DOUBTLESS THE GREATEST GLORY IN LIVING LIES NOT IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERYTIME WE FALL
Câu 43 (VD):
Doubtless the greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall.
A.
We can certainly take pride in rising every time we fall, not in never falling.
B.
We must feel proud of our constant success, but not in our failure.
C.
You may have fallen several times, but it could have been better to rise then.
D.
You should sometimes fail in order to see the great glory in success.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 44 to 50.
In 1902, a volcano in the Caribbean island of Martinique blew up. A French naval officer was
on the scene, Lt. George Hébert managed to coordinate the rescue of over 700 people, both
indigenous
and European. He noticed, as he did so, how people moved, some well, some badly,
around the obstacles in their path, and how this affected their chances of survival. Hébert had
travelled widely and was well aware of skills many indigenous people exhibited in being able to
traverse the natural environment. From these experiences, Hébert developed a training
discipline which he called ‘the natural method' in which climbing, jumping and running
techniques were used to negotiate obstacles. His method was adopted by the French military
and became the basis for all their training. In time, it became known as
parcours du combattant
- the path of the warrior.
Raymond Belle was a practitioner of parkour in Vietnam in the 1950s. He had great athletic
ability, and the skills and agility he had learnt through parkour earned him a reputation as an
agile and elite soldier. In later life, he returned to France and passed on his skills to his son,
David (David Belle), who combined what he had learnt from his father with his own knowledge
of martial arts and gymnastics, and in time, the sport of parkour was born.
Parkour involves a range of ‘moves', although none are official. They involve vaulting,
jumping and landing accurately on small and narrow features, catching ledges, traversing high
walls and landing with a rolling impact to absorb impacts.
Belle formed a group of
traceurs
called the Yamikasi, meaning strong man, strong spirit, that
included his friend, Sebastian Foucan. In time, the two of them started to follow different paths.
Belle concentrated on the art of getting from place to place in the most efficient way possible,
while Foucan developed his own style which involved more self-expression. This he termed
free running.
From the late 1990s, the art and sport of parkour spread worldwide. Both Belle and Foucan
gave interviews and appeared on television. In 2003, filmmaker Mike Christie made the film
Jump London, and urban freerunning, or freeflow, began to dominate the London scene. But it
was the arrival of YouTube in 2005 that really brought freerunning to a global audience. People
around the world began to post
their
videos online, making freerunning a mainstream sport, and
in 2007, the first major freerunning and parkour competition was held in Vienna.
Since parkour values freedom, there are few facilities dedicated to the practice. Traceurs use
both rural and urban areas, typically parks, offices and abandoned buildings. Traceurs generally
respect the environment they practice in, and since part of their philosophy is 'leave no trace',
there have been few concerns over damage to property. However, law enforcement and fire and
rescue teams argue that free runners are risking their lives needlessly, especially when they
practice at height. However, practitioners argue that injuries are rare, because they rely on their
own hands and feet rather than things out of their immediate control, such as ice and wheels, as
is the case with skiing and race-driving.
(Source: https://www.examenglish.com)