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One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.
When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.
(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)
According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress?
One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.
When television came along, it proliferated like a poplulation of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more then a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What’s more, after the traumatic events of Sptember 11, 2001, live newcasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to diasater (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the proplem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potetial trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.
(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthew Uhl – Penguin Group 2006)
According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress?
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D. Our continual exposure to the media: theo bài đọc, một điều góp phần vào bản chất căng thẳng của những áp lực trong thế kỉ 21 là việc đối mặt thường xuyên với các phương tiện truyền thông đại chúng.
Chi tiết này có trong câu đầu đoạn một: “One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news.”Câu hỏi cùng đoạn
Câu 2:
In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ______.
In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ______.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
C. printing, transportation, and telecommunications were not developed: trong quá khứ chúng ta có ít tin tức hơn về những dân tộc và những vùng đất xa xôi bởi vì việc in ấn, vận chuyển và truyền thông chưa phát triển.
Chúng ta có thể tìm thấy chi tiết này trong hai câu của đoạn hai “The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.”Câu 3:
The word “traumatic” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.
The word “traumatic” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
C. upsetting: từ “traumatic” trong đoạn bốn sát ý nghĩa với từ “upsetting= gây sốc”.
Chính xác từ “traumatic” có nghĩa là “extremely unpleasant and causing you to feel upset and/or anxious”.Câu 4:
According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts
According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
. sent out frightening stories about potential dangers: theo bài đọc, những khi không có đủ những tin sốt dẻo (= breaking news), giới truyền thông thường đưa ra những câu chuyện ghê rợn và những mối nguy hiểm tiềm ẩn. Chúng ta có thể thấy chi tiết này trong đoạn năm, câu: “…when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future”.
Câu 5:
Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
D. The only source of stress in our modern life is the media: theo bài đọc, các phương tiện truyền thông chỉ là một trong những nguồn – chứ không phải là duy nhất – gây chứng căng thẳng cho con người trong cuộc sống hiện đại.
Chúng ta có thể thấy chi tiết này ngay trong câu thứ nhất của đoạn một với cụm từ: “One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress…”Câu 6:
The word “slip” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.
The word “slip” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
D. fall: từ “slip = rơi vào” sát nghĩa với từ “fall”.
Ý nghĩa cả câu: “The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms” = “Hãy nhớ rằng bộ óc của con người được lập trình để rơi vào trạng thái báo động mỗi khi nguy hiểm xuất hiện”.Câu 7:
According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is obviously ________.
According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is obviously ________.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
B. a source of chronic stress: theo bài đọc, việc tiếp xúc liên tục với tin tức xấu mà thiếu cân nhắc rõ ràng là cội nguồn của chứng căng thẳng kinh niên.
Chúng ta có thể thấy chi tiết này trong câu cuối của đoạn sáu.: “Exposing ourslves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.”Câu 8:
What is probably the best title for this passage?
What is probably the best title for this passage?
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
C. The Media – A Major Cause of Stress: tựa đề thích hợp cho bài đọc này có thể là “Các phương tiện truyền thông – Nguyên nhân chính của tình trạng căng thẳng thần kinh”.
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Câu 3:
With which of the following topics is the passage mainly concerned?
With which of the following topics is the passage mainly concerned?
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