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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 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.
The phrase "get there" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
A. arrive at an intended place with difficulty
B. achieve your aim with hard work
C. have the things you have long desired
D. receive a school or college degree
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.
The phrase "get there" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
A. arrive at an intended place with difficulty
B. achieve your aim with hard work
C. have the things you have long desired
D. receive a school or college degree
Đáp án B: achieve your aim with hard work
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Câu hỏi từ vựng/ Xác định nghĩa của từ trong ngữ cảnh
Giải thích chi tiết:
Cụm từ "get there" trong đoạn 4 gần nghĩa nhất với___________
A. đến được nơi mong muốn một cách khó khăn
B. đạt được mục tiêu nhờ làm việc chăm chỉ
C. có được những điều bạn hằng mong ước
D. nhận được bằng tốt nghiệp trường học/ cao đẳng
Cả 4 phương án đều có điểm chung là "đạt được một cái gì đó".
Dựa vào ngữ cảnh:
"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.... Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there."
(Về một phương diện nào đó, tuổi tác là một điểm cộng. Ví dụ, khi bạn già hơn, bạn bớt nản chí hơn. Kinh nghiệm đã cho bạn biết rằng, nếu bạn bình tĩnh và chỉ đơn giản là làm một thứ gì đó cẩn thận, làm đi làm lại, thì cuối cùng bạn cũng sẽ trở nên thành thạo.... Sự trưởng thành cho bạn biết rằng, nhờ áp dụng kinh nghiệm, rốt cuộc bạn sẽ đạt được mục tiêu.)
Do vậy, B là phương án phù hợp nhất. Phương án A và D không liên quan gì đến nội dung bài. Phương án C cũng có ý giống phương án B, nhưng chưa đầy đủ (không đề cập đến việc phải làm việc chăm chỉ thì mới đạt được mục tiêu).
Kỹ năng đọc hiểu: Câu hỏi từ vựng/ Xác định nghĩa của từ trong ngữ cảnh
Giải thích chi tiết:
Cụm từ "get there" trong đoạn 4 gần nghĩa nhất với___________
A. đến được nơi mong muốn một cách khó khăn
B. đạt được mục tiêu nhờ làm việc chăm chỉ
C. có được những điều bạn hằng mong ước
D. nhận được bằng tốt nghiệp trường học/ cao đẳng
Cả 4 phương án đều có điểm chung là "đạt được một cái gì đó".
Dựa vào ngữ cảnh:
"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.... Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there."
(Về một phương diện nào đó, tuổi tác là một điểm cộng. Ví dụ, khi bạn già hơn, bạn bớt nản chí hơn. Kinh nghiệm đã cho bạn biết rằng, nếu bạn bình tĩnh và chỉ đơn giản là làm một thứ gì đó cẩn thận, làm đi làm lại, thì cuối cùng bạn cũng sẽ trở nên thành thạo.... Sự trưởng thành cho bạn biết rằng, nhờ áp dụng kinh nghiệm, rốt cuộc bạn sẽ đạt được mục tiêu.)
Do vậy, B là phương án phù hợp nhất. Phương án A và D không liên quan gì đến nội dung bài. Phương án C cũng có ý giống phương án B, nhưng chưa đầy đủ (không đề cập đến việc phải làm việc chăm chỉ thì mới đạt được mục tiêu).
Đáp án B.