Read 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 following sentences
Culture is a word in common use with complex meanings, and is derived, like the term broadcasting, from the treatment and care of the soil and of what grows on it. It is directly related to cultivation and the adjectives cultural and cultured are part of the same verbal complex. A person of culture has identifiable attributes, among them a knowledge of and interest in the arts, literature, and music. Yet the word culture does not refer solely to such knowledge and interest nor, indeed, to education. At least from the 19th century onwards, under the influence of anthropologists and sociologists, the word culture has come to be used generally both in the singular and the plural (cultures) to refer to a whole way of life of people, including their customs, laws, conventions, and values
         Distinctions have consequently been drawn between primitive and advanced culture and cultures, between elite and popular culture, between popular and mass culture, and most recently between national and global cultures. Distinctions have been drawn too between culture and civilization; the latter is a word derived not, like culture or agriculture, from the soil, but from the city. The two words are sometimes treated as synonymous. Yet this is misleading. While civilization and barbarism are pitted against each other in what seems to be a perpetual behavioural pattern, the use of the word culture has been strongly influenced by conceptions of evolution in the 19th century and of development in the 20th century. Cultures evolve or develop. They are not static. They have twists and turns. Styles change. So do fashions. There are cultural processes. What, for example, the word cultured means has changed substantially since the study of classical (that is, Greek and Roman) literature, philosophy, and history ceased in the 20th century to be central to school and university education. No single alternative focus emerged, although with computers has come electronic culture, affecting kinds of study, and most recently digital culture. As cultures express themselves in new forms not everything gets better or more civilized.
     The multiplicity of meanings attached to the word made and will make it difficult to define. There is no single, unproblematic definition, although many attempts have been made to establish one. The only non-problematic definitions go back to agricultural meaning (for example, cereal culture or strawberry culture) and medical meaning (for example, bacterial culture or penicillin culture). Since in anthropology and sociology we also acknowledge culture clashes, culture shock, and counter-culture, the range of reference is extremely wide
According to the passage, the word culture____

A. is related to the preparation and use of land for farming

B. develops from Greek and Roman literature and history

C. comes from a source that has not been identified

D. derives from the same root as civilization does

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Đáp án A

Ngay từ câu đầu tiên: Culture is a word in common use with complex meanings, and is derived, …, from the treatment and care of the soil and of what grows on it -> nguồn gốc từ này liên quan tới sự chăm sóc đất đai và thực vật trồng trên đất; hay cũng là sự chuẩn bị đất và sử dụng đất cho nông nghiệp

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Câu 1

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet t indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
Not until he got home he realized he had forgotten to give her the present

A. got

B. he realized

C. her

D. the present

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Đáp án B

Cấu trúc đảo ngữ nhấn mạnh thời quá khứ: Not until + mốc thời gian/mệnh đề trong quá khứ + did + S + V không chia = ai đã không làm gì cho tới lúc nào. B -> did he realize

Câu 2

Tom: “ When are we leaving for the concert?”Kyle: “ ………………”

A. Straight away

B. That’s right

C. Certainly

D. No problem

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Đáp án A

Tom hỏi về thời gian (khi nào chúng ta sẽ đến buổi hòa nhạc?) Straight away = ngay lập tức, ngay bây giờ. That’s right = đúng thế đấy. certainly = chắc chắn rồi. no problem = không vấn đề gì

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