VOLUNTEER WORKSPRING SCHOOL IS AN INFORMAL SCHOOL

Unit 4 (Grade 11): VOLUNTEER WORKSpring School is an informal school. (1) It provides classes to advantaged children inHCM City. Around 30 street children live and study at the school and about 250 children withspecial difficulties from District 1 regularly attend classes.The Organization for educational development co-operated with Spring School to set upEnglish classes in 1998. Dane, theatre, singing and folk music classes were set up a year later.Children from these classes participate in fundraising performances. (2) They raise money tocontinue their English and Performance Arts classes.Spring School requires volunteers to help organize (3) their fundraising dinner heldannually in June. (4)This is an exciting night in (5) which children dance, sing and play musicat one of the largest hotels in HCM City. (6) They also need foreign volunteers to contactsponsors and help to expand the school activities. Volunteers are required from February untilJuly to help organize (7)theseevents.(8) It is hoped that more schools like Spring School will soon be found in other cities inVietnam.1/ “it” refers to ……….. 5/ “which”refers to ………..2/ “they” refers to ……….. 6/ “they” refers to ………...3/“their” refers to ………. 7/ “it” refers to ………..4/ “this” refers to …………. 8/ “these” refers to …………EXAMPLES OF REFERENCE QUESTIONSExample 1:People who want to become university teachers need master's degrees. Getting amaster's degree is a necessity, but if it is gained too early, there may be concerns that thecandidate lacks the real-world experience to go with it. In fact, very few schools want to hirenovices with little or no classroom experience and even iftheyare accepted, they are usually ill-paid. One wise solution to the issue is for future postgraduates to start working as teachersbefore going on to gain their master's degree.(extracted from the first term exam 2016-2107)Question 41. The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to ____________.A. postgraduates B. novices C. schools D. teachersExample 2:You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by theiractions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how torespond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and toconvey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say thesame thing in Minneapolis as they does in Madagascar? Much research on emotionalexpressions has centered on such questions.(extracted from the first term exam 2016-2017)Question 40: The word “they” in paragraph 1 refers to ______A. appropriate responses in particular situationsB. raising eyebrows and rounding the mouthC. our intentions to othersD. research on emotional expressionsExample 3:In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses -especially negative ones- while many American children are encouraged to express theirfeelings more openly. Another difference can be found when an American person understands agrin as a signal of joy while on a Japanese face,itmay mean embarrassment.Question 44:the word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to __________A. feeling B. difference C. a grin D. faceExample 4:When they were asked what they thought was a fair division of labor, women with jobs feltthat housework should be shared equally between male and female partners. Women who didnot work outside the home were satisfied to perform 80% - the majority of the household work –if their husbands did remainder. Research has shown that, if levels increase beyond thesepercentages, women become unhappy and anxious, and feel they are unimportant.(extracted from the second term exam2016 -2017)Question 2:The word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to__________A. men B. women C. jobs D. labourExample 5:The civil war broke out 6 years later. Immediately, Barton started war service by helping thesoldiers with their needs. At the battle of Bull run, Clara Barton received permission from thegovernment to take care of the sick and hurt. Barton did this with great empathy and kindness.She acknowledgedeach soldier as a person . her endurance and courage on the battlefield wereadmired by many. When the war ended in 1865, she used 4 years of her life to assist thegovernment in searching for soldiers who were missing during the war.(extracted from the second term exam 2016-2017)Question 33: The word ”this” in paragraph 2 refers to________A. cooking for soldiersB. receiving permissionC. acknowledging each soldier as a personD. taking care of the sick and hurtExample 6:Although speech is the most advanced form of communication, there are many ways ofcommunicating without using speech. Signals, signs, symbols, and gestures may be found inevery known culture. The basic function of signal is toimpinge uponthe environment in such away thatitattracts attention, as, for example, the dots and dashes of a telegraph circuit. Coded torefer to speech, thepotentialfor communication is very great.(extracted from the first term exam 2017-2018)Question 40.The word "it" in paragraph refers to ________.A. way B. environment C. function D. signalExample 7:Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varieslittle from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school atapproximately 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 theyare the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of government, have usually been limitedby the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high school students know that theyare not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communitiesor what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditionssurrounding the formalized process of schooling.Question 46. The word “they” in line 16 refers to ____________.A. slices of reality B. similar textbooksC. boundaries D. seatsExample 8:Parents may get another kind of help from the companies they work for. Many companies nowlet people with children work part-time. That way, parents can spend more time with theirchildren. Some husbands may even stop working for a while to stay with the children. For thesemen there is a new word: They are called "househusband". In the United States more and moremen are becoming househusband every year.(extracted from the second term exam 2017-2018)Question 20: The word "they" in paragraph 5 refers to _______________A. parents who work part-time B. children who spend more timewith fathers than mothersC. fathers who spend more time with their children D. husbands who stop working tostay with the childrenExample 9:For animals other than mammals, then, feeding is not intrinsic to parental care. Animals add itto their reproductive strategies to give them anedge in their lifelong quest for descendants. Themost vulnerable moment in any animal's life is when it first finds itself completely on its own,when it must forage and fend for itself. Feeding postpones that moment until a young animal hasgrown to such a size thatitis better able to cope.Question 47: The word “it” in the last paragraph refers to ______A. feeding B. moment C. young animal D. sizeExample 10:Different cultures follow their own special customs when a child's baby teeth fall out. InKorea, for example, they have the custom of throwing lost teeth up on the roof of a house.According to tradition, a magpie will come and take the tooth. Later, the magpie will return witha new tooth for the child. In other Asian countries, such as Japan and Vietnam, children follow asimilar tradition of throwingtheirlost teeth onto the roofs of houses.(extracted from the actual test 2017 -2018)Mời các bạn tham khảo các bài tiếp theo tại:https://vndoc.com/luyen-thi-thpt-quoc-gia