Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

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 25 to 29.

Why are there so many grandmothers and so few grandfathers? In other words, why do men die younger than women? Is this because men are afraid of getting old and helpless and so they prefer to die before that happens? Perhaps they fear to be left alone by their women and so decide to do the leaving first.

Many explanations are given for the fact that men die earlier than women. Men are stronger physically, yet women can hang on longer to life. Both men and women are emotional creatures but women are not afraid or ashamed to cry while men refuse to do so. They are afraid of being thought "soft". Some men, when they are upset, play loud music or dig in the garden to relieve their feelings. Many men like an orderly life so that they bury themselves in their work or want a wife with some children or long to take part in wars where there is a definite chain of command. There is a leader to give orders and a known enemy to fight against and defeat. All these make men feel they live in a rational world.

So the majority of men like a rational world. Rationality is fine but it does not include everything that makes life joyful and fun or even messy and frustrating. When a man refuses to cry he is refusing to accept that his emotions are part of him. Of course some men do not follow this pattern. Bob Hawke is capable of crying in public whereas Margaret Thatcher is probably incapable of crying at any time.

We need to cry because that shows our ability to suffer. If we do not suffer we are not really alive at all. Suffering can be creative or destructive. If we can all learn to cry and laugh and shout and dance openly, we are living creatively and adding something to the human race. We often say men suffer more from stress and therefore they die earlier. Are we not saying in another way that they do not know how to suffer in the right way – with tears and laughter instead of silence – and so they are miserable and just give up? That is just my theory of course. Have you a better one?

What’s the main question the article is intended to discuss? 

A. Why women are more emotional than men 

B. Why suffering is different in men and women

C. Why men die earlier than women 

D. Why men like a rational world 

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Câu hỏi chính của đoạn văn được dự định bàn luận về điều gì?

A. Tại sao phụ nữ có nhiều cảm xúc hơn nam giới

B. Tại sao sự đau khổ ở nam và nữ lại khác nhau?

C. Tại sao đàn ông chết sớm hơn phụ nữ                      

D. Tại sao đàn ông thích một thế giới lý trí

Thông tin: Why are there so many grandmothers and so few grandfathers? In other words, why do men die younger than women? Is this because men are afraid of getting old and helpless and so they prefer to die before that happens? Perhaps they fear to be left alone by their women and so decide to do the leaving first.

Tạm dịch: Tại sao có rất nhiều bà nội bà ngoại mà lại có rất ít ông nội ông ngoại? Nói cách khác, tại sao đàn ông chết sớm hơn phụ nữ? Có phải là vì đàn ông sợ già và bất lực và vì vậy họ muốn chết trước khi điều đó xảy ra? Có lẽ họ sợ bị bỏ lại một mình bởi người phụ nữ của mình và vì vậy quyết định chết trước.

Chọn C