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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 from 6 to 12.
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop. Uncompromising as it is, the dessert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist-skinned, water–loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found: the giants of the North America desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift–footed, running, and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its populations are largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere in the world. The secret of their adjustment lies in a combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
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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 from 6 to 12.
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop. Uncompromising as it is, the dessert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist-skinned, water–loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found: the giants of the North America desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift–footed, running, and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its populations are largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere in the world. The secret of their adjustment lies in a combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
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Chọn đáp án B.
Giải thích: Dựa vào các ý được liệt kê trong bài.
Dịch: Đời sống động vật trong môi trường sa mạc
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Câu 2:
The word “desiccating” means____.
The word “desiccating” means____.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án C.
Giải thích: desiccating = dry: hút ẩm, rút hết nước, khô cằn.
Dịch: Không khoan nhượng như nó vốn có, sa mạc không tận diệt sự sống mà chỉ có những loài không thể chịu được tác động khắc nghiệt của nó mới bị khai trừ.
Câu 3:
The phrase “those forms” refers to all of the following EXCEPT
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án C.
Giải thích: Dựa vào câu “Uncompromising as it is, the dessert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist-skinned, water–loving animals can exist there.”
Dịch: Không khoan nhượng như nó vốn có, sa mạc không tận diệt sự sống mà chỉ có những loài không thể chịu được tác động khắc nghiệt của nó mới bị khai trừ. Không có động vật da ẩm, ưa nước nào có thể tồn tại ở đó.
Câu 4:
The author states that one characteristic of animals that live in the desert is that they ____.
The author states that one characteristic of animals that live in the desert is that they ____.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án B.
Giải thích: Dựa vào câu “Since desert country is open, it holds more swift–footed, running, and leaping creatures than the tangled forest.”
Dịch: Vì sa mạc vô cùng rộng lớn, nó chứa nhiều sinh vật nhanh nhẹn, chạy và nhảy hơn là trong rừng rậm.
Câu 5:
Which of the following generalizations are supported by the passage?
Which of the following generalizations are supported by the passage?
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án A.
Giải thích: Dựa vào các ý được đưa ra trong bài đọc.
Dịch: Tất cả các sinh vật đều phải thích nghi với môi trường sống của chúng.
Câu 6:
The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to____.
The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to____.
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án D.
Giải thích: Dựa vào câu “None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes.”
Dịch: Không ai có thể sống sót nếu, giống như “điếc không sợ súng”, nếu chúng ra ngoài giữa trưa nắng thì sẽ chết trong vài phút.
Câu 7:
The author mentions all the following as examples of the behavior of desert animals EXCEPT
The author mentions all the following as examples of the behavior of desert animals EXCEPT
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Lời giải của GV VietJack
Chọn đáp án B.
Giải thích: Dựa vào các ý được đưa ra trong bài đọc và loại trừ.
Dịch: chúng ồn ào và hung dữ
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