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Học phần: Developmental Reading 2 (Đọc hiểu phát triển 2)

PART 1: VOCABULARY
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence. Click on A, B, C or D to record
your answer.
1. Don’t worry about fixing the problem right now. You’ll figure out a solution to the
problem ______ time.
A. in that
B. in due
C. in under
D. for the
2. She was in the kitchen when the ______ rang.
A. earthquake
B. bulldog
C. doorbell
D. gateway
3. Have you noticed the way she looks at people, I think she is _________.
A. self-centered
B. quick-tempered
C. pale-skinned
D. cross-eyed
4. What is an antonym of “before”?
A. after
B. at first
C. beginning
D. start
5. Which word means “stop from happening”?
A. venue
B. advent
C. invention
D. prevent
6. Which compound noun can you form with TOOTH?
A. reel
B. brush
C. measure
D. opener

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7. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
A common saying is that “________ is better than cure." For example, it's better to keep
healthy by exercising and eating well than to constantly visit the doctor.
A. revenue
B. avenue
C. prevention
D. intervened
8. Choose the best meaning for the word “magnificent”?
A. modest
B. glorious
C. humble
D. unimpressive
9. Choose the antonym of the highlighted word.
After the hurricane hit, the family was in a perilous situation as the flood threatened their
lives.
A. dangerous
B. difficult
C. risky
D. safe
10. My teacher is _________ she is unwilling to accept or understand new or different ideas.
A. open-minded
B. narrow-minded
C. self-centered
D. bad-tempered

PART 2: READING SKILLS

Passage 1: Read the passage and give short answers for the following questions.
Ideal beauty
Nigerian teenager Happiness Edem had just one aim in life: to put on weight. So she spent
six months in a ‘fattening room' where her daily routine was to sleep, eat and grow fat. She
went in a trim 60 kg, but came out weighing twice that. In some parts of Africa, being fat is
desirable because it symbolizes attractiveness in women and power and prosperity in men.
However, in magazines and in the media we are bombarded with images of slim,
blondehaired and sun-tanned women or handsome, blue-eyed and broad-shouldered young
men. Where are the short-sighted, middle-aged models? Is one idea of physical beauty really
more attractive than another?
Ideas about physical beauty change over time and different periods of history reveal
different views of beauty, particularly of women. Egyptian paintings often show slender
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Europe is a carving of an overweight female. This is the Venus of Hohle Fels and it is more
than 35,000 years old. In the early 1600s, artists like Peter Paul Rubens also painted plump,
pale skinned women who were thought to be the most stunning examples of female beauty
at that time. In Elizabethan England, pale skin was still fashionable, but in this period it was
because it was a sign of wealth: the make-up to achieve this look was expensive, so only
rich people could afford it.
Within different cultures around the world, there is a huge variation in what is considered
beautiful. Traditional customs, like tattooing, head-shaving, piercing or other kinds of body
modification can express status, identity or beliefs. In Borneo, for instance, tattoos are like
a diary because they are a written record of all the important events and places a man has
experienced in his life. For New Zealand's Maoris they reflect the persons position in
society. In western society, where tattoos used to he considered a sign of rebellion, the
culture is changing and they are now a very popular form of body art.
For Europeans, the tradition of using metal rings to stretch a girl's neck may be shocking,
but the Myanmar people consider women with long, thin necks more elegant. In Indonesia,
the custom of sharpening girls' teeth to points might seem strange to other cultures, but it is
perfectly acceptable elsewhere to straighten children's teeth with braces. Body piercing,
dieting, cosmetic surgery or the use of fake tan might be seen as ugly and unattractive by
some cultures, but they are commonplace in many others.
It appears that through the ages and across different cultures, people have always changed
their bodies and faces for a wide variety of reasons. Does this mean that underneath the
tattoos, rings and piercings, we're all beautiful in our own way?
Questions
11. What did Happiness Edem want to do?
12. What kind of images of beauty do we see in the media?
13. What is the traditional image of Egyptian women in paintings?
14. What significance do tattoos have in Borneo and New Zealand?
15. What do the people of Myanmar consider elegant?
16. What is a traditional custom of Indonesians mentioned in the reading?
Passage 2: Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Could urban engineers learn from dance?
The way we travel around cities has a major impact on whether they are sustainable.
Transportation is estimated to account for 30% of energy consumption in most of the
world’s most developed nations, so lowering the need for energy-using vehicles is essential
for decreasing the environmental impact of mobility. But as more and more people move to
cities, it is important to think about other kinds of sustainable travel too. The ways we travel
affect our physical and mental health, our social lives, our access to work and culture, and
the air we breathe. Engineers are tasked with changing how we travel round cities through
urban design, but the engineering industry still works on the assumptions that led to the

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creation of the energy-consuming transport systems we have now: the emphasis placed
solely on efficiency, speed, and quantitative data. We need radical changes, to make it
healthier, more enjoyable, and less environmentally damaging to travel around cities.
Dance might hold some of the answers. That is not to suggest everyone should dance their
way to work, however healthy and happy it might make us, but rather that the techniques
used by choreographers to experiment with and design movement in dance could provide
engineers with tools to stimulate new ideas in city-making. Richard Sennett, an influential
urbanist and sociologist who has transformed ideas about the way cities are made, argues
that urban design has suffered from a separation between mind and body since the
introduction of the architectural blueprint.
Whereas medieval builders improvised and adapted construction through their intimate
knowledge of materials and personal experience of the conditions on a site, building designs
are now conceived and stored in media technologies that detach the designer from the
physical and social realities they are creating. While the design practices created by these
new technologies are essential for managing the technical complexity of the modern city,
they have the drawback of simplifying reality in the process.
To illustrate, Sennett discusses the Peachtree Center in Atlanta, USA, a development typical
of the modernist approach to urban planning prevalent in the 1970s, Peachtree created a grid
of streets and towers intended as a new pedestrian-friendly downtown for Atlanta.
According to Sennett, this failed because its designers had invested too much faith in
computer-aided design to tell them how it would operate. They failed to take into account
that purpose-built street cafés could not operate in the hot sun without the protective awnings
common in older buildings, and would need energy-consuming air conditioning instead, or
that its giant car park would feel so unwelcoming that it would put people off getting out of
their cars. What seems entirely predictable and controllable on screen has unexpected results
when translated into reality.
The same is true in transport engineering, which uses models to predict and shape the way
people move through the city. Again, these models are necessary, but they are built on
specific world views in which certain forms of efficiency and safety are considered and
other experience of the city ignored. Designs that seem logical in models appear counter-
intuitive in the actual experience of their users. The guard rails that will be familiar to anyone
who has attempted to cross a British road, for example, were an engineering solution to
pedestrian safety based on models that prioritise the smooth flow of traffic. On wide major
roads, they often guide pedestrians to specific crossing points and slow down their progress
across the road by using staggered access points divide the crossing into two – one for each
carriageway. In doing so they make crossings feel longer, introducing psychological barriers
greatly impacting those that are the least mobile, and encouraging others to make dangerous
crossings to get around the guard rails. These barriers don’t just make it harder to cross the
road: they divide communities and decrease opportunities for healthy transport. As a result,
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If their designers had had the tools to think with their bodies — like dancers — and imagine
how these barriers would feel, there might have been a better solution. In order to bring
about fundamental changes to the ways we use our cities, engineering will need to develop
a richer understanding of why people move in certain ways, and how this movement affects
them. Choreography may not seem an obvious choice for tackling this problem. Yet it shares
with engineering the aim of designing patterns of movement within limitations of space. It
is an art form developed almost entirely by trying out ideas with the body, and gaining
instant feedback on how the results feel. Choreographers have deep understanding of the
psychological, aesthetic, and physical implications of different ways of moving.
Observing the choreographer Wayne McGregor, cognitive scientist David Kirsh described
how he ‘thinks with the body’. Kirsh argues that by using the body to simulate outcomes,
McGregor is able to imagine solutions that would not be possible using purely abstract
thought. This kind of physical knowledge is valued in many areas of expertise, but currently
has no place in formal engineering design processes. A suggested method for transport
engineers is to improvise design solutions and get instant feedback about how they would
work from their own experience of them, or model designs at full scale in the way
choreographers experiment with groups of dancers. Above all, perhaps, they might learn to
design for emotional as well as functional effects.
Summary
Guard rails
Guard rails were introduced on (17) ______ roads to improve the (18) ______ of
pedestrians, while ensuring that the movement of (19) ______ is not disrupted. Pedestrians
are led to access points, and encouraged to cross one (20) ______ at a time.
An unintended effect is to create psychological difficulties in crossing the road, particularly
for less (21) ______ people. Another result is that some people cross the road in a (22)
______ way. The guard rails separate (23) _______, and make it more difficult to introduce
forms of transport that are (24) ______.
Passage 3: The reading passage has eight paragraphs, A-H. Choose the correct heading
for paragraphs A-H from the list of headings below.
List of Headings
i. A lot of proof of non-well-being
ii. Recent perceptional change of the environment
iii. Reviving time for private time
iv. Understanding of being valuable
v. The absurdity of our lives from the feature of economy benefit
vi. Right attitude for constant comfort and human ingenuity
vii. People and governments that continue to disagree
viii. Aspiring to the material civilization
Questions

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 25. Paragraph (A)
26. Paragraph (B)
27. Paragraph (C)
28. Paragraph (D)
29. Paragraph (E)
30. Paragraph (F)
31. Paragraph (G)
32. Paragraph (H)
The Well-being Life
(A). Going back to the 1970s, few people listened to scientists’ warnings of global warming.
It got worse as nobody was interested in curbing economic growth to protect the
environment. Nowadays, we are more cautious. We are hearing about the conflict between
living on the earth and expanding the demands of the global market.
(B). However, Tim Jackson reports that people and governments claim the growth agenda
to ensure our future and are still in denial of the conflict. A reason for this is the presumption
that support for the green campaigners will ultimately make our lives worse.
(C). All representations of a pleasant and easy life which aspire to come from advertising
do not help. Also, our happiness is dependent on consuming more and more “material.” We
have never listened to ways of escaping stress, noise, congestion, and the ill-health that
comes from our “high” standard of living.
(D). Actually, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that a workaholic mentality and an
affluent lifestyle does not give us a pleasant life and that switching to a more sustainable
community to work could make us happier. For instance, rates of depression and
occupational illness have been indicated to be relative to the number of hours we are
working. Once a certain income level is reached, more wealth is not linked with
growing happiness.
(E). The unreasonableness of our situation can be explained by the way in which our
economy tries to sell us happiness. For example, leisure and tourism companies sell
customers “a good quality time,” catering services offer us “home cooking,” dating agencies
sell relationships; the sports centre sells health and as a result of modern car culture it can
be unsafe to walk outside. With the economy steadily expanding, consumer culture is
becoming more and more reliant on our desire to adopt this lifestyle.
(F). An increasing number of people are beginning to realize that there is more to life than
work and money. Troubled by the effects of a stressful life, people are starting to make their
lives more simple and rethinking their values and desires. If people were to switch to a less
work-intensive economy, it would decrease the rate of people, products and information
delivered, reducing carbon emissions and the use of resources.
(G). There are a number of advantages to making sacrifices to our lifestyles. We would be
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healthier ways of travelling such as walking, cycling, and riding a boat. Large supermarket
chains would be replaced by local family businesses resulting in the creation of more
communal town centres. Our local areas would become more tranquil and give us more
chance to reflect on things. These changed ideas for a “good life” might also motivate less
developed countries to reconsider their goals, enabling them to avoid some of the less
attractive aspects of the current system.
(H). Of course, we must sacrifice some conveniences and pleasure such as regular steaks,
hot tubs, luxury cosmetics and easy foreign travel. But constant comfort can blunt as well
as satisfy our desires. And human ingenuity will invent a wide range of eco-friendly
excitement.
Passage 4: Read the passage and decide if the following statements are True, False or
Not Given.
True The statement matches the information in the text
False The statement contradicts the information in the text
Not Given The information is not found in the text
Climbing mountains
Gertrude Benham was born in England in 1867. She had made 130 climbs in the European
Alps before going to the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1904, where she spent the summer
climbing. In 1904, the paths of Gertrude Benham and Charles Fay briefly crossed. He had
spent several successful summers climbing in the Rocky Mountains. In fact he was so
successful that the Geographical Board of Canada asked him to select a mountain to take
his name. He chose one known as Heejee and was determined to be the first to reach the
top. But Gertrude Benham had the same idea.
On 19 July 1904, Gertrude and her guide, Christian Kaufmann, reached the top of a
mountain which they thought was Heejee. Upon their return, however, they were told that
that particular mountain was called something else. They decided to try again the next day
but, unknown to Gertrude, Charles Fay and his guide Hans Kaufmann, Christian's brother,
were planning to climb Heejee that day as well.
Both groups set out on 20 July but Charles Fay and Hans Kaufmann found the snow
conditions difficult and had to turn back. Gertrude and Christian were successful. CharIes
Fay was annoyed and later wrote in a letter, 'Hans Kaufmann led me, against my wishes, up
Consolation Valley instead of taking my advice to go round Moraine Lake, while Christian
led Miss Benham straight to the top of the mountain.'
Some people said that the Kaufmann brothers had wanted Gertrude to get to the top first and
Hans had therefore taken CharIes Fay on a route which took more time. Although this is a
good story, no documents exist to prove this actually happened and it was never thought
that Gertrude had any knowledge of it.
Disappointed, CharIes Fay asked if he could choose a different mountain to take his name
and chose Mount Shappee, but then found out that Gertrude and Christian had climbed that
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originally wanted. He finally climbed to its top on 5 August 1904. Half a century later, his
grandson climbed the north-eastern side of the mountain, by then known as Mount Fay. No
other climber had ever managed to do this.
Gertrude Benham then travelled to New Zealand and Japan to do more climbing before
going home to England, spending time in Australia and India on the way. CharIes Fay made
many more successful climbs. The first hut built in the Canadian Rockies to shelter climbers
was called the Fay Hut. It was built in 1927 but unfortunately was destroyed in a forest fire
in 2003.
Questions
33. Gertrude Benham had spent less time climbing in Canada than Charles Fay.
34. Charles Fay applied2 to an organisation to have a mountain named after him.
35. On 19 July, Gertrude Benham found out she had made a mistake.
36. Gertrude Benham decided to climb Mount Heejee with Charles Fay on 20 July.
37. Charles Fay blamed his guide when he failed to reach the top of Mount Heejee.
38. Gertrude Benham took a different route up Mount Heejee from Charles Fay.
39. Gertrude Benham knew Hans Kaufmann had a plan to choose a slow route up
Mount Heejee.
40. The mountain which was named after Charles Fay was the one he had first chosen.

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ANSWER KEY
PART 1: VOCABULARY
1. B. in due
Vì: in due time là đúng hạn, đúng giờ, vào một khoảng thời gian phù hợp.
2. C. doorbell
Vì: doorbell là chuông cửa.
3. D. cross-eyed
Vì: cross-eyed means having one or two eyes turned inward toward the nose
4. A. after
Vì: an antonym of “before” is “after”
5. D. prevent
Vì: prevent = stop from happening
6. B. brush
Vì: toothbrush is to brush our teeth.
7. C. prevention
Vì: prevention means the act of preventing, stopping something.
8. B. glorious
Vì: glorious means magnificient
9. D. safe
Vì: perilous >< safe
10. B. narrow-minded
Vì: narrow-minded means not willing to listen or tolerate others’ view

PART 2: READING SKILLS

Passage 1
11. Put on weight.
Vì: Nigerian teenager Happiness Edem had just one aim in life: to put on weight.
12. Slim, blonde-haired, sun-tanned
Vì: However, in magazines and in the media we are bombarded with images of slim,
blondehaired and sun-tanned women or handsome, blue-eyed and broad-shouldered
young men.
13. Slender and dark-haired.
Vì: Egyptian paintings often show slender dark-haired women as the norm,
14. In Borneo, tattoos are like a diary. In New Zealand, they reflect the persons position in
society.

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Vì: In Borneo, tattoos are like a diary because they are a written record of all the important
events and places a man has experienced in his life. In New Zealand, they reflect the persons
position in society.
15. Long thin necks
Vì: For Europeans, the tradition of using metal rings to stretch a girl's neck may be shocking,
but the Myanmar people consider women with long, thin necks more elegant.
16. Sharpening girls’ teeth
Vì: In Indonesia, the custom of sharpening girls' teeth to points might seem strange to other
cultures, but it is perfectly acceptable elsewhere to straighten children's teeth
with braces.

Passage 2
17. British
18. safety
19. traffic
20. carriageway
21. mobile
22. dangerous
23. communities
24. healthy

Passage 3
25. Recent perceptional change of the environment
26. People and governments that continue to disagree
27. Aspiring to the material civilization
28. A lot of proof of non-well-being
29. The absurdity of our lives from the feature of economy benefit
30. Understanding of being valuable
31. Reviving time for private time
32. Right attitude for constant comfort and human ingenuity

Passage 4
33. True
Vì: She had made 130 climbs in the European Alps before going to the Canadian Rocky
Mountains in 1904, where she spent the summer climbing.
34. False

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Vì: In fact he was so successful that the Geographical Board of Canada asked him to select
a mountain to take his name. He chose one known as Heejee and was determined.
35. True
Vì: On 19 July 1904, Gertrude and her guide, Christian Kaufmann, reached the top of a
mountain which they thought was Heejee. Upon their return, however, they were told that
that particular mountain was called something else.
36. False
Vì: They decided to try again the next day but, unknown to Gertrude, Charles Fay and his
guide Hans Kaufmann, Christian's brother, were planning to climb Heejee that day as well.
37. True
Vì: CharIes Fay was annoyed and later wrote in a letter, 'Hans Kaufmann led me, against
my wishes, up Consolation Valley instead of taking my advice to go round Moraine Lake,
while Christian led Miss Benham straight to the top of the mountain.'
38. True
Vì: Some people said that the Kaufmann brothers had wanted Gertrude to get to the top first
and Hans had therefore taken CharIes Fay on a route which took more time.
39. False
Vì: Although this is a good story, no documents exist to prove this actually happened and it
was never thought that Gertrude had any knowledge of it.
40. True
Vì: At this point CharIes Fay agreed to have his name attached to Heejee, as he had
originally wanted.

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