Read the passage, and then decide whether the statements are true or false.

The concept of parental authority has changed. Today, no parent can take their children’s respect for granted: authority has to be earned. Several studies have shown the following problems.

Trust: A lot of young people say their parents don’t trust them. Some of them have no privacy: their parents read all their emails, and enter their rooms without knocking. All of these actions demonstrate lack of respect. Consequently, these teenagers have little respect for their parents.

Communication: Hardly any teens discuss their problems with their parents. That’s because very few teens feel their parents really listen to them. Instead, most parents tend to fire off an immediate response to their kids’ first sentence.

Freedom: Interestingly, most rebels come from very authoritarian homes where kids have very little freedom. Teens need fewer rules but they have to be clear and unchangeable. Also, if the mother and father don’t agree about discipline, teens have less respect for both parents. They also need a lot of support and a little freedom to take their own decisions. None of them enjoy just listening to adults.

Role models: Teens don’t have much respect for their parents if neither of them actually does things that they expect their children to do. Like everybody, teens appreciate people who practise what they preach.

Parents have to earn much money in order to have parental authority.

A. True

B. False

Read the passage, then choose the correct answer

Many people now think that teachers give students too much homework. They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time.

Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks they give to students. The result is that students have to repeat tasks which they have already done at school.

Most people agree that homework is unfair. A student who can do his homework in a quiet and comfortable room is in a much better position than a student who does his homework in a small, noisy room with the television on. Some parents help their children with their homework. Other parents take no interest at all in their children’s homework.

It is important, however, that teachers talk to parents about homework. A teacher should suggest suitable tasks for parents to do with their children. Parents are often better at teaching their own children!

1. According to the writer________.

A. many parents would like their children to have less homework.

B. homework is unnecessary for children.

C. students should do a lot of work in their leisure time.

D. teachers used to give their students less homework.

2. According to many parents,________

A. most homework is difficult.

B. their children have to plan the homework tasks.

C. most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks.

D. most teachers give old homework.

3. Students ________

A. can do their homework better in a quiet room.

B. can not do their homework without their parents’ help.

C. can do their homework better in a noisy room.

D. do not have any homework now.

4. Only a small number of people ________

A. can help their children with their homework.

B. take interest in their children’s homework.

C. agree that homework is unnecessary.

D. think that homework is fair.

5. According to the passage, teachers should________

A. advise parents about how to work together with their children at home.

B. plan the homework tasks more carefully.

C. allow students to stay at school to do their homework.

D. not give their students too much homework.

Read the passage, choose the word among A, B, C or D that best fits the questions.
Different relationships affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friend give them good advice. In most cases, they tell their friends how to dress and act when being around certain people.
Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work.
Parents have a big influence on teenagers because their children look up to them and the mojority of them grow up to act and do things just like their parents did with them. Children who have experienced a family break-up may have lower achievements then children brought up in an intact family.
As previously stated, teenagers are affected by many relationships which involve their friends, family, and their love relationships. The relationships affect them so much that most teenagers change their ideas about how they should live their lives in a different way and to change their future goals. They should be influenced to help themselves or to help others.
1. Teenagers go to their friends in order to…………
A. impact them in various ways and the same amount.
B.ask how to dress when being around certain people.
C. have different relationships that their parents can’t offer.
D. ask for help or advice that their parents can’t give them.
2. .Love relationships may make a teenager harder to get a good education because……….
A. their boyfriend or girlfriend may make them fail in school
B. they tell their boyfriend or girlfriend how to dress to how
C        have different relationships that their parents can’t offer.    
D        ask for help or advice that their parents can’t give them.
3    All of the following statements about parents’ influence on teenagers are true EXCEPT that ______.
A        achievements of teenagers from a family break-up are always slow.    
B        parents have a great impact on teenagers.
C        most teenagers grow up to act and do things just like their parents.    
D        a family break-up may have a negative effect on teenagers.
4.    Relationships can ______.
A        influence teenagers in many aspects of their lives.    
B        help teenagers to decide the future goals in love relationships
C        help others to form relationships    
D        help teenagers to follow their future goals with their friends and family.
5.    The main idea of the passage is ______.
A        the effects of love relationships on teenagers’ study.    
B        the impact of relationships on teenagers’ lives.
C        the role of parents in their children’s lives.    D        the impact of relationships on adults and teenagers.

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.

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the (23)       between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are old- fashioned, possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with obstacles; (24)      they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often (25)   their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.

Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. (26)             _they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the ways you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and (5)       , so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.

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Điền vào ô 27. 

A. initiation

B. initiate

C. initiative

D. initial

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.

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the (23)       between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are old- fashioned, possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with obstacles; (24)      they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often (25)   their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.

Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. (26)             _they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the ways you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and (5)       , so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.

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Điền vào ô 25. 

A. overestimate

B. underestimate

C. impose

D. dominate

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.

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the (23)       between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are old- fashioned, possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with obstacles; (24)      they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often (25)   their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.

Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. (26)             _they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the ways you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and (5)       , so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.

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Điền vào ô 23.

A. misunderstandings

B. debates

C. conflict

D. understanding

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.

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the (23)       between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are old- fashioned, possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with obstacles; (24)      they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often (25)   their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.

Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. (26)             _they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the ways you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and (5)       , so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.

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Điền vào ô 23. 

A. However

B. Besides

C. Despite

D. Therefore

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.

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the (23)       between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are old- fashioned, possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with obstacles; (24)      they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often (25)   their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.

Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. (26)             _they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the ways you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and (5)       , so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.

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Điền vào ô 24. 

A. that

B. which

C. who

D. why

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.

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 cell phone. 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 cell phone 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 zone, 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.

Parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences because

A. they are worried about the school’s carelessness 

B. the school often neglects their children

C. they are afraid of being deprived of happiness 

D. they find their children a source of happiness