[075] - Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT 2024 - Môn Tiếng Anh - LIÊN TRƯỜNG THPT NGHỆ AN (Lần 2 - Đề 401)

Some people love cities, and other people hate them. But more people than ever are choosing to live in one. Cities will be bigger than ever. A megacity is a city with a population of over 10 million people.
Megacities around the world face the same problems: traffic and housing. São Paulo, Brazil, is a good example. "There are 30 million daily trips in São Paulo," says Jorge Wilheim, a city official. "One-third is public transport, one-third is private cars, and one-third is walking. Sixty to seventy percent should be on public transportation." The city is building a new freeway and adding to the subway system, but it's slow work. Every day, millions of people are sitting in traffic jams.
Housing is also a serious problem for the 18 million people in São Paulo. Most of the jobs are downtown, and houses and apartments are very expensive there. So workers live in cheaper places far away from their jobs and commute for many hours. And many new residents can't find any housing for their families, so they live in slums. These are places where people find empty land and build small huts. Ilson da Silva is one man who has done this. When he came to the city six years ago, he didn't have a job. He built a one-room hut next to a garbage dump. Now he works as a janitor, and his house has three rooms and a flower garden. The government has brought in running water and electricity, and the slum is becoming a real neighborhood. For Ilson, and for millions of other people, megacities mean hope for a better future.

Every day we face challenges at school, work or in our personal lives, and we need to develop the skills to deal with them. Computer skills, for example, are vital for most activities we carry out in our daily lives as well as helping you with studying. When we are young, we are able to learn basic social skills but there are other important skills that can be more challenging to acquire. Surprisingly, video games can often help us to master these.
For example, there are many video games which can help us to develop problem-solving skills. Some games help develop patience and perseverance skills by continuing to increase the level of difficulty. They constantly place obstacles in your path until you reach the solution. As a result of playing these games, players can develop confidence, as being able to overcome the obstacles gives you a real sense of achievement. Patience, perseverance and overcoming difficulties are three essential skills in everyday life. As humans we often learn through mistakes, however some mistakes would be best avoided. Video games can expose you to making decisions in the virtual world by allowing you to choose your characters' actions and then showing you the results of these actions. This may help you make more informed choices in the real world.
However beneficial these games may be, there are things to remember. Too much screen time can isolate you from the real world and if you play multi-player games online, then you need to be sure who you are playing with. It's also vital to make sure that you are not running up a huge bill in games that you pay for online.
Links between schools and video games developers have resulted in more games focused on developing life skills. The not-for-profit organisation, Makerspace, has developed an education programme based around games in conjunction with Minecraft. The programme claims that 30 minutes of video play in the classroom can improve planning skills, memory and motor skills. As well as developing life skills, having excellent computer skills could also help you with a future career. So, play on and learn two valuable lessons at the same time.

Engineers in Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented robots which can self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores with help from a large language model. Robots are being taught to carry out ___(46)___ complicated household tasks. They are programmed to copy the motions that a human physically guides them through. It turns out that robots are excellent mimics. ___(47)___ unless engineers also program them to adjust to ___(48)___ possible bump and nudge, robots don’t necessarily know how to handle these situations. Now MIT engineers are aiming to give robots a bit of common sense when faced with situations ___(49)___ push them off their trained path. They’ve developed a method that connects robot motion data with the “common sense knowledge” of large language models. Their approach ___(50)___ a robot to logically parse many given household task into subtasks, and to physically adjust to disruptions within a subtask.