According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Seals are able to live on land and in the water.
B. Some terrestrial habits were remained when the species reverted to water life.
C. Apart from breathing and breeding, marine species were expected to change nothing to live on land.
D. Ichthyosaurs might have resembled dolphins.
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Chọn đáp án C
Theo đoạn văn, điều nào sau đây KHÔNG đúng?
A. Hải cẩu có khả năng sống trên cạn và dưới nước.
B. Một số thói quen sống trên cạn vẫn được duy trì khi loài này trở lại đời sống dưới nước.
C. Ngoài hô hấp và sinh sản, các loài sinh vật biển được cho là sẽ không thay đổi gì để sống trên đất.
D. Thằn lằn cá có thể giống cá heo.
=> Dựa vào các thông tin trong đoạn văn:
+ Đáp án A: “Seals have only gone part way back. They show us what the intermediates might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs.”
(Hải cẩu chỉ mới quay trở lại một phần. Chúng cho chúng ta thấy các vật trung gian có thể như thế nào, dẫn đường đến các trường hợp cực đoan như cá voi và cá nược.)
+ Đáp án B: “Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and reproduction. Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again.”
(Di chuyển từ nước lên đất liên quan đến việc thiết kế lại phần lớn mọi khía cạnh của cuộc sống, bao gồm cả việc thở và sinh sản. Tuy nhiên, một số lượng lớn động vật sống trên cạn sau đó đã quay lại, từ bỏ công cụ tái tạo trên cạn khó kiếm được của chúng và quay trở lại mặt nước một lần nữa.)
+ Đáp án D: “Ichthyosaurs were reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies. The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water.”
(Thằn lằn cá là loài bò sát cùng thời với khủng long, với các vây và cơ thể thuôn dài. Các hóa thạch trông giống như cá heo và chúng chắc chắn đã sống như cá heo ở dưới nước.)
=> Bằng phương pháp loại trừ, ta chọn C.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
An astronaut living in space begins a day in much the same way as he would on earth. The astronaut is able to brush his teeth and use the toilet in space. It is, however, rather challenging as the water droplets will (28)__________ around. The astronaut will also have to make to do with sponge baths.
There is a special plan for the astronaut on (29)____________a spaceship which includes beverages and food items. The astronaut is allowed to have a maximum of three main meals a day. The meal varies each day until the sixth day. On that day, the menu is (30)_____________and the astronaut eats the meals he had on the first day. The food (31) ________ is brought on a shuttle mission can be dehydrated, in natural form for fresh. Sometimes, they are kept in thermostabilised cans or sealed pouches. It takes only thirty minutes to cook a delicious meal for a crew of up to seven people on a space mission.(32)_________, astronauts have to eat slowly and carefully or the food will float away.
Because of her conservative views, the professor never accepts anything not related to traditional values and the status.
Among all the changes resulting from the___________entry of women into the workforce, the transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not the least important.
Câu 5: ______ committee is expected to reach ______ decision this evening.
As a conductor of heat and electricity, aluminum exceeds all metals except silver, copper and gold.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 37.
Earthquakes are destructive events in nature. The damage depends on the size or magnitude of the quake. There have never been so many people living in cities in quake zones, and so the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city.
We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a pattern—pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips.
Research in the U.S. may support Kato’s theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. When an earthquake hit again, it was years off schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two “slips’—places where the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred.
We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does happen in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.
(Adapted from Reading Explorer 3, Nancy Douglas et al., 2010)Câu 33: What is the main idea of the passage?
The new airport was constructed in the _______ of fierce opposition.
From bones found in the United States, we have learned that many animals which existed no longer in the world once made their homes there.
Over a third of the population was estimated to have no __________ to the health service.
The series became so popular that it was moved to the _______ time spot of 8 pm.
My mother ________ for a computer company, but she ___________ at home today.
_________, she spent nearly an hour walking all around the neighborhood looking for her car.
My father told me that If we wanted to catch the 6.30 train, that would mean _________the house at 6.00.
Companies spend millions of dollars on advertisings and commercials trying to persuade the public to buy their products.
