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BÀI TẬP TIẾNG ANH 10
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A B C D
33. What was fascinated to me was the way the creatures moved
A B C D
34. It was the British which scooped the honors at last night's
Oscars. A B C D
35. Every night, Chester prefers to relaxation and forget the workday by indulging his urge to listen
A B C
to his favorite music
D
V Choose the one option - a, b, c or d - that best completes the passage.
American folk music (36) . ....... with ordinary rural population was isolated and music was
not (37) .............. spread by radio, records, or music videos: It was (38) ......... by oral tradition and
is noted for its energy, humor, and emotional (39) . .............The major source of early American
folk songs was .music from the British Isles, but songs from Africa (40) .............. songs of the
American Indians have significant part n its heritage. Later settler from other countries also
contributed songs. In the nineteenth century, (41) ..........Steven Foster wrote some of the most
enduring popular of all American songs, (42) .......... soon became part of the folk tradition.
Beginning in the 1930s, Woody Guthrie gained great popularity by adapting (43) . ..........melodies
and lyrics and supplying new ones as well. In the 1950s and 1960, singe- composers such as Peter
Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez this tradition by (44). ........'urban' folk music. Many of these songs
(45) . ........ important social issues, such as radical integration and the war in Vietnam.
36: a. began b. discovered c. derived d. origin
37. a. ever b. yet c. already d. only
38. a. transmitted b. broadcasted c. transferred d. sent out
39. a. contact b. sense c. impact d. force
40. a. like b. as c. as well as d. add
41. a. writer b. composer c. musician d. conductor
42. a. that b. these c. who d. which
43. a. tradition b. traditional c. tradition d. traditionalized
44. a. making b: composing c. developing d. creating
45. a. shared out b. set up c. dealt with d. put on
VI. Read the passage carefully, then choose the correct answers.
Probably the most famous film commenting on twentieth-century tech-neology is Modem
Times, made in 1936. Charlie Chaplin was motivated to make the film by a reporter who, while
interviewing him, happened to describe working conditions in industrial Detroit. Chaplin was told
that health young farm boys were lured to the city to work on automotive assembly lines. Within
four or five years, these young men's health was destroyed by the stress work in the factories.
The film opens with a shot of a mass of sheep making their way crowded ramp. Abruptly the
scene shifts to a scene of factory workers job thing one another on their way to a factory. However,
the rather bitter criticism in the implied comparison is not sustained. It is replaced by a gentler note
of satire. Chaplin prefers to entertain rather than Probably the most famous film commenting on
twentieth-century technology is Modern Times, made in 1936. lecture.
Scenes of factory interiors account for only one third of the footage of Modern Times, but
they contain some of the most pointed social commentary as well as the most comic situations. No
one who has seen the film can ever forget Chaplin vainly trying to keep pace with the fast-moving
conveyor belt almost losing his mind in the process. Another popular scene involves an automatic
feeding machine brought to the assembly line so that workers need not interrupt their labor to eat.
The feeding machine malfunctions, hurling food at Chaplin who is strapped into his position on the
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