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 following questions

Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours. There are two very different types of flatfish and they have evolved in very separate ways. The skates and rays, relatives of the sharks have become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their bodies have grown out sideways to form great “wings” They look as though they have been flattened but have remained symmetrical and “the right way up”. Conversely fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way. There are bony fish which have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction; they are much “taller” than they are wide. They use their whole vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the water as they move. Therefore when their ancestors migrated to the seabed, they lay on one side than on their bellies. However, this raises the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless - In evolution this problem was solved by the lower eye “moving” around the other side. We see this process of moving around enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish. It starts life swimming near the surface, and is symmetrical and vertically flattened, but then the skull starts to grow in a strange asymmetrical twisted fashion, so that one eye for instance the left, moves over the top of the head upwards, an old Picasso - like vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.

The passage is mainly concerned with:

Tác giả đề cập đến cá đuối là ví dụ chó việc các dẹt ____

A. có thể xuất hiện bất thường                                    B. bay

C. dẹt ra theo chiều ngang                                           D. giống với cá mập

Dẫn chứng: The skates and rays, relatives of the sharks have become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their bodies have grown out sideways to form great “wings” They look as though they have been flattened but have remained symmetrical and “the right way up”.

Chọn đáp án là: C

Có thể suy luận từ đoạn văn rằng giai đoạn đầu đời của cá dẹt thì_____

A. thường gây nhầm lẫn        B. khá bình thường       C. rất khó khăn                       D. đầy nguy hiểm

Dẫn chứng: We see this process of moving around enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish.

Chọn đáp án là: C

Có thể suy luận từ đoạn văn rằng cá dẹt ngang _____

A. Có một mắt mỗi bên đầu                                       B. có một mắt bên dưới đầu

C. có hai mắt trên đỉnh                                               D. có mắt chuyển động quanh đầu

Dẫn chứng: It starts life swimming near the surface, and is symmetrical and vertically flattened, but then the skull starts to grow in a strange asymmetrical twisted fashion, so that one eye for instance the left, moves over the top of the head upwards, an old Picasso - like vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.

Chọn đáp án là: C

Từ "conversely" (trái lại) gần nghĩa nhất với_____

A. tương tự                            B. thay thế                    C. nghịch đảo                            D. trái lại

=> conversely = contrarily

 Chọn đáp án là: D

Từ "this" dùng để chỉ _____

A. sự di chuyển của tổ tiên                                         B. thực hành nằm một phía

C. sự cố của một mắt khi nhìn xuống                         D. sự khó khăn của việc chỉ sử dụng được một mắt.

Dẫn chứng: However, this raises the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless - In evolution this problem was solved by the lower eye “moving” around the other side.

Chọn đáp án là: B

Theo đoạn văn, khả năng của một con cá dẹt có xương để di chuyển mắt của mình là ____

A. trung bình                B. yếu                                     C. tuyệt vời                            D. biến

Dẫn chứng: In evolution this problem was solved by the lower eye “moving” around the other side.

Chọn đáp án là: C