* Read the following passages and choose the best answers to each of the questions.
Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these How-to books are useful. In fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words “How to”. One book may tell you how to earn more money. Another may tell you how to save or spend it and another may explain how to give your money away.
Many How-to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If you fail; however, you can buy the book “How to Turn Failure into Success”. If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to Make a Millionaire”. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called “How to Live on Nothing”.
One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read “How to Succeed in Love every Minute of Your Life”. If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer books which give step-by-step instructions on how to redecorate or enlarge a house.
Why have How-to books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. How-to books help people deal with modern life.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A. How-to books
B. How to Make a Millionaire
C. How to Turn Failure into Success
D. How to Succeed in Love every Minute of Your Life
2. The word it in paragraph 2 refers to ………………….
A. advice B. How-to books C. instruction D. career
3. Which of the following is NOT the type of books giving information on careers?
A. “How to Live on Nothing”
B. “How to Make a Millionaire”
C. “How to Turn Failure into Success”
D. “How to Succeed in Love every Minute of Your Life”
4. The word “step-by-step” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ………………….
A. rapidly
B. little by little
C. faster and faster
D. slower and slower
5. It can be inferred from the passage that ………………….
A. Today people have fewer choices to make
B. Modern life is more difficult to deal with
C. Today people are more interested in modern life
D. Today people are more bored with the modern life
1.A (Ta thấy tác giả đề cập đến những quyển sách với tựa đề “How to” nên ta chọn đáp án A.)
2.D (Ta dịch câu văn: “Many How-to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it.” – “Nhiều cuốn sách với chủ đề này đưa ra những lời khuyên về sự nghiệp. Chủng cho bạn biết làm thế nào để chọn một sự nghiệp và làm thế nào để thành công trong sự nghiệp ấy ”. Nên ta chọn đáp án D.)
3.D (“How to Succeed in Love every Minute of Your Life”: thế nào để thành công trong tình yêu mỗi phút giây trong cuộc sống của bạn.)
4.B (Ta thấy từ “step-by-step” mang nghĩa dần dần, từng bước một nên ta chọn đáp án B.)
5.B (Dẫn chứng ở câu văn: “Probably because life has become so complex”. Chọn đáp án B.)