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.Increasing numbers of parents in the U.S. are choosing to teach their children at home. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education has estimated that in 1999, about 850,000 children were being home- schooled. Some educational experts say that the real number is double this estimate, and the ranks of home-schooled children seem to be growing at the average rate of about eleven percent every year.At one time, there was a theory accounting for home-schooling: it was traditionally used for students who could not attend school because of behavioral or learning difficulties. Today, however, more parents are taking on the responsibility of educating their own children at home due to their dissatisfaction with the educational system. Many parents are unhappy about class size, as well as problems inside the classroom. Teacher shortages and lack of funding mean that, in many schools, one teacher is responsible for thirty or forty students. The children are, therefore, deprived of the attention they need. Escalating classroom violence has also motivated some parents to remove their children from school.Although there have been a lot of arguments for and against it, home-schooling in the U.S. has become a multi-million dollar industry, and it is growing bigger and bigger. There are now plenty of websites, support groups, and conventions that help parents protect their rights and enable them to learn more about educating their children. Though once it was the only choice for troubled children, home- schooling today is an accepted alternative to an educational system that many believe is failing.
Câu 1: The word "arguments" in the third paragraph can be best replaced by "_________".
A. viewpoints
B. quarrels
C. rows
D. discussions
Câu 2: According to some experts, the exact number of home-schooled children then must be_______
A. 1,700,000
B. 1,900,000
C. 850,000
D. 1,600,000
Câu 3: The attitude of the author towards home-schooling can be best described as_______
A. unfavorable
B. favorable
C. remarkable
D. acceptable
Câu 4: More parents teach their children because they completely____ the current educational system.
A. appeal to
B. please with
C. approve of
D. object to
Câu 5: Many parents stop their children from going to school because it is now too_____ for them.
A. expensive
B. explosive
C. dangerous
D. humorous
Câu 6: The number of parents who want to teach their own children in the US. is____
A. remaining unchanged
B. remaining the same
C. going down
D. going up
Câu 7: This estimated number was presented by______
A. a governmental office
B. the parents
C. home-schooled children
D. school teachers
Câu 8: The past participle "home-schooled" in the first paragraph is best equivalent to "______ at home".
A. self-studied
B. untaught
C. taught
D. self-learned
Câu 9: The closest synonym of the participle phrase "accounting for" in the second paragraph is_____
A. counting for
B. calculating documents of
C. reasoning
D. explaining
Câu 10: The noun "dissatisfaction " in the second paragraph is best equivalent to______
A. discouragement
B. disagreement
C. discrimination
D. disappointment
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