giải thích đáp án IELTS Reading Networking
🟩 Questions 1–5 (YES / NO / NOT GIVEN)
1. Networking is not a modern idea. → YES
Vị trí bài đọc (đoạn 1):
“Networking as a concept has acquired what is in all truth an unjustified air of modernity.”
Giải thích:
- “acquired an unjustified air of modernity” = bị coi là hiện đại một cách không đúng → Tác giả khẳng định networking KHÔNG phải là ý tưởng hiện đại.
✔ YES
2. Networking is worn like a badge exclusively in the business world. → NO
Vị trí (đoạn 1):
“The concept is worn like a badge of distinction, and not just in the business world.”
Giải thích:
- Câu hỏi nói “exclusively” (chỉ trong kinh doanh)
- Bài viết nói “not just in the business world” → trái nghĩa
✔ NO
3. People fall into two basic categories. → YES
Vị trí (đoạn 2):
“People can be divided basically into those who…”
Giải thích:
- “divided basically into” = chia thành hai nhóm cơ bản
✔ YES
4. A person who shares knowledge and friends makes a better networker than one who does not. → YES
Vị trí (đoạn 2):
“A person who is insecure… does not make a good networker.” “The classic networker is someone who is strong enough within themselves to connect different people…”
Giải thích:
- Người chia sẻ thông tin và kết nối bạn bè → good networker
- Người giữ thông tin cho riêng mình → not a good networker
✔ YES
5. The classic networker is physically strong and generally in good health. → NOT GIVEN
Vị trí liên quan:
“strong enough within themselves”
Giải thích:
- “strong enough within themselves” = mạnh về tâm lý / tự tin, không nói về thể chất
- Bài không đề cập sức khỏe hay thể lực
✔ NOT GIVEN
🟩 Questions 6–10 (NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS)
6. Making new acquaintances __________________ but also has its disadvantages.
Vị trí (đoạn 5):
“making new contacts… while it brings success, does cause problems.”
✔ brings success
7. At work, problems can be caused if the manager is __________________.
Vị trí (đoạn 5):
“Jealousy and envy can prove to be very detrimental if one is faced with a very insecure manager.”
✔ (very) insecure / jealous / envious
8. A manager can suppress, or even totally __________________ the career of an employee.
Vị trí:
“may seek to stifle someone's career or even block it completely.”
✔ block
9. In business today, working together is necessary in order for __________________ to grow.
Vị trí (đoạn 6):
“companies and enterprises need to co-operate with each other in order to expand.”
✔ companies and enterprises
10. Businesses that specialize will not last for long without __________________.
Vị trí:
“Without co-operation and contacts, specialist companies will not survive for long.”
✔ co-operation and contacts
🟩 Questions 11–15 (NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS)
11. In which sphere of life have ideas been protected jealously?
Vị trí (đoạn 7):
“The same applies in the academic world, where ideas have been jealously guarded.”
✔ (the) academic world
12. Which type of individual does not easily become a modern networker?
Vị trí:
“The stereotypical academic… does not fit easily into the mould of the modern networker.”
✔ (the) stereotypical academic
13. Where is one of the greatest concentrations of high-tech companies in Europe?
Vị trí:
“around Cambridge in England, which now has one of the most concentrated clusters of high-tech companies in Europe.”
✔ Cambridge / around Cambridge / Cambridge in England
14. Who replaced the Neanderthals?
Vị trí (đoạn cuối):
“they were superseded by Homo Sapiens.”
✔ Homo Sapiens
15. What, as well as understanding and thought abstraction, sets us apart from other animals?
Vị trí:
“understanding thought abstraction and culture”
✔ culture
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- YES
- NO
- YES
- YES
- NOT GIVEN
- brings success
- (very) insecure/jealous/envious
- block
- companies and enterprises
- co-operation and contacts
- (the) academic world
- (the) stereotypical academic
- Cambridge/ around Cambridge/ Cambridge in England
- Homo Sapiens
- culture