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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

Imagine the busy streets of New York City, an enormous place with millions of people. Everyday, the streets are congested with people going about their daily lives. Now imagine a small robot in the middle of all of those people rolling down a busy sidewalk. Most people would not even notice the ten-inch smiling robot, called a Tweenbot, rolling along the street. This strange machine may interest some people, while others would ignore it completely. A researcher interested in studying how helpful people really are uses such robots in her experiments that take place on the streets of New York.

The Tweenbots experiment is the idea and creation of Kacie Kinzer. Kinzer s idea was to make a robot that could navigate the city and reach its destination only if it was aided by pedestrians. Tweenbots rely on the kindnessof warm-hearted strangers. Made simply of cardboard, wheels, and a device to turn the wheels, the Tweenbots face many dangers on the city streets. They could be run over by cars or smashed by careless kids. Kinzer thought her little robots might even be seen as some kind of terrorist device. The only real protection a Tweenbot has is its friendly smile. In addition to that, each of Kinzer’s robots is fitted with a flag that displays instructions for the robot’s destination. The only way these robots will reach their final point is if someone lends them a hand. Tweenbots are essentially a social experiment aimed at providing people a chance to show how caring they are.

On a daily basis, people in New York City are often in a hurry to get around. However, the Tweenbots, through their inability to look after themselves, took people out of their normal routines. The people who noticed the helpless little robots were actually interested in helping the Tweenbots find their way home. Tweenbots move at a constant speed and can only go in a straight line. If one was to get stuck, or was going in the wrong direction, it would be up to strangers to free it or turn it in the right direction. Surprisingly, no Tweenbot was lost or damaged, and each one arrived at its target in good condition. In fact, most people treated the robot in a gentle manner, and some even treated it as though it were a small living being. Even if you were in a rush to go somewhere, would you stop and help a Tweenbot successfully reach its destination?

What is this reading about?


A. A place to buy robots



B. A new kind of toy


C. An experiment

Đáp án chính xác

D. An interesting idea for the future

Trả lời:

verified Giải bởi Vietjack

Nội dung của bài xoay quanh một cuộc thử nghiệm với sự tham gia của những chú robot Tweenbots nhỏ bé cỡ 10 inch, với gương mặt mỉm cười lăn trên đường phố. Những chú robot này không thể tự tìm đường cũng như không thể tới được đích đến nếu như không có sự giúp đỡ của những người đi bộ tốt bụng. Hầu hết mọi người đều đối xử rất nhẹ nhàng với những chú robot này và thật ngạc nhiên là không con robot nào bị hư hại khi trở về cả. Đây là một thí nghiệm nhằm dành cho mọi người cơ hội được thể hiện sự quan tâm đối với những điểu nhỏ bé trong cuộc sống và những người xung quanh.

Đáp án C

Dịch đề: Bài đọc này nói về cái gì?

A. Nơi mua robot

B. Một loại đồ chơi mới

C. Một thí nghiệm

D. Một ý tưởng thú vị cho tương lai

Bài đọc xoay quanh về cuộc thí nghiệm thú vị về sự quan tâm của mọi người với nhau và với những thứ trong cuộc sống.

Từ “experiment”- thí nghiệm xuất hiện ở hầu hết các đoạn trong bài.

Dòng cuối đoạn 1: A researcher interested in studying how helpful people really are uses such robots in her experiments that take place on the streets of New York.

Một nhà nghiên cứu rất thích thú tìm hiểu xem mọi người có sẵn sàng giúp đỡ người khác hay không đã sử dụng những con robot trong thí nghiệm của cô ấy diễn ra trên đường phố New York.

Đầu đoạn 2: The Tweenbots experiment is the idea and creation of Kacie Kinzer.

Cuộc thí nghiệm Tweenbots là ý tưởng và sản phẩm của Kacie Kinzer

Cuối đoạn 2: Tweenbots are essentially a social experiment aimed at providing people a chance to show how caring they are.

Tweenbots thực sự là một thí nghiệm xã hội nhằm đem lại cho con người cơ hội được thể hiện sự quan tâm với người khác.

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Being aware of one's own emotions - recognizing and acknowledging feelings as they happen - is at the very heart of Emotional Intelligence. And this awareness encompasses not only moods but also thoughts about those moods. People who are able to monitor their feelings as they arise are less likely to be ruled by them and are thus better able to manage their emotions. Managing emotions does not mean suppressing them; nor does it mean giving free rein to every feeling. Psychologist Daniel Goleman, one of several authors who have popularized the notion of Emotional Intelligence, insisted that the goal is balance and that every feeling has value and significance. As Goleman said, "A life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself." Thus, we manage our emotions by expressing them in an appropriate manner. Emotions can also be managed by engaging in activities that cheer us up, soothe our hurts, or reassure us when we feel anxious.

Clearly, awareness and management of emotions are not independent. For instance, you might think that individuals who seem to experience their feelings more intensely than others would be less able to manage them. However, a critical component of awareness of emotions is the ability to assign meaning to them - to know why we are experiencing a particular feeling or mood. Psychologists have found that, among individuals who experience intense emotions, individual differences in the ability to assign meaning to those feelings predict differences in the ability to manage them. In other words, if two individuals are intensely angry, the one who is better able to understand why he or she is angry will also be better able to manage the anger. Self-motivation refers to strong emotional self-control, which enables a person to get moving and pursue worthy goals, persist at tasks even when frustrated, and resist the temptation to act on impulse. Resisting impulsive behavior is, according to Goleman, "the root of all emotional self-control."

Of all the attributes of Emotional Intelligence, the ability to postpone immediate gratification and to persist in working toward some greater future gain is most closely related to success - whether one is trying to build a business, get a college degree, or even stay on a diet. One researcher examined whether this trait can predict a child's success in school. The study showed that 4-year-old children who can delay instant gratification in order to advance toward some future goal will be "far superior as students" when they graduate from high school than will 4-year-old who are not able to resist the impulse to satisfy their immediate wishes.

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