Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 38.

Sylvia Earle, a marine botanist and one of the foremost deep-sea explorers, has spent over 6,000 hours, more than seven months, underwater. From her earliest years, Earle had an affinity for marine life, and she took her first plunge into the open sea as a teenager. In the years since then she has taken part in a number of landmark underwater projects, from exploratory expeditions around the world to her celebrated “Jim dive” in 1978, which was the deepest solo dive ever made without cable connecting the diver to a support vessel at the surface of the sea.

Clothed in a Jim suit, a futuristic suit of plastic and metal armor, which was secured to a manned submarine, Sylvia Earle plunged vertically into the Pacific Ocean, at times at the speed of 100 feet per minute. On reaching the ocean floor, she was released from the submarine and from that point her only connection to the sub was an 18-foot tether. For the next 2½ hours, Earle roamed the seabed taking notes, collecting 15 specimens, and planting a U.S. flag. Consumed by a desire to descend deeper still, in 1981 she became involved in the design and manufacture of 20 deep-sea submersibles, one of which took her to a depth of 3,000 feet. This did not end Sylvia Earle’s accomplishments.

The main purpose of this passage is _______. 

A. to explore the botany of ocean floor 

B. to present a short biography of Sylvia Earle 

C. to provide an introduction to oceanography 

D. to show the historical importance of the Jim dive 

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Mục đích chính của đoạn văn này là _______.

A. để khám phá thực vật học dưới đáy đại dương

B. để trình bày một đoạn tiểu sử ngắn của Sylvia Earle

C. để giới thiệu về hải dương học

D. để cho thấy tầm quan trọng lịch sử của cú lặn Jim

Thông tin: Sylvia Earle, a marine botanist and one of the foremost deep-sea explorers, has spent over 6,000 hours, more than seven months, underwater.

This did not end Sylvia Earle’s accomplishments.

Tạm dịch: Sylvia Earle, một nhà thực vật học biển và là một trong những nhà thám hiểm biển sâu hàng đầu, đã dành hơn 6.000 giờ, hơn bảy tháng, dưới nước.

Điều này chưa chấm dứt thành tích của Sylvia Earle.

Chọn B