BÀI LUYỆN TẬP ANH VĂN - 02
Exercise 1. Read the passage carefully.
It seems quite clearly unjust to pay two people different amounts of money for doing the the same work.
But it is not as easy as at first sight to introduce equal pay for equal work.
First of all, one must be sure that the work is in fact equal. Two people may be working side by side in a
factory and doing the same work, but one may be doing it twice as fast as the other: or one may be making
no mistakes, while the other is making a lot. In some kinds of work, one kind solve the problem of speed if
one pays by the amount of work done and not by the hour: work paid for in this way is called piece – work.
But it is not always possible to do this, so it is sometimes useful to pay workers at different rates, which
takes differences in skill into account. This usually means that the younger and therefore less experienced
worker gets less than the older and more experienced one, which seems reasonable enough.
What does not appear to be so reasonable is when two equally skilled, equally fast workers receive
different rates of pay. In some countries, for instance, women are paid less than men for the same work.
The employers’ argument in places where this happens is that men usually have a wife and children to
support and women usually have not. They say that most women workers are either unmarried and have no
one to support, or have husbands who also work and bring home money, so that would be unjust for them to
be paid as much as a man who has a wife who doesn’t work because she has several children at home to look
after.
This, of course, is quite true, but you do find some men workers who are unmarried and have no one to
support, and some women workers who are widows and have children to support. Other women workers,
though they have no children may have old or sick parents and young brothers and sisters who cannot yet
work.
The fact is that the problem of paying workers according to their family needs cannot be solved simply by
giving the men more and the women less. The answer is to pay both alike and leave it to the state to see that
justice is done by means of taxation and allowances.
A – Give “ True or False” answer to these questions.
1. It is fair to pay two people different amounts of money for doing the same work.
2. It seems quite clearly unjust to pay men and women different amounts for doing the same work
according to their family needs or their sex.
3. One may be doing the same work twice as fast as the other.
4. It is sometimes reasonable to pay workers at different rates.

I ( 6 – work ) ______ as a junior clerk at the East – West Trading Company from July 1993 to 1995. In
October 1995 I ( 7 – obtain ) ______ a position with New Angle Film Production as an assistant editor. I ( 8
– like ) ______ the work a lot. I ( 9 – speak ) ___ French and Spanish fairly well and ( 10 – drive ) _____ a
car. I ( 11- be) ____ able to get on well with people and I ( 12 – enjoy ) ______ hard work. My hobbies are
photography, ( 13 – watch ) ______ television and ( 14 – play ) ______ the piano.
I ( 15 – attend ) ______ an interview at any time.
Your faithfully.
Exercise 4. Find and correct the mistake in each sentence.
1. The system has capabilities such as communicating with other computers, processing records, and
mathematical functions.
2. The personnel officer told me that I would answer the phone, welcome visitors, distribute mail and
some typing.
3. This summer I want a job more than to go to Disney World.
4. Nancy not only called the post office but she checked with the neighbours to see if the package had
come.
5. During basic training, I was not only told what to do but also what to think.
6. Jupiter is larger than any planet in our solar system.
7. State officials were more concerned with the damage than what caused it.
8. Thomas decided to join the army after his freshman year and been in it ever since.
Exercise 5. Fill in the blank with suitable word.
A. sure D. order G. interests J. suits
B. most E. certain H. qualifications K. imagination
C. what F. else I. secret L. impression
The (1) _____ of a good interview is preparing for it. (2) ______ you wear is always important as it creates
the first (3) ______ , so dress neatly, but comfortable. Make (4) _______ that you can deal anything you are
asked. Prepare for questions that are (5) _____ to come up, for example, why do you want the position?
What is the (6) _____ important quality for the job? Apart from this job, what (7) __ jobs have you thought?
What are your ( 8) _____ and hobbies?
Exercise 6. Choose the word which has a different sound.
1. a. got b. job c. long d. born