Đọc – tiếng anh 5 – EN36

However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not only writers and performers of music, but When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-

Đọc – Tiếng Anh 5 – EN36

Unit1: Crime and punishment

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the

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

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

‘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

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

‘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

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 is meant by ‘crack’ in the second paragraph?

b plan

c shock

d period

What does Paul say about his performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto?

a It is typical of his approach to everything he plays Câu trả lời đúng

b It is less traditional than other performances he has given

c He considers it to be one of his best performances

d Some viewers are likely to have a low opinion of it

What will require some effort from John and Hetty Watkins?

a Preventing their sons from taking on too much work

b Advising their sons on what they should do next

c Reminding their sons what they have arranged to do

d Being aware of everything their sons are involved in Câu trả lời đúng

What does Paul say about the Rugeri cello?

a The cello his father made may become as good as it.Câu trả lời đúng

b He was not keen to tell his father that he was using it

c His father’s reaction to it worried him

d It has qualities that he had not expected

What does the word “they” in the fourth paragraph refer to?

a Paul and Huw

b Dad and Dad’s mates Câu trả lời đúng

b His violins have turned out to be better than his cellos

c It took him longer to learn how to make cellos than violins

d He considers the one used by Jaime Laredo to be the best

What do we learn about Huw’s musical development?

a His brother’s achievements gave him an aim Câu trả lời đúng

b His parents’ attitude has played little part in it

c It was slow because he lacked determination

d He wanted it to be different from his brother’s

What is meant by ‘diplomatic’ in the last paragraph?

a tactful Câu trả lời đúng

b excellent

c capable

d confident

Paul first became interested in playing the cello because .

a he admired someone his father played music with Câu trả lời đúng

b he did not want to do what his parents wanted

c he wanted to play in his father’s group

d he was not very good at playing the piano

Why did John Watkins decide to make a cello?

a He felt that dealers were giving him false information

b He wanted to avoid having to pay for one Câu trả lời đúng

c He was keen to do a course at the nearby school

d He wanted to encourage his son Paul to take up the instrument

Why did John Watkins decide to make a cello?

a He wanted to avoid having to pay for one Câu trả lời đúng

b He wanted to encourage his son Paul to take up the instrument

c He felt that dealers were giving him false information

d He was keen to do a course at the nearby school

What is meant by ‘crack’ in the second paragraph?

Unit 2: Shopping

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

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

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

a developed mainly through child-care duties Câu trả lời đúng

b taught to the girl before she is entrusted with babies

c only present in girls

d weakened as the girl grows older

Which of the following if true would weaken the author’s contention about

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 Both description and interpretation of observations Câu trả lời đúng

b Description of evidence to support a theory

c Generalization from a particular viewpoint

d Presentation of facts without comment

It can be inferred that in the community under discussion all of the following are important except…

c well-defined social structure

d fishing skills

Who do the girls or boys work in tean better, according to the passage?

a Both girls and boys work well

c girls

d Both girls and boys does not work well

The expression ‘innocent of’ (in the last paragraph) is best taken to mean

a unskilled in Câu trả lời đúng

b uninvolved in

c unsuited for

d not guilty of

The word ‘brusquely’ (line 9) most nearly means

a abruptlyCâu trả lời đúng

b gently

c quickly

d nonchalantly

What was boys’ attitude to girls when they worked in team to capture eels?

d They did not show anything

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 Câu trả lời đúng

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 girl

The list of techniques in paragraph one could best be described as…

a useful social skills Câu trả lời đúng

b household duties

c rudimentary physical skills

d important responsibilities

Unit 3: Language

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

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

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

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

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

According to the writer, Antoine

a had recently arrived

b liked to keep to himself

d was a foreigner Câu trả lời đúng

What attracted the writer to the house?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a the condition it was in

b where it was located

Câu trả lời đúng

c how big it was

d the view it gave of the valley

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a Her head seemed to be too big Câu trả lời đúng

b She never wore shoes

c Her eyebrows were too thick

d She wasn’t interested in clothes