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What does the phrase “present trends” in paragraph 3...

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the answer to each of the question.
A report from the United Nations given at the conference unveils how worrying the pollution caused by plastic utensils, especially plastic bags, is becoming. In a single minute, the world consumes one million plastic bottles; in a year, the world consumes five billion single-use plastic bags, according to Vietnamplus. The scary fact is that such plastic bottles and bags are not properly treated, as each year, the world discharges 300 million tons of plastic waste, accounting for some 10% of all solid waste, putting the environment and human health under tenterhooks, according to the news site.
The conference also drew attention to another fact: "For a plastic bag that can be used for five minutes, it takes five seconds to produce, one second to discard, but 500 to 1,000 years to become totally decomposed," says Vietnamplus.
In another message given by the UN General Secretary and delivered at the conference, it is reported that since more than eight million tons of plastic bags end up in the oceans each year, "microplastics in the seas now outnumber stars in our galaxy." "If present trends continue, by 2050 our oceans will have more plastic than fish," Dan Tri reports, quoting Caitlin Wiesen, country director of the UN Development Programme in Vietnam.
These above-mentioned fearful facts, however, are not merely global issues, but domestic problems as well, according to local media. Many local news outlets, when relating data from the conference, point out that white pollution – a term used to indicate the overwhelming discharge of plastic bags into the environment – is even getting worse in Vietnam than elsewhere.
(Source: https://english.thesaigontimes.vn)
What does the phrase "present trends" in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Microplastics in the seas now are much more than the stars in the sky.
B. Million tons of plastics bags are discharged into the oceans.
C. It takes 500 to 1,000 years to decompose the whole plastic bags.
D. There are more plastic bags in the oceans than fish.
Cụm từ "present trends" trong đoạn 3 đề cập đến điều gì?
A. Các mảnh nhựa siêu nhỏ trong biển bây giờ còn nhiều hơn cả sao trên trời.
B. Hàng triệu tấn túi nhựa bị thải ra đại dương.
C. Mất khoảng 500- 1000 năm để phân hủy hoàn toàn túi nhựa.
D. Có nhiều túi nhựa trong đại dương hơn là cá.
Căn cứ thông tin đoạn 3:
In another message given by the UN General Secretary and delivered at the conference, it is reported that since more than eight million tons of plastic bags end up in the oceans each year, "microplastics in the seas now outnumber stars in our galaxy." "If present trends continue, by 2050 our oceans will have more plastic than fish," Dan Tri reports.
(Báo Dân Trí dẫn lời, trong một thông điệp khác được trình bày bởi Liên hiệp quốc tại hội nghị, người ta báo cáo rằng hơn 8 triệu tấn túi nhựa đổ xuống địa dương mỗi năm. "các mảnh nhựa siêu nhỏ trong biển bây giờ còn vượt xa cả số sao trên trời". "Nếu xu hướng này tiếp tục tái diễn, đến năm 2050, đại dương chúng ta sẽ có nhiều rác hơn là cá").
Đáp án B.
 

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