Read the following passage and mark letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Until recently, hunting for treasure from shipwrecks was mostly fantasy; with recent technological advances, however, the search for sunken treasure has become more popular as a legitimate endeavor. This has caused a debate between those wanting to salvage the wrecks and those wanting to preserve them.
Treasure hunters are spurred on by the thought of finding caches of gold coins or other valuable objects on a sunken ship. One team of salvagers, for instance, searched the wreck of the RMS Republic, which sank outside the Boston harbor in 1900. The search party, using side-scan sonar, a device that projects sound waves across the ocean bottom and produces a profile of the sea floor, located the wreck in just two and a half days. Before the use of this new technology, such searches could take months or years. The team of divers searched the wreck for two months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine, but they did not find the five and a half tons of American Gold Eagle coins they were searching for.
Preservationists focus on the historic value of a ship. They say that even if a shipwreck's treasure does not have a high monetary value, it can be an invaluable source of historic artifacts that are preserved in nearly mint condition. But once a salvage team has scoured a site, much of the archaeological value is lost. Maritime archaeologists who are preservationists worry that the success of salvagers will attract more treasure-hunting expeditions and thus threaten remaining undiscovered wrecks. Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all.
Which of the following statements is best supported by the author?
A. The value of a shipwreck depends on the quantity of its artifacts
B. Preservationists are fighting the use of technological advances such as side-scan sonars
C. Side-scan sonar has helped to legitimize salvaging
D. The use of sound waves is crucial to locating shipwrecks
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C
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Giải thích:
Câu nào được ủng hộ bởi tác giả?
A. Giá trị của một con tàu chìm phụ thuộc vào số lượng hiện vật trên đó
B. Những người muốn bảo tồn đang đấu tranh chống lại việc sử dụng công nghệ tiên tiến như thiết bị quét phát hiện tàu ngầm
C. Thiết bị quét phát hiện tàu ngầm giúp việc khai thác tàu trở nên hợp pháp
D. Việc sử dụng sóng âm thanh đóng vai trò quyêt định trong việc xác định vị trí tàu chìm
Đáp án A sai vì giá trị của con tàu phụ thuộc vào cách nhìn nhận con tàu, ví dụ những người muốn khai thác sẽ thấy giá trị của con tàu nằm ở những của cải vàng bạc châu báu còn những người muốn bảo tồn sẽ thấy giá trị nằm ở tính lịch sử của nó
Đáp án B sai vì có “Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages” – những người muốn bảo tồn đang vận động cơ quan lập pháp để hạn chế việc tìm kiếm tàu chìm và những vụ khai thác trái quy định, như vậy họ đang đấu tranh chống lại việc tìm kiếm tàu chìm, không phải chống lại công nghệ tiên tiến
Đáp án D sai vì việc sử dụng sóng âm thanh có nhiều lợi ích nhưng không mang tính quyết định trong mọi công cuộc tìm kiếm tàu chìm
Đáp án:C
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Nowadays people are more aware that wildlife all over the world is in (1)________. Many species of animals are threatened, and could easily become (2)________. if we do not make an effort to protect them. In some cases, animals are hunted for their fur or for other valuable parts of their bodies. Some birds, such as parrots, are
caught (3)________. and sold as pets. For many animals and birds the problem is that their habitat - the place
where they live - is disappearing. More land is used for farms, for houses or industry, and there are fewer open spaces than there once were. Farmers use powerful chemicals to help them to grow better crops, but these chemicals pollute the environment and (4)________. wildlife. The most successful animals on earth - human beings - will soon be the only ones (5)________., unless we can solve this problem.
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