Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

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 38 to 45.

If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children

However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.

          Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.

          Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.

Question:One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to______.

A. push their child into trying too much.

B. help their child to become a genius.

C. make their child become a musician.

D. neglect their child’s education.

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án A

Một trong những sai lầm nghiêm trọng mà các bậc phụ huynh có thể mắc phải đó là ______.

A. đẩy con cái vào việc cố gắng quá sức.

B. giúp con trở thành một thiên tài.

C. làm cho con trở thành một nhạc sĩ.

D. thời ơ việc học hành của con.

Dẫn chứng ở 2 câu đầu tiên: “If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make”- (Nếu cha mẹ nuôi nấng con cái chỉ với một mục đích duy nhất là biến con mình trở thành thiên tài, thì họ sẽ gây ra 1 thảm họa khôn lường. Theo như 1 vài nhà tâm lí giáo dục, đó là 1 trong những sai lầm lớn nhất mà các bậc phụ huynh hay tham vọng thường mắc phải).

=> Việc nuôi con chỉ với mục đích biến chúng trở thành 1 thiên tài nghĩa là đang đẩy chúng vào việc cố gắng quá sức mình, chứ không phải là giúp đỡ chúng trở thành thiên tài.