It is stated in the passage that Jason Niebler

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 below.

The concept of urban agriculture may conjure up images of rooftop, backyard or community gardens scattered among downtown city streets and surrounding neighborhoods. But in the Seattle area, and within and beyond the Puget Sound region, it means a great deal more. “Urban agriculture doesn’t necessarily equate to production that occurs only in a metropolitan urban area,” says Jason Niebler, who directs the Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAgE) Initiative at Seattle Central Community College. “It means we are providing for growing population food needs from surrounding rural landscapes, as well as from the core urban landscape.”
Picture a series of concentric circles, with an urban core that produces some food at varying capacities, surrounded by a series of outlying rings of small farms that become increasingly more rural with distance. The hope is that such land use planning, from the inner core to the outer rings, will encourage local ecologically sound sustainable food production. This, in turn, will create local jobs and decrease reliance on distant food products that originate from petroleum-intensive large scale farms.
That’s the idea behind SAgE, believed to be the nation’s first metropolitan-based community college sustainable agriculture program that emphasizes farming practices across diverse landscape types from urban centers to surrounding rural environs. “It’s small scale agriculture with an urban focus,” Niebler says. “Any urban population, large or small, can practice sustainable agriculture, improve food security and protect the environment, which ultimately results in resilient food systems and communities.”
SAgE is a part of the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program, which is providing the project with $157,375 over two years. ATE’s goal is to support projects that strengthen the skills of technicians who work in industries regarded as vital to the nation’s prosperity and security. The support largely goes to community colleges that work in partnership with universities, secondary schools, businesses and industries, as well as government agencies, which design and implement model workforce initiatives.
The SAgE project focuses on the environmental, socioeconomic, political and cultural issues related to sustainable food systems within Puget Sound watersheds through student and community education and research, and technological innovation. The curriculum offers courses that cover such issues as agricultural ecology, urban food systems, food politics and ethics, soil science, sustainable food production and technology, the integration of food and forests, and career opportunities.
“We’ve created a curriculum that is fundamental in nature, addressing the principles of sustainable agriculture and what a food system is – how it functions both locally and globally,” Niebler says. “These courses are challenging, robust and inspirational. One of the really wonderful things about them is that we offer service learning opportunities, where students volunteer a portion of their time to working with local partner organizations. They can do a research project, or a service learning option. The ideal would be to prompt students into careers that involve sustainable practices in an urban agriculture setting.”

Adapted from “Promoting Sustainable Agriculture” by Marlene Cimons

It is stated in the passage that Jason Niebler ______.

• A. preserves the core urban landscape
• B. provides food for Seattle’s population
• C. studies at Seattle Central Community College
• D. directs the SAgE Initiative

• Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 25295

  It can be inferred from the passage that the conventional idea of urban agriculture ______.

  • A. focuses mainly on agriculture within and beyond the Puget Sound region
  • B. aims at food production and consumption in both rural and urban regions
  • C. is associated with production only in metropolitan urban areas
  • D. concerns with food production in any city’s surrounding areas

• Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 25296

  The word “concentric” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.

  • A. coming from different places
  • B. having the same size
  • C. going in different directions
  • D. having the same center

• Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 25297

  Which of the following is supposed to be an outcome of the SAgE’s new land use planning?

  • A. Dependence on distant food products
  • B. Increased food production in large scale farms
  • C. Employment opportunities for local residents
  • D. Modernized farming practices in rural environs

• Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 25298

  The phrase “in partnership with” in paragraph 4 probably means ______.

  • A. together with
  • B. in addition to
  • C. in place of
  • D. instead of

• Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 25299

  The curriculum of SAgE at Seattle Central Community College offers courses covering the following EXCEPT ______.

  • A. agricultural ecology
  • B. career opportunities
  • C. urban system development
  • D. integration of food and forests

• Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 25300

  In Niebler’s opinion, the courses offered by the SAgE project are ______.

  • A. functional but impractical
  • B. robust but unpromising
  • C. challenging and costly
  • D. hard but encouraging

• Câu 8: Mã câu hỏi: 25301

  The word “them” in paragraph 6 refers to ______.

  • A. courses
  • B. opportunities
  • C. principles
  • D. students

• Câu 9: Mã câu hỏi: 25302

  Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

  • A. The curriculum that the SAgE project designs is fundamental in nature.
  • B. The SAgE project alone will offer students sufficient jobs in urban agriculture.
  • C. ATE helps to improve the skills of technicians in the nation’s major industries.
  • D. Resilient food systems can be attributed to sustainable agricultural practices.

• Câu 10: Mã câu hỏi: 25303

  Which of the following best describes the author’s tone in the passage?

  • A. Skeptical
  • B. Provocative
  • C. Supportive
  • D. Satirical

• Câu 11: Mã câu hỏi: 35056

  Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

  • A. The curriculum that the SAgE project designs is fundamental in nature.
  • B. The SAgE project alone will offer students sufficient jobs in urban agriculture. 
  • C. ATE helps to improve the skills of technicians in the nation’s major industries. 
  • D. Resilient food systems can be attributed to sustainable agricultural practices.