Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answersheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 10.
CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS
There is substantial evidence that students going off to college have changed over the years. For one thing, studies show that they are emotionally closer to their parents and their parents to them. One thing that means is that they depend on each other more for happiness. It puts a burden on children for parents to use their children as vehicles for their own happiness - although today's young people seem complicit in this arrangement, perhaps because they’ve known no other way even if it creates anxiety in the children. That’s one reason parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences, and colleges have had to devise novel ways of getting parents off campus when they transport their kids to school.
There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is far more than in generations past.
But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away by cellphone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn't do laundry as often as the other roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.
In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen arc now very heavily connected by cellphone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges. So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s comfort /one, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.
Notes:
- in/ with reference to sth = có liên quan tới.
- proximity (danh tử) = sự gần gũi (về không gian, thời gian,..)
- get/ have the sniffles = bị cảm nhẹ. bị sổ mũi.
- tether (dộng từ) “ buộc, cột.
- impetus (danh từ) = sự thúc dây.
- pal (danh từ) = (từ lóng) bạn.
- depict (dộng từ) = mô tả, miêu tả.
0Câu 1
The provision of mobile phones for children, according to the author,________.
A. increases children's dependence
B.
increases positive control by parents
C. reduces children’s dependence on their parents
D. decreases parental interference
Câu 2
It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that children and their parents ______
A. eternally depend on each other
B.
only temporarily depend on each other
C. emotionally and physically depend on each other
D.
emotionally need each other
Câu 3
Paragraph 1 also shows that children ________.
A. tend to cling to their parents only as a source of finance
B.are not willing to act as a means to their parents' happiness
C. are willing to act as an agent to their parents’ happiness
D. demand a form of payment to go to college
Câu 4
The author remarks that students nowadays tend to _______
A. refuse to go to a college that is far from home
B.choose a foreign institution rather than a domestic one
C. go to college to satisfy their parents’ wish
D. choose an institution that is close to their home
Câu 5
Parents like to be involved in their children’s college experiences because__
A. the school often neglects their children
B.they are afraid of being deprived of happiness
C. they are worried about the school's carelessness
D. they find their children a source of happiness
Câu 6
The word “vehicles” in the first paragraph may be replaced by ______.
A. instruments
B.methods
C. means
D. ways
Câu 7
The phrase “in their front pockets” in paragraph 3 depicts ____ from parents.
A.
an efficient way of control
B.an instant control and care
C. the way mothers carry their babies
D. the way some animals carry their babies
Câu 8
Colleges have had to devise ways of getting parents off campus because ___.
A.
the colleges want to keep parents in the dark about their activities
B. parents tend to get more involved in their children’s schoolwork
C. children want complete freedom from their parents’ control
D. teachers themselves do not want to share information with the parents
Câu 9
By quoting the laws of physics, the author implies that_____.
A. one should build more relationships
B.
one should only care about new relationships
C. one should study physics whenever possible
D.
one should never forget old relationships
Câu 10
“Cutting the Apron Strings”, the title of the passage, can be interpreted as ___
A. standing on your own feet
B.looking for your own devices
C. being financially independent
D. parting with old relationships
A.
B.
C.
D.
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