and provincialisms which marked separate and unmingling sections."
The railroad simultaneously stripped the landscape of the natural resources, made velocity of transport and economy of scale necessary parts of industrial production, and carried consumer goods to households; it dispatched immigrants to unsettled places, drew emigrants away from farms and villages to cities, and sent men and guns to battle. It standardized time and travel, seeking to annihilate distance and space by allowing movement at any time and in any season or type of weather. In its grand and impressive terminals and stations, architects recreated historic Roman temples and public baths, French chateaus and Italian bell towers " edifices that people used as stages for many of everyday life's high emotions: meeting and parting, waiting and worrying, planning new starts or coming home.
Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people over spots, spotlight the romance of railroading. (The twentieth-Century Limited sped between Chicago and New York in twenty hours by 1915). Equally important to everyday life were the slow freight transport chugging through industrial zones, the morning and evening commuter locals shuttling back urban terminals, and the incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, or switching, yards. Moreover, in addition to its being a transportation pathway equipped with a mammoth physical plant of tracks signals, crossings, bridges, and junctions, plus telegraph and telephone lines the railroad nurtured factory complexes, warehouses, and generating stations, forming along its right-of-way what has aptly been called "the metropolitan corridor" of the American landscape.
All of the following were true of impressive passenger terminals EXCEPT______________
A. their architecture was influenced by the architecture of Europe
B. luxury express trains traveled between them
C. they were usually located in small towns
D. they were important to many commuters
Thông tin trong bài: "In its grand and impressive terminals and stations, architects recreated historic Roman temples and public baths, French chateaus and Italian bell towers - edifices that people used as stages for many of everyday life's high emotions: meeting and parting, waiting and worrying, planning new starts or coming home." (Trong các nhà ga lớn và ấn tượng, các kiến trúc sư đã tái tạo các ngôi đền La Mã lịch sử và nhà tắm công cộng, tháp chuông của Pháp và tháp chuông của Ý- những tòa nhà mà con người dùng để làm sân khấu cho con người thể hiện cảm xúc của mình trong đời sống hàng ngày: gặp gỡ và chia tay, chờ đợi và lo lắng, lên kế hoạch cho những khởi đầu mới hay về nhà.) A đúng
- "Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people over spots..." (Các nhà ga hành khách, giống như những chuyến tàu tốc hành sang trọng đưa mọi người qua các điểm...) B đúng
- "Equally important to everyday life were the slow freight transport chugging through industrial zones, the morning and evening commuter locals shuttling back urban terminals, and the incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, or switching, yards." (Điều quan trọng không kém đối với cuộc sống hàng ngày là việc vận chuyển hàng hóa chậm qua các khu công nghiệp, người dân địa phương đi lại hàng ngày qua các nhà ga đô thị, và những chuyến đi và đến liên tục xảy ra ở các bến bãi, nhà ga.) D đúng
- "Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people over spots..." (Các nhà ga hành khách, giống như những chuyến tàu tốc hành sang trọng đưa mọi người qua các điểm...) B đúng
- "Equally important to everyday life were the slow freight transport chugging through industrial zones, the morning and evening commuter locals shuttling back urban terminals, and the incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, or switching, yards." (Điều quan trọng không kém đối với cuộc sống hàng ngày là việc vận chuyển hàng hóa chậm qua các khu công nghiệp, người dân địa phương đi lại hàng ngày qua các nhà ga đô thị, và những chuyến đi và đến liên tục xảy ra ở các bến bãi, nhà ga.) D đúng
Đáp án C.