ĐỌC 5 TIẾNG ANH ENHOU EN36

Đọc - Tiếng Anh 5 - EN36
Unit1: Crime and punishment
The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments.
Matthew
Rye
reports.
Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that
includes not only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.
When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son,
Paul, a cello to suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. ‘We had a look at
various dealers and it was obvious it was going to be very expensive,’ John says. ‘So I wondered
if I could actually make one. I discovered that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not
far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes once a week for about three years.’
‘After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,’ Paul,
now 28, adds. ‘It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the
hang of it. And that’s the one I used right up until a few months ago.’ John has since retired as a
teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to
the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was ‘the icing on the cake’.
Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The
piano came first: ‘As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,’
Paul remembers. But it wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. ‘My folks were really quite keen
for me to take up the violin, because Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music
with his mates and they needed another violin to make up a string trio. I learned it for about six
weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played the cello in Dad’s group.
I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me some lessons,
and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he
would
have
none
of
it.’

‘My parents were both supportive and relaxed,’ Huw says. ‘I don’t think I would have responded
very well to being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I
had something to aspire to.’ Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and
composer.
Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final
of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20,
he was appointed principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still
playing his father’s instrument, until last year. Now, however, he has acquired a Francesco
Rugeri cello, on loan from the Royal Academy of Music. ‘Dad’s not said anything about me
moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in turn and
had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad’s doesn’t have – and may
acquire after about 50–100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls.
It will get richer with age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.’
Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto,
which forms the heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. ‘The wellknown performance history doesn’t affect the way I play the work,’ he says. ‘I’m always going
to do it my way.’ But Paul won’t be able to watch himself on television – the same night he is


playing at the Cheltenham Festival. Nor will Huw, whose String Quartet is receiving its London
premiere at the Wigmore Hall the same evening. John and Hetty will have to be diplomatic – and
energetic – if they are to keep track of all their sons’ musical activities over the coming weeks.
What is meant by ‘crack’ in the second What does Paul say about his performance
paragraph?
of Elgar’s Cello Concerto?
a.attempt
a. It is typical of his approach to everything
b. plan
he
plays.
b. It is less traditional than other performances

c. shock
he has given.
d. period

c. He considers it to be one of his best
performances.
d. Some viewers are likely to have a low
opinion of it.

What will require some effort from John What does Paul say about the Rugeri cello?
and Hetty Watkins?
a. The cello his father made may become as
a. Preventing their sons from taking on too good as it.
much work.
b. He was not keen to tell his father that he was
b. Advising their sons on what they should do using it.
next.
c. His father’s reaction to it worried him.
c. Reminding their sons what they have
d. It has qualities that he had not expected.
arranged to do.
d. Being aware of everything their sons are
involved in.
What does the word “they” in the fourth What do we learn in the third paragraph
paragraph refer to?
about the instruments John has made?
a. Paul and Huw.
a. He is particularly pleased about what
happened to one of them.
b. Dad and Dad’s mates.

b. His violins have turned out to be better than
c.Weeks.
his
cellos.
d. Some lessons
c. It took him longer to learn how to make
cellos than violins.
d. He considers the one used by Jaime Laredo
to be the best.


What do we learn about Huw’s musical What is meant by ‘diplomatic’ in the last
development?
paragraph?
a. His brother’s achievements gave him an a. tactful
aim.
b. excellent
b. His parents’ attitude has played little part in
c. capable
it
c. It was slow because he lacked determination
d. . He wanted it to be different from his d. confident
brother’s
Paul first became interested in playing the Why did John Watkins decide to make a
cello because __.
cello?
a. he admired someone his father played a. He wanted to avoid having to pay for one.
music with
b. He wanted to encourage his son Paul to take
b. he did not want to do what his parents up the instrument.

wanted
c. He felt that dealers were giving him false
c. he wanted to play in his father’s group
information.
d. he was not very good at playing the piano

d. He was keen to do a course at the nearby
school.

What is meant by ‘crack’ in the second
paragraph?
a. period
b. shock
c. plan
d. attempt
Unit 2: Shopping
By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be
trusted with the care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple techniques.
She learns to weave firm square balls from palm leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or
frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to
break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a
number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by picking up


the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help
gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for
the
chief’s
pipe
or

the
cook-house
fire.
But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely supplementary to the main business of
baby-tending. Very small boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or nine
years of age they are usually relieved of it. Whatever rough edges have not been smoothed off by
this responsibility for younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys.
For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities only so long as their behavior
is circumspect and helpful. Where small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be
patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves useful. The four or five little
boys who all wish to assist at the important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels,
organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy holds the bait, another holds
an extra lasso, others poke eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still another
tucks
the
captured
eels
into
his
lavalava.
The small girls, burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are too small to
adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility of the small boys and the scorn of the older
ones, have little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work and play. So while
the little boys first undergo the chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many
opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision of older boys, the girls’
education is less comprehensive. They have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the
community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one another.
This is particularly apparent in the activities of young people: the boys organize quickly; the girls
waste hours in bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient cooperation
It can be inferred that the ‘high standard of Which of the following if true would weaken

individual responsibility’ is
the author’s contention about ‘lessons in
a. developed mainly through child-care duties cooperation’?
I Group games played by younger girls involve
b. taught to the girl before she is entrusted with cooperation
II Girls can learn from watching boys
babies
cooperating
III Individual girls cooperate with their
c. only present in girls
mothers in looking after babies
d. weakened as the girl grows older.
a.III
only
b.
I
only
c.
I
and
II
only
d. II only
Which of the following is the best
description of the author’s technique in
handling her material?
a. Both description and interpretation of
observations

It can be inferred that in the community

under discussion all of the following are
important except…
a.
domestic
handicrafts
b.
formal
education


b. Description of evidence to support a theory.

c. well-defined social structure

c. Generalization from a particular viewpoint.

d. fishing skills

d. Presentation of facts without comment.
Who do the girls or boys work in tean better,
according to the passage?
a. Both girls and boys work well.
b.
boys
c.
girls
d. Both girls and boys does not work well.

The expression ‘innocent of’ (in the last
paragraph) is best taken to mean

a. unskilled in
b. uninvolved in
c. unsuited for
d. not guilty of

The word ‘brusquely’ (line 9) most nearly What was boys’ attitude to girls when they
means
worked in team to capture eels?
a. abruptly
a.
They
felt
bored
b.
Hostile
b. gently
c.
cheerful
d. They did not show anything.
c. quickly
d. nonchalantly
The primary purpose of the passage with
reference to the society under discussion is
to…
a. criticize the deficiencies in the education of
girls

The list of techniques in paragraph one
could best be described as…
a. useful social skills

b. household duties

b. explain some differences in the upbringing c. rudimentary physical skills
of girls and boys
d. important responsibilities
c. show that young girls are trained to be useful
to adults
d. give a comprehensive account of a day in the
life of an average young girl


Unit 3: Language
I chose a small house on the edge of the city. It was an ideal place for me, because I wanted fresh
mountain air, space, privacy, a place where one could feel the presence of ancient gods and the
spirits of nature. The house was merely an empty shell, but I chose it because it was on the sunny
side of the valley, high enough to have a good view over the town, with sufficient breeze to
diminish the occasionally stupefying heat. It took me a good year to make the place inhabitable.
The first thing that I did was to dig out the well at the side of the house, which had caved in on
itself and was full of mud and rocks. I was helped in this by a Frenchman named Antoine, a man
of considerable culture who had chosen to live here because he was attached to the people, with
whom he had arrived in the original immigration. We repaired the walls and the roof of the
house, and painted the rooms completely white so that they became suddenly clean, bright, and
spacious.
Antoine and I managed, at some danger to ourselves, to install electricity by connecting up a
cable to the faltering system invented by a teacher. This man was Professor Luis, who had set up
a row of windmills to generate power; this was perfectly adequate for lighting, but was
somewhat feeble when high amperage was required, so that the electric cooker that I had flown
in by helicopter turned out to be more use as a storage cupboard.
It often happens when setting up a house that one finds quite suddenly that there is an urgent
need for some item overlooked during the last expedition. The track down from my house was a

deeply pitted one that served as a watercourse each time that it rained, and although I have
stabilised it since, it was to begin with only negotiable on foot or by mule, or by Antoine’s
ancient three-wheeled tractor. This tractor had been half-buried in the mud of the flood at
Chiriguana, but Senor Vivo’s father, who is in fact General Sosa, governor of Cesar, had it dog
out and brought in slung under a vast helicopter gunship, at his son’s request. It is commonly
said in this country that General Sosa is the only member of the military hierarchy who ever does
anything
useful.
There was, at the far end of the town, a tienda that sold goods brought in by mule-train from
Ipasueno, and so every few days I would find myself rattling and bumping my way to it on
Antoine’s formidable old tractor. This shop was owned by a middle-aged couple who left the
running of it to their daughter, a girl of twenty or so years whose name was Ena, as I discovered
by overhearing the father asking of her the price of a bottle of Ron Cana.
Ena was small and strongly built; usually she wore a plain, faded blue dress, and her feet were
always bare. Sometimes I used to think that her head was very slightly too large for her, but she
had an appealing and serene face framed by her long black hair. She reminded me forcibly of a
Greek girl with whom I had once been in love, for she had the same smooth and soft olive skin,
and big brown eyes beneath eyebrows almost heavy enough to meet in the middle. On her
forearms were the traces of soft black downy hair, which to be frank, is something that has
always
driven
me
crazy,
and
her
fingers
were
slim
and
elegant.

The best thing about her, however, was her elfin spirit; she had an air of quiet amusement, an
innocent devilry, that gave her the aura of having existed from all eternity, and of being able to
see tbe funny side of everything. I perceived that she had a streak of mischief in her, as was to be
revealed when I discovered how it was that she had kept me for so long in ignorance
According to the writer, Antoine

What attracted the writer to the house?


a. had recently arrived.
b. liked to keep to himself.
c.
painted
d. was a foreigner.

for

a

a. the condition it was in
b. where it was located
c. how big it was
living d. the view it gave of the valley

What criticism of Ena does the writer make? How did the writer find out what Ena’s
a. Her head seemed to be too big.
name was?
a. He heard a customer asking for her.
b. She never wore shoes.
c. Her eyebrows were too thick.

d. She wasn’t interested in clothes.

b. Antoine gave him the information
c. Her father told him when he asked. (sai)
d. Someone mentioned her name.

The writer uses the phrase ‘served as a
watercourse’ (Paragraph 4) to show
that the path
a. had many deep holes.
b. needed to be repaired.
c. was difficult to walk on.
d. was sometimes flooded
What attitude does the writer have towards
Ena?
a. The writer has a positive attitude towards her.
b. The writer has an aggressive attitude towards
her.
c. The writer has a negative attitude towards
her.
d. The writer has a hostile attitude towards her.
What did the writer like best about Ena?
a. her resemblance to someone
b. her innocent ignorance
c. her sense of humour

Which of the conclusions can be drawn
from this passage?
a. The place where the writer lives isolates him
from nature. Câu trả lời không đúng

b. The writer would like to move to another
place
c. The writer is not interested in the people
around him.
d. The writer feels happy with the people he
has met
What impression does the writer give of the
electricity
supply?
a. It only worked when it was windy.
b. It was too dangerous to use.
c. It didn’t always work properly.
d. It was a very reliable system. (sai)


d. her physical appearance
Unit 4: Health
The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV
chef.
I believe everyone’s given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking,
and my chance was to run a restaurant. When l heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look
at the place. It was in a really bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.
Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. l can remember my mother going out to
work in a factory and me being so upset because l was left alone. With that in mind, I thought,
‘We want time for family life.’ My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all
my accounts, while I ran the business. We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always
put a lot of emphasis on having meals together. It’s paid dividends with our children, Gary and
Joe. They’re both very confident. Also, from a very early age they would come down and talk to
our regular customers. It’s given both of them a great start in life.
Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was

about seven he thought he’d jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out.
When he was older he had to work for pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the
age of about ten he was in the kitchen every weekend, so he always had loads of money at
school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me in the morning. If you run a family
business, it’s for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.
Gary wasn’t very academic, but he shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of 15 he was as
good as any of the men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would
produce over a hundred meals, and from then I knew he’d go into catering because he had that
flair. So when he came to me and said, ‘Dad, I’ve got to do work experience as part of my course
at school,’ I sent him to a friend of mine who’s got a restaurant.
Gary recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what
will happen to the cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start
chasing two hares, you end up catching neither, so chase the hare you know you’re going to
catch. He understood when I said to him: ‘Gary, if you’re going to get anywhere in life, you’ve
got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven’t done it by then, it’s too late.
Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students
– they’re normally complete beginners – were given what’s supposed to be a morning’s work.
But within an hour Gary had chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He’d prepared
everything. That’s my son for you! In the end, he was helping other people out.
None of us can believe how successful Gary’s TV cookery series has become. I’m extremely
proud of him. I’ve always tried to tell him that if you want something, you’ve got to work jolly
hard for it, because no one gives you anything. He’s seen the opportunity he’s been given and
grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk to your children as they grow up, and if
they only take in ten per cent of what you’ve told them, you’ve got to be happy with that. The
things Gary says, the things he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes
“…chase the hare you know you’re going to What does “done it” in Paragraph 5 refer
catch.” in Paragraph 5 means
to?

a. do what you think you can do successfully.

a. Dachieved success

b. do everything you want.

b.
caught
c.
chosen
d. lived your life

c. do many things at one time.

a
a

hare
profession?

d. do one thing at a time
How did the writer’s childhood influence his
own family life?
a. He made sure there was plenty of personal
contact.

According to his father, what was typical
about Gary’s behavior on his first day at
college?
a. He impressed those in charge.

b. He realised that the pattern was repeating b. He helped other people.
itself.
c. He performed the task efficiently
c. He encouraged his children to talk to him.
d. He tried to make his father proud.

d. He asked his wife to stay at home.
As a young boy, Gary…
a. demonstrated a variety
b. was always in trouble.

of

c. was motivated by money.
d. showed how determined he could be.

How does his father regard Gary’s
talents upbringing?
a. His encouragement has caused Gary’s
success.
b. The family influence on Gary was too
strong.
c. Gary has learnt some essential things.
d. Gary has forgotten important lessons.

How did the writer react to his own big
chance?
a. He worried about the problems.
b. He thought the family would suffer.

What is Gary’s father’s attitude to Gary
playing in a band?
a. interested in how he can introduce music
into the restaurant.

c. He wondered if he should take it.

b. doubtful whether he will have time to
improve his technique.

d. He saw what could be done.

c. concerned that music may interfere with
his career .
d. pleased that he has a hobby he enjoys.


What does the writer mean by ‘paid The word “shone” in Paragraph 4 means
dividends’ in paragraph 2?
a. was helpful
a. brought financial reward
b. was very good
b. allowed money to be saved
c. was cheerful
c. produced benefits
d. was clean
d. was worth the suffering
Unit 5: Media
It would be simple enough to follow him. Roger was a man of habits, and even when his hours of

work were irregular he would still take his mid-day meal, whenever he did take it, at Percy’s.
Miss Temple found an antique bookshop across the street where, as she was obliged to purchase
something for standing so long watching through its window, she is on impulse selected a
complete four-volume Illustrated Lives of Sea Martyrs. The books were detailed enough for her
to spend the time in the window, apparently examining the books, while actually watching Roger
first enter and then, after an hour, exit alone, from the heavy doors across the street.
He walked straight back to his office in the Ministry courtyard. Miss Temple arranged for her
purchase to be delivered to the Boniface, and walked back into the street, feeling like a fool. She
had re-crossed the square before she convinced herself that she was not so much a fool as an
inexperienced observer. It was pointless to watch from outside the restaurant because only from
inside could she have discovered whether or not Roger dined alone or with others, or with which
particular
others
–
all
imponant
information.
She had a pretty good feeling that the crime she believed he had committed was not to benefit his
work, which meant she was likely to learn nothing from observing his working day. It was after
work that any real information would be gathered. Abruptly, she entered a store whose windows
were thick with all shapes of luggage, hampers, oilskins, lanterns. telescopes, and a large
assortment of walking sticks. She left wearing a ladies’ black travelling cloak, with a deep hood
and several well hidden pockets, opera glasses, a leather-bound notebook and an all-weather
pencil.
Miss
Temple
then
took
her
tea.

Between cups of tea and two cakes, she made entries in the notebook, summarising her plan and
then describing the day’s work so far. That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools
made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring
clothes and supporting equipment seemed somehow more objective, even scientific, in nature. In
keeping with this, she made a point to write her entries in a kind of code. replacing proper names
and places with synonyms or word-play that hopefully would not be understood by anyone but
herself.
Miss Temple left the tea shop at four o’clock, knowing Roger to leave usually at five, and hired a
carriage. She instructed her driver in a low, direct tone of voice, after assuring him he would be
well paid for his time, that they would be following a gentleman, most likely in another carriage,
and that she would knock on the roof of the coach to indicate the man when he appeared. The


driver nodded, but said nothing else. She took his silence to mean that this was a usual enough
thing, and felt all the more sure of herself. When Roger appeared, some forty minutes later, she
nearly missed him, amusing herself for the moment by peering through the opera glasses into
nearby open windows, but a sudden feeling caused her to glance back at the courtyard gates just
in time to see Roger, standing in the road with an air of confidence and purpose that took her
breath away, flag down a coach of his own. Miss Temple knocked sharply on the roof of the
coach.
and
they
were
off.
The thrill of the chase, complicated by the nervousness of seeing Roger, was quietly lost when,
after the first few turns. it became obvious that Roger’s destination was nowhere more
interesting than his own home.
Miss Temple’s excitement at following Roger Miss Temple thought it would be easy to
a. increased each time she caught sight of him. follow Roger because
b. disappeared when she realised where he a. he always ate lunch at a particular location.

was going.
b. his work schedule never changed.
c. she already knew the schedule of his
c. ended when her carriage started following working day.
him.
d. he always took a break at the same time.
d. turned into boredom after a while.
What mistake did Miss Temple soon realise
she had made?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. She should have followed Roger back to the
Ministry when she had had the chance
b. She needn’t bave made a purchase at the
bookshop
c. She had re-crossed the square at the wrong
place
d. She had waited for Roger in the wrong
place

Miss Temfple bought a book at the bookshop
because
a. she needed an excuse to stay there.
b. she was forced to by the shop owner.
c. she wanted a way to pass the time.
d. she suddenly felt like buying something.

When Roger left his office at about five How did Miss Temple’s purchases make her
o’clock, Miss Temple
feel about what she was doing?
a. watched him through her new opera glasses. a. less personally involved

b. more determined
b. pretended to be looking into an open
window.
c. better prepared
c. had a sudden feeling of breathlessness.

d. less confused


d. saw him just before he got into a carriage.
Miss Temple decided to follow Roger after
work because
a. she believed that was the time she could
find out what she wanted to know.
b. she didn’t want to risk him seeing her
outside his office.
c. she couldn’t see what he was doing inside
his office.
d. she had other, more important things to do
during the working day

What attitude does the writer have towards
Roger?
a. The writer has a hostile attitude towards him.
b. The writer has a normal attitude towards
him.
c. The writer has a negative attitude towards
him .
d. The writer has a critical attitude towards him
Câu trả lời không đúng

The word ‘this’ in paragraph 5 refers to

Which of the conclusions can be drawn from
this extract?

a. banging on the hood of the carriage. (sai)

a. Miss Temple has a detailed plan to
follow Roger

b. the driver’s silence.
c. being asked to follow someone.
d. paying drivers well for their time.

b. Miss Temple is not patient enough to
follow Roger.
c. Miss Temple has an impractical plan to
follow Roger.
d. Miss Temple is sure that she will find out
the truth.