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Bài 521:
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 .
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective. Satire itself, hovvever, rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these condilions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.
Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift.
It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is a need for it. It has lived because readers appreciatc a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it.
Câu hỏi số 1:
What does the passage mainly discuss?
Câu hỏi số 2:
The last sentence of the first paragraph refers to ____ as a result ofreading satire.
Câu hỏi số 3:
Don Quixote, Brave New World, and A Modest Proposal are cited by the author as ____ .
Câu hỏi số 4:
What satire fascinates readers is how _______ .
Câu hỏi số 5:
Which of the following can be found in satiric literature?
Câu hỏi số 6:
According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be ______ .
Câu hỏi số 7:
The word “refreshingv in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _____ .
Câu hỏi số 8:
The word “sanctimonious" may be new to you. It most probably means “ ____” in this context.
Câu hỏi số 9:
Readers of satiric literature will be most likely to ______ .
Câu hỏi số 10:
The various purposes of satire include all of the following EXCEPT _____ .
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