KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30 - 4 LẦN THỨ 15 ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN ANH VĂN LỚP 11 - TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN BẾN TRE Mã A100266

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KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30 - 4 LẦN THỨ 15 ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN: ANH VĂN ; LỚP : 11

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE I. Phonology a. Select the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

1. A. misfit B. eisteddfod C. irrefragable D. afeard 2. A. Einstein B. eiderdown C. eightfold D. Eiffel Tower 3. A. within B. without C. heathen D. healthy 4. A. dengue B. dialogue C. colleague D. catalogue 5. A. bombard B. discard C. mustard D. retard

b. Pick out the word stressed on the different syllable from the others.

1. A. internal B. interpret C. interstice D. interleave 2. A. sedan B. empire C. canal D. lapel 3. A. insect B. innate C. papa D. grantor 4. A. disinter B. cadaver C. cathedral D. atishoo 5. A. catamaran B. nevertheless C. equestrienne D. intrauterine

ANSWER A. MULTIPLE CHOICE I. PHONOLOGY a. Pronunciation (.0 x 5 = 2.5 pts) 1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. C b. Stress (.0 x 5 = 2.5 pts) 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. D II. READING COMPREHENSION a. Read the passage and then choose the best answer.

ARTISANS AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

Before 1815 manufacturing in the United States had been done in homes or shops by skilled artisans. As master craft workers, they imparted the knowledge of their trades to apprentices and journeymen. In addition, women often worked in their homes part-time; making finished articles from raw material supplied by merchant capitalists. After 1815 this older form of manufacturing began to give way to factories with machinery tended by unskilled or semiskilled laborers. Cheap transportation networks, the rise of cities, and the availability of capital and credit all stimulated the shift to factory production.

The creation of a labor force that was accustomed to working in factories did not occur easily. Before the rise of the factory, artisans had worked within the home. Apprentices were considered part of the family, and masters were responsible not only for teaching their apprentices a trade but also for providing them some education and for supervising their moral behavior. Journeymen knew that if they perfected their skill, they could become respected master artisans with their own shops. Also, skilled artisans did not work by the clock, at a steady pace, but rather in bursts of intense labor alternating with more leisurely time.

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The factory changed that. Goods produced by factories were not as finished or elegant as those done by hand, and pride in craftsmanship gave way to the pressure to increase rates of productivity. The new methods of doing business involved a new and stricter sense of time. Factory life necessitated a more regimented schedule, where work began at the sound of a bell and workers kept machines going at a constant pace. At the same time, workers were required to discard old habits, for industrialism demanded a worker who was alert, dependable, and self-disciplined. Absenteeism and lateness hurt productivity and, since work was specialized, disrupted the regular factory routine. Industrialization not only produced a fundamental change in the way work was organized; it transformed the very nature of work.

The first generation to experience these changes did not adopt the new attitudes easily. The factory clock became the symbol of the new work rules. One mill worker who finally quit complained revealingly about "obedience to the ding-dong of the bell-just as though we are so many living machines." With the loss of personal freedom also came the loss of standing in the community. Unlike artisan workshops in which apprentices worked closely with the masters supervising them, factories sharply separated workers from management. Few workers rose through the ranks to supervisory positions, and even fewer could achieve the artisan's dream of setting up one's own business. Even well-paid workers sensed their decline in status. In this newly emerging economic order, workers sometimes organized to protect …