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The well-being of America's rural people and places...

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.
The well-being of America's rural people and places depends upon many things - the availability of good-paying jobs; (25) ____________ to critical services such as education, health care, and communication; strong communities; and a healthy natural environment. And, (26) ____________urban America is equally dependent upon these things, the challenges to well-being look very different in rural areas than in urban areas. Small-scale, low-density settlement (27) ____________ make it more costly for communities and businesses to provide critical services. Declining jobs and income in the natural resource-based industries (28) ____________ many rural areas depend on force workers in those industries to find new ways to make a living. Low-skill, low-wage rural manufacturing industries must find new ways to challenge the increasing number of foreign competitors. Distance and remoteness impede many rural areas from being connected to the urban centers of economic activity. Finally, changes in the availability and use of natural resources located in rural areas affect the people who earn a living from those resources and those who (29) ____________ other benefits from them.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (29) is...
A. involve
B. evolve
C. bring
D. derive
Đáp án D: derive
Kiến thức kiểm tra: Sự lựa chọn từ đúng động từ
Giải thích chi tiết:
Cấu trúc "to derive something from something" = "to get something from some thing", nghĩa là "có được cái gì từ cái gì".
Ý nghĩa cả câu: "Finally, changes in the availability and use of natural resources located in rural areas affect the people who earn a living from those resources and those who derive other benefits from them." - Cuối cùng là những thay đổi về lượng và việc khai thác các tài nguyên thiên nhiên ở khu vực nông thôn làm ảnh hưởng đến những người kiếm sống từ những nguồn tài nguyên đó cũng như những người thu lợi từ đó.
Từ "them" cuối cùng thay thế cho cụm "natural resources located in rural areas".
Các phương án khác không phù hợp về nghĩa:
A. involve (v): liên quan đến, bao gồm ("involve somebody/something")
B. evolve (v): tiến hóa, phát triển ("evolve from something into something")
C. bring (v): mang tới ("bring something to something/somebody" hoặc "bring somebody something")
Đáp án D.
 

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