* 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 from 24 to 30.
In Viet Nam festivals often take place during the three months in spring and in autumn when people have a lot of leisure time. In addition, the climate in spring and autumn is especially suitable for holding festivals and for festivals goers to enjoy. Traditional festivals constitute a form of cultural activities, a spiritual product which the people have created and developed during the course of history. From generation to generation, the Vietnamese people preserve the fine tradition of “remembering the source while drinking water.” Festivals are events which represent this tradition of the community as well as honour the holy figures named as “gods” -the real persons in national history or legendary persons. The images of gods converge the noble characteristics of mankind. They are national heroes who fought against foreign invaders, reclaimed new lands, treated people, fought against natural calamities, or those legendary characters who affect the earthly life.
Accordingly, first and foremost, festivals are events when people pay tribute to divinities that rendered merits to the community and the nation. These are occasions when people come back to either their natural or national roots, which form a sacred part in their mind. Furthermore, testivals represent the strength of the commune or village, the local region or even the whole nation. Worshipping the same god, the people unite in solidarity to overcome difficulties, striving for a happy and wealthy life.
Moreover, festivals display the demand for creativity and enjoyment of spiritual and material cultural values of all social strata. They become a form of education under which fine traditional moral values can be handed from one generation to the next in a unique way of combining spiritual characters with competition and entertainment games. Festivals are also the time people can express their sadness and worries in a wish that gods might bestow favour on them to help them strive for a better life.
(Adapted from: Overview of Traditional Festivals - Viet Mam, Country and Peoples)
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT found as a common activity in festivals?
A. Fortune-telling
B. Entertaining
C. Praying
D. Worshipping
Câu đề bài: Theo đoạn văn, điều nào sau đây KHÔNG được coi như một hoạt động phổ biến trong các lễ hội?
Đáp án A: Bói
Các đáp án còn lại:
B. giải trí
They become a form of education under which fìne traditional moral values can be handed from one generation to the next in a unique yvay of combining spiritual characters with competition and entertainment games.
—» Chúng trở thành một hình thức giáo dục theo đó các giá trị đạo đức truyền thống tốt đẹp có thể được trao từ thế hệ này sang thế hệ khác theo cách độc đáo kết hợp các nhân vật tâm linh với các trò chơi cạnh tranh và giải trí
C. cầu nguyên
Festivals are also the time people can express their sadness and worries in a wish that gods might bestow favour on them to help them strive for a better life.
—» Lễ hội cũng là thời gian mọi người có thể bày tỏ nỗi buồn và lo lắng của họ trong một mong muốn rằng các vị thần có thể ban ơn cho họ để giúp họ phấn đấu cho một cuộc sống tốt đẹp hơn.
D. thờ cúng
Worshipping the same god, the people unite ìn solidarity to overcome difficulties, striving for a happy and wealthy life.
—» Thờ phụng cùng một vị thần, nhân dân đoàn kết trong tình đoàn kết để vượt
qua khó khăn, phấn đấu cho một cuộc sống hạnh phúc và giàu có.