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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 38 to 42.
TEENAGE FICTION
Teenagers have their own TV channels, websites and magazines. So, what about books? Last year one publisher, Martins, started publishing a series called Waves. We spoke to the director Julia Smith. She explained, “Teenage fiction has been published since the 1970s but publishers have never been particularly successful in getting teenagers to buy and read books. Now they’re realizing that teenagers aren’t just older children but they’re not adults either and often aren’t interested in adult fiction. For this series we’re looking for new writers who write especially for teenagers.”
Athene Gorr’s novel was published in the series last year and is selling well. Its title is The Purple Ring, she says, “The important thing is to persuade teenagers to pick up your book. I’m a new writer so, although I’ve got an unusual name which people might remember, nobody knows it yet! But my book has a fantastic cover which makes people want to look inside. Then they realize what a brilliant story it is!”
And what do teenagers themselves think about the series? We talked to Sophie Clarke, aged 15. She said, “I’ve read a few books in the Waves series. They say they’re for 14 - 19 year-olds and I agree with that. We’re not interested in the same things as people in their twenties and thirties. I like them and I think they look really good too. The only thing is that because bookshops put them in the children’s section, lots of teenagers won’t find them so they may not do very well. And it’s a shame there’s no non-fiction in the series as I think lots of teenagers, especially boys, might buy that.”
Câu hỏi:What is the writer trying to do?
- A. give information about a new series of books
- B. explain why teenager fiction is easier to write than adult fiction
- C. persuade authors to write more teenager fiction
- D. compare different series of teenager fiction
Lời giải tham khảo:
Đáp án đúng: A
Đáp án A
Dịch đề bài: Tác giả bài này đang cố gắng làm điểu gì?
A. Cung cấp thông tin về một series sách
B. Giải thích vì sao những tiểu thuyết tuổi teen thì dễ viết hơn tiểu thuyết người lớn
C. Thuyết phục các tác giả viết nhiều hơn những tiểu thuyết tuổi teen
D. So sánh những series khác nhau của các tiểu thuyết tuổi teen
Thực chất đây là câu hỏi ý chính của bài.
* Hướng dẫn làm bài:
Đối với loại câu hỏi tìm ý chính/ tiêu đề của đoạn văn, việc cần làm là:
1/ Đọc 2-3 câu đẩu tiên của bài vì những câu đó là câu thể hiện chủ đề của bài viết.
2/ Đọc lướt qua nội dung của bài để chắc chắn mình xác định ý chính đúng.
Đoạn văn đầu tiên của bài kết thúc bằng một câu hỏi: “So, what about books?”: Vậy còn sách thì thế nào?
Sách chính là chủ đề lớn của bài đọc này. Xuyên suốt bài đọc, tác giả đưa ra thông tin về series truyện Waves ở cả ba đoạn, vì vậy, đáp án A là phù hợp.
Câu hỏi này thuộc đề thi trắc nghiệm dưới đây, bấm vào Bắt đầu thi để làm toàn bài
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CÂU HỎI KHÁC
- Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: announced, evaluated, enunciated, demanded
- Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: queue, quarter, quadruple, questionnaire
- Indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress: record, mentor, timber, bother
- Indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress: catastrophe, millennium, acknowledgement, photograph
- Peter ordered a pizza and salad.__________pizza was nice but__________salad was disgusting.
- Since the end of the war, the Government __________over five thousand of prisoners.
- The suspect was seen__________the building by at least a dozen witnesses.
- The four men are widely believed__________by their captors because their family did not agree to pay the ransom.
- Having counted all the students on the bus, __________
- Many exam candidates lose marks simply__________they do not read the questions properly
- What__________to your family if you were to die in an accident?
- Those Americans are looking for a place where they can exchange their dollars__________pounds.
- All attempts at__________were stamped on by senior officials.
- NATO has finally arrived at an important decision to__________cruise missiles in the battle.
- The woman crying in front of the burning house has lost her most__________possession in the fire.
- The woman was confused about whether or not to__________the pregnancy.
- His voice had a freshness that would make many tenors under the age of 40 go green with__________.
- This band normally__________their album with an instrumental track.
- What was once a great and powerful empire have effectively ceased to be.
- One of the boys kept laughing, this annoyed Jane intensely.
- I’m trying to cut down on diary product intake and it’s difficult because I adore cheese.
- This country wouldn’t have much income without tourism.
- Many people were severely critical of the proposal for the new motorway.
- There was no precedent for the President’s resignation in the country.
- His friends supported and encouraged him. He did really well in the competition
- Joe has finished his first-aid course. He proves extremely helpful as a rescue worker
- Tim: __________”Laura: Oh, thank you. I just got it yesterday.”
- Tim: Would you like to have dinner with me?” -Steve: __________.”
- Within their home country, National Red Cross and Red Crescent societies assume the duties and responsibilities of a national relief society.
- I had tried to sketch an aspect of life that I had seen and known, and that was very well indeed, and I had wrought patiently and carefully in the art
- She was brought up in a well-off family. She cant understand the problems
- He fell foul of me when I asked him to apologize to his teacher.
- Cats later brought over to kill these pests also quickly escaped into the
- But it was not just fauna that arrived but also
- This habit now makes them incredibly
- Today the Luma is being covered over by spiky blackberry brambles, the hummingbird’s natural habitat is disappearing and the fear is that they will soon
- They know the best way to do this is to
- What is the writer trying to do?v
- Julia Smith says publishers now recognize that teenagers__________.
- Athene Gorr thinks teenagers were attracted to her book because of__________
- What does Sophie Clarke say about the books in the Waves series?v
- Which of these paragraphs could be used to advertise the Waves series
- The word that” in paragraph 1 refers to?
- Which of the following statement is true of colour commentary?
- How is play-by-play commentary distinct from other types of narrative?
- Why does the author quote a linguist in paragraph 2?
- The word pace” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to?
- The word crucial” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to?
- It can be inferred from the passage that the author most likely agrees with H which of the following statements about sports commentary?
- What mainly makes play-by-play commentary special?
