English

A. September 12, 2019

(Bài đọc tiếng Anh dài nhất trong đề thi THPT quốc gia 2019)

The first impressions are rather menacing. Visitors must sign in and show identification before being allowed into the building. Such tight security gives one the feeling of entering a prison or some other dangerous place. But what a DECEPTIVE first impression! Manhattan Comprehensive Night High School may be the friendliest, most caring institution in all of New York City. A school of last resort for many of its students, it is their best chance to turn their lives around, and make friends in the process. Manhattan Comp, as it is called, is the first full-time night high school in America.

High school is compulsory until the age of sixteen in America, but many students drop out, either before or after they reach sixteen, and before receiving their high school diplomas. Until now, night education programmes for dropouts only provided the basics and then awarded an equivalency certificate. But now, Manhattan Comp offers the total high school experience, complete with a "lunch" break, physical education and clubs. The students receive an academic diploma, which they say is more helpful in getting a job than an equivalency certificate. More than sixty percent of Manhattan Comp's students go on to college.

Most of the school's 450 students have either been EXPELLED FROM or dropped out of other high schools. Some have been in two or three schools before this one. What seems to make this school work for these hard-to-place students is the staff and, most importantly, the principal. All students call him Howard. As he walks through the building, he greets students by name, asks about their families or jobs and jokes with them about the lack of variety in the school cafeteria.

Most students at Manhattan Comp are between eighteen and twenty-two years old. You must be at least seventeen to enrol. The classes run from 5 to 11 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, with all-day enrichment programmes on Sundays which explore topics like playwriting, art and video production. School terms are ten weeks long, which gives students the opportunity to take time off for family matters or jobs. Most students already have some academic credits from previous schools, so instead of the normal four years in high school, THEY spend between six months and two years at Manhattan Comp.

B. "ENOUGH" at the end of sentence

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! = No more will be tolerated

--- The expression is used to say that one wants something to stop because one can no longer accept or deal with it: I don't mind lending her a bit of money now and then, but enough is enough!"

To answer the question, this is enough

There will be enough

There will not be enough

Too much is more than enough

Whatever is sufficient is enough

That which is insufficient will not be enough

See if you have enough

Think about whether you have enough of everything you need, because I can tell already that you probably do not have enough

Whatever they give us is enough

That is not enough. That is more than enough

I just do not have enough

You have given me more than enough

Thank you. You have given me more than enough

I already have enough

That will not be enough. That is less than enough

How much will be enough?

Does anyone ever have enough?

If I possessed everything, it would not be enough

Whatever you start with for your journey, it will be enough

You have suffered enough

The wisdom I find is enough

The ability to distinguish between wisdom and folly is enough

The opportunity to distinguish between two extremes and a mean trung dung, ở giữa is enough

The ability to discriminate phân biệt between two extremes and a middling value (or a range of middling values) is enough

The light that we begin our journey with is enough

If we have love in our heart, it will be enough.

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