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 38 to 45.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.
Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.
Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
Question:Michael Collins is fortunate in that______.
A. his father is a musician.
B. his parents are quite rich.
C. his parents help him in a sensible way.
D. his mother knows little about music.
Đáp án C
Michael Collins may mắn trong việc ______.
A. cha anh là 1 nhạc sĩ.
B. bố mẹ anh rất giàu có.
C. được bố mẹ giúp đỡ 1 cách tài tình, hợp lí.
D. mẹ anh không biết gì về âm nhạc.
Dẫn chứng ở 2 câu đầu đoạn 3: “Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him” – (Michael Collins rất may mắn. Anh đam mê âm nhạc và được bố mẹ giúp đỡ rất nhiều bằng việc đưa tới các buổi hòa nhạc và sắp xếp cho những buổi học piano và violin).