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

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

12 tháng 4 2017

Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

ambitious (adj): tham vọng required (adj): cần thiết

expectant (adj): mong đợ demanding (adj): đòi hỏi khắt khe

In today’s world, parents are very (47)_____ for their children because they want them to achieve more than they did.

Tạm dịch: Trong thế giới hiện tại, cha mẹ tham vọng nhiều về con cái của họ vì họ muốn con mình đạt được nhiều hơn những gì mình đã làm được.

Chọn A

Dịch bài đọc:

Khoảng cách thế hệ

Mọi người hay nói về khoảng cách thế hệ như một sự chia rẽ những người trẻ và cha mẹ họ. Nhìn chung đó là một vấn đề khi trẻ em bước vào độ tuổi thiếu niên, và gây nên than phiền ở cả hai phía. Ví dụ, các bậc phụ huynh hay nói người trẻ tuổi bất kính và không vâng lời, ngoài ra còn tiêu xài vô trách nhiệm vì họ không trân trọng giá trị đồng tiền. Thanh thiếu niên, mặt khác, phàn nàn rằng cha mẹ không hiểu họ.

Vấn đề thực chất là gì? Một lời giải thích nằm ở cách mà xã hội thay đổi. Trong quá khứ, con cái thường chỉ sống theo lối sống của cha mẹ mình. Trong thế giới hiện tại, cha mẹ tham vọng nhiều về con cái của họ vì họ muốn con mình đạt được nhiều hơn những gì mình đã làm được. Vấn đề là con cái không đồng tình với những dự định của cha mẹ. Các thiếu niên cũng trưởng thành ở độ tuổi nhỏ hơn và muốn được tự lập sớm hơn. Mâu thuẫn xảy ra khiến cả hai bên đều chịu buồn phiền.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 43 to 47. Fill in the appropriate word in question 43THE GENERATION GAPPeople talk about the generation gap as a kind of division between young people and their parents. It is something which is generally a problem when children enter their teenage years, and results (43)______ complaints on both side. Parents, for example, can...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

11 tháng 7 2019

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

11 tháng 7 2019

Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

to result in something: gây ra điều gì

It is something which is generally a problem when children enter their teenage years, and results (43) ________ complaints on both side.

Tạm dịch: Nhìn chung đó là một vấn đề khi trẻ em bước vào độ tuổi thiếu niên, và gây nên than phiền ở cả hai phía.

Chọn A

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 43 to 47. Fill in the appropriate word in question 44THE GENERATION GAPPeople talk about the generation gap as a kind of division between young people and their parents. It is something which is generally a problem when children enter their teenage years, and results (43)______ complaints on both side. Parents, for example, can...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

9 tháng 5 2017

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

9 tháng 5 2017

Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

disrespectful (adj): bất kính (dùng để nói về hành động, thái độ)

disrespected (adj): thiếu tôn trọng

disrespect (v): cư xử thiếu tôn trọng

Không có từ “disrespectable”.

Parents, for example, can often be heard to say that young people are (44)______ and disobedient

Tạm dịch: Ví dụ, các bậc phụ huynh hay nói người trẻ tuổi bất kính và không vâng lời

Chọn A

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 43 to 47. Fill in the appropriate word in question 45THE GENERATION GAPPeople talk about the generation gap as a kind of division between young people and their parents. It is something which is generally a problem when children enter their teenage years, and results (43)______ complaints on both side. Parents, for example, can...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

13 tháng 3 2017

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

13 tháng 3 2017

Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

worth (n): một khoản tiền value (n): giá trị

cost (n): chi phí amount (n): số tiền

because they don’t appreciate the (45)_____ of money.

Tạm dịch: vì họ không trân trọng giá trị đồng tiền.

Chọn B

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.CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

29 tháng 10 2017

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.

CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS

There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness- although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.

There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.

But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.

In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cell phone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort zone, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.

It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that children and their parents _________.

A. emotionally need each other

B. only temporarily depend on each other

C. emotionally and physically depend on each other

D. eternally depend on each other

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

29 tháng 10 2017

Đáp án là A.

Có thể suy ra từ đoạn 1 rằng trẻ em và bố mẹ chúng

A. cần nhau về mặt tinh thần

B. chỉ phụ thuộc vào nhau tạm thời

C. phụ thuộc vào nhau về thể chất và tinh thần

D. phụ thuộc vào nhau ở vẻ bên ngoài

Dẫn chứng: For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness.

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 following questions from 35 to 42. CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

9 tháng 9 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 following questions from 35 to 42.

CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS

There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness - although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they have known no other way even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.

There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.

But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cellphone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.

In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cellphone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort/one, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, 6 and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.

Paragraph 1 shows that children ________.

A. are not willing to act as a means to their parents’ happiness

B. tend to cling to their parents only as a source of finance

C. are willing to act as an agent to their parents’ happiness

D. demand a form of payment to go to college

1

DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

9 tháng 9 2019

Chọn C.

Đáp án C.
Dịch câu hỏi: Đoạn 1 cho thấy con cái __________.
A. không sẵn lòng làm phương tiện cho niềm vui của cha mẹ
B. có xu hướng bám vào cha mẹ chỉ như một nguồn tài chính
C. sẵn lòng làm phương tiện cho niềm vui của cha mẹ
D. yêu cầu một hình thức thanh toán để đi học đại học
Thông tin: “It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness” (Điều đó đặt trọng trách lên con cái vì các bậc cha mẹ dùng chúng làm phương tiện cho niềm vui của mình.)

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.CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

22 tháng 10 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.

CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS

There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness- although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.

There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.

But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.

In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cell phone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort zone, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.

Parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences because

A. they are worried about the school’s carelessness

B. the school often neglects their children

C. they are afraid of being deprived of happiness

D. they find their children a source of happiness

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

22 tháng 10 2018

Đáp án là D.

Bố mẹ có vẻ như tham gia vào những trải nghiệm đại học của bố mẹ bởi vì

A. chúng lo lắng về sự bất cẩn ở trường

B. trường học thường không chú ý đến học sinh của chúng

C. chúng sợ bị tước đoạt niềm vui

D. họ cảm thấy con họ như là một niềm hạnh phúc

Dẫn chứng: It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness-although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children.

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.CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

28 tháng 11 2017

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.

CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS

There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness- although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.

There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.

But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.

In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cell phone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort zone, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.

The word “vehicles” in the first paragraph may be replaced by _________.

A. means

B. methods

C. ways

D. instruments

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

28 tháng 11 2017

Đáp án là A.

Từ “ phương tiện” ở đoạn văn đầu tiên có thể được thay thế bởi

Means: phương tiện

Methods: phương pháp

Ways: cách thức

Instruments: công cụ

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.CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their...

LQ

Lê Quỳnh Anh

10 tháng 10 2017

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.

CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS

There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness- although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.

There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.

But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.

In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cell phone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort zone, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.

The provision of mobile phones for children, according to the author, _________.

A. reduces children’s dependence on their parents

B. increases positive control by parents

C. decreases parental interference

D. increases children’s dependence

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DH

Dương Hoàn Anh

10 tháng 10 2017

Đáp án là D.

Việc cung cấp điện thoại di động cho trẻ, theo tác giả

A. giảm sự phụ thuộc của trẻ em vào bố mẹ chung

B. tăng sự kiểm soát tích cực bởi bố mẹ chúng

C. giảm sự can thiệp của bố mẹ

D. tăng sự phụ thuộc của trẻ con

Dẫn chứng: That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence.