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Week 2
Week 2
MADRID - Spain and Vietnam plan to boost bilateral ties and sign a series of
financial cooperation accords, the foreign ministers of the two countries, Javier Solana
and Nguyen Manh Cam said at a joint press conference on Tuesday.
In a joint statement' calling for greater economic, trade, cultural, scientific and
technological cooperation, the two ministers also said they were looking at opening
embassies in each other's countries.
The statement was issued at the end of the Vietnamese minister's visit, the first
official visit to Spain by a Vietnamese foreign minister.
The statement also said Spain has promised 80 million dollars in credits to help
Spanish firms interested in the Vietnamese market.
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Exercise 4
(1) Theo số liệu thống kê của Bộ Giao thông Vận tải trong bốn năm trở lại đây
trung bình mỗi năm Việt Nam nhập khoảng 20.000 xe hơi các loại. (2) Tổng cộng
hiện nay cả nước Việt nam có khoảng 280.000 xe hơi. (3) Với 70 triệu dân đem tính
bình quân đầu người thì chỉ mới đạt được 0,04 chiếc. (4) Thực tế hiện nay trên một
nửa số xe hơi đang lưu hành tại Việt Nam quá củ kỹ, không đảm bảo được các tiêu
chuẩn về kỹ thuật và vệ sinh môi trường, do đó nhu cầu thay thế các loại xe mới là
điều hiển nhiên. (5) Nếu nhìn bề ngoài thị trường xe hơi tại Việt Nam không sôi động
như các thị trường khác; thế nhưng bên trong nó là một cuộc chạy đua ngầm và quyết
liệt giữa các công ty chế tạo xe hơi lớn của thế giới.
HOMEWORK
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EXERCISE 1
(1) A literary education has always been regarded as indispensable to the
development of character and a broad outlook on life. (2) Whether such an
education is preferable to a scientific education is, however, a moot question.
(3) Before the advent of the Scientific Age most scholars pursued a literary
education, which conferred many benefits on them. (4) It not only gave them an
insight into the affairs of the world but also equipped them with a vocabulary
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that enabled them to express their views and feelings with cogency and facility.
(5) Besides, it developed their mental ability and intellectual powers, and many
of the achieved distinction in public life as forcible speakers and writers or even
as lawyers and political thinkers. (6) Having discovered the benefits of such an
education, ambitious men in all countries proceeded to the universities or other
institutions of learning to acquire the advantages of a literary education, and this
tendency is discernible even today, though a scientific education is being
considered more advantageous to the needs of the present day.
(7) The inventions of the modern age have indeed revolutionized society. (8)
Numerous goods are being produced, with rapidity unknown before in various
parts of the earth with the aid of science and scientists of all countries are
continuing to exert their brains to extend the realms of science. (9) Every
invention has helped to increase the leisure and convenience of men
everywhere, and the demand for goods is increasing everyday. (10) As a
consequence, more and more machines are being invented to increase the
production of goods within the shortest time possible.
(11) Every mechanical invention, however, has to be operated by skilled men.
(12) The larger the machine the more complicated its operation, and any
mechanical faults in it can be detected only by men with a scientific education,
who are but few in number compared with those with a literary education. (13)
It is this scarcity of men with a scientific education that has led to the
assumption that a scientific education today is preferable to a literary education.
(14) The large factories require men to operate machinery, dealers in motor
vehicles require men for all types of work in the industry, and there is a
diversity of other industries, which are looking for men with a scientific
education. (15) The demand for men with a scientific education is, therefore,
great, and this serves as an incentive to young men to acquire industrial and
technical skills, for the possession of such skills will not only enable them to
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secure remunerative occupations but also enable them to manage their own
factories or workshops in the future to increase their earnings.
(16) All this, however, does not imply that the man with a literary education is
losing his importance rapidly. (17) In truth, he is an indispensable person even
today in various departments of human activity. (18) He provides the
managerial skill in an industry, contributes his literary abilities to the promotion
of literacy in the country, provides ministerial and judicial services in the state,
and performs a host of other functions.
(19) Thus, it is not possible to say with finality that a certain type of education
is preferable to another. (20) It is for the individual to make the best of the type
of education that he has received.
(hoc247.net)
NEW WORDS:
1. indispensable (adj): rất cần, không thể thiếu
2. moot (adj): có thể bàn 1uận
3. equip (v): trang bị
4. cogency (n): sự vững chắc, sức thuyết phục
5. distinction (n) sự ưu tú, sự xuất chúng, sự lỗi lạc
6. forcible (adj): sinh động, có sức thuyết phục
7. discernible (adj): có thể nhận thức được, có thể thấy rõ
8. exert (v): đưa vào sử dụng, áp dụng
9. realm (n): lĩnh vực
10. complicated (adj): phức tạp, rắc rối
11. scarcity (n): sự khan hiếm, sự khó tìm
12. diversity (n): sự đa dạng
13. incentive (n): sự khuyến khích; sự khích lệ, động viên
14. remunerative (adj): được trả hậu, có lợi
15. imply (v): hàm ý, ngụ ý
16. ministerial (adj): thuộc bộ trưởng
17. judicial (adj): thuộc hoặc bởi một toà án
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EXERCISE 2
(1) Education is an important tool that is applied in the contemporary world to
succeed, as it mitigates the challenges, which are faced in life. (2) The
knowledge gained through education enables individuals’ potential to be
optimally utilized owing to training of the human mind. (3) This opens doors
of opportunities enables individual to achieve better prospects in career
growth. (4) Education has played a paramount role in the modern industrial
world. (5) This is attributed to the fact prospective employees must be
qualified adequately to perform various tasks effectively. (6) Industries entail
resources that are sufficiently equipped with the modern technology to suit the
needs and wants of the society. (7) This thus, makes education to become a
norm for services in all-industrial sectors. (8) The primary skills and the
ability to apply the skills is the basis for evaluating the market…
(teenlink.com)
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