Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the New York Yankees in their years of glory. From the time Mantle began to play professionally in 1951 to his last year in 1968, baseball was the most popular game in the United States. For many people, Mantle symbolized the hope, prosperity, and confidence of America at that time.

          Mantle was a fast and powerful player, a “switch-hitter” who could bat both right-handed and left-handed. He won game after game, one World Series championship after another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, but this alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him.

          Perhaps it was because he was a handsome, red-haired country boy, the son of a poor miner from Oklahoma. His career, from the lead mines of the West to the heights of success and fame, was a fairy-tale version of the American dream. Or perhaps it was because America always loves a “natural”: a person who wins without seeming to try, whose talent appears to come from an inner grace. That was Mickey Mantle.

          But like many celebrities, Mickey Mantle had a private life that was full of problems. He played without complaint despite constant pain from injuries. He lived to fulfill his father’s dreams and drank to forget his father’s early death.

          It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer. Even when Mickey Mantle had turned away from his old life and warned young people not to follow his example, the destructive process could not be stopped. Despite a liver transplant operation that had all those who loved and admired him hoping for a recovery, Mickey Mantle died of cancer at the age of 63

What is the main idea of the passage?

Đáp án C

Theo bài đọc, Mantel có thể

A. đập bóng để ghi điểm từ khoảng cách xa.

B. đập bóng bắng tay trái tốt hơn tay phải.

C. đập bóng bằng vợt một trong hai bên ( bên phải và bên trái đều tốt như nhau).

D. đấm bóng mạnh nhất trong đội.

Dẫn chứng: (2) Mantle was a fast and powerful player, a “switch-hitter” who could bat both right-handed and left-handed. He won game after game, one World Series championship after another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, but this alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him.

Đáp án B

Từ “this” được dùng ở đoạn văn số 2 ám chỉ điều gì?

A.Mantle là một cầu thủ mạnh và nhanh.

B. Mantle là một vận động viên tuyệt vời.

C. Mantle được nhiều người yêu thích.

D. Mantle là một người có thể đánh bóng cả bên tay trái và tay phải.

Dẫn chứng: Mantle was a fast and powerful player, a “switch-hitter” who could bat both right-handed and left-handed. He won game after game, one World Series championship after another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, but this alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him.

Đáp án A

Tác giả dùng từ “but” ở đoạn văn 4 để....

A.thay đổi chủ đề của bài đọc.

B. đưa ra tranh luận ủng hộ cho thành công và danh tiếng của Mantle.

C. giải thích Mantel đã gặp rắc rối như thế nào.

D. nêu ví dụ về vấn đề đời tư của Mantle.

Đáp án D

Từ “ accelerated” in paragraph 5 gần nghĩa với...

Worsened: làm tồi tệ hơn

Bettered: trở nên tốt hơn

Delayed: trì hoãn

Quickened: nhanh chóng

Dẫn chứng: It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer.

Đáp án D

Chúng ta có thể thấy từ đoạn 5 rằng sau khi bố anh ấy mất, Mantle...

A.chơi thậm chí là tốt hơn

B. quên đi ước mơ của bố anh ấy

C. hướng đến cuộc sống hạnh phúc hơn

D. chịu nhiều đau đớn

Dẫn chứng: He lived to fulfill his father’s dreams and drank to forget his father’s early death. (5) It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer. Even when Mickey Mantle had turned away from his old life and warned young people not to follow his example, the destructive process could not be stopped.

Đáp án B

Câu nào sau đây được đề cập như là nguyên nhân chính gây ra sự hủy hoại trong cơ thể của Mantle?

A.sự cô đơn

B. lối sống

C. phẫu thuật cấy ghép gan

D. ước mơ của chính anh ấy.

Dẫn chứng: => It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer. Even when Mickey Mantle had turned away from his old life and warned young people not to follow his example, the destructive process could not be stopped.