Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

ACADEMICS AREN’T THE PROBLEM

Studies about how students use their time might shed light on whether they face increased academic and financial pressures compared with earlier eras. 

The data show that full-time students in all types of colleges study much less now than they did a generation ago - a full 10 hours a week less. Students are also receiving significantly higher grades. So it appears that academic pressures are, in fact, considerably lower than they used to be. The time-use data don‟t suggest that students feel greater financial pressures, either. When the time savings and lower opportunity costs are factored in, college appears less expensive for most students than it was in the 1960s. And though there are now more full-time students working for pay while in college, they study less even when paid work choices are held constant. 

In other words, full-time students do not appear to be studying less in order to work more. They appear to be studying less and spending the extra time on leisure activities or fun. It seems hard to imagine that students feeling increased financial pressures would respond by taking more leisure. 

Based on how students are spending their time then, it doesn‟t look as though academic or financial pressures are greater now than a generation ago. The time-use data don‟t speak directly to social pressures, and it may well be that these have become more intense lately. 

In one recent set of data, students reported spending more than 23 hours per week either socializing with friends or playing on the computer for fun. Social activities, in person or on computer, would seem to have become the major focus of campus life. It is hard to tell what kinds of pressures would be associated with this change.

According to the author, the fact that more full-time students are working for pay________.

A. is not an indication of pressures  

B. shows that students are financially pressured 

C. does not change students‟ campus life 

D. indicates that students are academically pressured 

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án A

Theo tác giả, sự thật nhiều sinh viên làm việc toàn thời gian hơn để trang trải chi phí

A. không phải là dấu hiệu của áp lực

B. cho thấy rằng các sinh viên bị áp lực tài chính

C. không thay đổi đời sông của sinh viên trong khuôn viên nhà trường

D. cho thấy rằng sinh viên đang bị áp lực về học hành

Dẫn chứng:And though there are now more full-time students working for pay while in college, they study less even when paid work choices are held constant.In other words, full-time students do not appear to be studying less in order to work more. They appear to be studying less and spending the extra time on leisure activities or fun