tailieunhanh - Reading comprehension success part 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading comprehension success part 3', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | PRETEST excerpt from the opening of an untitled essay John Steinbeck s Grapes of Wrath published in 1939 was followed ten years later by . Guthrie s The Way West. Both books chronicle a migration though that of Guthrie s pioneers is considerably less bleak in origin. What strikes one at first glance however are the commonalities. Both Steinbeck s and Guthrie s characters are primarily farmers. They look to their destinations with nearly religious enthusiasm imagining their promised land the way the Biblical Israelites envisioned Canaan. Both undergo great hardship to make the trek. But the two sagas differ distinctly in origin. Steinbeck s Oklahomans are forced off their land by the banks who own their mortgages and they follow a false promise that jobs await them as seasonal laborers in California. Guthrie s farmers willingly remove themselves selling their land and trading their old dreams for their new hope in Oregon. The pioneers decision to leave their farms in Missouri and the East is frivolous and ill-founded in comparison with the Oklahomans unwilling response to displacement. Yet it is they the pioneers whom our history books declare the heroes. 9. From the context of the passage it can be determined that the word frivolous most nearly means a. silly. b. high-minded. c. difficult. d. calculated. 10. Suppose that the author is considering following this sentence with supportive detail Both undergo great hardship to make the trek. Which of the following sentences would be in keeping with the comparison and contrast structure of the paragraph a. The migrants in The Way West cross the Missouri then the Kaw and make their way overland to the Platte. b. The Oklahomans jalopies break down repeatedly while the pioneers wagons need frequent repairs. c. Today s travelers would consider it a hardship to spend several days let alone several months getting anywhere. d. The Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath loses both grandmother and grandfather before the journey .