Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT Quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh lần 1 năm 2021 - Cụm liên trường THPT Quỳnh Lưu-Hoàng Mai (Có đáp án)

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1. SỞ GD&ĐT NGHỆ AN KỲ THI THỬ TỐT NGHIỆP THPT NĂM 2021 LIÊN TRƯỜNG THPT Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH QUỲNH LƯU – HOÀNG MAI Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề (Đề thi có 05 trang) Mã đề thi 401 Họ, tên thí sinh: , Số báo danh: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Question 1: We were really surprised ___ the price of food in restaurants. A. at B. of C. about D. with Question 2: It’s only ___ sense to take out a private pension these days, A. frequent B. common C. practical D. general Question 3: He ___ about his new school all the time. A. puts off B. makes out C. takes over D. goes on Question 4: There’s no doubt that you will be successful ___. A. except for your hard working B. until you keep working hard C. the next time you stop working hard D. as long as you keep working hard Question 5: I went to Belgium last month. I ___ there before. It’s a beautiful country. A. am never B. had never been C. never was D. have never been Question 6: Madrid is ___ capital of Spain. A. a B. Ø (no article) C. the D. an Question 7: The book contains a ___ of poems from 3 decades. A. collection B. collective C. collector D. collect Question 8: We just couldn’t imagine Henry ___ in public. A. to sing B. to singing C. sing D. singing Question 9: Job seekers are required to visit the ___ centre at least once a week. A. employ B. job C. unemployment D. work Question 10: If I had time, I ___ shopping with you. A. will go B. would have gone C. go D. would go Question 11: There’s really nothing more to say, ___? A. has there B. is there C. isn’t it D. hasn’t it Question 12: The new policy will ___ into effect next Monday. A. take B. break C. come D. have Question 13: It’s hard to keep my head above ___ on what I earn. A. water B. clouds C. rest D. sand Question 14: ___ my sister didn’t like the movie, I enjoyed it a lot. A. Because B. Despite C. Because of D. Although Question 15: The bicycle ___ to me by my grandpa on my birthday is priceless. A. to give B. giving C. given D. is given Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. Question 16: A. determine B. graduate C. computer D. performance Question 17: A. regret B. hotel C. office D. supply Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions. Question 18: A. asks B. jobs C. forms D. years Question 19: A. cheap B. breath C. clean D. lead 1
2. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 20: In many sports such as karatedo, athletics, the young and energetic Vietnamese athletes performed excellently. A. outstandingly B. peacefully C. wonderfully D. poorly Question 21: I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but this pasta sauce I made is quite delicious! A. be modest about my cooking ability B. brush my teeth C. boast about my cooking ability D. make a high sound Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 22: The stock market crash marked the start of the severe depression. A. recession B. success C. development D. unhappiness Question 23: Some research has shown a strong association between pesticide and certain diseases. A. connection B. cooperation C. consequence D. cause Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges. Question 24: “Do you mind if I take a seat? - “___”. A. Yes, I don’t mind B. I’m sorry C. Yes, I do. D. No, do as you please Question 25: “What time does the next bus arrive? “ - “___”. A. Seven thirty B. Twice a day C. The sooner the better D. An hour and a half Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. Question 26: They invited me to take part in an initiative ceremony to make me a man as strong as ABC a horse. D Question 27: He often go to the cinema with his friend at weekends. A B C D Question 28: The proposed rationale was that a regional sports event will help promote cooperative, A B C understanding and relations among countries in the Southeast Asian region D Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions. Question 29: “You’ve done a great job, Lane!” Jenny said. A. Jenny told Lane that he had done a good job. B. Jenny complimented Lane on his performance. C. Jenny thanked Lane for his finding a good job. D. Jenny encouraged Lane to finish his job. Question 30: The Red Apple Hotel is the worst one we’ve ever stayed at. A. We haven’t stayed at such a good hotel like the Red Apple one. B. The Red Apple Hotel is not as bad as any other hotels we’ve stayed at. C. We have never stayed at a worse hotel than the Red Apple Hotel. D. We will never stay at a hotel as bad as the Red Apple Hotel again. Question 31: It was wrong of you not to call the fire brigade at once. A. You needn’t have called the fire brigade at once 2
3. B. The fire brigade was called at the wrong time. C. You didn’t call the fire brigade because it was wrong. D. You should have called the fire brigade at once. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions. Question 32: Within a few weeks of winning the election, his leadership skills were tested. A. Not until he had been elected did they realize he was a gifted leader. B. His election confirmed that the country recognized him as their leader. C. Shortly after he was elected, he had to prove that he really could be a leader D. Having shown his ability to lead, he won the election a couple of weeks later. Question 33: Pat can help you. You can rely on him. A. Let Pat know if you can help him. B. Should you need any assistance, you can count on Pat for it. C. Pat is the only one to ask if you find any assistance. D. If you need Pat’s help, he will let you down. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 34 to 38. Scientists at the FDA are strongly against (34) ___ only single doses of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, (35) ___ their efficacy has only been proven if people get two shots, The Wall Street Journal reports. In February, some scientists and lawmakers suggested using a one-dose regimen for all coronavirus vaccines approved in the US, after certain preliminary studies showed that a single shot could be enough for some people. “You would be flying (36) ___ to just use one dose,” a senior scientist and adviser to US President Joe Biden told The Wall Street Journal, adding “If you’re going to do something else (37) ___ than follow the studies shown to the FDA, show me that this one-shot effect is durable.” At the end of February, the FDA announced that it had given emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine. The coronavirus vaccine was the third candidate (38) ___ had been given FDA approval, following authorization for two-shot vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna. Biden said after the approval of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine that things were still likely to get worse in terms of COVID-19 in the US as new coronavirus variants emerge. (Adapted from Question 34: A. controlling B. administering C. punishing D. organizing Question 35: A. becauseB. thereforeC. so that D. although Question 36: A. blindB. deafC. dumb D. daring Question 37: A. anotherB. otherC. others D. each Question 38: A. whichB. whereC. whom D. whose Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 39 to 43. Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes and shoes than ever before. Online shopping means it is easy for customers to buy without thinking, while major brands offer such cheap clothes that they can be treated like disposable items – worn two or three times and then thrown away. In Britain, the average person spends more than £1,000 on new clothes a year, which is around four per cent of their income. That might not sound like much, but that figure hides two far more worrying trends for society and for the environment. First, a lot of that consumer spending is via credit cards. British people currently owe approximately £670 per adult to credit card companies. That’s 66 per cent of the average wardrobe budget. Also, not only are people spending money they don’t have, they’re using it to buy things they don’t need. Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which goes into landfill sites. People might not realise they are part of the disposable clothing problem because they donate their unwanted clothes to charities. But charity shops can’t sell all those unwanted clothes. ‘Fast fashion’ goes out of fashion as quickly as it came in and is often too poor quality to recycle; 3
4. people don’t want to buy it second-hand. Huge quantities end up being thrown away, and a lot of clothes that charities can’t sell are sent abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems. However, a different trend is springing up in opposition to consumerism – the ‘buy nothing’ trend. The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US, where it became a rejection of the overspending and overconsumption of Black Friday and Cyber Monday during Thanksgiving weekend. On Buy Nothing Day people organise various types of protests and cut up their credit cards. Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organise the exchange and repair of items they already own. The trend has now reached influencers on social media who usually share posts of clothing and make-up that they recommend for people to buy. Some YouTube stars now encourage their viewers not to buy anything at all for periods as long as a year. Two friends in Canada spent a year working towards buying only food. For the first three months they learned how to live without buying electrical goods, clothes or things for the house. For the next stage, they gave up services, for example haircuts, eating out at restaurants or buying petrol for their cars. In one year, they’d saved $55,000. The changes they made meant two fewer cars on the roads, a reduction in plastic and paper packaging and a positive impact on the environment from all the energy saved. If everyone followed a similar plan, the results would be impressive. But even if you can’t manage a full year without going shopping, you can participate in the anti-consumerist movement by refusing to buy things you don’t need. Buy Nothing groups send a clear message to companies that people are no longer willing to accept the environmental and human cost of overconsumption (Adapted from Question 39: What could be the best title for the passage? A. Consumers’ Spending Via Credit Cards B. Online Shopping Without Thinking C. The Disposable Clothing Problem D. Worrying Consumption and the “Buy Nothing” Trends Question 40: According to paragraph 2, how much may an average British person earn annually? A. 1000£ B. 25000£ C. 4000£ D. 670£ Question 41: The word “springing up” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___. A. suddenly appearing B. blossoming C. stopping D. rejecting Question 42: The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ___. A. budget B. money C. online shopping D. clothing Question 43: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? A. Many consumers spending on buying clothes via credit cards are in debt to credit card companies. B. The “Buy Nothing” trend was stem from Canada in the late 20th century C. Some Youtube stars donated $55000 to “Buy Nothing” groups . D. A huge number of clothes are thrown away in Britain each year. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 44 to 50. CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness - although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school. There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at 4
5. university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past. But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cellphone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now. In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cellphone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort /one, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals. Question 44: “Cutting the Apron Strings”, the title of the passage, can be interpreted as ___. A. looking for your own devices B. parting with old relationships C. standing on your own feet D. being financially independent Question 45: Colleges have had to devise ways of getting parents off campus because ___ A. the colleges want to keep parents in the dark about their activities B. parents tend to get more involved in their children’s schoolwork C. children want complete freedom from their parents’ control D. teachers themselves do not want to share information with the parents Question 46: The word “they” in paragraph 1 refers to ___. A. students B. students and their parents C. children D. parents Question 47: The word “vehicles” in the first paragraph may be replaced by ___. A. instruments B. methods C. means D. ways Question 48: By quoting the laws of physics, the author implies that ___. A. one should build more relationships B. one should only care about new relationships C. one should study physics whenever possible D. one should never forget old relationships Question 49: The provision of mobile phones for children, according to the author, ___. A. increases children’s dependence B. increases positive control by parents C. reduces children’s dependence on their parents D. decreases parental interference Question 50: It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that children and their parents ___ A. eternally depend on each other B. only temporarily depend on each other C. emotionally and physically depend on each other D. emotionally need each other HẾT 5
6. ĐÁP ÁN Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Question 1: We were really surprised ___ the price of food in restaurants. A. at B. of C. about D. with Question 2: It’s only ___ sense to take out a private pension these days, A. frequent B. common C. practical D. general Question 3: He ___ about his new school all the time. A. puts off B. makes out C. takes over D. goes on Question 4: There’s no doubt that you will be successful ___. A. except for your hard working B. until you keep working hard C. the next time you stop working hard D. as long as you keep working hard Question 5: I went to Belgium last month. I ___ there before. It’s a beautiful country. A. am never B. had never been C. never was D. have never been Question 6: Madrid is ___ capital of Spain. A. a B. Ø (no article) C. the D. an Question 7: The book contains a ___ of poems from 3 decades. A. collection B. collective C. collector D. collect Question 8: We just couldn’t imagine Henry ___ in public. A. to sing B. to singing C. sing D. singing Question 9: Job seekers are required to visit the ___ centre at least once a week. A. employ B. job C. unemployment D. work Question 10: If I had time, I ___ shopping with you. A. will go B. would have gone C. go D. would go Question 11: There’s really nothing more to say, ___? A. has there B. is there C. isn’t it D. hasn’t it Question 12: The new policy will ___ into effect next Monday. A. take B. break C. come D. have Question 13: It’s hard to keep my head above ___ on what I earn. A. water B. clouds C. rest D. sand Question 14: ___ my sister didn’t like the movie, I enjoyed it a lot. A. Because B. Despite C. Because of D. Although Question 15: The bicycle ___ to me by my grandpa on my birthday is priceless. A. to give B. giving C. given D. is given Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. Question 16: A. determine B. graduate C. computer D. performance Question 17: A. regret B. hotel C. office D. supply Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions. Question 18: A. asks B. jobs C. forms D. years Question 19: A. cheap B. breath C. clean D. lead Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 20: In many sports such as karatedo, athletics, the young and energetic Vietnamese athletes performed excellently. A. outstandingly B. peacefully C. wonderfully D. poorly Question 21: I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but this pasta sauce I made is quite delicious! 6
7. A. be modest about my cooking ability B. brush my teeth C. boast about my cooking ability D. make a high sound Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 22: The stock market crash marked the start of the severe depression. A. recession B. success C. development D. unhappiness Question 23: Some research has shown a strong association between pesticide and certain diseases. A. connection B. cooperation C. consequence D. cause Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges. Question 24: “Do you mind if I take a seat? - “___”. A. Yes, I don’t mind B. I’m sorry C. Yes, I do. D. No, do as you please Question 25: “What time does the next bus arrive? “ - “___”. A. Seven thirty B. Twice a day C. The sooner the better D. An hour and a half Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. Question 26: They invited me to take part in an initiative ceremony to make me a man as strong as ABC a horse. D Question 27: He often go to the cinema with his friend at weekends. A B C D Question 28: The proposed rationale was that a regional sports event will help promote cooperative, A B C understanding and relations among countries in the Southeast Asian region D Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions. Question 29: “You’ve done a great job, Lane!” Jenny said. A. Jenny told Lane that he had done a good job. B. Jenny complimented Lane on his performance. C. Jenny thanked Lane for his finding a good job. D. Jenny encouraged Lane to finish his job. Question 30: The Red Apple Hotel is the worst one we’ve ever stayed at. A. We haven’t stayed at such a good hotel like the Red Apple one. B. The Red Apple Hotel is not as bad as any other hotels we’ve stayed at. C. We have never stayed at a worse hotel than the Red Apple Hotel. D. We will never stay at a hotel as bad as the Red Apple Hotel again. Question 31: It was wrong of you not to call the fire brigade at once. A. You needn’t have called the fire brigade at once B. The fire brigade was called at the wrong time. C. You didn’t call the fire brigade because it was wrong. D. You should have called the fire brigade at once. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions. Question 32: Within a few weeks of winning the election, his leadership skills were tested. 7
8. A. Not until he had been elected did they realize he was a gifted leader. B. His election confirmed that the country recognized him as their leader. C. Shortly after he was elected, he had to prove that he really could be a leader D. Having shown his ability to lead, he won the election a couple of weeks later. Question 33: Pat can help you. You can rely on him. A. Let Pat know if you can help him. B. Should you need any assistance, you can count on Pat for it. C. Pat is the only one to ask if you find any assistance. D. If you need Pat’s help, he will let you down. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 34 to 38. Scientists at the FDA are strongly against (34) ___ only single doses of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, (35) ___ their efficacy has only been proven if people get two shots, The Wall Street Journal reports. In February, some scientists and lawmakers suggested using a one-dose regimen for all coronavirus vaccines approved in the US, after certain preliminary studies showed that a single shot could be enough for some people. “You would be flying (36) ___ to just use one dose,” a senior scientist and adviser to US President Joe Biden told The Wall Street Journal, adding “If you’re going to do something else (37) ___ than follow the studies shown to the FDA, show me that this one-shot effect is durable.” At the end of February, the FDA announced that it had given emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine. The coronavirus vaccine was the third candidate (38) ___ had been given FDA approval, following authorization for two-shot vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna. Biden said after the approval of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine that things were still likely to get worse in terms of COVID-19 in the US as new coronavirus variants emerge. (Adapted from Question 34: A. controlling B. administering C. punishing D. organizing Question 35: A. becauseB. thereforeC. so that D. although Question 36: A. blindB. deafC. dumb D. daring Question 37: A. anotherB. otherC. others D. each Question 38: A. whichB. whereC. whom D. whose Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 39 to 43. Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes and shoes than ever before. Online shopping means it is easy for customers to buy without thinking, while major brands offer such cheap clothes that they can be treated like disposable items – worn two or three times and then thrown away. In Britain, the average person spends more than £1,000 on new clothes a year, which is around four per cent of their income. That might not sound like much, but that figure hides two far more worrying trends for society and for the environment. First, a lot of that consumer spending is via credit cards. British people currently owe approximately £670 per adult to credit card companies. That’s 66 per cent of the average wardrobe budget. Also, not only are people spending money they don’t have, they’re using it to buy things they don’t need. Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which goes into landfill sites. People might not realise they are part of the disposable clothing problem because they donate their unwanted clothes to charities. But charity shops can’t sell all those unwanted clothes. ‘Fast fashion’ goes out of fashion as quickly as it came in and is often too poor quality to recycle; people don’t want to buy it second-hand. Huge quantities end up being thrown away, and a lot of clothes that charities can’t sell are sent abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems. However, a different trend is springing up in opposition to consumerism – the ‘buy nothing’ trend. The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US, where it became a rejection of the overspending and overconsumption of Black Friday and Cyber Monday during Thanksgiving 8
9. weekend. On Buy Nothing Day people organise various types of protests and cut up their credit cards. Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organise the exchange and repair of items they already own. The trend has now reached influencers on social media who usually share posts of clothing and make-up that they recommend for people to buy. Some YouTube stars now encourage their viewers not to buy anything at all for periods as long as a year. Two friends in Canada spent a year working towards buying only food. For the first three months they learned how to live without buying electrical goods, clothes or things for the house. For the next stage, they gave up services, for example haircuts, eating out at restaurants or buying petrol for their cars. In one year, they’d saved $55,000. The changes they made meant two fewer cars on the roads, a reduction in plastic and paper packaging and a positive impact on the environment from all the energy saved. If everyone followed a similar plan, the results would be impressive. But even if you can’t manage a full year without going shopping, you can participate in the anti-consumerist movement by refusing to buy things you don’t need. Buy Nothing groups send a clear message to companies that people are no longer willing to accept the environmental and human cost of overconsumption (Adapted from Question 39: What could be the best title for the passage? A. Consumers’ Spending Via Credit Cards B. Online Shopping Without Thinking C. The Disposable Clothing Problem D. Worrying Consumption and the “Buy Nothing” Trends Question 40: According to paragraph 2, how much may an average British person earn annually? A. 1000£ B. 25000£ C. 4000£ D. 670£ Question 41: The word “springing up” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___. A. suddenly appearing B. blossoming C. stopping D. rejecting Question 42: The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ___. A. budget B. money C. online shopping D. clothing Question 43: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? A. Many consumers spending on buying clothes via credit cards are in debt to credit card companies. B. The “Buy Nothing” trend was stem from Canada in the late 20th century C. Some Youtube stars donated $55000 to “Buy Nothing” groups . D. A huge number of clothes are thrown away in Britain each year. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 44 to 50. CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness - although today’s young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school. There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past. But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cellphone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? 9
10. A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now. In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily connected by cellphone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort /one, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals. Question 44: “Cutting the Apron Strings”, the title of the passage, can be interpreted as ___. A. looking for your own devices B. parting with old relationships C. standing on your own feet D. being financially independent Question 45: Colleges have had to devise ways of getting parents off campus because ___ A. the colleges want to keep parents in the dark about their activities B. parents tend to get more involved in their children’s schoolwork C. children want complete freedom from their parents’ control D. teachers themselves do not want to share information with the parents Question 46: The word “they” in paragraph 1 refers to ___. A. students B. students and their parents C. children D. parents Question 47: The word “vehicles” in the first paragraph may be replaced by ___. A. instruments B. methods C. means D. ways Question 48: By quoting the laws of physics, the author implies that ___. A. one should build more relationships B. one should only care about new relationships C. one should study physics whenever possible D. one should never forget old relationships Question 49: The provision of mobile phones for children, according to the author, ___. A. increases children’s dependence B. increases positive control by parents C. reduces children’s dependence on their parents D. decreases parental interference Question 50: It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that children and their parents ___ A. eternally depend on each other B. only temporarily depend on each other C. emotionally and physically depend on each other D. emotionally need each other HẾT 10