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 46 to 50.
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues that flesh receives. The most widespread fallacy of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions, explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches cold and wet showed no increased tendency to catch colds. In the Second World War, prisoners a Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be sipped with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching cold, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most painstaking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on. No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms.
A. The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.
B. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.
C. Colds are not caused by cold.
D. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues that flesh receives. The most widespread fallacy of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions, explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches cold and wet showed no increased tendency to catch colds. In the Second World War, prisoners a Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be sipped with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching cold, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most painstaking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on. No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms.
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Which of the following does NOT agree with the reading passage?A. The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.
B. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.
C. Colds are not caused by cold.
D. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.
Giải thích:
Điều nào sau đây không đúng với đoạn văn?
A. Người Eskimos không bị cảm cúm mãi mãi.
B. Một người có thể mắc bệnh cảm cúm khi chạm vào người đã mắc bệnh.
C. Bệnh cảm cúm không gây ra bởi lạnh.
D. Mọi người mắc cảm cúm chỉ vì họ thích ở trong nhà.
Thông tin:
+ If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. (Nếu nhiễm lạnh gây ra cảm cúm, thì sẽ hợp lý khi cho rằng người Eskimos sẽ mắc bệnh này mãi mãi. Nhưng họ không.)
→ A đúng
+ The most widespread fallacy of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. (Quan niệm sai lầm phổ biến nhất là tất cả sự cảm lạnh này được gây ra bởi lạnh. Chúng không phải vậy.)
→ C đúng
+ You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. (Bạn mắc bệnh khi tiếp xúc, trực tiếp hoặc không trực tiếp, với những người đã mắc bệnh. )
→ B đúng
+ One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on. (Một lời giải thích được đưa ra bởi các nhà khoa học đó là mọi người có xu hướng ở chung trong nhà vào thời tiết lạnh hơn những thời gian khác, và điều này dễ dàng cho virus cảm cúm lây truyền.)
→ D sai vì không phải cứ ở trong nhà là bị cảm cúm.
Điều nào sau đây không đúng với đoạn văn?
A. Người Eskimos không bị cảm cúm mãi mãi.
B. Một người có thể mắc bệnh cảm cúm khi chạm vào người đã mắc bệnh.
C. Bệnh cảm cúm không gây ra bởi lạnh.
D. Mọi người mắc cảm cúm chỉ vì họ thích ở trong nhà.
Thông tin:
+ If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. (Nếu nhiễm lạnh gây ra cảm cúm, thì sẽ hợp lý khi cho rằng người Eskimos sẽ mắc bệnh này mãi mãi. Nhưng họ không.)
→ A đúng
+ The most widespread fallacy of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. (Quan niệm sai lầm phổ biến nhất là tất cả sự cảm lạnh này được gây ra bởi lạnh. Chúng không phải vậy.)
→ C đúng
+ You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. (Bạn mắc bệnh khi tiếp xúc, trực tiếp hoặc không trực tiếp, với những người đã mắc bệnh. )
→ B đúng
+ One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on. (Một lời giải thích được đưa ra bởi các nhà khoa học đó là mọi người có xu hướng ở chung trong nhà vào thời tiết lạnh hơn những thời gian khác, và điều này dễ dàng cho virus cảm cúm lây truyền.)
→ D sai vì không phải cứ ở trong nhà là bị cảm cúm.
Đáp án D.