Đề thi tuyển sinh cao đẳng năm 2010 môn: tiếng Anh, khối D - Mã đề thi 529

olitical and social matters, 
Chinese cartoons have aimed at spreading the traditional Chinese thoughts and culture as widely as 
possible among the people. 
Today, however, Chinese cartoons have an added part to play in spreading knowledge. They offer 
a very attractive and useful way of reaching people throughout the world, regardless of the particular 
country in which they live. Thus, through cartoons, the thoughts and teachings of the old Chinese 
philosophers and sages can now reach people who live in such countries as Britain, France, America, 
Japan, Malaysia or Australia and who are unfamiliar with the Chinese culture. 
Until recently, the transfer of knowledge and culture has been overwhelmingly from the West to 
the East and not vice versa. By means of cartoons, however, publishing companies in Taiwan, Hong 
Kong and Singapore are now having success in correcting this imbalance between the East and the 
West. 
Cartoons can overcome language barriers in all foreign countries. The vast increase in the 
popularity of these cartoons serves to illustrate the truth of Confucius’s famous saying “One picture is 
worth a thousand words.” 
Question 16: Which of the following clearly characterizes Western cartoons? 
A. Enjoyment, liveliness, and carefulness. B. Originality, freshness, and astonishment. 
C. Seriousness, propaganda, and attractiveness. D. Humour, unexpectedness, and criticism. 
Question 17: Chinese cartoons have been useful as an important means of______. 
A. educating ordinary people B. spreading Western ideas 
C. political propaganda in wartime D. amusing people all the time 
Question 18: The major differences between Chinese cartoons and Western cartoons come from 
their ______. 
A. purposes B. styles C. nationalities D. values 
Question 19: The pronoun “this” in paragraph 4 mostly refers to ______. 
A. a propaganda campaign B. a funny element 
C. an educational purpose D. a piece of art 
Question 20: The passage is intended to present ______. 
A. a description of cartoons of all kinds the world over 
B. an outline of Western cartoons and Chinese cartoons 
C. a contrast between Western cartoons and Chinese cartoons 
D. an opinion about how cartoons entertain people 
Question 21: Which of the following could be the best title for the passage? 
A. A Very Powerful Force in Influencing People 
B. Chinese Cartoons and Western Cartoons 
C. Cartoons as a Way of Educating People 
D. An Excellent Way of Spreading Propaganda 
Question 22: In general, Chinese cartoons are now aiming at ______. 
A. disseminating traditional practices in China and throughout the world 
B. spreading the Chinese ideas and cultural values throughout the world 
C. bringing education to illiterate and semi-literate people in the world 
D. illustrating the truth of Chinese great men’s famous sayings 
Question 23: The word “imbalance” in paragraph 6 refers to ______. 
A. the dominant cultural influence of the West over the East 
B. the mismatch between the East cartoons and the West cartoons 
C. the discrimination between the West culture and the East culture 
D. the influence of the East cartoons over the West cartoons 
Question 24: Which of the following is most likely the traditional subject of Chinese cartoons? 
A. Jokes and other kinds of humour in political and social matters. 
B. The stories and features of the lives of great men the world over. 
C. The illiterate and semi-literate people throughout China. 
D. The philosophies and sayings of ancient Chinese thinkers. 
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Question 25: According to the passage, which of the following is true? 
A. Language barriers restricted cartoons. 
B. Cartoons will replace other forms of writing. 
C. Western cartoons always have a serious purpose. 
D. Cartoons can serve various purposes. 
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 26 to 35. 
It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the 
minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream 
before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be 
persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older. 
Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in 
History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no 
reason to be late – I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the 
other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, 
not a nuisance. I wasn’t frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I 
passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The 
satisfaction I got was entirely personal. 
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the 
joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since 
you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one 
thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department. 
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated. 
Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, 
eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas – from being able to drive 
a car, perhaps – means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to 
destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get 
there. 
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher 
who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, 
I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d 
played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d 
had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my 
fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect. 
Question 26: It is implied in paragraph 1 that ______. 
A. parents should encourage young learners to study more 
B. young learners are usually lazy in their class 
C. teachers should give young learners less homework 
D. young learners often lack a good motivation for learning 
Question 27: The writer’s main point in paragraph 2 is to show that as people grow up, ______. 
A. they get more impatient with their teachers 
B. they have a more positive attitude towards learning 
C. they cannot learn as well as younger learners 
D. they tend to learn less as they are discouraged 
Question 28: The phrase “For starters” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by “______”. 
A. First and foremost B. For beginners 
C. At the starting point D. At the beginning 
Question 29: While doing some adult learning courses at a college, the writer was surprised ______. 
A. to feel learning more enjoyable B. to have more time to learn 
C. to be able to learn more quickly D. to get on better with the tutor 
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Question 30: In paragraph 3, the word “rusty” means ______. 
A. covered with rust and not as good as it used to be 
B. staying alive and becoming more active 
C. not as good as it used to be through lack of practice 
D. impatient because of having nothing to do 
Question 31: The phrase “get there” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “______”. 
A. receive a school or college degree B. arrive at an intended place with difficulty 
C. have the things you have long desired D. achieve your aim with hard work 
Question 32: All of the following are true about adult learning EXCEPT ______. 
A. adult learners have fewer advantages than young learners 
B. adults think more independently and flexibly than young people 
C. experience in doing other things can help one’s learning 
D. young people usually feel less patient than adults 
Question 33: It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that maturity is a positive plus in the learning 
process because adult learners ______. 
A. pay more attention to detail than younger learners 
B. have become more patient than younger learners 
C. are less worried about learning than younger learners 
D. are able to organize themselves better than younger learners 
Question 34: It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you ______. 
A. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger 
B. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger 
C. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger 
D. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger 
Question 35: What is the writer’s main purpose in the passage? 
A. To show how fast adult learning is. B. To explain reasons for learning. 
C. To describe adult learning methods. D. To encourage adult learning. 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in 
the position of the main stress in each of the following questions. 
Question 36: A. periodic B. suspicious C. contagious D. electric 
Question 37: A. adventure B. adverbial C. advertise D. advantage 
Question 38: A. attraction B. organism C. engagement D. prevention 
Question 39: A. laboratory B. politician C. documentary D. popularity 
Question 40: A. inhabit B. disappear C. continue D. imagine 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct