Bộ đề thi thử THPTQG năm 2018 - Môn Tiếng Anh - 20 ĐỀ + ĐÁP ÁN - GV Kiều Thị Thắng - Tuyensinh247

There’s also evidence that students today seem to be choosing schools with reference to
proximity to home. The closer a student is to home, the easier it is to bring the laundry home and
to land in your old bed with tea and sympathy when you have the sniffles. And the easier it is for
parents to visit you at university whenever the mood strikes. The amount of visiting parents do is
far more than in generations past.
But in a real sense, students don’t really leave their parents behind. Their parents go to
college right along with them - in their front pockets. That is, the parents are a speed dial away
by cell phone. This, of course, significantly reduces independence. A student doesn’t get the
chance to solve minor problems on his own - he just calls Mom or Dad. A student has initial
problems getting along with a roommate? A roommate doesn’t do laundry as often as the other
roommate wishes? A student gets a C grade on her first paper? Instead of absorbing the negative
information and figuring out how to resolve the problem or how to do better, the call gets made
to home, where Mom or Dad solves the problem, often by calling the school administration. This
kind of behavior is, sadly, commonplace today and is a mark of the lack of coping skills among
students because all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them until now.
In addition to being tethered to parents, incoming freshmen are now very heavily
connected by cell phone to classmates from high school, who are presumably at other colleges.
So there isn’t the great impetus to mix and venture forth to meet new people, to get out of one’s
comfort zone, to get drawn into new experiences, that has traditionally marked the beginning of
freshman year. The laws of physics still apply, and it is difficult to be meeting new people and
seeking novel experiences while you are talking to your old pals.
Question 43: The provision of mobile phones for children, according to the author, _________.
A. reduces children’s dependence on their parents
B. increases positive control by parents
C. decreases parental interference
D. increases children’s dependence
Question 44: It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that children and their parents _________.
A. emotionally need each other
B. only temporarily depend on each other
C. emotionally and physically depend on each other
D. eternally depend on each other
Question 45: The author remarks that students nowadays tend to _________.
A. refuse to go to a college that is far from home
B. go to college to satisfy their parents’ wish