Giáo án Bồi dưỡng học sinh giỏi khối 12: READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following passage, and then choose the best answer from A, B, C,D. Exercise 1. There is a distinct cadence to an English sentence, with the voice falling on the last word to indicate that it is the end of utterance. Nowadays, on television, more often than not a speaker is cut off in mid-sentence. You always know it because the voice is still rising. The bit of the sentence that one hears may take perfectly good sense in itself, but no one knows that the speaker simply has not finished making his point. ...
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Giáo án Bồi dưỡng học sinh giỏi khối 12: READING COMPREHENSION Gi¸o ¸n Båi dìng häc sinh giái khèi 12 III. READING COMPREHENSION ( Soạn từ cuốn BG HSG Lớp 11, 12 )Read the following passage, and then choose the best answer from A, B, C,D.Exercise 1.There is a distinct cadence to an English sentence, with the voice falling on the lastword to indicate that it is the end of utterance. Nowadays, on television, more oftenthan not a speaker is cut off in mid-sentence. You always know it because the voice isstill rising. The bit of the sentence that one hears may take perfectly good sense initself, but no one knows that the speaker simply has not finished making his point. It is extremely irritating and even physically disturbing to the viewer-and, to mymind, it is very offensive to the speaker as well. That is the point I really want to makehere. A culture of rudeness has sprung up on British television in the past two or threeyears. Allowing people to speak, to have their say, is one of the essential points ofgood manners and respect for other people. Talking while other people are talking,interrupting them, turning one’s back on them before they have finished-these areheinous crimes against courtesy. Yet television news does it all the time - and prides itself on the technical skillwith which it does it. That neat insertion of half a politician’s sentence into acarefully-worded little news item - how pleased, you can feel, the reporter and theeditor of the bulletin are with the deftness they have displayed in their craft. This culture of rudeness is not, however, a matter of broadcasters beingdeliberatedly and ostentatiously rude. It reflects a disagreeable dose of self-importance, no doubt, but it also springs to some degree from a proper pursuit- that ofreporting clearly and briskly what people such as politicians have got to say on asubject of interest. But it treats people who are on television as mere inert material tobe chopped up and pasted into the bulletin as required. This seems to me a classic caseof the medium itself being the message – and a very bad message too. Viewers do not see politicians as scraps of ‘copy’ 10 be used as needed. Theyaccepted the illusion of television, and regard them as people, whom the televisionpersonnel are treating like dirt. The bulletins send a message that it is neverthelessperfectly all right to treat people like this. After all, is it not the great figures oftelevision who are doing it: That is the way bad behaviour spreads and grows.1. What has the writer noticed about people who are speaking on television? A. They have come to expect to be interrupted. B. They try to make sure they are allowed to finish what they are saying. C. They frequently show their annoyance at being interrupted. D. They are denied the chance to complete statements they are making.2. The writer suggests in the third paragragh that many news items A. are meant to show the expertise of the broadcasters. B. would be better without politicians in them. C. make little sense to many people watching them. D. contain things which are not really relevant. TrÇn Lª Thiªn - Gi¸o viªn Trêng THPT DiÔn Ch©u 4 Gi¸o ¸n Båi dìng häc sinh giái khèi 123. What does the writer believe about broadcasters? A. They spend too little time preparing programmes. B. They are not really sure what impression they want to create. C. They do not care what people think of their programmes. D. They are acting partly out of honourable intentions.4. The writer says that viewers believe that A. what they see on television has little relevance to them. B. broadcasters have the wrong attitude to politicians. C. the standards of broadcasting in general have fallen. D. politicians are not all the same as each other.5. What is the writer’s main theme in the passage? A. the loss of good manners in British life. B. the way in which conversations should be conducted. C. the ill-mannered behaviour of British broadcasters. D. the reactions of viewers when they watch TV.Exercise 2. San Francisco is where I grew up between the ages of two and ten and where Ilived for a period when I was about 13 and again as a married man from the ages of 37to 51. So quite a big slice of my life has been spent there. My mother, who is now 90,still lives in Los Gatos, about 60 miles south of San Francisco. Even though I havesince lived in Switzerland and settled in London over 25 years ago, I have keptproperty in California for sentimental reasons. I was born in New York and I love the United States. It is still a land of enormousdrive, strength, imagination and opportunity. I know it well, having played in everytown and, during the war ...