Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading skill 10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | SECTION 9 Philosophy and Literature The next passages are based on philosophy and literature. You don t have to be an expert in either subject to answer the questions correctly. All the information you need is in the passage. Look for the main idea words in context and the topic sentence to help you understand the basic information. Then use your ability to make inferences based on the facts in the passage. Using all the available information in the passage will help you identify ideas not explicitly stated in the text. 85 PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE The answers to this section begin on page 149. The fictional world of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison s novel Sula the African-American section of Medallion Ohio a community called the Bottom is a place where people and natural things are apt to go awry to break from their prescribed boundaries a place where bizarre and unnatural happenings and strange reversals of the ordinary are commonplace. The very naming of the setting of Sula is a turning upside-down of the expected the Bottom is located high in the hills. The novel is filled with images of mutilation both psychological and physical. A great part of the lives of the characters therefore is taken up with making sense of the world setting boundaries and devising methods to control what is essentially uncontrollable. One of the major devices used by the people of the Bottom is the seemingly universal one of creating a in this case the title character Sula upon which to project both the evil they perceive outside themselves and the evil in their own hearts. 349. Which of the following words would best fit into the blank in the final sentence of the passage a. scapegoat b. hero c. leader d. victim 350. Based on the description of the setting of the novel Sula which of the following adjectives would most likely describe the behavior of many of its residents a. furtive b. suspicious c. unkempt d. eccentric Don t forget to look for the author s attitude in the material .
