Tài liệu Reading 2

Friendship is often a delicate affair and we do not want to ask for it with too many demands. There is no contract. The terms are unwritten, and nobody ever makes them explicit. People often hold such a wide range of views on friendship. Some think it demands total loyalty; others suppose it caries no obligations at all. One man says long friendships have transformed his life, and it has ever been in some ways more important than his marriage, another thinks the great about friends is that you can always drop the old ones, because there are new ones around every corner. One woman says she would die for her friends, a younger woman says that all her friendships are practical, and make her life easier. People’s points of view on friendship are various, which depends on the way people lead their lives because everyone has a large number of acquaintances and a different social life. Most of us feel a certain pride about our friends. We are pleased that they have chosen us, and that we have chosen them. We tend to believe that they reflect some important truths about who we are. Yet making friends is not a practice in free choice, any more than buying a house is. We buy houses according to what we can afford, what happens to be on the market when we are looking and whether a capricious owner decided to accept our offer. Friendship is rather similar. We can only choose our friends from among the people we meet, in circumstance where making a friendly overture would be appropriate, and who show a reciprocal interest in knowing us. Recent research concluded that at any time we have around 30 friends, six of whom we think of a close. Over a lifetime we will make almost 400 friends, but we will keep in touch with fewer than 10% of them. Almost 60% of us claim that our friendships are more important to us than career and money. Other studies show that men have, on average, three fewer close friends than women do, that middle-class men have more friends than working-class men, and that both men and women find their friendships with women more emotionally satisfying than those with men. Those findings are fascinating, but they mask huge variations. 51. Friendship is ____________________ A. a written term B. a delicate affair C. explicit D. a contract 52. Which sentence is true? A. Everybody has the same points of view on friendship B. Some people think friendship demands loyalty C. Everybody suppose that friendship is even more important than marriage D. People are often fixed to their old friendship 53. The word “ transformed “ has the closest meaning in ______________ A. exchanged B. reversed C. converted D. changed 54. People’s points of view on friendship _______________ A. are unchangeable B. are up to the society C. depend on their way of life D. are similar 55. People’s acquaintances are ___________ A. various B. few C unique D. limited 56. The writer compared making friends with ______________ A. buying a house B. choosing a gift C. selling a car D. reflecting important truths 57. According to the results of recent research ___________________ A. we always keep in touch with all our friends during our lifetime B. 60% of us consider friendship to be more important than career and money. C. 40 % of us consider friendship to be more important than marriage D. half of our friends are close friends. 58. The word “ reciprocal “ has a close meaning to __________________ A. mutual B. individual C. public 59. The passage is _______________ A. advisory B. informative C. convincing 60. According to the passage , _______________ A. working –class men have more friends than middle-class men B. men have more close friends than women C. women have more close friends than men D. working – class men prefer to make friends with men D. common D. persuasive Kinh Hung’s anniversary is celebrated annually on the tenth day of the third lunar month to commemorate the Hung Kings, the first of the Viet ethnic lings who set up the Van Lang state of Viet people four thousand years ago. The event takes places in a area full of historic vestiges where the Kings are worshiped in a temple. This spring festival draws thousands of pilgrims to worship the HUng Kings. The temple is located on Nghia Linh Mountain , Phong Chau District, Phu THo Provinve, 85 kilometers northwest of Hanoi. A day before the festival, ancient and modern flags are to be hung along the road leading from Viet Tri to Hung Mountain. On the eve of the festival, 100 flying lights are released into the night sky. The main worship service is held in the flowing morning, 10th day of the third lunar month, beginning with a flower ceremony. There are several marches in the procession such as the elephant march flowed by the procession chair. There are song performances and other activities like cross- bow shooting, rice cooking, swinging contest, cock fighting and dragon dancing. A march of local people , including representatives of the country’s 54 ethnic minorities will be rounded off with a speech and the release of doves, carrying the hope for peace of Vietnamese people. The festival not only attracts visitors from everywhere and allows visitors to participate in the special traditional cultural activities, but it also a sacred pilgrimage back to the origins of the Vietnamese culture. People usually show their love of and pride in their homeland and ancestral land. During the festival, pilgrims always spend time visiting the temples and historic sites on Hung Mountain. The festival is one of the most important and sacred festivals of Vietnamese people, deeply imbedded in the minds of every Vietnamese citizen, regardless of where they originate from. 51. Kinh Hung’s anniversary is celebrated_____________ A. once in a month B. every year C. every four years D. twice a year. 52. The Van Lang of Viet people was set up about _____________ thousand years ago. A. one B. three C. four D. ten 53. King Hung’s temple ___________________ A. was built on the tenth day of the third lunar month four thousand years ago. B. is visited by thousands of pilgrims C. is rarely visited by any pilgrims D. is located in a rice filed. 54. Which is not referred in the text about King Hung’s anniversary? A. flags B. flowers C. lights D. firecrackers 55. The beginning the the festival is ___________________ A. a flower ceremony B. an elephant march C. song performances D. a cock fighting 56. Which activity is not introduced in the celebration ? A. rice cooking B. gun shooting C. cross- bow shooting D. dragon dancing 57. Vietnamese people release doves in the festival ___________________ A. to commemorate the Hung Kings. B. to Make the festival more interesting C. to worship the Hung Kings D. to show their hope for peace. 58. The second paragraph is about _______________. A. the building of the temple of Hung kings. B. the foundation of Van Lang state C. the activities of the festival D. the meaning of releasing doves 59. Which sentences is correct? A. The activities of the festival are only for the local people B. Visitors are not allowed to take part in the activities for the festival. C. There are many historic sites on Hung Mountain D. The pilgrims do not like to take part in the activities of the festival. 60. To Vietnamese people, the celebration of King Hung’s anniversary is ______________ A. significant B. rare C. unnecessary D. funny It is important to avoid the computerization process of an entire country. Computers are nowadays used everywhere; in schools, at home, in companies, institutions, and so on. One of the bad aspects of computer use is that even the children who can not read and write yet, are already used to this machine. They develop at a very early age the habit of playing on the computers for hours on end. According to the latest researches , computers have bad effects on our health when they are not properly used. There certainly is a quite sharp competition in the computer world. Due to this aspect, several different opinions have been developed on this topic. Computer producers assert that computers are absolutely un-harmful. At that time protection remedies producers had different opinions. The work done by a computer operator is generally quite exhausting and intensive . For instance, Germans include this type of work among the 40 most health damaging jobs. It is considered that working on the computer should not exceed 50 % of the working period. When we work at the monitor, we need to read, type, analyze something, correct mistakes, and perhaps do all that more than once. Yet in change, the eyes have to try adjusting to all that pressure, and for this reason, we may assert that the computer really does have a negative impact on our eyesight. All this bad effect of the computer on our eyes can be found under the name of CVS ( Computer Vision Syndrome), which included dryness of the eyes, eyestrain, backache , neck ache, wrist ache, reduced acuity of vision, distress, reduced capacity of concentration, and so on. People who have to work on computer frequently have the most health complaints because of muscle and joint disease. This might be restricted to neck torpor, pain in the shoulders and in the lions, ect. However , there can be more grievous problems such as the carpal tunnel syndrome, which refers to the damage of arm nerves due to the excessive time spent working on the computer. 51. The passage is about________________ A. the advance of computers B. the using of computer and health C. children and computer games D. muscle and joint diseases 52. The computerization process is ________________ A. not appreciated B. unknown C. rare D. popular 53. According to the passage _____________________ A. only literate children can use a computer B. even children who can not read and write can use a computer C. there are not any computers designed for children’s use D. children are not allowed to use a computer 54. According to protection remedies producers, ___________________ A. computers are completely not harmful B. computers can do harmful to our health C. using computers for along time is good for a patient to recover. D. there is no harm to work on a computer, even for along time. 55. The phrase “ this type of work” refers to _______________ A. computer producing B. remedies producing C. the work done by a computer operator D. damaging jobs. 56. The word “ negative “ has a close meaning to ____________________ A. harmful B. unharmed C. intensive D. exhausting 57. Which disease is not caused by computer using ? A. eyestrains B. distress C. neck torpor D. brain tumor 58. Dryness of the eyes, eyestrain, neck ache, reduced acuity of vision , reduced capacity of concentration are _______________ A. not caused by computer using B. Computer Vision Syndrome C. computer abuse D. computer programmers 59. Time working on a computer should be ______________ A. endless B. twice as much as the working damaged C. less than half the working period D. more than half of the working period 60. The carpal tunnel syndrome happens when ______________ A. you have a backache B. your arm nerves are damaged C. you have a neck torpor D. you have a pain in you loin