Nước Tăng Lực
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Các bạn xem giúp mình đoạn này với, mình không hiều là True hay False nữa.

Poor people with little access to land, labour and financial resources are particularly reliant on exploiting natural resources, and consequently they are vulnerable to seasonal changes in availability of those resources. The diversity of coral reef fisheries, combined with their physical accessibility and the protection they provide against bad weather, make them relatively stable compared with other fisheries, or land-based agricultural production.


Đề hỏi câu sau True hay False:

1. Coral reefs provide a less constant source of income than near-shore seas.

lan anh
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Mình post 1 bài để các bạn thực tập nha.


Read the following passage about 'habits'.


“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,” William James wrote in 1892. Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. And though each habit means relatively little on its own, over time, the meals we order, what we say to our kids each night, whether we save or spend, how often we exercise, and the way we organize our thoughts and work routines have enormous impacts on our health, productivity, financial security, and happiness. One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that 40 percent or more of the actions people performed each day weren’t actual decisions, but habits.


Do the statements below agree with the ideas expressed by the author? Write YES, NO or NOT GIVEN.

  1. The majority of choices we make on a daily basis are conscious decisions.
  2. Saving money is the key to financial security.
  3. Habits account for at least 40 percent of the things we do each day.

simba
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Mình làm thử

1. No

2. Not given

3. Yes

phuongthao
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Đối với dạng này cách làm bạn có thể thử cách sau:

True: 1 đoạn trong bài text thể hiện nội dung giống với câu hỏi.

False: nội dung trong bài trái ngược với câu hỏi

Not given: nội dung trong bài bị thiếu 1 phần thông tin khiến bạn đủ cơ sở trả lời câu hỏi.

Hy vọng các bạn thấy hiệu quả với cách làm này.


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Hoa Hồng Xanh
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Mình làm thử bài này, các bạn vào cùng thử sức nha.

List of Headings 

i Legislation brings temporary improvements 

ii The increasing speed of suburban development 

iii A new area of academic interest 

iv The impact of environmental extremes on city planning 

v The first campaigns for environmental change 

vi Building cities in earthquake zones 

vii The effect of global warming on cities 

viii Adapting areas surrounding cities to provide resources 

ix Removing the unwanted by-products of city life 

x Providing health information for city dwellers 

1 Section A

2 Section B 

3 Section C

4 Section D

5 Section E

6 Section F

7 Section G Page 2 of 4 

THE US City and the Natural Enviroment


While cities and their metropolitan areas have always interacted with and shaped the natural environment, it is only recently that historians have begun to consider this relationship. During our own time, the tension between natural and urbanized areas has increased, as the spread of metropolitan populations and urban land uses has reshaped and destroyed natural landscapes and environments. 


The relationship between the city and the natural environment has actually been circular, 

with cities having massive effects on the natural environment, while the natural environment, in turn, has profoundly shaped urban configurations. Urban history is filled with stories about how city dwellers contended with the forces of nature that threatened their lives. Nature not only caused many of the annoyances of daily urban life, such as bad weather and pests, but it also gave rise to natural disasters and catastrophes such as floods, fires, and earthquakes. In order to protect themselves and their settlements against the forces of nature, cities built many defences including flood walls and dams, earthquake-resistant buildings, and storage places for food and water. At times, such protective steps sheltered urbanites against the worst natural furies, but often their own actions – such as building under the shadow of volcanoes, or in earthquake-prone zones – exposed them to danger from natural hazards. 


City populations require food, water, fuel, and construction materials, while urban industries need natural materials for production purposes. In order to fulfil these needs, urbanites increasingly had to reach far beyond their boundaries. In the nineteenth century, for instance, the demands of city dwellers for food produced rings of garden farms around cities. In the twentieth century, as urban populations increased, the demand for food drove the rise of large factory farms. Cities also require fresh water supplies in order to exist – engineers built waterworks, dug wells deeper and deeper into the earth looking for groundwater, and dammed and diverted rivers to obtain water supplies for domestic and industrial uses. In the process of obtaining water from distant locales, cities often transformed them, making deserts where there had been fertile agricultural areas. 


Urbanites had to seek locations to dispose of the wastes they produced. Initially, they placed 

wastes on sites within the city, polluting the air, land, and water with industrial and domestic effluents. As cities grew larger, they disposed of their wastes by transporting them to more distant locations. Thus, cities constructed sewerage systems for domestic wastes. They usually discharged the sewage into neighbouring waterways, often polluting the water supply of downstream cities. The air and the land also became dumps for waste disposal. In the late nineteenth century, coal became the preferred fuel for industrial, transportation, and domestic use. But while providing an inexpensive and plentiful energy supply, coal was also very dirty. The cities that used it suffered from air contamination and reduced sunlight, while the cleaning tasks of householders were greatly increased.


In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reformers began demanding urban 

environmental cleanups and public health improvements. Women's groups often took the 

lead in agitating for clean air and clean water, showing a greater concern than men in regard 

to quality of life and health-related issues. The replacement of the horse, first by electric 

trolleys and then by the car, brought about substantial improvements in street and air 

sanitation. The movements demanding clean air, however, and reduction of waterway 

pollution were largely unsuccessful. On balance, urban sanitary conditions were probably 

somewhat better in the 1920s than in the late nineteenth century, but the cost of 

improvement often was the exploitation of urban hinterlands for water supplies, increased 

downstream water pollution, and growing automobile congestion and pollution. 


In the decades after the 1940s, city environments suffered from heavy pollution as they 

sought to cope with increased automobile usage, pollution from industrial production, new 

varieties of chemical pesticides and the wastes of an increasingly consumer-oriented 

economy. Cleaner fuels and smoke control laws largely freed cities during the 1940s and 

1950s of the dense smoke that they had previously suffered from. Improved urban air quality resulted largely from the substitution of natural gas and oil for coal and the replacement of the steam locomotive by the diesel-electric. However, great increases in automobile usage in some larger cities produced the new phenomenon of smog, and air pollution replaced smoke as a major concern. 


During these decades, the suburban out-migration, which had begun in the nineteenth 

century with commuter trains and streetcars and accelerated because of the availability and 

convenience of the automobile, now increased to a torrent, putting major strains on the 

formerly rural and undeveloped metropolitan fringes. To a great extent, suburban layouts 

ignored environmental considerations, making little provision for open space, producing 

endless rows of resource-consuming and fertilizer-dependent lawns, contaminating 

groundwater through leaking septic tanks, and absorbing excessive amounts of fresh water 

and energy. The growth of the outer city since the 1970s reflected a continued preference on 

the part of many people in the western world for space-intensive single-family houses 

surrounded by lawns, for private automobiles over public transit, and for the development of previously untouched areas. Without better planning for land use and environmental 

protection, urban life will, as it has in the past, continue to damage and stress the natural 

environment.

Questions 8 – 13 

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? 

In boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet, write:

  • TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
  • FALSE if the statement contradicts the information 
  • NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this 

8. In the nineteenth century, water was brought into the desert to create productive farming 

land. 

9. Women were often the strongest campaigners for environmental reform. 

10. Reducing urban air and water pollution in the early twentieth century was extremely 

expensive. 

11. The introduction of the car led to increased suburban development. 

12. Suburban lifestyles in many western nations fail to take account of environmental 

protection. 

13. Many governments in the developed world are trying to halt the spread of the suburbs.

Mình làm:

1. iii

 2. iv

 3. viii 

4. ix 

5. v

6. i

7. ii

8. F

9. T

10. T

11. T

12. T

13. NG

Trang Thanh
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Câu 10 theo mình là Not Given

Paragraph E: "Reducing air and water pollution in the early 20th century" có đề cập, nhưng không có ý chỉ nó EXPENSIVE. Đề có nhắc đến từ COST, nhưng cái giá phải trả không phải về mặt kinh tế, mà là về  môi trường:

  • "The movements demanding clean air, however, and reduction of waterway pollution were largely unsuccessful."
  • "the cost of improvement often was the exploitation of urban hinterlands for water supplies, increased downstream water pollution, and growing automobile congestion and pollution."
Vĩnh Thụy
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8. Not Given
nam khanh
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8. False

Trong đoạn C bài văn nói lên điều trái ngược với câu hỏi trong bài luôn mà bạn:

 "In the process of obtaining water from distant locales, cities often transformed them, MAKING deserts where there had been fertile agricultural areas."--> Deserts were created by taking water AWAY, not bringing water INTO them.

Vĩnh Thụy
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Mình còn phân vân 2 câu:

1. Câu 12. Trong câu hỏi có cụm "suburban lifestyles in MANY WESTERN NATION", nhưng trong paragraph G chỉ có 1 cụm nhắc đến "The growth ...in the western world for ", hơn nữa ở cuối bài thế này nữa. Như vậy mình có thể nghĩ cả bài văn này nói về "MANY WESTERN NATIONS" hay không?

2. Câu 11: "suburban out-migration"  có đồng nghĩa với "more people going to live in the suburbs"?

Oops
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Trong câu 6 mình không tìm được thông tin nào nói về "legislation" cả.
Hoa Anh Đào
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Câu 6: Dựa vào câu này:

"Cleaner fuels and smoke control laws largely freed cities during the 1940s and 1950s of the dense smoke that they had previously suffered from."

"Laws"="legislation"

Câu 11: "suburban out-migration"="more people going to live in the suburbs"

Câu 12: Dựa vào câu này: "Without better planning for land use and environmental protection, urban life will, as it has in the past, continue to damage and stress the natural environment." mình biết là bài nói về western world.

Vĩnh Thụy
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Câu 9 sao đúng chứ? Mình nghĩ là NG. Dù là trong đoạn E:

"Women's groups often took the lead in agitating for clean air and clean water, showing a greater concern than men in regard to quality of life and health-related issues."

nhưng sao biết là "strongest" ?!

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