Hocmai vn – Ngôi tr ng chung c a h c trò VI t t ng đài t V n: 1900 58-58-12
Hocmai.vn – Ngôi tr ng chung c a h c trò Vi t T ng đài t v n: 1900 58-58-12
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Hocmai.vn – Ngôi tr ng chung c a h c trò Vi t T ng đài t v n: 1900 58-58-12 - Trang | 4 - For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is the city’s most evident and alarming quality. He feels as if he has parachuted into a funfair of contradictory imperatives. There are so many people he might become and a suit of clothes, a maker of car, a brand of cigarettes will go some way towards turning him into a personage even before he has discovered who that personage is. Personal identity had always been deeply rooted in property, but hitherto the relationship has been a simple one – a question of buying what you could afford, and leaving your wealth to announce your status. In the modern city, there are so many things to buy, such a quantity of different kinds of status, that the choice and its attendant anxieties have created a new pornography of taste. The leisure pages of the Sunday newspapers, fashion magazines, TV plays, popular novels, cookbooks, window displays all nag at the nerve of our uncertainty and snobbery. Should we like American cars, hard- rock hamburger joints, Bauhaus chairs…? Literature and art are promoted as personal accessories: the paintings of Mondrian or the novels of Samuel Beckett “go” with certain styles like matching handbags. There is in the city a creeping imperialism of taste, in which more and more commodities are made over to being mere expressions of personal identity. Tire piece of furniture, the pair of shoes, the book, the film, are important not so much in themselves but for what they communicate about their owners; and ownership is stretched to include what one likes or believes in as well as what one can buy. 36 . What does the word “barraged” mean? A. manipulated B. bombarded C. impressed D. obsessed 37. What does the writer say about advertisements in the first paragraph? A. Certain kinds are considered more effective in cities than others. B. The way in which some of them are worded is cleverer than it might appear. C. They often depict people that most other people would not care to be like. D. The pictures in them accurately reflect the way that some people really live. 38. The writer says that if you look at a line of advertisements on a tube train, it is clear that ______. A. city dwellers have very diverse ideas about what image they would like to have B. some images in advertisements have a general appeal that others lack C. city dwellers are more influenced by images on advertisements than other people are D. some images are intended to b e representative of everyone’s aspirations 39. What does the writer imply about portraits of old movie stars? A. Their tried to disguise the less attractive features of their subjects. B. Most people did not think they were accurate representation of the stars in them. C. They made people feel that their own faces were rather unattractive. D. They reflected an era in which people felt basically safe. 40 . What does the word “cadaverous” mean? A. extremely pale and thin B. energetic and enthusiastic C. dangerous D. skeptical 41. What does the writer suggest about the stars of the last decade? A. Some of them may be uncomfortable about the way they come across. B. They make an effort to speak in a way that may not be pleasant on the ear. C. They make people wonder whether they should become movie selfish. D. Most people accept that they are not typical of society as a whole. 42 . What does the word “hierarchy” mean? A. methodology B. hypothesis C. ideology D. system 43. The writer uses the crowd on an underground platform to exemplify his belief that______. A. no single attitude to life is more common than another in a city |