Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
George Simmel, one of pioneers in German sociology, ___(46)___a pioneer in urban sociology, suggesting that the increased concentration and diversity of people and ongoing activities in city puts urbanites under stress (a cognitive overload). This is considered the major ___(47)___ of urban mentality-detachment from others, self-centeredness, and rational calculating mind. This understanding of urban life and urbanites are closely related to the understanding of modern society by Ferdinand Tonnies and Max Weber, two of Simmel's close contemporaries. Louis Wirth, a member of Chicago school, followed Simmel and wrote ___ (48)___ the most frequently-cited paper on urbanism "Urbanism as a way of life," in 1938. His writing on the urbanism on mentality and life style ___(49)___ illustrative, compared to the definition of urbanism but among the suggested are relaxed moral restrains, increased participation in formal organization pursuing limited goals (as opposed to belonging to a community), increased role of mediated communication. Both are more or less in line of social atomism, the view that modern society disintegrates communities ___(50)___ a group of individuals.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (47) is...
A. cause
B. sources
C. reasons
D. majority
George Simmel, one of pioneers in German sociology, ___(46)___a pioneer in urban sociology, suggesting that the increased concentration and diversity of people and ongoing activities in city puts urbanites under stress (a cognitive overload). This is considered the major ___(47)___ of urban mentality-detachment from others, self-centeredness, and rational calculating mind. This understanding of urban life and urbanites are closely related to the understanding of modern society by Ferdinand Tonnies and Max Weber, two of Simmel's close contemporaries. Louis Wirth, a member of Chicago school, followed Simmel and wrote ___ (48)___ the most frequently-cited paper on urbanism "Urbanism as a way of life," in 1938. His writing on the urbanism on mentality and life style ___(49)___ illustrative, compared to the definition of urbanism but among the suggested are relaxed moral restrains, increased participation in formal organization pursuing limited goals (as opposed to belonging to a community), increased role of mediated communication. Both are more or less in line of social atomism, the view that modern society disintegrates communities ___(50)___ a group of individuals.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (47) is...
A. cause
B. sources
C. reasons
D. majority
Giải thích:
A. cause (n): nguyên nhân B. sources: nguồn
C. reasons: lý do D. majority (n): đa số
Tạm dịch: This is considered the major cause of urban mentality-detachment from others, self-centeredness, and rational calculating mind.
(Đây được coi là nguyên nhân chính dẫn đến tâm lý thành thị tách rời khỏi người khác, tự cho mình là trung tâm, và hiện tượng tâm lý tính toán lý trí.)
A. cause (n): nguyên nhân B. sources: nguồn
C. reasons: lý do D. majority (n): đa số
Tạm dịch: This is considered the major cause of urban mentality-detachment from others, self-centeredness, and rational calculating mind.
(Đây được coi là nguyên nhân chính dẫn đến tâm lý thành thị tách rời khỏi người khác, tự cho mình là trung tâm, và hiện tượng tâm lý tính toán lý trí.)
Đáp án A.