Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions 30- 35
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man's inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
The word "emaciated" in the passage mostly means .
A. wild
B. unmanageable
C. cunning
D. unhealthy
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man's inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
The word "emaciated" in the passage mostly means .
A. wild
B. unmanageable
C. cunning
D. unhealthy
Câu hỏi từ vựng.
Từ "emaciated" trong đoạn văn gần nghĩa với .
A.wild (adj): hoang dã.
B.unmanageable (adj): không quản lí được.
C.cunning (adj): khéo léo, xảo quyệt.
D. unhealthy (adj): không khỏe mạnh.
Emaciated (adj): gầy gò, hốc hác = D. unhealthy.
Tạm dịch: "Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated" – (Dân số phần lớn là những loài ăn đêm, yên tĩnh, trầm lặng, và ngậy tràn sự im ắng. Tuy nhiên, chúng không hề ốm yếu.).
Từ "emaciated" trong đoạn văn gần nghĩa với .
A.wild (adj): hoang dã.
B.unmanageable (adj): không quản lí được.
C.cunning (adj): khéo léo, xảo quyệt.
D. unhealthy (adj): không khỏe mạnh.
Emaciated (adj): gầy gò, hốc hác = D. unhealthy.
Tạm dịch: "Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated" – (Dân số phần lớn là những loài ăn đêm, yên tĩnh, trầm lặng, và ngậy tràn sự im ắng. Tuy nhiên, chúng không hề ốm yếu.).
Đáp án D.