Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
People think children should play sports. Sports are fun, and children stay healthy while playing with others. However, playing sports can have negative effects on children. It may produce feelings of poor self-esteem or aggressive behavior in some children. According to research on kids and sports, 40 million kids play sports in the US. Of these, 18 million say they have been yelled at or called names while playing sports. This leaves many children with a bad impression of sports. They think sports are just too aggressive.
Many researchers believe adults, especially parents and coaches, are the main cause of too much aggression in children’s sports. They believe children copy aggressive adult behavior. This behavior is then further reinforced through both positive and negative feedback. Parents and coaches are powerful teachers because children usually look up to them. Often these adults behave aggressively themselves, sending children the message that winning is everything. At children’s sporting events, parents may yell insults at other players or cheer when their child behaves aggressively. As well, children may be taught that hurting other players is acceptable, or they may be pushed to continue playing even when they are injured. In addition, the media makes violence seem exciting. Children watch adult sports games and see violent behavior replayed over and over on television.
As a society, we really need to face up to this problem and do something about it. Parents and coaches should act as better examples for children. They also need to teach children better values. They should teach children to enjoy themselves whether they win or not. It is not necessary to knock yourself out to enjoy sports. Winning is not everything. In addition, children should not be allowed to continue to play when they are injured. Sending a child with an injury into a game gives the child the message that health is not as important as winning. If we make some basic changes, children might learn to enjoy sports again.
(Adapted from Reading Challenge 2 by Casey Malarcher and Andrea Janzen)
Câu 31. Which of the following could be the main idea of the passage?
A. Children should be discouraged to play sports when they are too young.
B. Playing sports is not always beneficial to children’s health.
C. The negative impacts sports bring children outweigh its positive effects.
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án B
Điều nào sau đây có thể là ý chính của đoạn văn?
A. Trẻ em không được khuyến khích chơi thể thao khi còn quá nhỏ.
B. Chơi thể thao không phải lúc nào cũng có lợi cho sức khỏe của trẻ.
C. Các tác động tiêu cực thể thao mang lại cho trẻ em vượt xa các tác động tích cực của nó.
D. Chơi thể thao có thể khiến trẻ bạo lực hơn.
Căn cứ vào thông tin đoạn 1:
People think children should play sports. Sports are fun, and children stay healthy while playing with others. However, playing sports can have negative effects on children. (Mọi người nghĩ trẻ em nên chơi thể thao. Thể thao là niềm vui, và trẻ em khỏe mạnh trong khi chơi với những người khác. Tuy nhiên, chơi thể thao có thể có tác động tiêu cực đến trẻ em.)Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best completes following exchanges.
Câu 47. Two students are talking with each other about the weekend picnic:
Student 1: "Can you come with us?"
Student 2: “________________________.”
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, and cloud forests are dying. More alarmingly, wildlife is scrambling to keep (23) ____. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by (24) ____ heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.
We call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, (25) ____ up moisture over the oceans, rising here, settling there. It's changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon.
What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope (26) ____ the changes we've already set into (27) ____? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it-coasts, forests, farms and snow-capped mountains-hangs in the balance.
Martin is called the teacher's pet by his classmates because he is taken under his teacher's _____.
The company was dealt a ________ blow when its chief designer deserted to another firm.
Now that she is trained, she hopes to earn her living as a ________ in an office.
We employed a market researcher to find out what people really want from a cable TV system.
The government has __________ new proposals to tackle the problem of increasing crime.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 21. One journalist has commented, "Ordering a frozen embryo is a little more emotionally complicated than ordering a home-delivered pizza - but not so different logistically".
The organizers said that if it continued______, they might have to cancel the outdoor concert.
The following are the changes in the new 21st century economy, EXCEPT ______________.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Câu 49. Plants grow old as surely as do animals. However, a generally accepted definition of age in plants has not yet been realized.
It's absolutely vital that your son ___________ a rest and _____ hard.
In 2002 in the UK, there were ____ 350 community recycling initiatives linked to the Community Recycling Network.
According to paragraph 2, the following are the reasons of children’s aggression, EXCEPT __________.
