Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading literrature 4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | GED LITERATURE AND THE ARTS READING PRACTICE QUESTIONS 17. According to the author what is the main thing that makes commercials unrealistic a. Everyone in commercials always ends up happy. b. The background music is distracting. c. Commercials are so short. d. The people in commercials are always sick. e. The claims commercials make are unrealistic. Questions 18 through 22 refer to the following excerpt. What Happened When He Came to America 1 My parents lost friends lost family ties and patterns of mutual assistance lost rituals and habits and favorite foods lost any link to an ongoing social milieu lost a good part of the sense they 5 had of themselves. We lost a house several towns various landscapes. We lost documents and pictures and heirlooms as well as most of our breakable belongings smashed in the nine packing cases that we took with us to America. 10 We lost connection to a thing larger than ourselves and as a family failed to make any significant new connection in exchange so that we were left aground on a sandbar barely big enough for our feet. I lost friends and relatives 15 and stories and familiar comforts and a sense of continuity between home and outside and any sense that I was normal. I lost half a language through want of use and eventually in my late teens even lost French as the language of my 20 internal monologue. And I lost a whole network of routes through life that I had just barely glimpsed. Hastening on toward some idea of a future I only half-realized these losses and when I did 25 realize I didn t disapprove and sometimes I actively colluded. At some point though I was bound to notice that there was a gulf inside me with a blanketed form on the other side that hadn t been uncovered in decades. My project of 30 self-invention had been successful so much so that I had become a sort of hydroponic vegetable growing soil-free. But I had been formed in another world everything in me that was essential was owed to immersion in that place 35
