Live ngày 15/10 – Gỡ rối Vstep Reading

Đoạn B: The research, published in The Lancet medical journal, says two-thirds of men in China now start to smoke before 20. Around half of those men will die from the habit, it concludes. In 2010, around one million people in China died from tobacco usage.

2. What does the word “those men” in paragraph B refer to?

A. Men who smoke under (dưới) the age of 20

B. Men who smoke above (trên) the age of 20

C. Men who give up smoking → (loại vì sai thông tin)

D. Men who smoke in public → (loại vì không có thông tin trong vùng đọc)

Giải thích: Cụm “before 20” đồng nghĩa với “under the age of 20”.

Đoạn G: But no matter how much you study, Van Gogh’s painting will never mean for you exactly what it meant for him, nor should it. Great works of art hold many meanings. The greatest of them seem to speak anew to each generation and to each attentive observer. The most important is that they mean something to you, that your own experiences, thoughts, and emotions find a place in them.

23. The word “them” in paragraph G refers to ……

A. each attentive observer

B. thoughts and emotions → (loại vì không có ở câu trước)

C. a lifetime of experiences → (loại vì không có)

D. great works of art

Giải thích: “The greatest of them” = kiệt tác vĩ đại nhất trong số các tác phẩm nghệ thuật tuyệt vời (great works of art).

Đoạn D: In their study, the researchers found that older people on average had smaller social networks than younger people, Professor Wanberg said. This is not necessarily bad — as we age, many of us find that the quality of our relationships is more important than the quantity.

14. The word “their” in paragraph D refers to ……

A. the researchers

B. older people

C. social networks

D. younger people

Giải thích: “In their study, the researchers found…” → their quy chiếu về các nhà nghiên cứu (the researchers).

Đoạn A: When I was just fifteen, my father purchased an old hostel (nhà nghỉ cũ) in the country where we lived and decided to turn it into a luxury hotel. At the early stages of the hotel, he experimented with everything. None of us had ever worked in a hotel before, but my dad had a vision of what guests wanted. His standards were extremely high and he believed that to reach those standards the most important thing was work.

21. The word “it” in line 2, paragraph A refers to ……

A. an old hostel

B. the country

C. a luxury hotel

D. Mary’s first job → (loại vì không có thông tin)

Cấu trúc: turn sth into sth = biến cái gì thành cái gì → turn it (the old hostel) into a luxury hotel = biến nhà nghỉ cũ thành khách sạn sang trọng.

Đoạn A: Social parasitism involves one species relying on another to raise its young. Among vertebrates, the best known social parasites are such birds as cuckoos and cowbirds; the female lays an egg in a nest belonging to another species and leaves it for the host to rear (nuôi nấng).

24. The word “it” in line 4 paragraph A refers to ……

A. species → (loại vì danh từ số nhiều, không khớp với đại từ số ít “it”)

B. nest

C. egg

D. female

Giải thích: Chim cái đẻ một quả trứng (an egg) vào tổ loài khác và để quả trứng đó (it) lại cho chim chủ ấp/nuôi nấng.

Đoạn B: The AEC will be equivalent to the world’s seventh largest economy. It was set up to create a highly competitive single market and production area. Organizers hope it will ease the movement of capital, goods, investment, services and skilled labor across ASEAN countries. The goal is to make the whole area more competitive and economically successful.

2. What does the word “It” in paragraph B refer to?

A. ASEAN

B. Organizer

C. AEC

D. Business Council

Giải thích: Chủ ngữ của câu đứng trước là “The AEC”, sang câu sau đại từ “It” thay thế trực tiếp cho AEC.

Đoạn C: The mother lays two or three round, dull white eggs. Then she stoically settles herself on the nest and spreads her feather skirts about her to protect her precious charges from snow and cold.

6. The phrase “precious charges” in paragraph C refers to ……

A. the eggs

B. the nest

C. the hawks and crows → (loại)

D. other nesting owls → (loại)

Giải thích: Cú mẹ đẻ 2 – 3 quả trứng trắng, sau đó xòe lông che chở cho “những đối tượng quý giá cần bảo bọc” (precious charges) khỏi tuyết lạnh → chính là những quả trứng (the eggs).

Đoạn C: …It is five weeks before the first downy white owlet pecks its way out of the shell. As the young birds feather out, they look like wise old men with their wide eyes and quizzical expressions.

8. The word “they” in line 4, paragraph C refers to ……

A. the wise old men

B. the adult birds

C. the young birds

D. the prey

Giải thích: Mệnh đề phụ phía trước “As the young birds feather out” (khi những chú chim non mọc lông) làm rõ cho chủ ngữ “they” ở vế sau.

Đoạn A: The Royal Library of Alexandria has achieved an almost mythical status among scholars of classical studies……We will examine the importance of the library during its heyday and how it operated.

Đoạn B: As with many ancient landmarks, there is much debate and controversy over Alexandria’s library, especially regarding its destruction. The tale has been retold by countless historians and attributed to just as many different factions and rulers, not to profile this landmark of education, but as a tool for political slander.

23. The word “its” in the passage refers to ……

A. data

B. education

C. the Royal Library of Alexandria

D. destruction

Giải thích: Cụm “the importance of the library during its heyday” (tầm quan trọng của thư viện trong thời kỳ hoàng kim của nó) → its quy chiếu về Thư viện Hoàng gia Alexandria.