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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 37 to 43.
Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and Slovenia, even Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly sophisticated, sweet-sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident that music should strike such a chord with the limbic system - an ancient part of our brain, evolutionarily speaking, and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.
Humpback whale composers employ many of the same tricks that human songwriters do. In addition to using similar rhythms, humpbacks keep musical phrases to a few seconds, creating themes out of several phrases before singing the next one. Whale songs in general are no longer than symphony movements, perhaps because they have a similar attention span. Even though they can sing over a range of seven octaves, the whales typically sing in key, spreading adjacent notes no farther apart than a scale. They mix percussive and pure tones in pretty much the same ratios as human composers - and follow their ABA form, in which a theme is presented, elaborated on and then revisited in a slightly modified form. Perhaps most amazing, humpback whale songs include repeating refrains that rhyme. It has been suggested that whales might use rhymes for exactly the same reasons that we do: as devices to help them remember. Whale songs can also be rather catchy. When a few humpbacks from the Indian Ocean strayed into the Pacific, some of the whales they met there quickly changed their tunes - singing the new whales' songs within three short years. Some scientists are even tempted to speculate that a universal music awaits discovery.
Why did the author write the passage?
A. To suggest that music is independent of life forms that use it.
B. To describe the music for some animals, including humans.
C. To illustrate the importance of music to whales.
D. To show that music is not a human or even modern invention.
Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and Slovenia, even Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly sophisticated, sweet-sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident that music should strike such a chord with the limbic system - an ancient part of our brain, evolutionarily speaking, and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.
Humpback whale composers employ many of the same tricks that human songwriters do. In addition to using similar rhythms, humpbacks keep musical phrases to a few seconds, creating themes out of several phrases before singing the next one. Whale songs in general are no longer than symphony movements, perhaps because they have a similar attention span. Even though they can sing over a range of seven octaves, the whales typically sing in key, spreading adjacent notes no farther apart than a scale. They mix percussive and pure tones in pretty much the same ratios as human composers - and follow their ABA form, in which a theme is presented, elaborated on and then revisited in a slightly modified form. Perhaps most amazing, humpback whale songs include repeating refrains that rhyme. It has been suggested that whales might use rhymes for exactly the same reasons that we do: as devices to help them remember. Whale songs can also be rather catchy. When a few humpbacks from the Indian Ocean strayed into the Pacific, some of the whales they met there quickly changed their tunes - singing the new whales' songs within three short years. Some scientists are even tempted to speculate that a universal music awaits discovery.
Why did the author write the passage?
A. To suggest that music is independent of life forms that use it.
B. To describe the music for some animals, including humans.
C. To illustrate the importance of music to whales.
D. To show that music is not a human or even modern invention.
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích: Tại sao tác giả viết bài văn?
A. Để gợi ý rằng âm nhạc tách biệt độc lập với những hình thức sống đang sử dụng nó.
B. Để miêu tả âm nhạc dành cho một vài động vật, bao gồm cả con người.
C. Để thể hiện tầm quan trọng của âm nhạc với cá voi.
D. Để thể hiện âm nhạc không phải là một phát minh của con người, cũng không phải một phát minh hiện đại.
Thông tin: Some researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race ever did. For example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.
Tạm dịch: Một số nhà nghiên cứu thậm chí còn đề xuất rằng âm nhạc xuất hiện ở thế giới này rất lâu trước cả loài người. Ví dụ thực tế rằng âm nhạc của cá voi và con người có rất nhiều điểm chung, mặc dù con đường tiến hóa của hai loài không dính dáng đến nhau trong vòng gần 60 triệu năm, cho thấy rằng âm nhạc có thể có trước con người. Họ khẳng định rằng thay vì là nhà phát minh của âm nhạc, chúng ta mới là những người đến sau với âm nhạc
Giải thích: Tại sao tác giả viết bài văn?
A. Để gợi ý rằng âm nhạc tách biệt độc lập với những hình thức sống đang sử dụng nó.
B. Để miêu tả âm nhạc dành cho một vài động vật, bao gồm cả con người.
C. Để thể hiện tầm quan trọng của âm nhạc với cá voi.
D. Để thể hiện âm nhạc không phải là một phát minh của con người, cũng không phải một phát minh hiện đại.
Thông tin: Some researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race ever did. For example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.
Tạm dịch: Một số nhà nghiên cứu thậm chí còn đề xuất rằng âm nhạc xuất hiện ở thế giới này rất lâu trước cả loài người. Ví dụ thực tế rằng âm nhạc của cá voi và con người có rất nhiều điểm chung, mặc dù con đường tiến hóa của hai loài không dính dáng đến nhau trong vòng gần 60 triệu năm, cho thấy rằng âm nhạc có thể có trước con người. Họ khẳng định rằng thay vì là nhà phát minh của âm nhạc, chúng ta mới là những người đến sau với âm nhạc
Đáp án D.