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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
Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It’s a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don’t know it’s raining. The trees grow so closely together that rain doesn’t always reach the ground.
Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth’s surface, about six percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometers. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa. There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast Asia, Northeastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is called the “lungs of our planet” because it produces twenty percent of the world’s oxygen. One fifth of the world’s fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world’s species of animals, plants, and insects live in the Earth’s rainforests. Eighty percent of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example, pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came from rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer. With all the good things we get from rainforests, it’s surprising to find that we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres, or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest disappear every second. The forests are being cut down to make fields for cows, to harvest the plants, and to clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable species, the destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world.
(Adapted from Reading Challenge 2 by Casey Malarcher and Andrea Janzen)
Câu hỏi:What is the author’s purpose in the passage?
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A.
To provide factual information about tropical rainforests for readers.
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B.
To prove that rainforests are indispensable in our lives.
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C.
To explain why people have destroyed a large area of tropical rainforests.
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D.
To prevent people from damaging tropical rainforests.
Lời giải tham khảo:
Đáp án đúng: A
Đáp án A
Mục đích của tác giả trong đoạn văn là gì?
A. Nhằm cung cấp các thông tin thật sự về rừng mưa nhiệt đới cho độc giả.
B. Nhằm chứng minh rằng rừng mưa là không thể thiếu được trong cuộc sống của chúng ta.
C. Để giải thích tại sao chúng ta lại phá hủy 1 vùng rộng lớn rừng mưa.
D. Để ngăn cản mọi người làm hại đến rừng mưa.
Căn cứ vào thông tin toàn bài:
Tác giả cung cấp cho chúng ta rất nhiều thông tin sự thật về rừng mưa nhiệt đới. Ví dụ như: It’s a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest.
(Đó là 1 nơi khá tối và đặc biệt, khác hoàn toàn với bất kì nơi nào. Rừng mưa nhiệt đới là nơi cây cối mọc rất cao. Hàng triệu loài động vật, côn trùng và thực vật sinh sống tại đó.) Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth’s surface, about six percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world.
(Rừng mưa chỉ chiếm một phần nhỏ bề mặt Trái Đất, khoảng 6%. Chúng chỉ được tìm thấy ở vùng nhiệt đới của thế giới).
Rainforests provide us with many things.
(Rừng mưa cung cấp cho chúng ta nhiều thứ). …
Hãy trả lời câu hỏi trước khi xem đáp án và lời giải -
A.
Câu hỏi này thuộc đề thi trắc nghiệm dưới đây, bấm vào Bắt đầu thi để làm toàn bài
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