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Text 1:
Everyone wants to reduce pollution. But the pollution problem is (381)______ complicated as it is serious. It is complicated because much pollution is caused by things that benefit people.(382)______, exhaust from automobiles causes a large percentage of air pollution. But the automobile provides transportation for millions of people.
Factories discharge much (383)______ the material that pollutes the air and water, but factories give employment to a large number of people.
Thus, to end or greatly reduce pollution immediately, people would have to stop using many things that benefit them. Most of the people do not want to do that, of course. But pollution can be (384)______ reduced in several ways.
Scientists and engineers can work to find ways to lessen the amount of pollution that such things as automobiles and factories cause. Governments can pass and enforce laws that (385)______ businesses and traffic to stop, or to cut down on certain polluting activities.
Text 2:
Sylvia Earle is one of the world's most famous marine scientists and a National Geographic Explorer-inResidence. She loves to go diving in the ocean. She has spent a lot of her life both in and under the waves. Earle has led more than a hundred expeditions and she set a record for solo diving in 1,000-metre deep water. In total, she has spent more than 7,000 hours underwater.
Earle describes the first time she went to the ocean: ‘I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was thrilling. And since then I have been fascinated by life in the ocean.’
In the past, Earle was the chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the USA. Now one of her jobs is with Google Earth’s Ocean. Earle’s special focus is on developing a global network of areas on the land and in the ocean. This network will protect and support the living systems that are important to the planet. She explains why this is important: ‘When I first went to the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea looked like a blue infinity. It seemed to be too large and too wild to be damaged by the action of people. Then, in a few decades, not thousands of years, the blue wilderness of my childhood disappeared. By the end of the 20th century, about 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, turtles, whales and many other large creatures had disappeared from the Gulf. They had been there for millions of years.’
Some people don’t understand why the ocean is so important to life on Earth. Earle explains that ‘the ocean is the foundation of our life support system. The ocean is alive. The living things in the ocean generate oxygen and take up carbon. If we don‟t have the ocean, we don’t have a planet that works.’
The Gulf of Mexico has had many problems, especially after the Deepwater Horizon Oil disaster of 2010, but Earle says, ‘In 2003 I found positive signs in clear, deep water far from the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was full of life. Large areas of the Gulf are not damaged. Protecting the most important places will be good for the future of the Gulf and for all of us’
Text 3:
The city of Detroit, in the USA, was once compared to Paris. It had a broad river, smart streets and historically important architecture. Then, in the 20th century, it became ‘Motor City’. For a time, most of the world’s cars were made here. There was regular work and a good salary in the motor industry. A worker at one of the car factories could own a home, plus a boat, maybe even a holiday cottage. Some say America’s middle class was born in Detroit – new highways certainly made it easy for workers to move from the city centre to the suburbs in the 1950s. But in the early years of the 21st century, Detroit became America’s poorest big city.
In less than five decades the once lively Motor City lost more than half its population. It became known as a city that was failing, full of ruined buildings, extensive poverty and crime. Newspapers and magazines told stories of derelict homes and empty streets. Photographers went to Detroit to record the strange beauty of buildings and city blocks where nature was taking over again. What went wrong in Detroit?
The city is now 69th among US cities for the number of people per square mile. The population fell for several reasons. Partly, it was because people moved to the suburbs in the 1950s. Then there were the shocking riots in 1967, which scared more people away from the city. Then there was the dramatic fall in car manufacture as companies like General Motors and Chrysler faced huge difficulties. And finally, in 2008, came the global financial crisis. Many of Detroit’s people are poor – half of the city’s families live on less than 25,000 dollars a year.
In 2013, the city did something unusual: it declared itself bankrupt. It was the largest city bankruptcy in US history, at approximately 18-20 billion dollars. Now that the city is free of debt, it has money to do some of what needs to be done. It has replaced about 40,000 streetlights so that places feel safer. The police arrive in answer to calls in less than 20 minutes now, instead of the hour it used to take. And about a hundred empty houses are demolished each week to make space for new buildings. With the nation’s biggest city bankruptcy behind it, Detroit is also attracting investors and young adventurers. The New Economy Initiative gave grants of 10,000 dollars to each of 30 new small businesses. It seems that every week a new business opens in Detroit – grocery stores, juice bars, coffee shops, even bicycle makers. Finally, the city is working again.
Danh sách câu hỏi:
Câu 154:
Not only______to determine the depth of the ocean floor, but it is also used to locate oil.
Not only______to determine the depth of the ocean floor, but it is also used to locate oil.
Câu 279:
It is believed that in the near future robots will be used to doing things such as cooking.
It is believed that in the near future robots will be used to doing things such as cooking.
Câu 299:
It was not until he took off his dark glasses _______ I realized he was a famous film star.
It was not until he took off his dark glasses _______ I realized he was a famous film star.
Câu 313:
As a(n) _______ girl, she found it difficult to socialize with other students in the class.
As a(n) _______ girl, she found it difficult to socialize with other students in the class.
Câu 350:
We've had _________ problems with our new computer that we had to send it back to the shop.
We've had _________ problems with our new computer that we had to send it back to the shop.
Câu 364:
I __________the garden. No sooner had I finished watering it than it came down in torrents.
I __________the garden. No sooner had I finished watering it than it came down in torrents.
Câu 422:
His jokes seemed to ______ a treat with his audience, if their laughter was any indication.
His jokes seemed to ______ a treat with his audience, if their laughter was any indication.
Câu 476:
Her first flight as the captain of a plane was an important _____ in her professional life.
Her first flight as the captain of a plane was an important _____ in her professional life.
Câu 500:
There are ______ that not only governments but also individuals should join hand to tackle.
There are ______ that not only governments but also individuals should join hand to tackle.
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