Question 13: a. Iris: That sounds less like discovery and more like the app building a padded room around my opinions. b. Iris: I thought I...
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Question 13: a. Iris: That sounds less like discovery and more like the app building a padded room around my opinions. b. Iris: I thought I was learning about the world, but my feed keeps serving the same takes in different fonts. c. Noah: So when was the last time it showed you something that made you genuinely uncomfortable? A. c – b – a B. a – c – b C. b – c – a D. b – a – c Question 14: a. Eva: Maybe both, because local styles do fade, yet people also remix them into something that did not exist before. b. Ryan: For example, my cousin in Da Nang dresses like Tokyo street fashion, quotes Marvel films, and still cooks our grandmother’s recipes. c. Eva: Then perhaps identity is becoming layered rather than erased, even if that mix can feel messy. d. Ryan: Do you think global pop culture is flattening local identity, or is it creating a new kind of belonging? e. Ryan: Fair point. That is why I hesitate to call it cultural loss too quickly. It may be translation, not surrender. A. b – c – d – a – e B. d – a – b – c – e C. d – a – e – c – b D. b – c – e – a – d Question 15: Dear Aunt Hana, I hope your health has been better this month. Things at my end have been strangely thought-provoking lately. a. What disturbed me most was the label “for recycling,” because everyone in the neighborhood knew those machines were being stripped in open yards and burned for scraps. b. Last week, a shipment of used computers arrived near our town, and some people welcomed it as a sign of international cooperation. c. By evening, the smoke had settled over the canal, and children were still picking through wires for bits of metal they could sell. d. At first, I wanted to believe that useful parts would be repaired and passed on to schools or small shops. e. After seeing that, I could no longer treat the trade as help alone; it felt like richer countries were exporting both waste and moral comfort. A. d – b – a – c – e B. b – a – d – c – e C. b – d – a – c – e D. d – b – c – a – e Best wishes, Mai Question 16: a. The money from permits, land fees, and guided tours can pay for rangers, fences, and compensation when animals damage crops. b. The moral discomfort is real, since protecting a species by allowing some of it to be killed sounds like a contradiction no slogan can soften. c. In a dry region where wildlife competes with livestock for land and water, a total hunting ban may sound noble from far away yet fail on the ground. d. Even so, the system becomes indefensible when corruption distorts it, quotas ignore science, or rare animals become luxury trophies for vanity. e. For some local communities, controlled hunting changes wild animals from costly threats into valuable assets, which gives people a reason to keep habitat standing instead of clearing it. A. b – c – e – a – d B. c – b – e – a – d C. c – e – b – d – a D. b – c – a – e – d Question 17: a. A coder in Nairobi or Ho Chi Minh City may solve problems just as elegantly as a graduate in London, yet the market often rewards birthplace, passport access, and company postcode more than raw skill. b. Supporters of globalization call this progress because remote platforms let talent cross borders, but the terms of that exchange are rarely equal. c. That gap reveals a system that loves worldwide competition when buying labor, while becoming strangely national when sharing security, bargaining power, and long-term rewards. d. As a result, two young professionals can work in the same language, on the same software, for the same clients, and still end up with incomes that are worlds apart. e. So the real question is not whether globalization connects people; it clearly does, but whether it distributes dignity as efficiently as it distributes opportunity. A. b – a – c – e – d B. a – b – d – e – c C. b – d – a – c – e D. b – a – d – c – e |