Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
What is - extreme‘ weather? Why are people talking about it these days? Extreme‘ weather is an unusual weather event such as rainfall, a drought or a heat wave in the wrong place or at the wrong time. In theory, they are very rare. But these days, our TV screens are constantly showing such extreme weather events. Take just three news stories from 2010: 28 centimetres of rain fell on Rio de Janeiro in 24 hours, Nashville, USA, had 33 centimetres of rain in two days and there was record rainfall in Pakistan.
The effects of this kind of rainfall are dramatic and lethal. In Rio de Janeiro, landslides followed, burying hundreds of people. In Pakistan, the floods affected 20 million people. Meanwhile, other parts of the world suffer devastating droughts. Australia, Russia and East Africa have been hit in the last ten years. And then there are unexpected heat waves, such as in 2003 in Europe. That summer, 35,000 deaths were said to be heat-related.
So, what is happening to our weather? Are these extreme events part of a natural cycle? Or are they caused by human activity and its effects on the Earth‘s climate? Peter Miller says it‘s probably a mixture of both of these things. On the one hand, the most important influences on weather events are natural cycles in the climate. Two of the most famous weather cycles, El Niño and La Niña, originate in the Pacific Ocean. The heat from the warm ocean rises high into the atmosphere and affects weather all around the world. On the other hand, the temperature of the Earth‘s oceans is slowly but steadily going up. And this is a result of human activity. We are producing greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth‘s atmosphere. This heat warms up the atmosphere, land and oceans. Warmer oceans produce more water vapour – think of heating a pan of water in your kitchen. Turn up the heat, it produces steam more quickly. Satellite data tells us that the water vapour in the atmosphere has gone up by four percent in 25 years. This warm, wet air turns into the rain, storms, hurricanes and typhoons that we are increasingly experiencing. Climate scientist, Michael Oppenheimer, says that we need to face the reality of climate change. And we also need to act now to save lives and money in the future.
(Source: © 2015 National Geographic Learning.www.ngllife.com/wild-weather)
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
What is - extreme‘ weather? Why are people talking about it these days? Extreme‘ weather is an unusual weather event such as rainfall, a drought or a heat wave in the wrong place or at the wrong time. In theory, they are very rare. But these days, our TV screens are constantly showing such extreme weather events. Take just three news stories from 2010: 28 centimetres of rain fell on Rio de Janeiro in 24 hours, Nashville, USA, had 33 centimetres of rain in two days and there was record rainfall in Pakistan.
The effects of this kind of rainfall are dramatic and lethal. In Rio de Janeiro, landslides followed, burying hundreds of people. In Pakistan, the floods affected 20 million people. Meanwhile, other parts of the world suffer devastating droughts. Australia, Russia and East Africa have been hit in the last ten years. And then there are unexpected heat waves, such as in 2003 in Europe. That summer, 35,000 deaths were said to be heat-related.
So, what is happening to our weather? Are these extreme events part of a natural cycle? Or are they caused by human activity and its effects on the Earth‘s climate? Peter Miller says it‘s probably a mixture of both of these things. On the one hand, the most important influences on weather events are natural cycles in the climate. Two of the most famous weather cycles, El Niño and La Niña, originate in the Pacific Ocean. The heat from the warm ocean rises high into the atmosphere and affects weather all around the world. On the other hand, the temperature of the Earth‘s oceans is slowly but steadily going up. And this is a result of human activity. We are producing greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth‘s atmosphere. This heat warms up the atmosphere, land and oceans. Warmer oceans produce more water vapour – think of heating a pan of water in your kitchen. Turn up the heat, it produces steam more quickly. Satellite data tells us that the water vapour in the atmosphere has gone up by four percent in 25 years. This warm, wet air turns into the rain, storms, hurricanes and typhoons that we are increasingly experiencing. Climate scientist, Michael Oppenheimer, says that we need to face the reality of climate change. And we also need to act now to save lives and money in the future.
(Source: © 2015 National Geographic Learning.www.ngllife.com/wild-weather)
Quảng cáo
Câu 1: It is stated in the passage that extreme weather is ______.
A. becoming more common
B. not a natural occurrence
C. difficult for scientists to understand
D. killing more people than ever before
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Đáp án : A(0) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
A
Bài đọc thể hiện rằng thời tiết khắc nghiệt thì -> ngày càng phổ biến
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Câu 2: The word ―lethal in the second paragraph probably means ______.
A. far-reaching
B. long-lasting
C. happening soon
D. causing deaths
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Đáp án : D(0) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
D
Lethal = causing deaths: gây chết người
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Câu 3: What caused thousands of deaths in 2003?
A. a period of hot weather
B. floods after a bad summer
C. a long spell of heavy rain
D. large-scale landslides
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Đáp án : A(0) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
A
Cái gì gây ra hàng nghìn các chết năm 2003 -> thời kỳ hạn hán thời tiết nóng kéo dài
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Câu 4: Question 46: According to the passage, extreme weather is a problem because ______.
A. we can never predict it
B. it only affects crowded places
C. it‘s often very destructive
D. its causes are completely unknown
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Đáp án : C(0) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
C
Theo bài đọc thời tiết khắc nghiệt là vấn đề bởi vì -> nó có tính hủy diệt cao
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Câu 5: The word ―that in the third paragraph refers to ______.
A. Earth‘s oceans
B. human activity
C. greenhouse gases
D. Earth‘s atmosphere
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Đáp án : C(0) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
C
That = greenhouse gases : khí gây hiệu ứng nhà kính
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Câu 6: Question 48: Extreme weather can be caused by ______.
A. satellites above the Earth
B. water vapour in the atmosphere
C. very hot summers
D. water pans in your kitchen
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Đáp án : B(1) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
B
Thời tiết khắc nghiệt có thể gây ra bởi -> hơi nước trong không khí
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Câu 7: Question 49: Satellites are used to ______.
A. change the direction of severe storms
B. trap greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
C. measure changes in atmospheric water vapour
D. prevent climate from changing quickly
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Đáp án : C(0) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
C
Vệ tinh nhân tạo được sử dụng để -> đo sự thay đổi của hơi nước trong không khí.
Lời giải sai Bình thường Khá hay Rất Hay
Câu 8: Which statement is NOT supported by the information in the passage?
A. Extreme weather is substantially influenced by human activity.
B. Unusual weather events are part of natural cycles.
C. We can limit the bad effects of extreme weather.
D. Such extreme weather is hardly the consequence of human activity.
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Đáp án : D(0) bình luận (0) lời giải
Giải chi tiết:
D
Câu nào mà bài đọc không ủng hộ? -> Thời tiết khắc nghiệt hiếm khi là hậu quả của hoạt động con người.
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