Tham khảo tài liệu 'đề thi tuyển sinh sau đại học anh văn năm 2009 - mã đề 174', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Đề thi có 06 trang ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH ĐẠI HỌC NĂM 2009 Môn TIẾNG ANH Khối D Thời gian làm bài 90 phút không kể thời gian phát đề Mã đề thi 174 Họ tên thí sinh . Số báo danh . ĐỀ THI GỒM 80 CÂU TỪ QUESTION 1 ĐẾN QUESTION 80 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 1 to 10. Probably the most famous film commenting on the twentieth-century technology is Modern Times made in 1936. Charlie Chaplin was motivated to make the film by a reporter who while interviewing him happened to describe the working conditions in industrial Detroit. Chaplin was told that healthy young farm boys were lured to the city to work on automotive assembly lines. Within four or five years these young men s health was destroyed by the stress of work in the factories. The film opens with a shot of a mass of sheep making their way down a crowded ramp. Abruptly the film shifts to a scene of factory workers jostling one another on their way to a factory. However the rather bitter note of criticism in the implied comparison is not sustained. It is replaced by a gentle note of satire. Chaplin prefers to entertain rather than lecture. Scenes of factory interiors account for only about one-third of Modern Times but they contain some of the most pointed social commentary as well as the most comic situations. No one who has seen the film can ever forget Chaplin vainly trying to keep pace with the fast-moving conveyor belt almost losing his mind in the process. Another popular scene involves an automatic feeding machine brought to the assembly line so that workers need not interrupt their labor to eat. The feeding machine malfunctions hurling food at Chaplin who is strapped in his position on the assembly line and cannot escape. This serves to illustrate people s utter helplessness in the face of machines that are meant to serve their basic needs. Clearly Modern Times has .
