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Chọn Thi Thử Vstep Online Đề 1 – Reading Test 4 part 1
Câu 1
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B: READING
Time permitted: 60 minutes
Number of questions: 40
Directions: In this section you will read FOUR different passages. Each one is followed by 10 questions about it. For questions 1–40, you are to choose the best answer A, B, C, or D, to each question. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
You have 60 minutes to answer all the questions, including the time to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
PASSAGE 1 – Questions 1–10
In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherford Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to young married couples and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep – a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.
So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.
The new housing form discussed in the passage refers to …
- A. single-family homes
- B. apartment buildings
- C. row houses
- D. hotels
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Câu 2
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The word “inviting” in line 6 is closest in meaning to …
- A. open
- B. encouraging
- C. attractive
- D. asking
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Câu 3
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Why was the Stuyvesant a limited success?
- A. The arrangement of the rooms was not convenient.
- B. Most people could not afford to live there.
- C. There were no shopping areas nearby.
- D. It was in a crowded neighborhood.
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Câu 4
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The word “sumptuous” in line 8 is closest in meaning to …
- A. luxurious
- B. unique
- C. modern
- D. distant
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Câu 5
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It can be inferred that the majority of people who lived in New York’s first apartments were …
- A. highly educated
- B. unemployed
- C. wealthy
- D. young
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Câu 6
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It can be inferred that the typical New York building lot of the 1870’s and 1880’s looked MOST like which of the following?
- A. A
- B. B
- C. C
- D. D
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Câu 7
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It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 1870’s and 1880’s had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT …
- A. Its room arrangement was not logical.
- B. It was rectangular.
- C. It was spacious inside.
- D. It had limited light.
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Câu 8
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The word “yield” in line 13 is closest in meaning to …
- A. harvest
- B. surrender
- C. amount
- D. provide
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Câu 9
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Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1800’s?
- A. Large families needed housing with sufficient space.
- B. Apartments were preferable to tenements and cheaper than row houses.
- C. The city officials of New York wanted housing that was centrally located.
- D. The shape of early apartments could accommodate a variety of interior designs.
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Câu 10
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The author mentions the Dakota and the Ansonia in line 22 because …
- A. they are examples of large, well designed apartment buildings
- B. their design is similar to that of row houses
- C. they were built on a single building lot
- D. they are famous hotels
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Câu 11
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PASSAGE 2 – Questions 11–20
A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to the ground in the form of frozen precipitation. The formation of snow begins with these ice crystals in the subfreezing strata of the middle and upper atmosphere when there is an adequate supply of moisture present. At the core of every ice crystal is a minuscule nucleus, a solid particle of matter around which moisture condenses and freezes. Liquid water droplets floating in the supercooled atmosphere and free ice crystals cannot coexist within the same cloud, since the vapor pressure of ice is less than that of water. This enables the ice crystals to rob the liquid droplets of their moisture and grow continuously. The process can be very rapid, quickly creating sizable ice crystals, some of which adhere to each other to create a cluster of ice crystals or a snowflake. Simple flakes possess a variety of beautiful forms, usually hexagonal, though the symmetrical shapes reproduced in most microscopic photography of snowflakes are not usually found in actual snowfalls. Typically, snowflakes in actual snowfall consists of broken fragments and clusters of adhering ice crystals.
For a snowfall to continue once it starts, there must be a constant inflow of moisture to supply the nuclei. This moisture is supplied by the passage of an airstream over a water surface and its subsequent lifting to higher regions of the atmosphere. The Pacific Ocean is the source of moisture for most snowfalls west of the Rocky Mountains, while the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean feed water vapor into the air currents over the central and eastern sections of the United States. Other geographical features also can be the source of moisture for some snowstorms. For example, areas adjacent to the Great Lakes experience their own unique lake-effect storms, employing a variation of the process on a local scale. In addition, mountainous section or rising terrain can initiate snowfalls by the geographical lifting of a moist airstream.
Which of the following questions does the author answer in the first paragraph?
- A. Why are snowflakes hexagonal?
- B. What is the optimum temperature for snow?
- C. In which months does most snow fall?
- D. How are snowflakes formed?
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Câu 12
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The word “minute” in line 1 is closest in meaning to …
- A. tiny
- B. quick
- C. clear
- D. sharp
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Câu 13
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What is at the center of an ice crystal?
- A. A small snowflake
- B. A nucleus
- C. A drop of water
- D. A hexagon
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Câu 14
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The word “adhere” in line 8 is closest in meaning to …
- A. belong
- B. relate
- C. stick
- D. speed
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Câu 15
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What is the main topic of the second paragraph?
- A. How ice crystals form
- B. How moisture affects temperature
- C. What happens when ice crystals melt
- D. Where the moisture to supply the nuclei comes from
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Câu 16
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The word “it” in line 13 refers to …
- A. snowfall
- B. snowflake
- C. cluster
- D. moisture
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Câu 17
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What is necessary for a snowfall to persist?
- A. A decrease in the number of snowflakes
- B. Lowered vapor pressure in ice crystals
- C. A continuous infusion of moisture
- D. A change in the direction of the airstream
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Câu 18
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How do lake-effect snowstorms form?
- A. Water temperature drop below freezing.
- B. Moisture rises from a lake into the airstream.
- C. Large quantities of wet air come off a nearby mountain.
- D. Millions of ice crystals form on the surface of a large lake.
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Câu 19
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The word “initiate” in line 20 is closest in meaning to …
- A. enhance
- B. alter
- C. increase
- D. begin
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Câu 20
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Which of the following could account for the lack of snowfall in a geographical location close to mountains and a major water source?
- A. Ground temperatures below the freezing point
- B. Too much moisture in the air
- C. Too much wind off the mountains
- D. Atmospheric temperatures above the freezing point
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Chọn Thi Thử Vstep Online Đề 1 – Reading Test 4 part 1
Số câu: 20 câu
Thời gian làm bài: 30 phút
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