Read the passage and mark A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, in The Netherlands on March 30th 1853, to parents Theodorus Van Gogh, a preacher, and Ana Cornelia Carbentus. In 1869 at the age of 16, Van Gogh began a career, not as a painter, but as an art dealer with the firm Goupil & Cie. He spent 7 years at Goupil & Cie where daily contacts with works of art kindled his appreciation of paintings and drawings. Gradually Vincent lost interest in his work and decided to try his hand teaching at a Catholic School for boys. His growing interest religion and his desire to help the poor eventually drove him to become a clergyman. In 1878, he became a lay preacher in one of the most impoverished regions in Western Europe: the coal- mining district of the Borinage in Belgium. Vincent sympathized with the poverty-stricken miners and gave away most of his food and clothing to ease their burdened lives. His extreme commitment to the miners drew disfavor from the church, which dismissed him of his post. Vincent, however, decided to remain with the miners and began to paint them and their families, chronicling their harsh conditions.

Soon after, thanks to his brother’s financial help, Vincent decided to go to Brussels in 1880 to begin studies in art. During the next 10 years, Vincent painted around 872 painting. In 1882, Vincent began living with Clasina Maria Hoornik, also known as Sien, and her children, in The Hague. Their volatile personalities and the strain of living in complete poverty created stormy relationship. Vincent was devoted to Sien and her children, but art always came first. As his drawing and painting skills advanced, his relationship with Sien deteriorated and they parted ways in September 1883

In 1886, ẽVincent moved in with his brother-Theo in Paris where he met Paul Gauguin and various other artists, who had a tremendous impact on his ongoing evolution as an artist. Never truly happy in large cities, Vincent decided to move to Aries Province in the south of France, where he rented a studio and invited Paul Gauguin to live with him. In December 1888, Vincent experienced a psychotic episode in which he cut off a piece of his left ear. After his episode, he was in and out of asylums for the next year. It was thought that Van Gogh was actually epileptic and that is why people thought he had fits of insanity throughout his life. He painted one of his best-known painting, Starry Night, during one of his stays in the asylum. In mid-1890, Vincent left the asylum and spent the last few months of his life in Auvers, France. On July 27th 1890, Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest. Two days later he died with his younger brother-Theo by his side. He left behind a wonderful array of paintings that make him one of the most influential painters of our time.

1. The word “chronicling” in paragraph 1 is closest meaning to “ “.

A. recording

B. classifying

C. suffering

D. colouring

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Lời giải:

1. chronicle = record: ghi lại

Đáp án: A

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CÂU HỎI HOT CÙNG CHỦ ĐỀ

Câu 1

Andrew told me that they _ fish two _ days.

A. have not eaten / ago

B. had eaten / previous

C. did not eat / before

D. would not eat / last

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Đáp án: B

Giải thích:

Kiến thức: Câu gián tiếp

Động từ “told” ở thì quá khứ đơn, nên loại A.

Ở vị trí thứ 2, ta có “ago”, “before” đều không thể đứng trước danh từ “days”, loại A và C.

Dựa vào nghĩa, loại D.

Vậy phần gián tiếp là lùi từ thì quá khứ đơn về quá khứ hoàn thành.

Dịch: Andrew kể với tôi rằng họ đã ăn cá hai ngày trước đó.

Câu 2

I only realized what I had missed when they told me about it later.

A. Only after I had realized what I had missed did they tell me about it later.

B. As soon as they told me about it I realized what I had missed.

C. Only when they told me about it later did I realize what I had missed.

D. They told me about it and I realized what I had missed.

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Lời giải:

Đáp án: C

Dịch: Tôi chỉ nhận ra những gì tôi đã bỏ lỡ khi họ nói với tôi về nó sau này.

A. Only after I had realized what I had missed did they tell me about it later. → Chỉ sau khi tôi nhận ra những gì tôi đã bỏ lỡ, họ mới nói với tôi về điều đó, sai nghĩa.

B. As soon as they told me about it I realized what I had missed. → Ngay sau khi họ nói với tôi về điều đó, tôi nhận ra những gì tôi đã bỏ lỡ, sai nghĩa.

C. Only when they told me about it later did I realize what I had missed. → Chỉ khi họ nói với tôi về điều đó sau đó, tôi mới nhận ra những gì tôi đã bỏ lỡ, đúng nghĩa.

D. They told me about it and I realized what I had missed. → Họ nói với tôi về điều đó và tôi nhận ra những gì tôi đã bỏ lỡ, sai nghĩa.

Câu 3