Question

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.

Stars have been significant features in the design of many United States coins and their number has varied from one to forty–eight stars. Most of the coins issued from about 1799 to the early years of the twentieth century bore thirteen stars representing the thirteen original colonies.

Curiously enough, the first American silver coins, issued in 1794, had fifteen stars because by that time Vermont and Kentucky has joined the Union. At that time it was apparently the intention of mint officials to add a star for each new state. Following the admission of Tennessee in 1796, for example, some varieties of half dimes, dimes, and halfdollars were produced with sixteen stars.

As more states were admitted to the Union, however, it quickly became apparent that this scheme would not prove practical and the coins from A798 on were issued with only thirteen stars–one for each of the original colonies. Due to an error at the mint, one variety of the A828 half cent was issued with only twelve stars. There is also a variety of the large cent with only A2 stars, but this is the result of a die break and is not a true error.

What is the main topic of the passage?

A. Stars on American coins

B. The teaching of astronomy in state universities

C. The star as national symbol of the United States

D. Colonial stamps and coins

Answer 1

A

Chủ đề chính của đoạn văn là gì?

A. Các ngôi sao trên đồng tiền Mỹ.

B. Giảng dạy thiên văn học trong các trường đại học của bang.

C. Ngôi sao là biểu tượng quốc gia của Hoa Kỳ.

D. tem và tiền xu thuộc địa.

Dẫn chứng: “Stars have been significant features in the design of many United States coins and their number has varied from one to forty-eight stars.”

Tạm dịch: Các ngôi sao có những tính chất quan trọng trong việc thiết kế nhiều đồng tiền Hoa Kỳ và số lượng của chúng đã biến đổi từ một cho đến bốn mươi tám ngôi sao.) => Chủ đề của đoạn văn là các ngôi sao trên đồng tiền Mỹ.        

Đáp án A