Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.

By mid-century, there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change crisis?

Making predictions is, by nature, a dicey business, but to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Smithsonian magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to weigh in on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is our latest special series, Life in 20 50. Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida

thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.

Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT's Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won't look like "some sort of science -fiction fantasy" or "Star Trek" but it's likely that "discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays, i.e. virtual reality and augmented reality, will change how we live in significant ways. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer, driving more efficient, and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars-driverless trucks-may make long haul drivers obsolete.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to radically transform media, destroying the traditional model of what a news organization is, says author and former New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, who believes the most common kinds of news organizations in the future will be "individuals and small alliances of individuals” reporting and publishing on niche topics.

According to paragraph 4, the following countries are damaged by the migrations, EXCEPT ________.

A. the countries in the Middle East   

B. Germany

C. the United Kingdom

D. the Netherlands

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án A

Theo đoạn văn 4, đất nước nào sau đây bị thiệt hại do những người di cư gây ra?

A. các nước Trung Đông                            B. Đức                       C. Vương quốc Anh   D. Hà Lan

Từ khóa: countries/ damaged/ migrations

Căn cứ thông tin đoạn 4:

“Large migrations from developing countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and countries in the Middle East could disrupt western governments and harm the unity of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the European Union."

(Một lượng lớn người di cư từ các nước đang phát triển như Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Mexico và các nước Trung Đông có thể làm xáo trộn chính phủ các nước Phương Tây và gây hại cho sự thống nhất của các nước Pháp, Đức, Tây Ban Nha, Hà Lan, Bồ Đào Nha và Vương quốc Anh dưới sự bảo trợ của Liên minh châu Âu).