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.
More than 200 reindeer have died of starvation on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with scientists blaming their deaths on climate change. The wild deer carcasses were found on the Arctic islands this summer by researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), which said it had never logged so many deaths at once in 40 years of monitoring the animals' population level. "It's scary to find so many dead animals," project leader Ashild Onvik Pedersen told state broadcaster NRK. "This is an example of how climate change affects nature. It is just sad."
Svalbard's capital Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on earth, is thought to be warming quicker than any other settlement on the planet, climate scientists warned earlier this year. The milder temperatures in the region led to unusually heavy rainfall in December, leaving a thick layer of ice when the precipitation froze. This meant the reindeer could not dig through the hardened tundra to reach the vegetation they graze on in their usual pastures, the NPI said. Svalbard's reindeer have been observed eating seaweed and kelp when food is scarce, but these are less nutritious and cause them stomach problems.
A relatively high number of calves born last year increased the death toll, as the youngest and weakest are often the first to die in harsh conditions. "Some of the mortality is natural because there were so many calves last year. But the large number we see now is due to heavy rain, which is due to global warming," said Ms Onvik Pedersen.
A team of three scientists spent 10 weeks investigating population of the Svalbard reindeer earlier this year. Researchers warned the decline of reindeer would cause unwanted plant species, currently kept in check by the animals' grazing, to spread across Arctic ecosystems in Europe, Asia and North America.
Arctic reindeer and caribou populations have declined 56 per cent in the last two decades, a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last year. The report said food security was partly to blame for falling herd numbers, while warmer summers could also put the animals at greater risk of diseases spread by flies and parasites. The average temperature in Longyearbyen has risen by 3.7C since 1900, more than three times the global average increase of about 1C. In 2016, the entrance to the town's "Doomsday" seed vault – which stores specimens of almost all the world's seeds – was flooded following heavy rainfall.
(Adapted from https://www.independent.co.uk/)
The following are true about capital Longyearbyen, EXCEPT ___________.
A. It is believed to be the most quickly warming settlement on earth.
B. People in Longyearbyen suffered unusually heavy rain at the end of the year.
C. It is the northernmost town on our planet.
D. The reindeer here couldn't stand the low temperature when the precipitation froze.
More than 200 reindeer have died of starvation on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with scientists blaming their deaths on climate change. The wild deer carcasses were found on the Arctic islands this summer by researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), which said it had never logged so many deaths at once in 40 years of monitoring the animals' population level. "It's scary to find so many dead animals," project leader Ashild Onvik Pedersen told state broadcaster NRK. "This is an example of how climate change affects nature. It is just sad."
Svalbard's capital Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on earth, is thought to be warming quicker than any other settlement on the planet, climate scientists warned earlier this year. The milder temperatures in the region led to unusually heavy rainfall in December, leaving a thick layer of ice when the precipitation froze. This meant the reindeer could not dig through the hardened tundra to reach the vegetation they graze on in their usual pastures, the NPI said. Svalbard's reindeer have been observed eating seaweed and kelp when food is scarce, but these are less nutritious and cause them stomach problems.
A relatively high number of calves born last year increased the death toll, as the youngest and weakest are often the first to die in harsh conditions. "Some of the mortality is natural because there were so many calves last year. But the large number we see now is due to heavy rain, which is due to global warming," said Ms Onvik Pedersen.
A team of three scientists spent 10 weeks investigating population of the Svalbard reindeer earlier this year. Researchers warned the decline of reindeer would cause unwanted plant species, currently kept in check by the animals' grazing, to spread across Arctic ecosystems in Europe, Asia and North America.
Arctic reindeer and caribou populations have declined 56 per cent in the last two decades, a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last year. The report said food security was partly to blame for falling herd numbers, while warmer summers could also put the animals at greater risk of diseases spread by flies and parasites. The average temperature in Longyearbyen has risen by 3.7C since 1900, more than three times the global average increase of about 1C. In 2016, the entrance to the town's "Doomsday" seed vault – which stores specimens of almost all the world's seeds – was flooded following heavy rainfall.
(Adapted from https://www.independent.co.uk/)
The following are true about capital Longyearbyen, EXCEPT ___________.
A. It is believed to be the most quickly warming settlement on earth.
B. People in Longyearbyen suffered unusually heavy rain at the end of the year.
C. It is the northernmost town on our planet.
D. The reindeer here couldn't stand the low temperature when the precipitation froze.
Những câu sau đây là đúng về thủ đô Longyearbyen, ngoại trừ _____________.
A. Nơi đây được tin là nơi định cư có tốc độ ấm lên nhanh nhất trên Trái Đất.
B. Người dân ở Longyearbyen phải hứng chịu những cơn mưa lớn bất thường vào cuối năm.
C. Nó là một thị trấn cực bắc trên hành tinh của chúng ta.
D. Loài tuần lộc ở đây không thể chịu được nhiệt độ thấp khi lượng mưa bị đóng băng.
Căn cứ thông tin đoạn 2:
Svalbard's capital Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on earth, is thought to be warming quicker than any other settlement on the planet, climate scientists warned earlier this year. The milder temperatures in the region led to unusually heavy rainfall in December, leaving a thick layer of ice when the precipitation froze. This meant the reindeer could not dig through the hardened tundra to reach the vegetation they graze on in their usual pastures, the NPI said.
(Thủ đô Lonyearbyen của Svalbard, thị trấn cực bắc trên Trái Đất, được cho là có tốc độ ấm lên nhanh hơn bất kì nơi định cư nào trên hành tinh của chúng ta, các nhà khí tượng đã cảnh báo như vậy hồi đầu năm nay. Nhiệt độ ấm hơn trong vùng đã dẫn tới lượng mưa cao bất thường vào tháng 12, để lại một lớp băng dày khi lượng mưa bị đóng băng. Theo NPI, điều này có nghĩa là loài tuần lộc không thể đào xuyên qua lớp băng cứng để kiếm được cỏ trên các cánh đồng như thường lệ).
A. Nơi đây được tin là nơi định cư có tốc độ ấm lên nhanh nhất trên Trái Đất.
B. Người dân ở Longyearbyen phải hứng chịu những cơn mưa lớn bất thường vào cuối năm.
C. Nó là một thị trấn cực bắc trên hành tinh của chúng ta.
D. Loài tuần lộc ở đây không thể chịu được nhiệt độ thấp khi lượng mưa bị đóng băng.
Căn cứ thông tin đoạn 2:
Svalbard's capital Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on earth, is thought to be warming quicker than any other settlement on the planet, climate scientists warned earlier this year. The milder temperatures in the region led to unusually heavy rainfall in December, leaving a thick layer of ice when the precipitation froze. This meant the reindeer could not dig through the hardened tundra to reach the vegetation they graze on in their usual pastures, the NPI said.
(Thủ đô Lonyearbyen của Svalbard, thị trấn cực bắc trên Trái Đất, được cho là có tốc độ ấm lên nhanh hơn bất kì nơi định cư nào trên hành tinh của chúng ta, các nhà khí tượng đã cảnh báo như vậy hồi đầu năm nay. Nhiệt độ ấm hơn trong vùng đã dẫn tới lượng mưa cao bất thường vào tháng 12, để lại một lớp băng dày khi lượng mưa bị đóng băng. Theo NPI, điều này có nghĩa là loài tuần lộc không thể đào xuyên qua lớp băng cứng để kiếm được cỏ trên các cánh đồng như thường lệ).
Đáp án D.