Câu hỏi:
29/11/2023 420Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Television’s contribution to family life in the United States has been an equivocal one. For while is has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By dominating the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.
“Like the sorcerer of old,” writes Urie Bronfenbrenner, “the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the behavior it produces – although there is danger there – as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, games, the family festivities, and arguments through which much of the child’s leaning takes place and though which character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transform children into people.”
Of course, families today still do special things together at times: go camping in the summer, go to the zoo on a nice Sunday, take various trips and expeditions. But the ordinary daily life together is diminished – that sitting around at the dinner table, that spontaneous taking up of an activity, those little games invented by children on the spur of the moment when there is nothing else to do, the scribbling, the chatting, the quarreling, all the things that form the fabric of a family, that define a childhood.
Instead, the children have their schedule of television programs and bedtime, and the parents have their peaceful dinner together. But surely the needs of adults are being better met than the needs of children, who are effectively shunted away and rendered untroublesome.
Which of the following best represents the author’s argument in the passage?
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Trả lời:
Chọn A
Dẫn chứng “Television’s contribution to family life …. rendered untroublesome.”
Câu hỏi cùng đoạn
Câu 2:
The word it in bold in paragraph 1 refers to _________.
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Câu 3:
According to the passage, one of the television’s effects on family life in the United States is _____________
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Dẫn chứng “But the ordinary daily life together is diminished … that define a childhood.”
Chọn C
Câu 4:
The word freezing in bold in the passage is closest in meaning to ___________.
Lời giải của GV VietJack
freezing: đóng băng
A. kiểm soát
B. tạm dừng
C. kịch tính
D. khuyến khích
Chọn B
Câu 5:
Urie Bronfenbrenner compares the television set to __________.
Lời giải của GV VietJack
Dẫn chứng “the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the behavior it produces”
Chọn D
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Câu 2:
According to the passage, Coca-Cola was first introduced in ____.
Câu 4:
I simply fail to understand some of my colleagues attitudes to work.
=> I have some friends __________________________________________.
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Câu 7:
I really enjoyed my holiday last January. While it (snow)________ in Iowa, the sun (shine) _________ in Florida.
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