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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 50

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   Americans have in the past century assumed that their schools will
be comprehensive, especially at the secondary, or high school, level.
Stated another way, there has always been broad agreement in American
society that public education will not follow a strictly defined
5  course of study, but instead will offer a variety of options from
which students may choose.

Comprehensiveness has been a corollary of the American decision to
educate the mass of the nation's children and youth, without systematically
10 winnowing out the academically less qualified. Providing education
for such a heterogeneous group of students has necessarily involved
taking account of various levels of intelligence, various career
aspirations, various interests, and various levels of social experiences.

15 Comprehensiveness in education has not implied fragmentation in the
school's curriculum. Instead, it has affirmed that schools must provide
options that reflect the diversity of interests and abilities of
their students, while still concentrating on the fundamental learning
skills."
1. What is the main topic of the passage?




2. What do most Americans think about public education?




3. How does comprehensivess compare with the way children are taught in the US?




4. What is not mentioned in the passage as being taken into account when providing education for a mixed group of students?




5. What has comprehensiveness done to American education?





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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 49

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Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời các câu hỏi: 
   Thomas Jefferson disliked the deference in the early American buildings
to the architecture of Georgian England, which served as a constant
reminder of monarchial tyranny and the bloody years of the War of
Independence. He aspired to a more timeless architecture, based at
5  first on his favored Renaissance styles, which in turn were based
on the architecture of ancient Rome.

What made Jefferson's buildings especially American was the way they
were integrated into the landscape. His beloved home, Monticello,
10 was pushed into a hilltop so that its spreading service wings would
not obstruct the sweeping panorama of the Blue Ridge Mountains visible
from the house. The building became a part of the hill and made possible
views of tilled lowlands to the east and a rugged wilderness that
stretched to the west.
15
All of Jefferson's buildings were created with a clear view to utility
and with a special relationship to the landscape. He favored grassy
terraces with views if possible to the mountains. But his buildings
also showed his idealism, to serve as examples of good architecture,
20 which usually meant the architecture of classical antiquity, which
was for him the architecture of a republic.
1. What is the purpose of the passage?




2. In what way were Jefferson's buildings very American?




3. What was NOT true about Jefferson's buildings?




4. What does the author feel Jefferson considered a good architect?




5. What is the tone of the passage?





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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 48

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Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời các câu hỏi: 
   Science as we know it today can be said to have started with the ancient
Greeks, with the likes of Herodotus, Aristotle and Theophrastus,
all of whom lived from 300 to 500 years before Christ.

5  Their findings were still valid two millenniums later, when science
was reborn with the Renaissance following the Dark Ages when after
the fall of Rome, roughly 1000 years after the Greeks created their
scientific theories, science and learning were forgotten during the
ravages of war and disease which enveloped the whole of the then
10 civilized world.

Geology, even mineralogy, can be traced back to the Greeks. They recognized
that the position of the land and sea had changed and that a great
length of time had been necessary for these changes. They believed
15 the world was round, that the orbits of planets were also circular
and they noticed that heavy objects fell faster than light ones.
So, more sciences than one can be said to have begun with the Greeks.

Of course, all their learning might have disappeared for good during
20 the six or seven centuries of the Dark Ages. But the Arabs were also
interested in science, and they were at the edge of the Dark Ages,
so they were able to preserve the findings of the Greeks, translating
some of their work and even building on it. When science finally
took root again in the Middle Ages it was based very much on the
25 ideas and work of the Greeks.
1. What's the main point the author is making in this passage?




2. According to the passage what was the reason science had to make a recovery?




3. According to the passage which of the following was NOT among the findings made by the Greeks?




4. Why were the Arabs able to preserve the findings of the Greeks?




5. What might the next part of the lecture be about?





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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 47

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Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời các câu hỏi: 
   What biologists refer to as succession usually begins as a result
of natural destruction, such as by fire or flood. It can also be
caused directly by man; he is responsible for the destruction of
a lot of the world's nature.. Succession, sometimes called secondary
5  succession, will occur when species of nature are destroyed and the
land is left alone to recover.

During the early decades of the settlement of North America a lot
of beech-maple forest in New England was cut down to make way for
10 farming. However, as is well-known in American history, very many
settlers moved west, abandoning their farms. Secondary succession
then began in the fields that were left untended. At first, stronger
grasses and weeds appeared in the fields. Then, shrubs started growing,
followed by a re-emergence of some trees, like junipers and pines.
15 Eventually, beeches and maples were able to grow protected by the
other trees, and after a time what was open land had become once
again forest.

This is still happening in New England and in many other parts of
20 the world. This does of course mean that there is still hope for
our planet, just so long as people keep on moving as they have throughout
history. The only real problem is the great amount of time needed
to achieve complete secondary succession.
1. What is the best title for the passage?




2. Which of the following is NOT according to the passage a cause of the destruction of nature?




3. What was NOT a reason for the start of secondary succession in New England?




4. What is the reason the author gives for the eventual re-growth of the beeches and maples?




5. What's the tone of this passage?





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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 46

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Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời các câu hỏi: 
   There is one planet that still fascinates and teases scientists, mainly
because it doesn't have an atmosphere to obscure observation, yet
it is not big enough for sufficiently accurate telescopic observation.
The fact that it is also very close to the sun also makes it difficult
5  for astronomers.

However, space telescopes have told us a lot more about Mercury. It
is rather similar to Earth's moon, and to Mars. There are mountainous
areas dotted with craters and large valleys which are uncratered.
10 The moon's valleys have fewer cracks and the ridges are smoother.
Mercury's valleys are filled with volcanic rocks, similar to on the
moon, yet there is no evidence of volcanoes, even extinct ones, on
Mercury, as there is on both Mars and the moon, and of course here
on Earth.
15
So, scientists presume the valleys on Mercury were caused by different
things, that is to say not by volcanoes, but by very large meteorites,
which also caused the cracks in the terrain and left the ridges rough
and uneven. More and better photos of Mercury are needed to prove
20 what are at present at best only hypotheses.
1. What is the topic of this passage?




2. Why does one planet still tease scientists?




3. What is true about Mercury but not true about the moon or Mars?




4. What does the author imply space telescopes can do better than land-based telescopes?




5. What can we infer from the passage that astronomers still need to get more detailed observation of Mercury?





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