Question

[Dương Minh]

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

          It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important

          Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist.Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education in infancy. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life.

          Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subjects being taught. For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.

What does the author probably mean by using the expression “children interrupt their education to go to school” in paragraph 1?

A. Going to several different schools is educationally beneficial.

B. School vacations interrupt the continuity of the school year.

C. Summer school makes the school year too long.

D. All of people's life is an education.

Answer 1

[Nguyen Hoang Hai]

Đáp án D

Tác giả có ý gì khi sử dụng cụm từ “ trẻ em tạm ngừng việc học để đi tới trường”?

A. tới học một vài trường khác nhau sẽ có lợi về mặt giáo dục.

B. các kì nghỉ ở trường làm gián đoạn năm học.

C. kì học hè khiến cho năm học kéo quá dài.

D. học là chuyện cả đời. 

Cần phải đọc qua ý của toàn bộ bài và quay lại ý trên mới hiểu rõ được ngụ ý của tác giả. Tác giả cũng có nói ở đoạn sau: “It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life”- (Đó (education- giáo dục/việc học nói chung) là 1 quá trình dài, 1 quá trình mà nó bắt đầu từ rất lâu trước khi ta bắt đầu tới trường, và nên là 1 phần không thể thiếu trong cuộc đời mỗi con người). 

Như vậy ngụ ý “children interrupt their education to go to school” chính là để ám chỉ việc tới trường chỉ là 1 phần nhỏ trong đời người, việc học mới là theo ta suốt cả cuộc đời.