Câu hỏi:
12/10/2021 130Read 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 43 to 50.
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 Americas 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
It can be inferred from the passage that for most Americans____________.
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Đáp án A
Câu hỏi. Từ đoạn văn có thể suy ra đối với hầu hết người Mỹ____________
Chúng ta tìm thấy thông tin trong đoạn 3 dòng 1-3:
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.
Tạm dịch: Sự nghiệp của ông, từ mỏ dầu phía Tây bước lên đỉnh cao danh vọng, là một phiên bản cổ tích của giấc mơ Mỹ.
Từ fairy-tale cho thấy thành công của ông là điều gì đó khó tin, hiếm có như truyện cổ tích → đáp án A đúng
Đã bán 152
Đã bán 114
Đã bán 132
Đã bán 47
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