Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each question. Unlike life in the countryside which is often considered to be simple and traditional, life in the city is modern and complicated. People, from different regions, move to the cities in the hope of having a better life for them and their children. The inhabitants in city work as secretaries, businessmen, teachers, government workers, factory workers and even street vendors or construction workers. The high c...
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Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each question.
Unlike life in the countryside which is often considered to be simple and traditional, life in the city is modern and complicated. People, from different regions, move to the cities in the hope of having a better life for them and their children. The inhabitants in city work as secretaries, businessmen, teachers, government workers, factory workers and even street vendors or construction workers. The high cost of living requires city dwellers, especially someone with low income, to work harder or to take a part-time job. For many people, an ordinary day starts as usual by getting up in the early morning to do exercise in public parks, preparing for a full day of working and studying, then travelling along crowded boulevards or narrow streets filled with motor scooters and returning home after a busy day. They usually live in large houses, or high-rise apartment blocks or even in a small rental room equipped with modern facilities, like the Internet, telephone, television, and so on. Industrialization and modernization as well as global integration have big impact on lifestyle in the cities. The most noticeable impact is the Western style of clothes. The "ao dai” - Vietnamese traditional clothes big are no longer regularly worn in Vietnamese women's daily life. Instead, jeans, T-shirts and fashionable clothes are widely preferred.
12.1 The most important reason why people move to the city is that
to look for a complicated life
to take part-time job
to have busy day
to look for a better life
12.2
According to the passage, the city life can offer city dwellers all of the following things EXCEPT ________.
the Internet
a variety of jobs in different fields
modern facilities
friendly communication with neighbours
12.3
We can infer from the passage that .
there is a big gap between the rich and the poor in the city
people leave the countryside because life there is simple
people do morning exercise in public parks because they have much free time
most of the urban dwellers have low income
12.4 Industrialization and modernization may lead to
the fact that women no longer wear ao dai
some changes in lifestyles
the fact that women no longer wear ao dai
global integration
12.5 The word "impact" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
effect
force
action
situation
