Câu hỏi: 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 35 to 42
Scientists have discovered that for the last 160,000 years, at least, there has been a consistent relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and the average temperature of the planet. The importance of carbon dioxide in regulating the Earth's temperature was confirmed by scientists working in eastern Antarctica. Drilling down into a glacier, they extracted a mile-long cylinder of ice from the hole. The glacier had formed as layer upon layer of snow accumulated year after year. Thus, drilling into the ice was tantamount to drilling back through time.
The deepest sections of the core are composed of water that fell as snow 160,000 years ago. Scientists in Grenoble, France, fractured portions of the core and measured the composition of ancient air released from bubbles in the ice. Instruments were used to measure the ratio of certain isotopes in the frozen water to get an idea of the prevailing atmospheric temperature at the time when that particular bit of water became locked in the glacier.
The result is a remarkable unbroken record of temperature and of atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. Almost every time the chill of an ice age descended on the planet, carbon dioxide levels dropped. When the global temperature dropped 9°F (5°C), carbon dioxide levels dropped to 190 parts per million or so. Generally, as each ice age ended and the Earth basked in a warm interglacial period, carbon dioxide levels were around 280 parts per million. Through the 160,000 years of that ice record, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere fluctuated between 190 and 280 parts per million, but never rose much higher until the Industrial Revolution beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing today.
There is indirect evidence that the link between carbon dioxide levels and global temperature change goes back much further than the glacial record. Carbon dioxide levels may have been much greater than the current concentration during the Carboniferous period, 360 to 285 million years ago. The period was named for a profusion of plant life whose buried remains produced a large fraction of the coal deposits that are being brought to the surface and burned today.
According to the passage, the Carboniferous period was characterized by________
A. a reduction in the number of coal deposits
B. the burning of a large amount of coal
C. an abundance of plants
D. an accelerated rate of glacier formation
Scientists have discovered that for the last 160,000 years, at least, there has been a consistent relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and the average temperature of the planet. The importance of carbon dioxide in regulating the Earth's temperature was confirmed by scientists working in eastern Antarctica. Drilling down into a glacier, they extracted a mile-long cylinder of ice from the hole. The glacier had formed as layer upon layer of snow accumulated year after year. Thus, drilling into the ice was tantamount to drilling back through time.
The deepest sections of the core are composed of water that fell as snow 160,000 years ago. Scientists in Grenoble, France, fractured portions of the core and measured the composition of ancient air released from bubbles in the ice. Instruments were used to measure the ratio of certain isotopes in the frozen water to get an idea of the prevailing atmospheric temperature at the time when that particular bit of water became locked in the glacier.
The result is a remarkable unbroken record of temperature and of atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. Almost every time the chill of an ice age descended on the planet, carbon dioxide levels dropped. When the global temperature dropped 9°F (5°C), carbon dioxide levels dropped to 190 parts per million or so. Generally, as each ice age ended and the Earth basked in a warm interglacial period, carbon dioxide levels were around 280 parts per million. Through the 160,000 years of that ice record, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere fluctuated between 190 and 280 parts per million, but never rose much higher until the Industrial Revolution beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing today.
There is indirect evidence that the link between carbon dioxide levels and global temperature change goes back much further than the glacial record. Carbon dioxide levels may have been much greater than the current concentration during the Carboniferous period, 360 to 285 million years ago. The period was named for a profusion of plant life whose buried remains produced a large fraction of the coal deposits that are being brought to the surface and burned today.
According to the passage, the Carboniferous period was characterized by________
A. a reduction in the number of coal deposits
B. the burning of a large amount of coal
C. an abundance of plants
D. an accelerated rate of glacier formation
Kỹ năng: Đọc
Giải thích:
Theo đoạn văn, thời kì Carboniferous biểu thị bởi:
Sự giảm số lượng mỏ than
Sự đốt cháy lượng than lớn
Sự dồi dào của thực vật
Tốc độ tăng nhanh của sự hình thành sông băng
Đáp án C. Giải thích: Thông tin trong câu:
The period was named for a profusion of plant life whose buried remains produced a large fraction of the coal deposits that are being brought to surface and burned today. (Thời kỳ này được đặt tên vì sự dồi dào về đời sống thực vật mà phần còn lại bị chôn vùi của nó đã tạo ra một phần lớn các mỏ than đang được đưa lên bề mặt và đốt cháy ngày nay)
Giải thích:
Theo đoạn văn, thời kì Carboniferous biểu thị bởi:
Sự giảm số lượng mỏ than
Sự đốt cháy lượng than lớn
Sự dồi dào của thực vật
Tốc độ tăng nhanh của sự hình thành sông băng
Đáp án C. Giải thích: Thông tin trong câu:
The period was named for a profusion of plant life whose buried remains produced a large fraction of the coal deposits that are being brought to surface and burned today. (Thời kỳ này được đặt tên vì sự dồi dào về đời sống thực vật mà phần còn lại bị chôn vùi của nó đã tạo ra một phần lớn các mỏ than đang được đưa lên bề mặt và đốt cháy ngày nay)
Đáp án C.