Question 13: a. Mira: Maybe when every shortcut saves the system time but steals an hour from the worker who still cannot reach a clinic, pa...

Question 13:

a. Mira: Maybe when every shortcut saves the system time but steals an hour from the worker who still cannot reach a clinic, park, or cheap meal.

b. Leo: A city of twenty million sounds powerful, but when does it stop serving people and start serving its own traffic, towers, and deadlines?

c. Leo: So the warning sign is not sheer size, but the moment daily life becomes fuel for keeping the machine alive.

A. a – b – c        B. b – a – c        C. c – b – a        D. b – c – a

Question 14:

a. Ben: They can, but not if conservation starts after the bulldozers arrive.

b. Ben: Corridors, dark-sky zones, wetland buffers, and limits on where housing can leap next.

c. Hana: As suburbs spread, can wildlife protection and urban growth honestly live together, or is one just a polite slogan for the other?

d. Hana: So coexistence is real only when development accepts borders instead of treating every empty space as spare land.

e. Hana: Then what has to be planned before the first road appears?

A. e – a – c – b – d        B. d – a – d – e – b        C. c – a – e – b – d        D. d – b – e – a – c

Question 15:

Dear Khoa,

Hope you’re sleeping better this week. Has your new internship become less chaotic?

a. Some classmates called it the future, since schools, clinics, groceries, and buses within a short walk could cut noise, fuel bills, and wasted hours.

b. I ended up somewhere in the middle: the model is useful as a direction, not as a magic template to copy block by block.

c. Our planning studio spent all month arguing over the “15-minute city,” and the room split faster than I expected.

d. If cities borrow the principle and adapt it street by street, even a modest neighborhood can become more livable.

e. Others said that picture fits rich places better, because crowded districts in developing countries still struggle with flooding, tangled zoning, and patchy sidewalks.

Best,

Mai

A. a – e – c – b – d        B. c – a – b – e – d        C. c – a – e – b – d        D. e – c – a – d – b

Question 16:

a. Even so, a city is not only a puzzle of efficiency, because people carry memory, fear, habit, and unequal power into every street.

b. When planners tested an AI system on bus routes, drainage maps, and housing density, it produced a city layout in hours that would have taken teams months.

c. That is why I would let AI guide urban planning, but never let it rule without human debate, local testimony, and public accountability.

d. An algorithm can detect patterns better than exhausted officials, yet it may also freeze old bias into neat diagrams if the training data came from unfair decisions.

e. The design looked brilliant on screen: shorter commutes, cooler streets, fewer blind intersections, and parks placed where heat islands hit hardest.

A. b – e – d – a – c        B. e – b – a – d – c        C. b – a – e – d – c        D. b – a – e – c – d

Question 17:

a. From a distance, the move looked like retreat, yet her days became fuller: she spent less on appearances, knew her neighbors, and rebuilt time that the city had sliced into traffic and exhaustion.

b. Calling people like her quitters misses the point; some are not running away from the future, but testing a version of it where success is measured by control over life, not by postcode.

c. Everyone assumed she had failed, especially when she traded a marketing title for a small plot near her grandparents’ house and began selling herbs, fruit, and homemade jam online.

d. She still works hard, but the work now answers to seasons, customers, and family rather than endless meetings designed to produce more meetings.

e. Two years ago, my cousin Nhi left Ho Chi Minh City after ten years of chasing deadlines, rent increases, and the strange loneliness of living among millions.

A. c – e – a – d – b        B. e – c – d – a – b        C. e – a – c – d – b        D. e – c – a – d – b