Choose the correct options (A, B, or C) for each of the following questions.
Retailers associated Black Friday with _______.
A. financial loss
B. red ink color
C. profits
Choose the correct options (A, B, or C) for each of the following questions.
What is TRUE about the origin of Black Friday?
A. It was coined by the police.
B. It was used to describe the offer of bargains in many retail stores
C. It was originally made a holiday in Philadelphia in 1965.
Đáp án: A
Thông tin: The name of the day originated in Philadelphia where it was first used by the Police Department to describe massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores were mobbed from opening to closing.
Dịch: Tên của ngày bắt nguồn từ Philadelphia, nơi nó được Sở cảnh sát sử dụng lần đầu tiên để mô tả ùn tắc giao thông lớn và vỉa hè quá đông đúc khi các cửa hàng ở trung tâm thành phố được mở từ lúc mở cửa đến khi đóng cửa.
Choose the correct options (A, B, or C) for each of the following questions.
Why did retailers provide another explanation about Black Friday?
A. They wanted to avoid the bad meaning of the day.
B. They didn’t appreciate Black Friday.
C. The previous meaning of Black Friday was wrong.
Đáp án: A
Thông tin: However, retailers do not appreciate the negative connotation associated with Black Friday. Therefore, there exists another explanation as to why it is called Black Friday.
Dịch: Tuy nhiên, các nhà bán lẻ không đánh giá cao ý nghĩa tiêu cực liên quan đến Thứ Sáu Đen. Do đó, tồn tại một lời giải thích khác về lý do tại sao nó được gọi là Thứ Sáu Đen Tối.
Read the passage and complete the tasks that follow.
Black Friday is the Friday which follows Thanksgiving Day. Black Friday is celebrated in the United States as an official beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On the day, most shops open extremely early and offer promotional sales to boost the consumption, which is similar to Boxing Day after Christmas Day in Britain and many Commonwealth nations. For years, it was quite usual for retailers to open their shops at 6:00 a.m., but in the late 2000s many opened at 5:00 a.m. or even 4:00 a.m. The year 2011 witnessed a new extreme when several retailers opened at midnight. For non-retailer employees, they may have a day off work or choose to take a day from their annual leave on Black Friday. Some use this to make trips to see family members or friends who live in other areas or to go on vacation. Others use it to start shopping for the Christmas season. Black Friday is not a federal holiday, but is a public holiday in California and some other states in the United States.
Black Friday, to the police, is not a term of endearment. The name of the day originated in Philadelphia where it was first used by the Police Department to describe massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores were mobbed from opening to closing. Nowadays, Black Friday crowds that are hunting for bargains still give the police headaches. However, retailers do not appreciate the negative connotation associated with Black Friday. Therefore, there exists another explanation as to why it is called Black Friday. As they might put it, the term Black Friday came from an old way of recording business accounts: losses were recorded in red ink and profits in black ink. Therefore, an alternative explanation was made that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss, or "in the red", from January through November, and "Black Friday" indicates the point where retailers begin to turn a profit, or get "in the black". It goes without saying that Black Friday positively means a profitable Friday to the retail industry.
Decide whether the following statements are True or False.
Black Friday and Boxing Day are celebrated on the same day.
A. True
B. False
Đáp án: A
Thông tin: On the day, most shops open extremely early and offer promotional sales to boost the consumption, which is similar to Boxing Day after Christmas Day in Britain and many Commonwealth nations.
Dịch: Vào ngày này, hầu hết các cửa hàng mở cửa cực kỳ sớm và cung cấp doanh số khuyến mại để tăng mức tiêu thụ, tương tự như Ngày Boxing sau Ngày Giáng sinh ở Anh và nhiều quốc gia Khối thịnh vượng chung.
Choose the correct options (A, B, or C) for each of the following questions.
The phrase “in the black” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______?
A. unlucky
B. profitable
C. dressed in black
Đáp án: C
Giải thích: In the black = dressed in black (mặc đồ đen)
Choose the correct options (A, B, or C) for each of the following questions.
The word “mobbed” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______?
A. very crowded
B. filled with goods
C. sluggish
Đáp án: A
Giải thích: Mobbed = very crowded (bao vây, rất đông)
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She ……………….. a round face with black hair.
A.
have
B.
has
C.
is having
D.
had
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She ……………….. a round face with black hair.
A.
is having
B.
have
C.
has
D.
had
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 43 to 50.
Native Americans from the southeastern part of what is now the United States believed that the universe in which they lived was made up of three separate, but related, worlds, the Upper World, the Lower World, and This World. In the last there lived humans, most animals, and all plants.
This World, a round island resting on the surface of waters, was suspended from the sky by four cords attached to the island at the four cardinal 'points of the compass. Lines drawn to connect the opposite points of the compass, from north to south and from east to west, intersected. This World to divide it into four wedge - shaped segments. Thus a symbolic representation of the human world was a cross within a circle, the cross representing the intersecting lines and the circle the shape of This World.
Each segment of This World was identified by its own color. According to Cherokee doctrine, east was associated with the color red because it was the direction of the Sun, the greatest deity of all. Red was also the color of fire, believed to be directly connected with the Sun, with blood, and therefore with life. Finally, red was the color of success. The west was the Moon segment; it provided no warmth and was not life - giving as the Sun was. So its color was black. North was the direction of cold, and so its color was blue sometimes purple, and it represented trouble and defeat. South was the direction of warmth, its color, white, was associated with peace and happiness.
The southeastern Native Americans' universe was one in which opposites were constantly at war with each other, red against black, blue against white. This World hovered somewhere between the perfect order and predictability of the Upper World and the total disorder and instability of the Lower World. The goal was to find some kind of halfway path, or balance, between those other worlds.
According to the passage, southeastern Native Americans associated red with all of the following EXCEPT ________
A. fire
B. trouble
C. blood
D. success
Đáp án B
Theo thông tin “Red was also the color of fire, believed to be directly connected with the
Sun, with blood, and therefore' with life. Finally, red was the color of success” à các đáp án A, C, D đều được đề cập liên quan đến màu đỏ à chọn B
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 43 to 50.
Native Americans from the southeastern part of what is now the United States believed that the universe in which they lived was made up of three separate, but related, worlds, the Upper World, the Lower World, and This World. In the last there lived humans, most animals, and all plants.
This World, a round island resting on the surface of waters, was suspended from the sky by four cords attached to the island at the four cardinal 'points of the compass. Lines drawn to connect the opposite points of the compass, from north to south and from east to west, intersected. This World to divide it into four wedge - shaped segments. Thus a symbolic representation of the human world was a cross within a circle, the cross representing the intersecting lines and the circle the shape of This World.
Each segment of This World was identified by its own color. According to Cherokee doctrine, east was associated with the color red because it was the direction of the Sun, the greatest deity of all. Red was also the color of fire, believed to be directly connected with the Sun, with blood, and therefore with life. Finally, red was the color of success. The west was the Moon segment; it provided no warmth and was not life - giving as the Sun was. So its color was black. North was the direction of cold, and so its color was blue sometimes purple, and it represented trouble and defeat. South was the direction of warmth, its color, white, was associated with peace and happiness.
The southeastern Native Americans' universe was one in which opposites were constantly at war with each other, red against black, blue against white. This World hovered somewhere between the perfect order and predictability of the Upper World and the total disorder and instability of the Lower World. The goal was to find some kind of halfway path, or balance, between those other worlds.
According to the passage, which of the following colors represented the west for southeastern Native Americans?
A. Blue
B. White
C. Black
D. Purple
Đáp án C
Thông tin “The west was the Moon segment; it provided no warmth and was not life - giving as the Sun was. So its color was black” à màu biểu thị phía Tây của người đông nam Mỹ bản địa là màu đen