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Bài 136:
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.
The Beatles became the most popular group in rock music history. This quarter of extraordinary talented musicians generated a phenomenal number of pieces that won gold records. They inspired a frenzy that transcended countries and economic strata. While all of them sang, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the majority of their songs. Originally, Lennon and five others formed a group called the Quarrymen in 1956 with Paul McCartney joining them later that year. George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney, together with Stuart Sutcliffe, who played the bass guitar, and Pete Best on the drums, performed together in several bands for a few years, until they finally settled on the Sliver Beatles in 1960. American rock musicians, such as Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, influenced Lennoirs and McCartney's music, whose first hits consisted of simple tunes and lyrics about young love. “Love Me Do” and ‘"Please, Please Me”. The Beatles’ us tour propelled them to stardom and led to two movies “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help” filmed in 1964 and 1965. The so-called British invasion of the United States was in full swing when they took the top five spots on the single chart, followed by the release of their first film.
During the 1960s, their music matured and acquired a sense of melody. The lyrics of their songs became deeper and gained in both imagination and meaning. Their popularity conlinued to grow as the Beatles turned their attention to social problems and political issues in “Nowhere Man” and “Eleanor Rigby”. Loneliness and nostalgia come through in their ballads “Michelle” and “Yesterday", which fully displayed the group’s professional development and sophistication. Lennon’s sardonic music with lyric written in the first person, and Paul McCartney’s songs that created scenarios encouraged individuals to contribute to the character of the music produced by the group. In addition to their music, the Beatles social trend that popularized long hair, Indian musie, and mod dress.
For a variety of reasons, the musicians began to drift apart, and their last concert took place in San Francisco in 1966. The newspaper and tabloids publicized their quarrels and lawsuits, and the much idolized group finally disbanded in 1970. However, their albums had outsold those of any other band in history. Although all of the Beatles continued to perform solo or form new rock groups alone, none could achieve the recognition and success that they had been able to win together.
Câu hỏi số 1:
What does the passage mainly discuss?
Câu hỏi số 2:
According to the passage, which of the Beatles had the greatest musical talent?
Câu hỏi số 3:
According to the passage, how many members were in the band formed in 1956?
Câu hỏi số 4:
According to the passaee, the Beatles’ fame grew as a result of __________ .
Câu hỏi số 5:
The author of the passage implies that the Beatles ___________.
Câu hỏi số 6:
The author of the passage impiies that over time, the music and lyrics by the Beatles_____ .
Câu hỏi số 7:
According to the passage, when did the Beatles experience their greatest success?
Câu hỏi số 8:
The word “scenarios'’ in paragrapli 2 is closest in meaning to __________ .
Câu hỏi số 9:
The word “disbanded” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______ .
Câu hỏi số 10:
According to the passage, how did John Lennon and Paul McCartney enhance the music of the group?
Bài 137:
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.
Pottery is the name given to all kinds of pots and utensils made from clay and other minerals when they have been “fired”, which is hardened by heat in the potter’s kiln. Articles made of pottery includes plates, cups and saucers, cooking dishes, wall and floor tiles, chemical storage jars, bathroom fittings, filters, drain pipes, electrical insulators and ornaments for the home.
Pottery is one of the oldest crafts, which began to be practised as soon as man learned to control fires. and long before the melting of metals. It enabled him from very early times to make vessels for storing and cooking food, for carrying water, and for ritual burial purposes. Early vessels were shaped by hand and probably “fired" in a big bonfire by covering them over with dried grass and dead branches, which were then set alight.
A great advance in pottery followed the invention of the potter’s wheel and the kiln. lt is not certainly known where the potter’s wheel was first used, but it is thought that by about 3,500 B.C. potters in Central Asia were using some kind of wheel. Fromthere, its use spread west and east to Egypt, Crete, China, and then to ancient Greece and Rome.
At first, the wheel was nothing more than a small disc, turned on a pivot by hand, but later it was improved by raising it and providing it with larger circular plat form near the ground as well, which could be rotated by the potter with his feet. Such a wheel was probably in use in Egypt by about 200 B.C., though this is only conjecture: but it was certainly in use in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century. ln the eighteen century, however, the potter’s wheel was improved so that it could be worked by a treadle, or turned by an assistant. Modern potter’s wheels are powered driven.
There are three principle ways in which articles may be made of pottery. They may be simply shaped by hand. They may be thrown on the potter‘s wheel and shaped against the spin with the finger or some scraping tool. Thirdly, the wet clay may be put in a pre-shaped “form” of plaster.
After the pots have been made, they are slowly baked in the kiln. This produces chemical changes in the clay which have a hardening effect. The time taken for firing pottery varies from 24 hours to as long as 2 weeks.
Notes:
- kiln (n): lò nung
- potter (n): thợ gốm
Câu hỏi số 1:
The early making of pottery_____
Câu hỏi số 2:
Before the invention of the potter’s wheel_____
Câu hỏi số 3:
The first potter’s wheel was invented______
Câu hỏi số 4:
The ancient Greeks and Romans______
Câu hỏi số 5:
Improvements to the potter‘s wheel_______
Câu hỏi số 6:
A foot-operated potter’s wheel was in use in Egypt______
Câu hỏi số 7:
The three ways in which articles can be made of pottery are______
Câu hỏi số 8:
The word “bonfire” is closest in meaning to______
Câu hỏi số 9:
The word “firing” could be best replaced by_______
Câu hỏi số 10:
The word “spin” is nearest in meaning to______
Bài 138:
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.
Niagara Falls, one of the most famous North American natural wonders, has long been a popular tourist destination. Tourists today flock to see the two falls that actually constitute Niagara Falls: the 173-foot Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the Niagara River in the Canadian province of Ontario and the 182-foot-high American Falls on the US side of the river in the state of New York. Approximately 85 per cent of the water that goes over the falls actually goes over Horseshoe Falls, with the rest going over American Falls.
Most visitors come between April and October, and it is quite a popular activity to take a steamer out onto the river and right up to the base of the falls for a closer-up view. It is also possible to get a spectacular view of the falls from the strategic locations along the Niagara River. such as Prospect Point or Table Rock, or from one of the four observation towers which have heights up to 500 feet.
Tourists have been visiting Niagara Falls in large numbers since the 1800s; annually visitation now averages above ten million visitors per year. Because of concern that all these tourists would inadvertently destroy the natural beauty of the scenic wonder, the state of New York in I885 created Niagara Falls Park in order to protect the land surrounding American Falls. A year later Canada created Queen Victoria Park on the Canadian side of the Niagara, around Horseshoe Falls. With the area surrounding the falls under the jurisdiction of government agencies, appropriate steps could be taken to preserve the pristine beauty of the area.
Câu hỏi số 1:
What is the major point that the author is making in this passage?
Câu hỏi số 2:
The word “flock” in the first paragraph could best be replaced by______
Câu hỏi số 3:
According to the passage, which of the following best describes Niagara Falls?
Câu hỏi số 4:
A "steamer" in the second paragraph is probably_______
Câu hỏi số 5:
The expression “right up" in the second paragraph could best be replaced by____
Câu hỏi số 6:
The passage implies that tourists prefer to_______
Câu hỏi số 7:
According to the passage, why was Niagara Park created?
Câu hỏi số 8:
The word “jurisdiction” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to______
Câu hỏi số 9:
The word "pristine" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to______
Câu hỏi số 10:
The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses____
Bài 139:
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.
Leonardo de Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Set Piero, a Florentine notary and landlord, but lived on the estate and was treated as an illegitimate son.
In 1483, Leonardo de Vinci drew the first model of a helicopter. It did not look very much like our modern-day “copter", but the idea of what it could do was about the same. Leonardo was an artist and sculptor. He was very interested in motion and movement and tried to show it in his art. In order to show movement, he found it helpful to study the way things moved.
One subject he liked to study was birds and how they flew. He spent many hours watching the birds and examining the structure of their wings. He noticed how they cupped air with their wings and how the feathers helped hold the air. Through these studies, Leonardo began to understand how birds were able to fly.
Like many other men, Leonardo began to dream of the day when people would be able to fly. He designed a machine that used all the things he had learned about the flight, and thus became the first model of a helicopter.
Poor Leonardo had only one problem, however. He had no way to give the l necessary speed to his invention. You see, motors had not been invented and speed was an important part of the flying process. It would be another four hundred years before the engine was invented and another fifty years before it was put to the test in an airplane.
Leonardo’s dream of a helicopter finally came to pass in 1936. The Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo died on May 2, I519, and was buried in the cloister of San Fiorentino in Amboise.
Câu hỏi số 1:
In what year was the first helicopter flown?
Câu hỏi số 2:
What two things did birds have that Leonardo de Vinci noticed help them to fly?
Câu hỏi số 3:
The following sentence would best complete which paragraph? “Since then people have ben living out Leonardo’s dream of flying.”
Câu hỏi số 4:
What was the main problem with Leonardo’s invention?
Câu hỏi số 5:
The word “problem" in paragraph 5 could best be replaced by the word_______
Câu hỏi số 6:
Which paragraph explains why Leonardo’s helicopter was not successful in his life time?
Câu hỏi số 7:
The word “they" in paragraph 3 refers to_____
Câu hỏi số 8:
The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to_____
Câu hỏi số 9:
What is the author’s main point?
Câu hỏi số 10:
The word “illegitimate” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to_______
Bài 140:
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your anstver sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods - a term whose meaning varies greatly - frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.
The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting of entirely organically grown foods prevents or cures disease provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and formed the basis for folklore.
Almost daily, the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains, and the like.
One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases, consumers misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause tor concern if consumers particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food supply and buy only expensive organic foods instead.
Câu hỏi số 1:
The word “advocates” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
Câu hỏi số 2:
The word “others” in paragraph 1 refers to ____________ .
Câu hỏi số 3:
The “welcome development” mentioned in paragraph 2 is an increase in __________ .
Câu hỏi số 4:
According to the first paragraph, which of the following is true about the term “organic food”?
Câu hỏi số 5:
The phrase “besieged by claims'’ in paragraph 3 can be understood as ________ .
Câu hỏi số 6:
The word “unsubstantiated” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______ .
Câu hỏi số 7:
The word “maintain” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to __________ .
Câu hỏi số 8:
The autlior implies that there is cause for concern if consumers with limited incomes buy organic foods instead of conventionally grown foods because _________ .
Câu hỏi số 9:
According to the last paragraph, consumers who believe that organic foods are better than conventionally grown foods are often ______ .
Câu hỏi số 10:
What is the authors attitude toward the claims made by advocates of health foods?
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