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Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the questions from 30 to 34.
Most people think that lions only come from Africa. This is understandable because in fact most lions do come from there but this has not always been the case. If we went back ten thousand years we would find that there lions roaming vast sections of the globe. However now, unfortunately only a very small section of the lions' former habitat remains.
Asiatic lions are sub-species of African lions. It is almost a hundred thousand years since the Asiatic lions split off and developed as a subspecies. At one time the Asistic lion was living as far west as Greece and they were found from there, but in a band that spreads east through various countries of the Middle East, all the way to India. In museums now you can see Greek coins that have clear images of the Asiatic lion on them. Most of them are dated at around 500 B. C. However, Europe saw its last Asiatic lion roaming free two thousand years ago. Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiatic lions in the other areas declined steadily, but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappeared from everywhere but in India.
The Gir sanctuary in India was established especially to protect the Asiatic lion. There are now around three hundred Asiastic lions in India and almost all of them are in this sanctuary. However, despite living in a sanctuary, which makes them safe from hunters, they still face a number of problems that threaten their survival. One of these is the ever- present danger of disease. This is what killed more than a third of Africa's Serengeti lions in 1994, and people are fearful that something similar could happen in the Gir Sanctuary and killoff many of the Asiastic lions there.
India's lions are particularly vulnerable because they have a limited gene pool. The reason for this is interesting - it is because all of them are descended from a few dozen lions that were saved by a prince who took a particular interest in them. He was very wealthy, and he managed to protect them otherwise they would probably have died out completely.
When you see the Asiastic lion in India, what you sense is enormous vitality. They are very impressive animals and you would never guess that they had vulnerability when you look at them.
According to the passage, many people believe that lions come from____________.
A. Europe
B. India
C. Middle East
D. Africa
Most people think that lions only come from Africa. This is understandable because in fact most lions do come from there but this has not always been the case. If we went back ten thousand years we would find that there lions roaming vast sections of the globe. However now, unfortunately only a very small section of the lions' former habitat remains.
Asiatic lions are sub-species of African lions. It is almost a hundred thousand years since the Asiatic lions split off and developed as a subspecies. At one time the Asistic lion was living as far west as Greece and they were found from there, but in a band that spreads east through various countries of the Middle East, all the way to India. In museums now you can see Greek coins that have clear images of the Asiatic lion on them. Most of them are dated at around 500 B. C. However, Europe saw its last Asiatic lion roaming free two thousand years ago. Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiatic lions in the other areas declined steadily, but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappeared from everywhere but in India.
The Gir sanctuary in India was established especially to protect the Asiatic lion. There are now around three hundred Asiastic lions in India and almost all of them are in this sanctuary. However, despite living in a sanctuary, which makes them safe from hunters, they still face a number of problems that threaten their survival. One of these is the ever- present danger of disease. This is what killed more than a third of Africa's Serengeti lions in 1994, and people are fearful that something similar could happen in the Gir Sanctuary and killoff many of the Asiastic lions there.
India's lions are particularly vulnerable because they have a limited gene pool. The reason for this is interesting - it is because all of them are descended from a few dozen lions that were saved by a prince who took a particular interest in them. He was very wealthy, and he managed to protect them otherwise they would probably have died out completely.
When you see the Asiastic lion in India, what you sense is enormous vitality. They are very impressive animals and you would never guess that they had vulnerability when you look at them.
According to the passage, many people believe that lions come from____________.
A. Europe
B. India
C. Middle East
D. Africa
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin "Most people think that lions only come from Africa"
Đáp án D.