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The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What does Paul say about his performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He considers it to be one of his best performances.

b. It is typical of his approach to everything he plays.

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c. It is less traditional than other performances he has given.

d. Some viewers are likely to have a low opinion of it.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

Paul first became interested in playing the cello because ______.

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Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. he was not very good at playing the piano

b. he wanted to play in his father’s group

c. he admired someone his father played music with

d. he did not want to do what his parents wanted

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t

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affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What is meant by ‘diplomatic’ in the last paragraph?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. confident

b. tactful

c. capable

d. excellent

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
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turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

Why did John Watkins decide to make a cello?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He wanted to avoid having to pay for one.

b. He felt that dealers were giving him false information.

c. He wanted to encourage his son Paul to take up the instrument.

d. He was keen to do a course at the nearby school.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.
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Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What is meant by ‘crack’ in the second paragraph?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. period

b. attempt
c. shock

d. plan

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

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‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What does the word “they” in the fourth paragraph refer to?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Dad and Dad’s mates.

b. Some lessons
c. Paul and Huw.
.

d. Weeks.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one

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boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation.

The primary purpose of the passage with reference to the society under discussion is to…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. explain some differences in the upbringing of girls and boys

b. show that young girls are trained to be useful to adults

c. give a comprehensive account of a day in the life of an average young girl

d. criticize the deficiencies in the education of girls

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of

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older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

The word 'brusquely' (line 9) most nearly means

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. nonchalantly

b. gently

c. abruptly

d. quickly

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

Which of the following is the best description of the author's technique in handling her material?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

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a. Description of evidence to support a theory.

b. Presentation of facts without comment.

c. Generalization from a particular viewpoint.

d. Both description and interpretation of observations.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

The list of techniques in paragraph one could best be described as…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. household duties

b. important responsibilities

c. rudimentary physical skills

d. useful social skills

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Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

It can be inferred that in the community under discussion all of the following are important except…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. formal education
b. well-defined social structure

c. fishing skills
d. domestic handicrafts

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.
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  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

It can be inferred that the 'high standard of individual responsibility' is

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. taught to the girl before she is entrusted with babies

b. only present in girls

c. weakened as the girl grows older.

d. developed mainly through child-care duties

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.
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Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

What does the writer mean by 'paid dividends' in paragraph 2?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. brought financial reward

b. allowed money to be saved

c. produced benefits

d. was worth the suffering

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

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Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

“…chase the hare you know you're going to catch.” in Paragraph 5 means

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. do many things at one time.

b. do one thing at a time

c. do everything you want.

d. do what you think you can do successfully.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

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Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

What is Gary's father's attitude to Gary playing in a band?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. pleased that he has a hobby he enjoys.

b. concerned that music may interfere with his career .

c. interested in how he can introduce music into the restaurant.

d. doubtful whether he will have time to improve his technique.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

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Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

The word “shone” in Paragraph 4 means

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. was very good

b. was helpful

c. was clean

d. was cheerful

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.
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Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

What does “done it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. caught a hare
b. lived your life

c. chosen a profession?
d. Dachieved success

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.
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The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

The expression 'innocent of' (in the last paragraph) is best taken to mean

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. uninvolved in

b. unsuited for

c. not guilty of

d. unskilled in

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

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This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

Which of the following if true would weaken the author's contention about 'lessons in cooperation' ?

I Group games played by younger girls involve cooperation

II Girls can learn from watching boys cooperating

III Individual girls cooperate with their mothers in looking after babies

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. I and II only
b. I only
c. III only
d. II only

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
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enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What did the writer like best about Ena?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. her physical appearance

b. her sense of humour

c. her innocent ignorance

d. her resemblance to someone

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

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Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

According to the writer, Antoine

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. had recently arrived.

b. painted for a living

c. liked to keep to himself.

d. was a foreigner.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This

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shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What attracted the writer to the house?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. how big it was

b. the view it gave of the valley

c. the condition it was in

d. where it was located

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
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neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

How did the writer's childhood influence his own family life?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He asked his wife to stay at home.

b. He made sure there was plenty of personal contact.

c. He encouraged his children to talk to him.

d. He realised that the pattern was repeating itself.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
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neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

According to his father, what was typical about Gary’s behavior on his first day at college?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He helped other people.

b. He tried to make his father proud.

c. He performed the task efficiently.

d. He impressed those in charge.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
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neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

How does his father regard Gary’s upbringing?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The family influence on Gary was too strong.

b. His encouragement has caused Gary’s success.

c. Gary has forgotten important lessons.

d. Gary has learnt some essential things.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in

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a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Which of the conclusions can be drawn from this extract?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Miss Temple has an impractical plan to follow Roger.

b. Miss Temple is not patient enough to follow Roger.

c. Miss Temple has a detailed plan to follow Roger

d. Miss Temple is sure that she will find out the truth.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.
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Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple thought it would be easy to follow Roger because

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. his work schedule never changed.

b. he always ate lunch at a particular location.

c. she already knew the schedule of his working day.

d. he always took a break at the same time.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

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Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

What mistake did Miss Temple soon realise she had made?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. She needn’t bave made a purchase at the bookshop

b. She should have followed Roger back to the Ministry when she had had the chance

c. She had re-crossed the square at the wrong place

d. She had waited for Roger in the wrong place

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

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Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

When Roger left his office at about five o’clock, Miss Temple

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. saw him just before he got into a carriage.

b. pretended to be looking into an open window.

c. had a sudden feeling of breathlessness.

d. watched him through her new opera glasses.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

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Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple decided to follow Roger after work because

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. she believed that was the time she could find out what she wanted to know.

b. she had other, more important things to do during the working day.

c. she couldn’t see what he was doing inside his office.

d. she didn’t want to risk him seeing her outside his office.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

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‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What do we learn in the third paragraph about the instruments John has made?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. It took him longer to learn how to make cellos than violins.

b. He is particularly pleased about what happened to one of them.

c. He considers the one used by Jaime Laredo to be the best.

d. His violins have turned out to be better than his cellos.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
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Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What do we learn about Huw’s musical development?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. His brother’s achievements gave him an aim.

b. It was slow because he lacked determination

c. His parents’ attitude has played little part in it
d. . He wanted it to be different from his brother’s

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and

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makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What will require some effort from John and Hetty Watkins?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Preventing their sons from taking on too much work.

b. Being aware of everything their sons are involved in.

c. Reminding their sons what they have arranged to do.

d. Advising their sons on what they should do next.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help

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gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

What was boys’ attitude to girls when they worked in team to capture eels?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. They felt bored
b. cheerful
c. Hostile
d. They did not show anything.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

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Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

How did the writer react to his own big chance?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He saw what could be done.

b. He thought the family would suffer.

c. He wondered if he should take it.

d. He worried about the problems.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a

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ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

How did Miss Temple’s purchases make her feel about what she was doing?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. better prepared

b. more determined

c. less confused

d. less personally involved

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of

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luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple bought a book at the bookshop because

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. she was forced to by the shop owner.

b. she needed an excuse to stay there.

c. she wanted a way to pass the time.

d. she suddenly felt like buying something.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

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For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

Who do the girls or boys work in tean better, according to the passage?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. girls
b. Both girls and boys work well.
c. Both girls and boys does not work well.
d. boys

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching

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neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

As a young boy, Gary…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. demonstrated a variety of talents
b. was always in trouble.
.

c. was motivated by money.

d. showed how determined he could be.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in

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a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

What attitude does the writer have towards Roger?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The writer has a negative attitude towards him .

b. The writer has a hostile attitude towards him.

c. The writer has a normal attitude towards him.

d. The writer has a critical attitude towards him

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out

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and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

The writer uses the phrase ‘served as a watercourse’ (Paragraph 4) to show

that the path

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. had many deep holes.

b. was difficult to walk on.

c. needed to be repaired.

d. was sometimes flooded.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

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It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

How did the writer find out what Ena's name was?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Antoine gave him the information
b. He heard a customer asking for her.
.

c. Someone mentioned her name.

d. Her father told him when he asked.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

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She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

The word ‘this’ in paragraph 5 refers to

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. paying drivers well for their time.

b. being asked to follow someone.

c. the driver’s silence.

d. banging on the hood of the carriage.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
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used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What does Paul say about the Rugeri cello?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. His father’s reaction to it worried him.

b. He was not keen to tell his father that he was using it.

c. The cello his father made may become as good as it.

d. It has qualities that he had not expected.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

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The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

Which of the conclusions can be drawn from this passage?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The writer would like to move to another place
b. The writer is not interested in the people around him.

c. The place where the writer lives isolates him from nature.
d. The writer feels happy with the people he has met

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

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The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What criticism of Ena does the writer make?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. She wasn’t interested in clothes.

b. Her head seemed to be too big.

c. Her eyebrows were too thick.

d. She never wore shoes.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique

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bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple’s excitement at following Roger

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. increased each time she caught sight of him.

b. ended when her carriage started following him.

c. disappeared when she realised where he was going.

d. turned into boredom after a while.

Mô tả câu hỏi

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I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What impression does the writer give of the electricity supply?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. It only worked when it was windy.

b. It didn’t always work properly.

c. It was too dangerous to use.

d. It was a very reliable system.

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Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What attitude does the writer have towards Ena?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The writer has an aggressive attitude towards her.

b. The writer has a positive attitude towards her.

c. The writer has a negative attitude towards her.

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d. The writer has a hostile attitude towards her.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

Why was General Sosa unlike other military officers?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He was in charge of the area.

b. He liked helping his relatives.

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c. He managed to get things done.

d. He had his own private helicopter.

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The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

The word “shone” in Paragraph 4 means

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. was cheerful
b. was helpful

c. was clean

d. was very good

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The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

As a young boy, Gary…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. showed how determined he could be.

b. was always in trouble.

.

c. was motivated by money.

d. demonstrated a variety of talents

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The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

What does “done it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. lived your life

b. Dachieved success

c. chosen a profession?
d. caught a hare

Mô tả câu hỏi

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The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

How does his father regard Gary’s upbringing?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The family influence on Gary was too strong.

b. Gary has forgotten important lessons.

c. Gary has learnt some essential things.

d. His encouragement has caused Gary’s success.

Mô tả câu hỏi

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The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

According to his father, what was typical about Gary’s behavior on his first day at college?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He impressed those in charge.

b. He performed the task efficiently.

c. He helped other people.

d. He tried to make his father proud.

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Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

Why did John Watkins decide to make a cello?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He wanted to avoid having to pay for one.

b. He wanted to encourage his son Paul to take up the instrument.

c. He felt that dealers were giving him false information.

d. He was keen to do a course at the nearby school.

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Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What will require some effort from John and Hetty Watkins?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Reminding their sons what they have arranged to do.

b. Advising their sons on what they should do next.

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c. Preventing their sons from taking on too much work.

d. Being aware of everything their sons are involved in.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

Paul first became interested in playing the cello because ______.

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Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. he admired someone his father played music with

b. he was not very good at playing the piano

c. he wanted to play in his father’s group

d. he did not want to do what his parents wanted

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch

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himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What do we learn about Huw’s musical development?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. It was slow because he lacked determination
b. . He wanted it to be different from his brother’s
c. His parents’ attitude has played little part in it
d. His brother’s achievements gave him an aim.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’
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Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What is meant by ‘crack’ in the second paragraph?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. period

b. shock

c. attempt
d. plan

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
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turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What is meant by ‘diplomatic’ in the last paragraph?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. excellent

b. capable

c. tactful

d. confident

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

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Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What does Paul say about the Rugeri cello?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The cello his father made may become as good as it.

b. It has qualities that he had not expected.

c. He was not keen to tell his father that he was using it.

d. His father’s reaction to it worried him.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
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effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

Which of the following if true would weaken the author's contention about 'lessons in cooperation' ?

I Group games played by younger girls involve cooperation

II Girls can learn from watching boys cooperating

III Individual girls cooperate with their mothers in looking after babies

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. I only
b. I and II only
c. II only
d. III only

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

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It can be inferred that in the community under discussion all of the following are important except…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. domestic handicrafts
b. fishing skills
c. formal education
d. well-defined social structure

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

What was boys’ attitude to girls when they worked in team to capture eels?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. They felt bored
b. Hostile
c. cheerful
d. They did not show anything.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
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balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

The list of techniques in paragraph one could best be described as…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. important responsibilities

b. useful social skills

c. household duties

d. rudimentary physical skills

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

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Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What criticism of Ena does the writer make?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. She wasn’t interested in clothes.

b. Her eyebrows were too thick.

c. She never wore shoes.

d. Her head seemed to be too big.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had

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chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What attracted the writer to the house?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. the view it gave of the valley

b. the condition it was in

c. where it was located

d. how big it was

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

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The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

Which of the conclusions can be drawn from this passage?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The writer feels happy with the people he has met
b. The writer is not interested in the people around him.

c. The place where the writer lives isolates him from nature.
d. The writer would like to move to another place

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

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Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

What is Gary's father's attitude to Gary playing in a band?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. doubtful whether he will have time to improve his technique.

b. pleased that he has a hobby he enjoys.

c. interested in how he can introduce music into the restaurant.

d. concerned that music may interfere with his career .

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

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Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

“…chase the hare you know you're going to catch.” in Paragraph 5 means

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. do many things at one time.

b. do what you think you can do successfully.

c. do one thing at a time

d. do everything you want.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

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Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

How did the writer's childhood influence his own family life?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He asked his wife to stay at home.

b. He encouraged his children to talk to him.

c. He made sure there was plenty of personal contact.

d. He realised that the pattern was repeating itself.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

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He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

The word ‘this’ in paragraph 5 refers to

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. banging on the hood of the carriage.

b. paying drivers well for their time.

c. the driver’s silence.

d. being asked to follow someone.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

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He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

When Roger left his office at about five o’clock, Miss Temple

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. saw him just before he got into a carriage.

b. had a sudden feeling of breathlessness.

c. pretended to be looking into an open window.

d. watched him through her new opera glasses.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

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He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple bought a book at the bookshop because

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. she was forced to by the shop owner.

b. she needed an excuse to stay there.

c. she suddenly felt like buying something.

d. she wanted a way to pass the time.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

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He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

What attitude does the writer have towards Roger?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The writer has a normal attitude towards him.

b. The writer has a hostile attitude towards him.

c. The writer has a negative attitude towards him .

d. The writer has a critical attitude towards him

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

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He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

How did Miss Temple’s purchases make her feel about what she was doing?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. less confused

b. more determined

c. better prepared

d. less personally involved

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
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obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What does Paul say about his performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. It is typical of his approach to everything he plays.
b. Some viewers are likely to have a low opinion of it.

c. He considers it to be one of his best performances.

d. It is less traditional than other performances he has given.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

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Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What do we learn in the third paragraph about the instruments John has made?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He considers the one used by Jaime Laredo to be the best.

b. It took him longer to learn how to make cellos than violins.

c. His violins have turned out to be better than his cellos.

d. He is particularly pleased about what happened to one of them.

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Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation.

The primary purpose of the passage with reference to the society under discussion is to…

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. criticize the deficiencies in the education of girls

b. show that young girls are trained to be useful to adults

c. explain some differences in the upbringing of girls and boys

d. give a comprehensive account of a day in the life of an average young girl

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help

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gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

It can be inferred that the 'high standard of individual responsibility' is

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. developed mainly through child-care duties

b. only present in girls

c. taught to the girl before she is entrusted with babies

d. weakened as the girl grows older.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was

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required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

How did the writer find out what Ena's name was?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Antoine gave him the information
b. He heard a customer asking for her.
.

c. Someone mentioned her name.

d. Her father told him when he asked.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

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Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What attitude does the writer have towards Ena?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The writer has a positive attitude towards her.

b. The writer has a hostile attitude towards her.

c. The writer has a negative attitude towards her.

d. The writer has an aggressive attitude towards her.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.

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We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What did the writer like best about Ena?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. her physical appearance

b. her innocent ignorance

c. her sense of humour

d. her resemblance to someone

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help

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gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

Who do the girls or boys work in tean better, according to the passage?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Both girls and boys work well.
b. boys
c. Both girls and boys does not work well.
d. girls

Mô tả câu hỏi

The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.

Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not
only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.

When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to
suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at various dealers and it was
obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered
that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes
once a week for about three years.’

‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul, now 28, adds.
‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I
used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and
makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing
on the cake’.

Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came
first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’ Paul remembers. But it
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wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because
Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make
up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played
the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me
some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would have none of it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded very well to
being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.’
Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.

Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC
Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal
cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year.
Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not
said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in
turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may acquire
after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. It will get richer with
age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’

Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the
heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The well-known performance history doesn’t
affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch
himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String
Quartet is receiving its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be
diplomatic – and energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.

What does the word “they” in the fourth paragraph refer to?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Weeks.
b. Paul and Huw.
.

c. Some lessons
d. Dad and Dad’s mates.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 
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For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

The expression 'innocent of' (in the last paragraph) is best taken to mean

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. uninvolved in

b. unsuited for

c. not guilty of

d. unskilled in

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

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The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for
learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

Which of the following is the best description of the author's technique in handling her material?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Generalization from a particular viewpoint.

b. Presentation of facts without comment.

c. Both description and interpretation of observations.

d. Description of evidence to support a theory.

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
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chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

What does the writer mean by 'paid dividends' in paragraph 2?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. was worth the suffering

b. brought financial reward

c. allowed money to be saved

d. produced benefits

Mô tả câu hỏi

The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.

I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance
was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really
bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.

Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to work in a
factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, 'We want time for family
life.' My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts, while I ran the business.
We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It's
paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they
would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.

Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he
thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older he had to work
for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was in the kitchen every
weekend, so he always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the
morning. If you run a family business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.

Gary wasn't very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as good as any of the
men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and
from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, 'Dad, I've got
to do work experience as part of my course at school,' I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.

Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the
cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hares, you end up catching
neither, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: 'Gary, if you're
going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late.

Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students - they're
normally complete beginners - were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour Gary had
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chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my son for you! In the end, he
was helping other people out.

None of us can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've
always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you
anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk
to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be
happy with that. The things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes

How did the writer react to his own big chance?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He wondered if he should take it.

b. He saw what could be done.

c. He thought the family would suffer.

d. He worried about the problems.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of

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the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple thought it would be easy to follow Roger because

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. he always ate lunch at a particular location.

b. he always took a break at the same time.

c. she already knew the schedule of his working day.

d. his work schedule never changed.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of

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the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Which of the conclusions can be drawn from this extract?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. Miss Temple is sure that she will find out the truth.

b. Miss Temple has an impractical plan to follow Roger.

c. Miss Temple is not patient enough to follow Roger.

d. Miss Temple has a detailed plan to follow Roger

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
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to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple decided to follow Roger after work because

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. she couldn’t see what he was doing inside his office.

b. she believed that was the time she could find out what she wanted to know.

c. she had other, more important things to do during the working day.

d. she didn’t want to risk him seeing her outside his office.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

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Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

What impression does the writer give of the electricity supply?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. It was a very reliable system.

b. It only worked when it was windy.

c. It was too dangerous to use.

d. It didn’t always work properly.

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

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Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

What mistake did Miss Temple soon realise she had made?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. She should have followed Roger back to the Ministry when she had had the chance

b. She needn’t bave made a purchase at the bookshop

c. She had waited for Roger in the wrong place

d. She had re-crossed the square at the wrong place

Mô tả câu hỏi

It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of work were
irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s. Miss Temple found an antique
bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase something for standing so long watching
through its window, she is on impulse selected a complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The
books were detailed enough for her to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while
actually watching Roger first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.

He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her purchase to be
delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She had re-crossed the square
before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an inexperienced observer. It was pointless to
watch from outside the restaurant because only from inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger
dined alone or with others, or with which particular others - all imponant information.

She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his work, which
meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after work that any real
information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows were thick with all shapes of
luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a
ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound
notebook and an all-weather pencil. Miss Temple then took her tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and then describing
the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier
and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and supporting equipment seemed
somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in
a kind of code. replacing proper names and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be
understood by anyone but herself.

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Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o'clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a carriage. She
instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be well paid for his time, that
they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage, and that she would knock on the roof of
the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence
to mean that this was a usual enough thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some
forty minutes later, she nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses
into nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just in time to
see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her breath away, flag down a
coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the coach. and they were off.

The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when, after the first few
turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more interesting than his own home.

Miss Temple’s excitement at following Roger

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. increased each time she caught sight of him.

b. turned into boredom after a while.

c. disappeared when she realised where he was going.

d. ended when her carriage started following him.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

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There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

According to the writer, Antoine

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. painted for a living
b. liked to keep to himself.

c. had recently arrived.

d. was a foreigner.

Mô tả câu hỏi

By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the
care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple   techniques. She learns to weave firm square
balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms,  to climb a coconut tree by
walking up the trunk on flexible little  feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of  a knife
as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games  and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house
by picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the  sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a  lighted faggot for the chief's pipe
or the cook-house fire.

  But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of baby-tending.
Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine years of age they are usually
relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for  younger children are
worn off by their contact with older boys. 

For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior is circumspect
and helpful. Where  small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be  patiently tolerated and they
become adept at making themselves  useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the important,
business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one
boy  holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey,
while still another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava.

The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to adventure on the
reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have little opportunity for

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learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while the little boys first undergo the chastening
effects of baby-tending and then have many opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of
older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but
the community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.

This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours
in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation

The word 'brusquely' (line 9) most nearly means

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. abruptly

b. nonchalantly

c. quickly

d. gently

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This
shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

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Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

Why was General Sosa unlike other military officers?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. He had his own private helicopter.

b. He was in charge of the area.

c. He managed to get things done.

d. He liked helping his relatives.

Mô tả câu hỏi

I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh mountain air,
space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the spirits of nature. The house
was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny side of the valley, high enough to have a
good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good
year to make the place inhabitable.

The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on itself and was full
of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man of considerable culture who had
chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with whom he had arrived in the original immigration.
We repaired the walls and the roof of the house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became
suddenly clean, bright, and spacious.

Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a cable to the
faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up a row of windmills to
generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was somewhat feeble when high amperage was
required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage
cupboard.

It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent need for some item
overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a deeply pitted one that served as a
watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable
on foot or by mule, or by Antoine's ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of
the flood at Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo's father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog out
and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son's request. It is commonly said in this country that
General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does anything useful.

There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from Ipasueno, and so
every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on Antoine's formidable old tractor. This

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shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years
whose name was Ena, as I discovered by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.

Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were always bare.
Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she had an appealing and serene
face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a Greek girl with whom I had once been in
love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin, and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy
enough to meet in the middle. On her forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is
something that has always driven me crazy, and her fingers were slim and elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an innocent devilry,
that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to see tbe funny side of everything. I
perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be revealed when I discovered how it was that she
had kept me for so long in ignorance

The writer uses the phrase ‘served as a watercourse’ (Paragraph 4) to show

that the path

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. had many deep holes.

b. needed to be repaired.

c. was sometimes flooded.

d. was difficult to walk on.

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