Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer
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 34 to 40.
Charlie Chaplin’s Early Life
He was believed to have been born on April 16, 1889. There is some doubt whether April 16 is actually his birthday, and it is possible he was not born in 1889. There is also uncertainty about his birthplace: London or Fontainebleau, France. There is no doubt, however, as to his parentage: he was born to Charles Chaplin, Sr. and Hannah Harriette Hill (aka Lily Harley on stage), both Music Hall entertainers. His parents separated soon after his birth, leaving him in the care of his increasingly unstable mother.
In 1896, Chaplin’s mother was unable to find work, Charlie and his older half-brother Sydney Chaplin had to be left in the workhouse in Lambeth, moving after several weeks to Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children. His father died an alcoholic when Charlie was 12, and his mother suffered a mental breakdown, and was eventually admitted temporarily to the Cane Hill Asylum at Coulsdon (near Croydon). She died in 1928 in the United States, two years after coming to the States to live with Chaplin, by then a commercial success.
Charlie first took to the stage when, aged five, he performed in Music Hall in 1894, standing in for his mother. As a child, he was confined to a bed for weeks due to a serious illness, and, at night, his mother would sit at the window and act out what was going on outside. In 1900, aged 11, his brother helped get him the role of a comic cat in the pantomime Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. In 1903 he appeared in ‘Jim, A romance of Cockayne’, followed by his first regular job, as the newspaper boy Billy in Sherlock Holmes, a part he played into 1906. This was followed by Casey’s ‘Court Circus’ variety show, and, the following year, he became a clown in Fred Karno’s ‘Fun Factory’ slapstick comedy company.
According to immigration records, he arrived in the United States with the Karno troupe on October 2, 1912. In the Karno Company was Arthur Stanley Jefferson, who would later become known as Stan Laurel. Chaplin and Laurel shared a room in a boarding house. Stan Laurel returned to England but Chaplin remained in the United States. Chaplin’s act was seen by film producer Mack Sennett, who hired him for his studio, the Keystone Film Company.
Trả lời cho các câu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 dưới đây:
Question 34. What happened when Charlie Chaplin’s father died?
Đáp án đúng là: D
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
Question 35. Which was the first character that Charlie portrayed during his first regular job?
Đáp án đúng là: D
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
Question 36. The word "confined" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _________.
Đáp án đúng là: B
Đáp án cần chọn là: B
Question 37. The word "him" in the last paragraph refers to __________.
Đáp án đúng là: B
Đáp án cần chọn là: B
Question 38. The word "uncertainty" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _________.
Đáp án đúng là: D
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
Question 39. What did Hannah do when Charlie was ill?
Đáp án đúng là: D
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
Question 40. Who was the owner of the studio that hired Chaplin while being in the USA?
Đáp án đúng là: B
Đáp án cần chọn là: B
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