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 20 to 27.It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The difference between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no limits....
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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 20 to 27.
It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The difference between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.
Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no limits. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in the kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in school and the whole universe of informal learning. The agent (doer) of education can vary from respected grandparents to the people arguing about politics on the radio, from a child to a famous scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People receive education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term; it is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one’s entire life.
Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at about the same time, take the assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The pieces of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of governments, have been limited by the subjects being taught. For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their society or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are clear and undoubted conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.
What does the writer mean by saying ''education quite often produces surprises"?
A. Educators often produce surprises
B. Informal learning often brings about unexpected results
C. Success of informal learning is predictable
D. It's surprising that we know little about other religions
1. A
How does Lan often go to school? - By bicycle.
(Bạn Lan thường đến trường như thế nào? - Bằng xe đạp.)
Giải thích:
Mark: ...By the way, do you cycle to school too?
(...À này, bạn có đạp xe đến trường không?)
Lan: Yes, but sometimes my mum takes me on her motorbike.
(Có, nhưng thỉnh thoảng mẹ mình chở bằng xe máy của bà ấy.)
2. B
It normally takes Lan ten minutes to get to school.
(Lan thường mất mười phút để đến trường.)
Giải thích: Lan: About 10 minutes. (Khoảng 10 phút.)
3. C
Lan and Mark agree to go cycling at the weekend.
(Lan và Mark đồng ý đi xe đạp vào cuối tuần.)
Giải thích: Mark: Hey, how about going cycling round the lake this Sunday?
(Này, cùng đi đạp xe quanh hồ vào Chủ nhật tuần này thì sao?)