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CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS
There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness- although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.
There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.
But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.
In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cell phone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort zone, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.
The provision of mobile phones for children, according to the author, _________.
CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS
There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness- although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.
There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.
But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.
In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cell phone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort zone, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.
The provision of mobile phones for children, according to the author, _________.
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Giải bởi Vietjack
D
Việc cung cấp điện thoại di động cho trẻ, theo tác giả
A. giảm sự phụ thuộc của trẻ em vào bố mẹ chung
B. tăng sự kiểm soát tích cực bởi bố mẹ chúng
C. giảm sự can thiệp của bố mẹ
D. tăng sự phụ thuộc của trẻ con
Dẫn chứng: That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence.
=> Chọn D
Câu hỏi cùng đoạn
Câu 2:
It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that children and their parents _________.
It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that children and their parents _________.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
A
Có thể suy ra từ đoạn 1 rằng trẻ em và bố mẹ chúng
A. cần nhau về mặt tinh thần
B. chỉ phụ thuộc vào nhau tạm thời
C. phụ thuộc vào nhau về thể chất và tinh thần
D. phụ thuộc vào nhau ở vẻ bên ngoài
Dẫn chứng: For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness.
=> Chọn A
Câu 3:
The author remarks that students nowadays tend to _________.
The author remarks that students nowadays tend to _________.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
C
Tác giả lưu ý rằng học sinh ngày nay có xu hướng
A. từ chối học đại học xa nhà
B. đi học đại học để thỏa mong ước của bố mẹ
C. chọn một học viện gần nhà
D. chọn một học viện nước ngoài thay vì trong nước
Dẫn chứng: There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home.
=> Chọn C
Câu 4:
Parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences because
Parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences because
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
D
Bố mẹ có vẻ như tham gia vào những trải nghiệm đại học của bố mẹ bởi vì
A. chúng lo lắng về sự bất cẩn ở trường
B. trường học thường không chú ý đến học sinh của chúng
C. chúng sợ bị tước đoạt niềm vui
D. họ cảm thấy con họ như là một niềm hạnh phúc
Dẫn chứng: It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness-although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way-even if it creates anxiety in the children.
=> Chọn D
Câu 5:
The word “vehicles” in the first paragraph may be replaced by _________.
The word “vehicles” in the first paragraph may be replaced by _________.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
A
Từ “ phương tiện” ở đoạn văn đầu tiên có thể được thay thế bởi
Means: phương tiện
Methods: phương pháp
Ways: cách thức
Instruments: công cụ
=> Chọn A
Câu 6:
Colleges have had to devise ways of getting parents off campus because _________.
Colleges have had to devise ways of getting parents off campus because _________.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
C
Các trường đại học phải đưa ra nhiều cách để đưa bố mẹ ra khỏi khuôn viên trường bởi vì
A. trẻ con muốn hoàn toàn tự do khỏi sự kiểm soát của bố mẹ
B. trường đại học muốn bố mẹ hoàn toàn không biết về hoạt động của bọn trẻ
C. bố mẹ có xu hướng tham gia nhiều hơn vào việc học tập của con họ ở trường.
D. bản thân các giáo viên không muốn chia sẻ thông tin với bố mẹ
Dẫn chứng: That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.
=> Chọn C
Câu 7:
By quoting the laws of physics, the author implies that _________.
By quoting the laws of physics, the author implies that _________.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
D
Bằng cách trích dẫn những định luật vật lý, tác giả ngụ ý rằng
A. mọi người nên học vật lý bất cứ khi nào có thể
B. mọi người không nên quên những mối quan hệ cũ
C. mọi người chỉ nên quan tâm đến những quan hệ mới
D. mọi người nên xây dựng nhiều mối quan hệ hơn
Dẫn chứng: The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.
=> Chọn D
Câu 8:
“Cutting the Apron Strings”, the title of the passage, can be interpreted as _________.
“Cutting the Apron Strings”, the title of the passage, can be interpreted as _________.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
C
“ Cắt bỏ dây tạp dề” tiêu đề của bài đọc có thể được phiên dịch như là
A. cắt đứt mối quan hệ cũ
B. độc lập về tài chính
C. sống tự lập/ tự đứng trên đôi chân của mình
D. tự tìm kiếm thiết bị của bạn
=>Chọn C
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