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 following questions.
In the past, technology and progress was very slow. People "invented" farming 12,000 years ago but it took 8,000 years for the idea to go around the world. Then, about 3,500 years ago, people called "potters" used round wheels to turn and make plates. But it took hundreds of years before some clever person thought, if we join two wheels together and make them bigger, we can use them to move things.
In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a 20th-century invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 metres. It can't have been very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the first plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the moon. Technology is now changing our world faster and faster. So what will the future bring? One of the first changes will be the matter we use. Scientists have just invented an amazing new material called graphene, and soon we will use it to do lots of things. With graphene batteries in your mobile, it will take a few seconds to charge your phone or download a thousand gigabytes of information! Today, we make most products in factories, but in the future, scientists will invent living materials. Then we won't make things like cars and furniture in factories - we will grow them! Thirty years ago, people couldn't have imagined social media like Twitter and Facebook. Now we can't live without them.
But this is only the start. Right now, scientists are putting microchips in some disabled people's brains, to help them see, hear and communicate better. In the future, we may all use these technologies. We won't need smartphones to use social media or search the internet because the internet will be in our heads! More people will go into space in the future, too. Space tourism has already begun, and a hundred years from now, there may be many hotels in space. One day, we may get most of our energy from space too. In 1941, the writer Isaac Asimov wrote about a solar power station in space. People laughed at his idea then, but we should have listened to him. Today, many people are trying to develop a space solar power station. After all, the sun always shines above the clouds!
In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a 20th-century invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 metres. It can't have been very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the first plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the moon. Technology is now changing our world faster and faster. So what will the future bring? One of the first changes will be the matter we use. Scientists have just invented an amazing new material called graphene, and soon we will use it to do lots of things. With graphene batteries in your mobile, it will take a few seconds to charge your phone or download a thousand gigabytes of information! Today, we make most products in factories, but in the future, scientists will invent living materials. Then we won't make things like cars and furniture in factories - we will grow them! Thirty years ago, people couldn't have imagined social media like Twitter and Facebook. Now we can't live without them.
But this is only the start. Right now, scientists are putting microchips in some disabled people's brains, to help them see, hear and communicate better. In the future, we may all use these technologies. We won't need smartphones to use social media or search the internet because the internet will be in our heads! More people will go into space in the future, too. Space tourism has already begun, and a hundred years from now, there may be many hotels in space. One day, we may get most of our energy from space too. In 1941, the writer Isaac Asimov wrote about a solar power station in space. People laughed at his idea then, but we should have listened to him. Today, many people are trying to develop a space solar power station. After all, the sun always shines above the clouds!
Question 35. Why does the writer use the example of the aeroplane?
Question 35. Why does the writer use the example of the aeroplane?
Chọn một phương án bên dưới để kiểm tra đáp án ngay:
Đáp án chính thức: B
Hướng dẫn giải chi tiết
Tại sao người viết sử dụng ví dụ về máy bay?
A. Để giải thích cách du hành vũ trụ bắt đầu.
B. Để thể hiện việc một phát minh phát triển nhanh chóng ra sao.
C. Để giải thích tại sao việc di chuyển lại thay đổi trong thế kỷ 20.
D. Vì ông nghĩ rằng đó là phát minh quan trọng nhất trong lịch sử.
Thông tin:
In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a 20th-century invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 metres. It can't have been very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the first plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the moon. (Trong vài thế kỷ qua, mọi việc bắt đầu tiến triển nhanh hơn. Lấy phát minh của thế kỷ 20 như máy bay làm ví dụ. Chuyến bay đầu tiên vào ngày 17 tháng 12 năm 1903 chỉ kéo dài 12 giây, và máy bay chỉ đi được 37 mét. Có thể việc xem không quá thú vị, nhưng chuyến bay đó đã thay đổi thế giới. 16 năm sau, chiếc máy bay đầu tiên đã bay vượt Đại Tây Dương, và chỉ 15 năm sau đó, con người đã đi bộ trên Mặt Trăng.)
→ Chọn đáp án B
A. Để giải thích cách du hành vũ trụ bắt đầu.
B. Để thể hiện việc một phát minh phát triển nhanh chóng ra sao.
C. Để giải thích tại sao việc di chuyển lại thay đổi trong thế kỷ 20.
D. Vì ông nghĩ rằng đó là phát minh quan trọng nhất trong lịch sử.
Thông tin:
In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a 20th-century invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 metres. It can't have been very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the first plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the moon. (Trong vài thế kỷ qua, mọi việc bắt đầu tiến triển nhanh hơn. Lấy phát minh của thế kỷ 20 như máy bay làm ví dụ. Chuyến bay đầu tiên vào ngày 17 tháng 12 năm 1903 chỉ kéo dài 12 giây, và máy bay chỉ đi được 37 mét. Có thể việc xem không quá thú vị, nhưng chuyến bay đó đã thay đổi thế giới. 16 năm sau, chiếc máy bay đầu tiên đã bay vượt Đại Tây Dương, và chỉ 15 năm sau đó, con người đã đi bộ trên Mặt Trăng.)
→ Chọn đáp án B