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.
It's often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they're crazy about a good social life instead. Chil dren often scream before their piano practice because it's so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you're older.
Over the years, I've done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to be late — I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn't frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you're older, you get less frus trated. Experience has told you that, if you're calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually you'll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas — from being able to drive a car, perhaps — means that if you can't, say, build a chair instantly, you don't, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical con cepts that, at the age of ten, I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I'd played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I'd had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.
It is implied in paragraph 1 that___________
A. parents should encourage young learners to study more
B. young learners are usually lazy in their class
C. young learners often lack a good motivation for learning
D. teachers should give young learners less homework
It's often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they're crazy about a good social life instead. Chil dren often scream before their piano practice because it's so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you're older.
Over the years, I've done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to be late — I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn't frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you're older, you get less frus trated. Experience has told you that, if you're calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually you'll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas — from being able to drive a car, perhaps — means that if you can't, say, build a chair instantly, you don't, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical con cepts that, at the age of ten, I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I'd played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I'd had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.
It is implied in paragraph 1 that___________
A. parents should encourage young learners to study more
B. young learners are usually lazy in their class
C. young learners often lack a good motivation for learning
D. teachers should give young learners less homework
Đáp án C: Young learners often lack a good motivation for learning.
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Câu hỏi suy luận
Giải thích chi tiết:
Có thể suy ra từ đoạn 1 rằng___________ .
A. Cha mẹ nên khuyến khích người trẻ học nhiều hơn
→ Không phù hợp vì không có ý nào trong bài đề cập đến khối lượng học ít hay nhiều.
B. Những người trẻ thường lười biếng trong lớp
→ Không phù hợp vì không có ý nào trong bài đề cập đến việc họ lười biếng trong lớp
C. Những người trẻ thường thiếu động lực học
→ Phù hợp nhất vì trong đoạn 1 có một số ý liên quan đến biểu hiện của việc thiếu động lực:
- University students frequently do the minimum of work because they are crazy about a good social life instead. (Sinh viên đại học thường chỉ làm đủ lượng bài tối thiểu do thay vì học tập thì họ mải mê theo đuổi một cuộc sống thú vị ngoài xã hội).
- Children often scream before their piano practice because it's so boring. (Trẻ con thì thường kêu la khi phải tập piano vì chúng thấy quá nhàm chán)
- They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. (Phải thưởng sao vàng, huy chương vàng cho chúng thì chúng mới chịu đi bơi, hoặc phải nịnh thì chúng mới chịu đi thi)
D. Giáo viên nên cho người học ít bài tập về nhà hơn
→ Không phù hợp vì không có ý nào trong bài đề cập đến khối lượng bài tập về nhà ít hay nhiều.
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Câu hỏi suy luận
Giải thích chi tiết:
Có thể suy ra từ đoạn 1 rằng___________ .
A. Cha mẹ nên khuyến khích người trẻ học nhiều hơn
→ Không phù hợp vì không có ý nào trong bài đề cập đến khối lượng học ít hay nhiều.
B. Những người trẻ thường lười biếng trong lớp
→ Không phù hợp vì không có ý nào trong bài đề cập đến việc họ lười biếng trong lớp
C. Những người trẻ thường thiếu động lực học
→ Phù hợp nhất vì trong đoạn 1 có một số ý liên quan đến biểu hiện của việc thiếu động lực:
- University students frequently do the minimum of work because they are crazy about a good social life instead. (Sinh viên đại học thường chỉ làm đủ lượng bài tối thiểu do thay vì học tập thì họ mải mê theo đuổi một cuộc sống thú vị ngoài xã hội).
- Children often scream before their piano practice because it's so boring. (Trẻ con thì thường kêu la khi phải tập piano vì chúng thấy quá nhàm chán)
- They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. (Phải thưởng sao vàng, huy chương vàng cho chúng thì chúng mới chịu đi bơi, hoặc phải nịnh thì chúng mới chịu đi thi)
D. Giáo viên nên cho người học ít bài tập về nhà hơn
→ Không phù hợp vì không có ý nào trong bài đề cập đến khối lượng bài tập về nhà ít hay nhiều.
Đáp án C.