Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each...

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

30 tháng 1 2019

Đáp án C.

Keywords: writer’s conclusion, Holiday on Ice

Yêu cầu của câu hỏi là xác định kết luận của tác giả.

Clue: “To be honest, for those of US whose only experience of ice-skating is watching top-class Olympic skaters, some of the movements can look a bit amateurish, but then, who are we to judge? Equally, it’s impossible not to be swept up in the whole thing; well, you'd have to try pretty hard not to enjoy it.”: thật tình mà nói, đổi với những người đã cỏ kinh nghiệm xem trượt băng từ những vận động viên Olympic hàng đầu, một vài động tác (của Holiday on Ice) cỏ vẻ nghiệp dư. Nhưng rút cục thì ở đây cỏ ai phản xét không? Công bằng mà nói, không có gì là hoàn hảo cả và bạn cũng sẽ phải cố gắng rẩt nhiều để không thích chương trình này.

Tác giả thuyết phục người đọc rằng chương trình trượt băng của ông thật khó để mọi người không thích được mặc dù nó không được như những cuộc thi chuyên nghiệp.

Đáp án chính xác là C. It is difficult to dislike it.

Cảc phương án còn lại không đúng:

A. Olympic ice-skating is more enjoyable than Holiday on Ice: Trượt băng Olympic là thú vị hơn so với Holiday on Ice.

B. It is hard to know who really enjoys Holiday on Ice: thật khó để biết ai thật sự thích Holiday on Ice.

D. Holiday on Ice requires more skills than Olympic ice-skating: Holiday on Ice đòi hỏi nhiều kỹ năng hơn trượt băng Olympic.

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 43 to 50. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus... Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

4 tháng 11 2019

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

4 tháng 11 2019

Đáp án A.

Key word: describe, backstage area.

Clue: “The backstage atmosphere is an odd mix of gym class and workplace”: bầu không khỉ ở khu vực sau sân khấu là một sự kết hợp cọc cạch của một phòng thể hình và một nơi làm việc.

Đáp án chính xác là A. messy: lộn xộn

Các đáp án còn lại là sai:

B. glamorous /'glasmoros/ (adj): đặc biệt thu hút

C. relaxing (adj): giúp thư giãn

D. old (adj): già, cũ

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 43 to 50. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus... Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

14 tháng 11 2017

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

14 tháng 11 2017

Đáp án D.

Key word: the hard way, paragraph 5.

Câu này đòi hỏi kiến thức về từ vựng, không thể đoán theo ngữ cảnh, learn the hard way: học từ kinh nghiệm cay đắng của bản thân.

Chọn đáp án D. through difficult personal experience.

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 43 to 50. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus... Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

4 tháng 7 2018

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

4 tháng 7 2018

Đáp án C.

Key word: suggested, paragraph 5, skating in shows.

Clue: “The only place you’ll see certain skating moves is an ice show,” he says, “because you’re not allowed to do them in competition. It’s not in the rules. So the ice show world has things to offer which the competitive world just doesn’t”.

Dựa vào clue, đáp án chính xác là C. allows skaters to try out a range of ideas: trượt băng trong các chương trình biểu diễn cho phép người trượt thử một loạt các ý tưởng.

Các đáp án còn lại không đúng:

A. enables skaters to visit a variety of places: cho phép người trượt băng đến thăm nhiều nơi khác nhau.

B. is as competitive as other forms of skating: cũng có tính cạnh tranh như các hình thức trượt băng khác.

D. is particularly well paid: đặc biệt được trả lương cao.

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 43 to 50. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus... Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

21 tháng 10 2019

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

21 tháng 10 2019

Đáp án B.

Key word: mentioned, paragraph 3.

Clue: “the lights come from a firm in Texas, the people who make the audio system are in California, but Montreal supplies the smoke effects”: đèn được mua từ một công ty ở Texas, những người cài đặt hệ thống âm thanh làm việc ở California, nhưng những công ty đến từ Montreal cung cấp hiệu ứng khói.

Ta thấy từ manh mối rằng có rất nhiều công ty khác nhau góp phần vào việc tổ chức chương trình. Đáp án chính xác là B. many companies are involved in the production.

Các đáp án còn lại là sai:

A. the show has been staged in many places: chương trình đã được tổ chức ở nhiều nơi.

C. the show needs financial support: chương trình cần hỗ trợ tài chính

D. it is difficult to find suitable equipment: rất khó tìm được thiết bị phù hợp

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 43 to 50. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus... Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone...

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Lê Quỳnh Anh

21 tháng 7 2017

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

21 tháng 7 2017

Đáp án D.

Key word: Robin Cousins, aim, rehearsal.

Clue: "... the cast start to go through their routines under Cousins' direction. Cousins says, “The aim is to make sure they're all still getting to exactly the right place on the ice at the right time”: dàn diễn viên bắt đầu diễn tập lại dưới sự chỉ đạo của Cousins. Theo Cousins, mục đích của việc làm này là để đảm bảo rằng mọi người đều đang ở đứng vị trí trên bằng vào đúng thời điểm.

Dựa vào clue, ta thấy đáp án chính xác là D. to position the skaters on the ice: để định vị những người trượt băng.

Các đáp án còn lại là sai:

A. to adjust the spotlights: để điều chỉnh đèn sân khấu

B. to keep in time with the music: để giữ đúng thời gian với âm nhạc

C. to be acquainted with the stage: để làm quen với sân khấu

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 43 to 50. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus... Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

27 tháng 12 2017

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

27 tháng 12 2017

Đáp án D.

Key word: them, paragraph 5.

Clue: “'The only place you'll see certain skating moves is an ice show,' he says, because you're not allowed to do them in competition”: Nơi duy nhất mà bạn có thể thấy những động tác trượt băng là ở trong một chương trình trượt băng bởi vì bạn không được phép làm chủng ở trong thi đấu.

Dựa vào clue ta thấy từ them dùng thay thế cho certain skating moves. Đáp án chính xác là D.

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 1 to 8. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone who's ever...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

4 tháng 7 2019

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 1 to 8.

At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone who's ever been, the show's statistics are extraordinary: nearly 300 million people have seen Holiday on Ice since it began in 1943; it is the most popular live entertainment in the world.

But what does the production involve? And why are so many people prepared to spend their lives travelling round Europe in caravans in order to appear in it? It can't be glamorous, and it's undoubtedly hard work. The backstage atmosphere is an odd mix of gym class and workplace. A curtained-off section at the back of the arena is laughably referred to as the girls' dressing room, but is more accurately described as a corridor, with beige, cracked walls and cheap temporary tables set up along the length of it. Each girl has a small area littered with pots of orange make-up, tubes of mascara and long false eyelashes.

As a place to work, it must rank pretty low down the scale: the area round the ice-rink is grey and mucky with rows of dirty blue and brown plastic seating and red carpet tiles. It's an unimpressive picture, but the show itself is an unquestionably vast, polished global enterprise: the lights come from a firm in Texas, the people who make the audio system are in California, but Montreal supplies the smoke effects; former British Olympic skater Robin Cousins is now creative director for the company and conducts a vast master class to make sure they're ready for the show's next performance.

The next day, as the music blares out from the sound system, the cast start to go through their routines under Cousins' direction. Cousins says, The aim is to make sure they're all still getting to exactly the right place on the ice at the right time - largely because the banks of lights in the ceiling are set to those places, and if the skaters are all half a metre out they'll be illuminating empty ice. Our challenge,' he continues, 'is to produce something they can sell in a number of countries at the same time. My theory is that you take those things that people want to see and you give it to them, but not in the way they expect to see it. You try to twist it. And you have to find music that is challenging to the skaters, because they have to do it every night.

It may be a job which he took to pay the rent, but you can't doubt his enthusiasm. “The only place you'll see certain skating moves is an ice show,” he says, “because you're not allowed to do them in competition. It's not in the rules. So the ice show world has things to offer which the competitive world just doesn't.” Cousin knows what he's talking about because he skated for the show himself when he stopped competing - he was financially unable to retire. He learnt the hard way that you can't put on an Olympic performance every night. “I'd be thinking, these people have paid their money, now do your stuff, and I suddenly thought”, "I really can't cope. I'm not enjoying it". The solution, he realised, was to give 75 per cent every night, rather than striving for the sort of twice-a-year excellence which won him medals.

To be honest, for those of us whose only experience of ice-skating is watching top-class Olympic skaters, some of the movements can look a bit amateurish, but then, who are we to judge? Equally, it's impossible not to be swept up in the whole thing; well, you'd have to try pretty hard not to enjoy it.

According to paragraph 1 the writer is surprised to see that although Holiday on Ice is popular ____________.

A. people often prefer other types of show

B. most people consider it as a holiday

C. few people know someone who has seen it

D. people prefer to see a film, the ballet, or the circus

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

4 tháng 7 2019

Đáp án C.

Key word: paragraph 1, writer, surprised, Holiday on Ice, popular.

Clue: “…They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus. .. Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone who's ever been, the show's statistics are extraordinary: nearly 300 million people have seen Holiday on Ice since it began in 1943; it is the most popular live entertainment in the world”: ... Bọn họ không ở đây đế xem phim, múa ba lê hay xem xiếc. ... Với việc hầu hết mọi người có vẻ như không thể quen biết ai đã từng ở đây, số liệu của chương trình vô cùng ấn tượng: gần 300 triệu người đã xem Kỳ nghỉ trên băng từ khi nó bắt đầu vào năm 1943; đây là một trong những chương trình giải trí trực tiếp nổi tiếng nhất thế giới.

A. people often prefer other types of show: mọi người thường thích xem những loại chương trình khác.

B. most people consider it as a holiday: hầu hết mọi người xem nó như một kỳ nghỉ.

C. few people know someone who has seen it: ít người quen ai đó đã xem chương trình này.

D. people prefer to see a film, the ballet, or the circus: mọi người thích xem phim, múa ba lê hoặc xiếc.

Đáp án đúng theo Clue là C.

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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 1 to 8. At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone who's ever...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

6 tháng 5 2018

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 1 to 8.

At 7pm on a dark, cold November evening, thousands of people are making their way across a vast car park. They're not here to see a film, or the ballet, or even the circus. They are all here for what is, bizarrely, a global phenomenon: they are here to see Holiday on Ice. Given that most people don't seem to be acquainted with anyone who's ever been, the show's statistics are extraordinary: nearly 300 million people have seen Holiday on Ice since it began in 1943; it is the most popular live entertainment in the world.

But what does the production involve? And why are so many people prepared to spend their lives travelling round Europe in caravans in order to appear in it? It can't be glamorous, and it's undoubtedly hard work. The backstage atmosphere is an odd mix of gym class and workplace. A curtained-off section at the back of the arena is laughably referred to as the girls' dressing room, but is more accurately described as a corridor, with beige, cracked walls and cheap temporary tables set up along the length of it. Each girl has a small area littered with pots of orange make-up, tubes of mascara and long false eyelashes.

As a place to work, it must rank pretty low down the scale: the area round the ice-rink is grey and mucky with rows of dirty blue and brown plastic seating and red carpet tiles. It's an unimpressive picture, but the show itself is an unquestionably vast, polished global enterprise: the lights come from a firm in Texas, the people who make the audio system are in California, but Montreal supplies the smoke effects; former British Olympic skater Robin Cousins is now creative director for the company and conducts a vast master class to make sure they're ready for the show's next performance.

The next day, as the music blares out from the sound system, the cast start to go through their routines under Cousins' direction. Cousins says, The aim is to make sure they're all still getting to exactly the right place on the ice at the right time - largely because the banks of lights in the ceiling are set to those places, and if the skaters are all half a metre out they'll be illuminating empty ice. Our challenge,' he continues, 'is to produce something they can sell in a number of countries at the same time. My theory is that you take those things that people want to see and you give it to them, but not in the way they expect to see it. You try to twist it. And you have to find music that is challenging to the skaters, because they have to do it every night.

It may be a job which he took to pay the rent, but you can't doubt his enthusiasm. “The only place you'll see certain skating moves is an ice show,” he says, “because you're not allowed to do them in competition. It's not in the rules. So the ice show world has things to offer which the competitive world just doesn't.” Cousin knows what he's talking about because he skated for the show himself when he stopped competing - he was financially unable to retire. He learnt the hard way that you can't put on an Olympic performance every night. “I'd be thinking, these people have paid their money, now do your stuff, and I suddenly thought”, "I really can't cope. I'm not enjoying it". The solution, he realised, was to give 75 per cent every night, rather than striving for the sort of twice-a-year excellence which won him medals.

To be honest, for those of us whose only experience of ice-skating is watching top-class Olympic skaters, some of the movements can look a bit amateurish, but then, who are we to judge? Equally, it's impossible not to be swept up in the whole thing; well, you'd have to try pretty hard not to enjoy it.

Which of the following is the writer's conclusion of Holiday on Ice?

A. It is more enjoyable than Holiday on Ice.

B. It is hard to know who really enjoys it.

C. It is difficult to dislike it.

D. It requires more skills than Olympic ice-skating.

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

6 tháng 5 2018

Đáp án C.

Keywords: writer's conclusion, Holiday on Ice

Yêu cầu của câu hỏi là xác định kết luận của tác giả.

Clue: “To be honest, for those of US whose only experience of ice-skating is watching top-class Olympic skaters, some of the movements can look a bit amateurish, but then, who are we to judge? Equally, it's impossible not to be swept up in the whole thing; well, you'd have to try pretty hard not to enjoy it.”: thật tình mà nói, đối với những người đã có kinh nghiệm xem trượt băng từ những vận động viên Olympic hàng đầu, một vài động tác (của Holiday on Ice) có vẻ nghiệp dư. Nhưng rút cục thì ở đây có ai phán xét không? Công bằng mà nói, không có gì là hoàn hảo cả và bạn cũng sẽ phải cố gắng rất nhiều để không thích chương trình này.

Tác giả thuyết phục người đọc rằng chương trình trượt băng của ông thật khó để mọi người không thích được mặc dù nó không được như những cuộc thi chuyên nghiệp.

Đáp án chính xác là C. It is difficult to dislike it.

Các phương án còn lại không đúng:

A. Olympic ice-skating is more enjoyable than Holiday on Ice: Trượt băng Olympic là thú vị hơn so với Holiday on Ice.

B. It is hard to know who really enjoys Holiday on Ice: Thật khó để biết ai thật sự thích Holiday on Ice.

D. Holiday on Ice requires more skills than Olympic ice-skating: Holiday on Ice đòi hỏi nhiều kỹ năng hơn trượt băng Olympic.