Câu 47 I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good year to make the place inhabitable. The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration. We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious. Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard. It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful. There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana. Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare. Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant. The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance What impression does the writer give of the electricity supply? a. It didn’t always work properly.(Đ) b. It was too dangerous to use. c. It only worked when it was windy. d. It was a very reliable system. Câu 48 The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports. Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker. When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes once a week for about three years.’ ‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds. ‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing on the cake’. Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he would have none of it.’ ‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’ Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer. Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year. Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’ Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks. Why did John Watkins decide to make a cello? a. He wanted to encourage his son Paul to take up the instrument. b. He felt that dealers were giving him false information. c. He wanted to avoid having to pay for one.(Đ) d. He was keen to do a course at the nearby school. Câu 49 I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good year to make the place inhabitable. The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration. We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious. Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard. It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful. There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana. Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare. Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant. The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance What impression does the writer give of the electricity supply? a. It didn’t always work properly.(Đ) b. It was too dangerous to use. c. It only worked when it was windy. d. It was a very reliable system. Câu 50 By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple techniques. She learns to weave firm square balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire. But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending. Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys. For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful. Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava. The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another. This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation Which of the following if true would weaken the author's contention about 'lessons in cooperation' ? I Group games played by younger girls involve cooperation II Girls can learn from watching boys cooperating III Individual girls cooperate with their mothers in looking after babies a. I and II only (Đ) b. I only c. II only d. III only
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When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one I discovered that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes once a week for about three years.’
‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds ‘It turned out really well He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it And that’s the one I used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing on the cake’.
Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age The piano came first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers But it wasn’t long before the cello beckoned ‘My folks were really quite keen for
me to take up the violin, because Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make up a string trio I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it But I really took to the character who played the cello in Dad’s group I thought he was
a very cool guy when I was six or seven So he said he’d give me some lessons, and that really started it all off Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he would have none of it.’
‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to being pushed And, rather than feeling
Trang 2threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’ Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music ‘Dad’s not said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance
to run a bow across the strings of each in turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back
of large concert halls It will get richer with age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’
Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t affect the way I play the work,’ he says ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival Nor will Huw, whose String Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening John and Hetty will have to be diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.
What will require some effort from John and Hetty Watkins?
a Being aware of everything their sons are involved in.(Đ)
b Reminding their sons what they have arranged to do
c Advising their sons on what they should do next
d Preventing their sons from taking on too much work
Câu 2
By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a younger child And she also develops a number of simple techniques She learns to weave firm square balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by picking up the litter on the stony
Trang 3floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire.
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
It can be inferred that in the community under discussion all of the following are important except…
Trang 4By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a younger child And she also develops a number of simple techniques She learns to weave firm square balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire.
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
It can be inferred that the 'high standard of individual responsibility' is
Trang 5a developed mainly through child-care duties(Đ)
b weakened as the girl grows older
c taught to the girl before she is entrusted with babies
d only present in girls
Câu 4
By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a younger child And she also develops a number of simple techniques She learns to weave firm square balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire.
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high
Trang 6standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
The expression 'innocent of' (in the last paragraph) is best taken to mean
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
Trang 7The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
The list of techniques in paragraph one could best be described as…
a useful social skills(Đ)
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are
Trang 8brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
The word 'brusquely' (line 9) most nearly means
Trang 9But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
What was boys’ attitude to girls when they worked in team to capture eels?
Trang 10blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire.
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
Which of the following is the best description of the author's technique in handling her material?
a Both description and interpretation of observations.(Đ)
b Description of evidence to support a theory
Trang 11c Presentation of facts without comment.
d Generalization from a particular viewpoint
Câu 9
By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a younger child And she also develops a number of simple techniques She learns to weave firm square balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire.
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
Trang 12This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
Who do the girls or boys work in tean better, according to the passage?
a Both girls and boys does not work well
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually relieved of it Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of
Trang 13the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play So while the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation.
The primary purpose of the passage with reference to the society under discussion is to…
a criticize the deficiencies in the education of girls
b explain some differences in the upbringing of girls and boys(Đ)
c show that young girls are trained to be useful to adults
d give a comprehensive account of a day in the life of an average young girlCâu 11
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
Trang 14It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
How did the writer find out what Ena's name was?
a Her father told him when he asked
b Antoine gave him the information
c Someone mentioned her name.(Đ)
d He heard a customer asking for her
Trang 15Câu 12
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Trang 16Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
What attitude does the writer have towards Ena?
a The writer has a hostile attitude towards her
b The writer has a positive attitude towards her
c The writer has a negative attitude towards her.(Đ)
d The writer has an aggressive attitude towards her
Câu 13
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This
Trang 17man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
Why was General Sosa unlike other military officers?
a He was in charge of the area
Trang 18b He liked helping his relatives.
c He managed to get things done.(Đ)
d He had his own private helicopter
Câu 14
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself.
Trang 19Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
Which of the conclusions can be drawn from this extract?
a Miss Temple has a detailed plan to follow Roger (Đ)
b Miss Temple has an impractical plan to follow Roger
c Miss Temple is sure that she will find out the truth
d Miss Temple is not patient enough to follow Roger
Câu 15
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Trang 20Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
Trang 21According to the writer, Antoine
a had recently arrived
b liked to keep to himself
c painted for a living
d was a foreigner.(Đ)
Câu 16
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
Trang 22There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
The writer uses the phrase ‘served as a watercourse’ (Paragraph 4) to show that the path
a needed to be repaired
b was sometimes flooded.(Đ)
c had many deep holes
d was difficult to walk on
Câu 17
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
Trang 23The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
Trang 24The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
What attracted the writer to the house?
a the condition it was in
b where it was located(Đ)
c the view it gave of the valley
d how big it was
Câu 18
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's
Trang 25ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
What criticism of Ena does the writer make?
a She never wore shoes
b She wasn’t interested in clothes
c Her eyebrows were too thick
d Her head seemed to be too big.(Đ)
Câu 19
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house
Trang 26was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a
Trang 27Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
What did the writer like best about Ena?
a her sense of humour(Đ)
b her physical appearance
c her resemblance to someone
d her innocent ignorance
Câu 20
I chose a small house on the edge of the city It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat It took me a good year
to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full of mud and rocks I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom
he had arrived in the original immigration We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
Trang 28It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item overlooked during the last expedition The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since,
it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor This tractor had been half-buried in the mud
of the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request It is commonly said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.
The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
Which of the conclusions can be drawn from this passage?
a The writer feels happy with the people he has met (Đ)
b The writer is not interested in the people around him
c The writer would like to move to another place
d The place where the writer lives isolates him from nature
Trang 29Câu 21
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage,
Trang 30and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
How did Miss Temple’s purchases make her feel about what she was doing?
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
Trang 31She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
Miss Temple bought a book at the bookshop because
a she needed an excuse to stay there.(Đ)
b she suddenly felt like buying something
c she was forced to by the shop owner
Trang 32d she wanted a way to pass the time.
Câu 23
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time,
Trang 33that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
Miss Temple decided to follow Roger after work because
a she didn’t want to risk him seeing her outside his office
b she had other, more important things to do during the working day
c she believed that was the time she could find out what she wanted to know.(Đ)
d she couldn’t see what he was doing inside his office
Câu 24
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or
Trang 34not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
Miss Temple thought it would be easy to follow Roger because
a he always took a break at the same time
Trang 35b he always ate lunch at a particular location.(Đ)
c she already knew the schedule of his working day
d his work schedule never changed
Câu 25
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself.
Trang 36Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
Miss Temple’s excitement at following Roger
a disappeared when she realised where he was going.(Đ)
b increased each time she caught sight of him
c ended when her carriage started following him
d turned into boredom after a while
Câu 26
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the
Trang 37restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
The word ‘this’ in paragraph 5 refers to
a banging on the hood of the carriage
Trang 38b paying drivers well for their time.
c the driver’s silence
d being asked to follow someone.(Đ)
Câu 27
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself.
Trang 39Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
What mistake did Miss Temple soon realise she had made?
a She had waited for Roger in the wrong place(Đ)
b She needn’t bave made a purchase at the bookshop
c She should have followed Roger back to the Ministry when she had had thechance
d She had re-crossed the square at the wrong place
Câu 28
It would be simple enough to follow him Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected
a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs The books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool She had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an
Trang 40inexperienced observer It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day It was after work that any real information would be gathered Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather pencil Miss Temple then took her tea.
Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing the day’s work so far That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code replacing proper names and places with synonyms
or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but herself Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when
he appeared The driver nodded, but said nothing else She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back
at the courtyard gates just in time to see Roger, standing in the road with
an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a coach of his own Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach and they were off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few turns it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.
Roger left his office at about five o’clock, Miss Temple When