Unlike life in countryside which is often considered to be simple and traditional, life in the city is modern and complicated. People from different regions move to cities in the hope of having a better life for them and their children. The inhabitants in the city work as office secretaries, merchants, teachers, government workers, factory workers and even street vendors or construction workers. The high cost of living requires city dwellers, especially someone with low income to work harder or to take a part-time job. For some people, every day starts as usual by getting up in the early morning to do exercise in public parks, preparing for a full day of working and studying, then immersing in crowded boulevards or narrow streets filled with motor scooters and returning home after a busy day. They usually live in large houses, great mansions, and high-rise apartment blocks or even in a small rental equipped with modern amenities like the internet, telephone, television, satellite communication facilities and so on. Industrialization and modernization as well as global integration have big impact on lifestyle in the city. The most noticeable impact is the Western style of clothes. The “Ao Dai”- Vietnamese traditional clothes are no longer regularly worn in Vietnamese women’s daily life. Instead, jeans, T-shirts and fashionable clothes are widely preferred. 1. What is the topic of the passage?
Multiple choice 1 Question 7
Life in the city
All the advantages and disadvantages of living in a city
Negative thoughts on living in a city
Disadvantages of living in urban areas
2. Industrialization and modernization may lead to _.
Multiple choice 2 Question 7
some changes in lifestyles
the disappearance of Western-styled clothes
global integration
the fact that women no longer wear Ao Dai
3. The most important reason why people move to the city is _.
Multiple choice 3 Question 7
to look for a better life
to have busy days
global integration
to take part-time jobs
4. According to the passage, city life can offer city dwellers all of the following things EXCEPT _.
Multiple choice 4 Question 7
modern facilities
friendly communication with neighbors
the Internet
a variety of jobs in different fields
5. The word “impact” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _.
Multiple choice 5 Question 7
force
situation
effect
action