Should parents impose their choice of university on their children? Why(not)? What will you do if your parents make you choose the university you don't like to go to?
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.
Question: Students do their A-level examination _______.
A. at the beginning of their last year at school
B. before they send the application forms to the universities
C. at the end of their time at school
D. right after they receive an application for
Đáp án:
Học sinh làm bài kiểm tra trình độ A _______.
A. vào đầu năm ngoái của họ ở trường
B. trước khi họ gửi mẫu đơn ứng tuyển đến các trường đại học
C. vào cuối thời gian của họ ở trường
D. ngay sau khi họ nhận được đơn đăng ký
Thông tin: These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school.
Tạm dịch: Đây là những kỳ thi mà bạn tham dự vào cuối thời gian của bạn ở trường.
Đáp án cần chọn là: C
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.
Question: If the student’s score is below the minimum grades announced by the university, ______.
A. the place will be offered to someone else
B. he must take a year out
C. he mustn’t apply to any other university
D. he will be able to get the place
Đáp án: C
Nếu điểm của học sinh thấp hơn điểm tối thiểu được công bố bởi trường đại học, ______.
A. vị trí sẽ được cung cấp cho người khác
B. anh ta phải mất một năm
C. anh ta không được phép nộp đơn cho bất kỳ trường đại học khác
D. anh ta sẽ có thể có được 1 vị trí
Thông tin: If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university.
Tạm dịch: Nếu bạn không đạt được điểm số đó thì bạn sẽ không thể có được vị trí đó. Nó sẽ được cung cấp cho người khác và bạn phải nộp đơn lại cho một trường đại học khác.
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.
Question: If the university is interested in the application, _____.
A. the student will be offered a place
B. the student will have to attend an interview
C. the student will go straight to the university
D. the student will take an A-level examination
Đáp án:
Nếu trường đại học quan tâm đến việc ứng tuyển, ______.
A. học sinh sẽ được cung cấp một địa điểm
B. học sinh sẽ phải tham dự một cuộc phỏng vấn
C. sinh viên sẽ đi thẳng đến trường đại học
D. học sinh sẽ tham dự kỳ thi trình độ A
Thông tin: If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview.
Tạm dịch: Nếu các trường đại học quan tâm đến đơn của bạn, họ sẽ yêu cầu bạn tham dự một cuộc phỏng vấn.
Đáp án cần chọn là: B
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.
Question: The main idea of the passage is______.
A. how to be accepted to a university
B. how to take an A-level examination
C. studying at a university
D. what to do after leaving school
Đáp án:
Ý tưởng chính của đoạn văn là ______.
A. làm thế nào để được nhận vào một trường đại học
B. làm thế nào để tham dự một kỳ thi A-level
C. học tại một trường đại học
D. phải làm gì sau khi rời trường
Đáp án cần chọn là: A
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
If you want to go to a university, you usually apply during your last year at school, when you are 17-18. You can apply to study at any university in Britain and most people choose a university that is not in their own town. So, university students usually live away from home. Students get a grant from the government to study. At the beginning of your last year at school, you receive an application form. On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to. The form is sent to those universities with information from your school about you and your academic record. If the universities are interested in your application, they will ask you to attend an interview. If they are still interested after the interview, they will offer you a place. Any offer, however, is only conditional at this stage. Applications and interviews take place several months before students do their A-level examinations. These are the exams that you do at the end of your time at school. So, when a university makes an offer, it will tell you the minimum grades that you will have to get when you do your A-level exams. If you don’t obtain those grades then, you will not be able to get the place. It will be offered to someone else and you must apply again to another university. You don’t have to accept your place immediately. Some students don’t want to go straight from school to university. So, after they have taken their A-level, they take a year out to work or travel.
Question: The maximum number of universities that a student can apply for is_______.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
Đáp án:
Số lượng trường đại học tối đa mà sinh viên có thể đăng ký là _______.
A. hai
B. ba
C. bốn
D. năm
Thông tin: On this form you choose up to five universities that you would like to go to.
Tạm dịch: Trên mẫu đơn này, bạn chọn tối đa năm trường đại học mà bạn muốn đến.
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
Answer the following questions.
1. Are there any problems in your family?
- What are they about?
- Where do they come from?
-How do you deal with them? How do your parents deal with them?
2. What would you like to change about yourself so that you can deal with the conflicts better?
3. Do you think your parents should change their attitudes and rules?Why?Why not?
Choose the best anwers for the following questions.
The generation gap, which refers to a broad difference between one generation and another, especially between young people and their parents, usually leads to numerous conflicts. Such family conflicts can seriously threaten the relationship between parents and children at times.
It goes without saying that, however old their children are, parents still regard them as small kids and keep in mind that their offspring are too young to protect themselves cautiously or have wise choices. Therefore, they tend to make a great attempt to help their children to discover the outside world. Nevertheless, they forget that as children grow up, they want to be more independent and develop their own identity by creating their own opinions, thoughts, styles and values about life.
One common issue that drives conflicts is the clothes of teenagers. While teens are keen on wearing fashionable clothes which try to catch up with the youth trends, parents who value traditional clothes believe that those kinds of attire violate the rules and the norms of the society. It becomes worse when the expensive brand name clothes teens choose seem to be beyond the financial capacity of parents.
Another reason contributing to conflicts is the interest in choosing a career path or education between parents and teenagers. Young people are told that they have the world at their feet and that dazzling future opportunities are just waiting for them to seize. However, their parents try to impose their choices of university or career on them regardless of their children's preference.
Indeed, conflicts between parents and children are the everlasting family phenomena. It seems that the best way to solve the matter is open communication to create mutual trust and understanding.
Question 6. Why do teenagers want to choose their university or career?
A. They want to explore the world on their own.
B. They want to decide their future by themselves.
C. Both A and B are correct.
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.
(Source:https://www.woyaosouti.com/topic/107813763)
Điền vào ô 27.
A. initiation
B. initiate
C. initiative
D. initial
Đáp án C Kiến thức về từ loại
initiation /ɪˌnɪʃiˈeɪʃn/ (n): sự bắt đầu, sự khởi xướng
initiate /ɪˈnɪʃieɪt/ (v): khởi đầu, đề xướng
initiative /ɪˈnɪʃətɪv/ (n): sáng kiến
initial /ɪˈnɪʃl/ (a): ban đầu, lúc đầu
Tạm dịch: You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and (28) , so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do. (Bạn có thể gây ấn tượng với người khác bằng tinh thần trách nhiệm và óc sáng kiến, để họ sẽ cho bạn quyền làm những gì bạn thích)
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.
(Source:https://www.woyaosouti.com/topic/107813763)
Điền vào ô 25.
A. overestimate
B. underestimate
C. impose
D. dominate
Đáp án B
Kiến thức về từ vựng
overestimate /ˌoʊvərˈestɪmeɪt/ (v): đánh giá quá cao
underestimate /ˌʌndərˈestɪmeɪt/ (v): đánh giá thấp, không đúng mức
impose /ɪmˈpoʊz/ (+ on sb) (v): áp đặt (lên ai)
dominate /ˈdɒmɪneɪt/ (v): thống trị, áp đảo
Tạm dịch: I think it is true that parents often (3) their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young. (Tôi nghĩ rằng đúng là bố mẹ thường đánh giá thấp những đứa con tuổi teen của mình và quên họ cảm thấy như thế nào khi còn trẻ)