Question

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.

THE FAMILY

Statesmen define a family as “a group of individuals having a common dwelling and related by blood, adoption or marriage, (8)             includes common-law relationships”. Most people are born into one of these groups and will live their lives as a family in such a group.

Although the definition of a family may not change, (9)          relationship of people to each other within the family group changes as society changes. More and more wives are taking paying jobs, and, as a result, the roles of husband, wife and children are changing. Today, men expect to work for pay for about 40 years of their lives, and, in today’s marriages (10)         which both spouses have paying jobs, women can expect to work for about 30 to 35 years of their lives. This means that men must leam to do their share of family tasks such as caring for the children and daily (11)         chores. Children, too, especially adolescents, have to (12)        with the members of their family in sharing household tasks.

The widespread acceptance of contraception has meant that having children is as matter of choice, not an automatic result of marriage. Marriage itself has become a choice. As alternatives such as common- law relationships and single-parent families have become socially acceptable, women will become more independent.

Điền vào số 9

A. a

B. any

C. some

D. the

Answer 1

Đáp án D.

Tạm dịch: Although the definition of a family may not change,         relationship of people to each other within the family group changes as society changes: Mặc dù định nghĩa của một gia đình có thể không thay đổi,             mối quan hệ giữa người với nhau trong nhóm gia đình sẽ thay đổi khi xã hội thay đổi.

Vì mối quan hệ này đã được xác định rõ ràng (mối quan hệ giữa con người với con người), nên ta chọn D, dùng mạo từ “the”.

FOR REVIEW

Các danh từ có “of” ở ngay sau đó thường đứng sau “the”. Lý do là khi kết hợp với “of”, danh từ đó đã được xác định rõ và do đó ta dùng mạo từ “the”. Ex: the man of the family, the climate of this city.