Câu hỏi:
18/03/2020 674Read 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 from 35 to 42.
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective. Satire itself, however, rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.
Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift.
It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it.
The word “sanctimonious” may be new to you. It most probably means “________ ” in this context.
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Trả lời:
Đáp án A.
Key words: sanctimonious, most probably means
Clue: Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true: Văn trào phúng có xu hướng nhắc nhở con người rằng phần lớn những gì thay, họ nhìn và họ đọc trên những phương tiện truyền thông phổ biến đều ..., đa cảm và chỉ đúng phần nào.
Phân tích đáp án:
A. exaggerated: phóng đại
B. good: tốt
C. educational: có giáo dục
D. moderate: khiêm tốn
Xét các phương án thì Sanctimonious gần nghĩa nhất với A. exaggerated: phóng đại.
Đã bán 152
Đã bán 114
Đã bán 132
Đã bán 47
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
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Câu 6:
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Câu 7:
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
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