CHỌN 01 LỰA CHỌN ĐÚNG TRONG 04 LỰA CHỌN CHO SẴN ĐỀ ĐIỀN VÀO CHỖ TRỐNG SỐ (10) A

Câu 36: Chọn 01 lựa chọn đúng trong 04 lựa chọn cho sẵn đề điền vào chỗ trống số (10)

A. sail through B. come into C. deal with D. turn out

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Đọc đoạn văn và trả lời 10 câu hỏi kèm theo.

The yêm is an ancient common upper-body garment for Vietnamese girls and women for

thousands of years until after World War II, when Western dressing style entered and became

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popular.

A yêm was a sexy simply-cut piece of usually simple cloth, which could be either outerwear

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or undershirt. As Vietnam has a tropical climate with hot and humid summers, the lighter and

airier the clothes are the better. The yêm was the solution in the old days for Vietnamese people to

the environment. Colours and materials of the yêm reflected the woman’s age and social status.

Older women tended to wear round-necked, and younger ones the v-neck style. The working-class

women wore dark colours such as black, beige, or brown, and coarse cloth, while the elite opted

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for more festive, brighter tones such as red and pink or white, normally in dedicate cloth such as

silk or satin.

Throughout history, the design of the yêm stayed almost the same. However, there was much

room for flexibility. When a woman was young, she tied the strings loosely to let the neck come

lower, especially when she wore necklaces. When she got older, she pulled the strings tighter to

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raise the neck higher. This is a good example of the Vietnamese dressing style – simplicity but

with a height of delicacy and sexiness.

The yêm dates to the Hung Kings (2879 BC - 258 AD). Evidence can be found in the images

of women in decoration on a Dong Xa bronze drum, cast over 2,000 years ago. It made its way

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down to around 1945 as a traditional costume exclusively of Vietnamese women. Photos of

Vietnamese women in the 1940s still showed some of them wearing the yêm. From the mid-20th

century, along with the decline of the yêm to give way for Western dressing trends, many

traditions disappeared, such as tying the hair around the head, or having the teeth dyed. Recently,

the yêm is making a comeback, but only on the catwalk.