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(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?

A. To explain how Grace Bedell took a photograph of Abraham Lincoln

B. To explain why Abraham Lincoln wore a beard

C. To explain why the first photographs were significant in American life

D. To explain why Westfield is an important city

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Đáp án C

Các đáp án A, B, D còn lại chỉ là ví dụ nhỏ trong câu không phải là mục đích chính của bài viết. Mục đích chính là giải thích tại sao các bức ảnh đầu tiên lại quan trong trong đời sống người Mỹ

Câu hỏi cùng đoạn

Câu 2:

The word “fascinated” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by

A. interested

B. frightened

C. confused

D. disgusted

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Đáp án A

fascinated = interested: gây hứng thú

frighten: làm sợ hãi

confuse: làm bối rối

disgust: làm chán ghét

Câu 3:

The man in the photograph

A. was smiling

B. had a beard

C. had a round, fat face

D. looked kind

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Đáp án D

Dòng 2 + 3 đoạn 1 “The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind”

Câu 4:

What did Grace Bedell do every night before she went to sleep?

A. She wrote letters.

B. She looked at the photograph.

C. She made shadow figures on the wall.

D. She read stories.

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Đáp án B

Dòng 3 + 4 đoạn 1: “One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep”

Câu 5:

The little girl could not sleep because she was

A. sick

B. excited

C. lonely

D. sad

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Đáp án B

Dòng 1 đoạn 2: “That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write”

Sick: ốm

Exited: hào hứng

Lonely: cô đơn

Sad: buồn

Câu 6:

The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to

A. Time

B. Speech

C. Photograph

D. Station

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Đáp án B

“I have no speech to make and no time to make it in.” tôi không có bài diễn thuyết nào để thực hiện cả và cũng không có thời gian để diễn thuyết

Time: thời gian

Speech: bài diễn thuyết

Photograph: chụp ảnh

Station: sân ga

Câu 7:

Why did the author wait until the last line to reveal the identity of the man in the photograph?

A. The author did not know it.

B. The author wanted to make the reader fell foolish.

C. The author wanted to build the interest and curiosity of the reader.

D. The author was just a little girl.

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Đáp án C

(C) Tác giả muốn gây sự thu hút và tò mò từ phía người đọc

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It can be inferred from the passage that the Sun ___.

A. has been in existence for 10 billion years

B. is approximately halfway through its life as a yellow dwarf

C. will continue to be a yellow dwarf for another 10 billion years

D. is rapidly changing in size and brightness

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Câu 2:

With which of the following topics is the passage primarily concerned?

A. The Paleolithic period

B. Subsistence farming

C. Hunter-gatherers

D. Marginal environment

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Câu 3:

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Advances in iron processing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

B. The effects of the Industrial Revolution on traditional architectural styles.

C. Advantages of stone and timber over steel as a building material.

D. The evolution of the use of iron in architecture during the 1800’s.

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Câu 4:

Reading aloud was more common in the medieval world because .

A. few people could read to themselves

B. there were few places available for private reading

C. silent reading had not been discovered

D. people relied on reading for entertainment

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Câu 5:

Where do protozoans probably live?

(A) Water

(B) Sand

(C) Grass

(D) Wood

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Câu 6:

With what topic is this passage primarily concerned?

(A) Profits

(B) Rate

(C) Interest

(D) Principal

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