45 BÀI TẬP ĐỌC HIỂU – PHẦN 1
CHUYÊN ĐỀ: BÀI TẬP ĐỌC HIỂU
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH LUYỆN THI THPT QG
Mục tiêu:
- Vận dụng được những kiến thức từ vựng đã học được trong suốt lớp 10 đến 12 để dịch được câu hỏi, các
đáp án và hiểu được nội dung cơ bản của bài đọc.
- Biết tìm từ khóa trong câu hỏi, các đáp án và trong bài đọc để tìm ra câu trả lời; vận dụng kỹ năng đọc
lướt và đọc lấy thông tin chi tiết.
Exercise 1. 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.
We get great pleasure from reading. The more advanced a man is, the greater delight he will find
in reading. The ordinary man may think that subjects like philosophy or science are very difficult and that
if philosophers and scientists read these subjects, it is not for pleasure.
But this is not true. The mathematician finds the same pleasure in his mathematics as the school
boy in an adventure story. For both, it is a play of the imagination, a mental recreation and exercise. The
pleasure derived from this activity is common to all kinds of reading. But different types of books give us
different types of pleasure. First in order of popularity is novel-reading. Novels contain pictures of
imaginary people in imaginary situations, and give us an opportunity of escaping into a new world very
much like our world and yet different from it. Here we seem to live a new life, and the experience of this
new life gives us a thrill of pleasure. Next in order of popularity are travel books, biographies and
memoirs. These tell us tales of places we have not seen and of great men in whom we are interested.
Some of these books are as wonderful as novels, and they have an added value that they are true.
Such books give us knowledge, and we also find immense pleasure in knowing details of lands we have
not seen and of great men we have only heard of. Reading is one of the greatest enjoyments of life. To
book-lovers, nothing is more fascinating than a favorite book. And, the ordinary educated man who is
interested and absorbed in his daily occupation wants to occasionally escape from his drudgery into the
wonderland of books for recreation and refreshment.
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Question 1: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Different types of books
B. Different kinds of reading
C. Reading as an exercise for the brain
D. Reading as a pleasurable activity
Question 2: According to paragraph 1, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Ordinary people may think that philosophy and science are difficult.
B. Reading about mathematics is mentally entertaining for a mathematician.
C. Philosophers and scientists do not read for pleasure.
D. A more advanced person takes greater pleasure in reading.
Question 3: The word “derived” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. differed
B. established
C. bought
D. obtained
Question 4: The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.
A. a new life
B. our world
C. an opportunity
D. a thrill of pleasure
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