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Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 34 to 38.
Earthquakes are destructive events in nature. The damage depends on the size or magnitude of the quake. There have never been so many people living in cities in quake zones, and so the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city.
We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a pattern—pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips.
Research in the U.S. may support Kato's theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. When an earthquake hit again, it was years off schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two "slips'—places where the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred.
We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does happen in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.
(Adapted from Reading Explorer 3, Nancy Douglas et al., 2010)
The underlined phrase "the worse the damage" in the passage means ___________.
A. The result of a great earthquake is a tsunami or fire that causes great damage.
B. Greater damage will occur from earthquakes in highly populated cities in danger zones.
C. Tsunamis and fire are caused by big earthquakes that we have not been able to predict.
D. Cities and other populous areas may suffer from worse earthquakes than other places.
Earthquakes are destructive events in nature. The damage depends on the size or magnitude of the quake. There have never been so many people living in cities in quake zones, and so the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city.
We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a pattern—pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips.
Research in the U.S. may support Kato's theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. When an earthquake hit again, it was years off schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two "slips'—places where the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred.
We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does happen in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.
(Adapted from Reading Explorer 3, Nancy Douglas et al., 2010)
The underlined phrase "the worse the damage" in the passage means ___________.
A. The result of a great earthquake is a tsunami or fire that causes great damage.
B. Greater damage will occur from earthquakes in highly populated cities in danger zones.
C. Tsunamis and fire are caused by big earthquakes that we have not been able to predict.
D. Cities and other populous areas may suffer from worse earthquakes than other places.
Cụm từ được gạch chân "the worse the damage" trong đoạn văn có nghĩa là ___________.
A. Kết quả của một trận động đất lớn là sóng thần hoặc hỏa hoạn gây ra thiệt hại lớn.
B. Thiệt hại lớn hơn sẽ xảy ra do động đất ở các thành phố đông dân cư trong vùng nguy hiểm.
C. Sóng thần và hỏa hoạn do những trận động đất lớn gây ra mà chúng ta chưa thể đoán trước được.
D. Các thành phố và các khu vực đông dân khác có thể bị động đất tồi tệ hơn những nơi khác
=> Căn cứ vào ngữ cảnh trong thông tin đoạn đầu:
"The damage depends on the size or magnitude of the quake. There have never been so many people living in cities in quake zones, and so the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city."
(Thiệt hại phụ thuộc vào quy mô hoặc độ lớn của trận động đất. Chưa bao giờ có nhiều người sống ở các thành phố nằm trong vùng động đất, và do đó, thiệt hại có thể càng tồi tệ hơn từ một trận động đất lớn, kéo theo hỏa hoạn, sóng thần và thiệt hại về người, tài sản và có thể là toàn bộ thành phố.)
A. Kết quả của một trận động đất lớn là sóng thần hoặc hỏa hoạn gây ra thiệt hại lớn.
B. Thiệt hại lớn hơn sẽ xảy ra do động đất ở các thành phố đông dân cư trong vùng nguy hiểm.
C. Sóng thần và hỏa hoạn do những trận động đất lớn gây ra mà chúng ta chưa thể đoán trước được.
D. Các thành phố và các khu vực đông dân khác có thể bị động đất tồi tệ hơn những nơi khác
=> Căn cứ vào ngữ cảnh trong thông tin đoạn đầu:
"The damage depends on the size or magnitude of the quake. There have never been so many people living in cities in quake zones, and so the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city."
(Thiệt hại phụ thuộc vào quy mô hoặc độ lớn của trận động đất. Chưa bao giờ có nhiều người sống ở các thành phố nằm trong vùng động đất, và do đó, thiệt hại có thể càng tồi tệ hơn từ một trận động đất lớn, kéo theo hỏa hoạn, sóng thần và thiệt hại về người, tài sản và có thể là toàn bộ thành phố.)
Đáp án B.