Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 44 to 50. 
The next time you're out in a public place, like a park or a restaurant, look around you. What is happening? Some people are surfing the internet on their phones. Others are wearing headphones, listening to music on their MP3 players. That's just the way life is today. We all spend a fairamount of our time connected to technology. 
Now imagine living in a world without smartphones, tablets or any of the electronic gadgets we take for granted these days. There's no internet and you go to the library and look at a book when you want to find anything out. You play outside with friends in the real world instead of playing online video games in virtual worlds. There are no texts, no DVDs and no email. Welcome to 1986! 
That's the world the McMillan family from Ontario, Canada, decided to live in for a year. Blair, 27, Morgan, 28, and their two sons Trey and Denton, aged five and three, got rid of their cable TV, smartphones, internet, new games console, digital camera, DVD player and sat nav, and instead used an old TV, a radio, old telephones, a VHS video player, an old games console and maps. They decided to try it after seeing how their young children were becoming dependenton technology. They aren't alone. More and more parents today worry about the effect technology is having on their children, particularly very young children. 
The McMillans decided to get back to basics to see how things have changed. So how did they find their year without modern technology? ‘I thought Blair was mad when he suggested doing this whole thing,’ says Morgan, but it's made me realise how much time we wasted. We seem much more relaxed now, not checking in on email or Facebook all the time.’ The McMillans are now back in the present with a different attitude to today's technology. Blair said, ‘I'm not anti-technology. I wanted to taste, and I wanted my kids to taste what it would be like without it, and to see if we could actually do it.” 
(Adapted from Optimise by Malcolm Mann and Steve Taylore-Knowles)
Câu 44. Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. A Year without Technology                               B. The Fresh Era of New Technology
C. A Day of Living without Your Phone               D. Technology in Times of Change
Câu 45. According to paragraph 1, people nowadays _________.
A. tend to stroll around public parks frequently
B. are only keen on reading news on the Internet
C. lead an easier life
D. are addicted to using technology
Câu 46. The word fair in paragraph 1 mostly means _________.
     A. limited                         B. equal                            C. pretty small                 D. quite large
Câu 47. The word dependent in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.
     A. reliant                          B. stuck                            C. pessimistic                  D. confused
Câu 48. The word They in paragraph 3 refers to ________.
     A. Electronic gadgets     B. The McMillans           C. Modern parents          D. Young children
Câu 49. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Life today is better and healthier than life in the past.
B. The McMillan family changed their forms of entertainment in their experiment.
C. Trey and Denton were very hooked on modern technology.
D. Many parents nowadays share the same concern as the McMillans.
50. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Blair was crazy about a life dominated by modern technology.
B. Life with lots of electronic gadgets might make the McMillans quite stressful.
C. Morgan attributed the success of her family’s experiment to Blair’s willingness.
D. The McMillans returned to the present because they’re fed up the life in 1986.
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