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Read the passage below carefully, and then choose the best answer
Conservation conflicts arise when natural-resource shortages develop in the face of steadily increasing demands from a growing human population. Controversy frequently surrounds how a resource should be used, or allocated, and for whom. For example, a river may supply water for agricultural irrigation, habitat for fish, and water-generated electricity for a factory. Farmers, fishers, and industry leaders vie for unrestricted access to this river, but such freedom could destroy the resource, and conservation methods are necessary to protect the river for future use.
Conflicts worsen when a natural resource crosses political boundaries. For example, the headwaters, or source, of a major river may be located in a different country than the country through which the river flows. There is no guarantee that the river source will be protected to accommodate resource needs downstream. In addition, the way in which one natural resource is managed has a direct effect upon other natural resources. Cutting down a forest near a river, for instance, increases erosion, the wearing away of topsoil, and can lead to flooding. Eroded soil and silt cloud the river and adversely affect many organisms such as fish and important aquatic plants that require clean, clear freshwater for survival.
Câu hỏi:What does “arise” in line 1 mean?
- A. stand up
- B. sit up
- C. get up
- D. spring up
Lời giải tham khảo:
Đáp án đúng: D
spring up = arise: mọc lên
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CÂU HỎI KHÁC
- Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation: conservation, nation, mention, question.
- Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation: medicine, protect, species, never.
- Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation: variety, pattern, vary, back.
- Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation: painted, protested, fetched, eroded.
- Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation: pollute, develop, constant, provide.
- Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others: conserve, disease, wildlife, expand.
- Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others: illness, slowly, spoken, police.
- Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others: correction, motorway, addition, erosion.
- Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others: damage, pollute, defense, erode.
- Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others: power, autumn, allow, order.
- Select the synonym of the bold and underlined word: To conserve electricity, we are cutting down on our central heating.
- Select the synonym of the bold and underlined word: The loss of much forest is destroying Earth’s plant and animal variety.
- Select the synonym of the bold underlined word: The loss of much forest is destroying Earth’s plant and animal variety.
- Select the synonym of the bold and underlined word: This is especially worrying when there are about 3,000 plants with values as medicines a
- Select the synonym of the bold underlined word: This is especially worrying when there are about 3,000 plants with values as medicines a
- Select the synonym the bold underlined word: This is especially worrying when there are about 3,000 plants with values as medicines against can
- Select the synonym of the bold and underlined word: Man and most animals need a constant supply of water to live.
- Select the synonym of the bold and underlined word: Without plants, most water would run off as soon as it falls, taking away valuable soil.
- Select the synonym of the bold and underlined word: But we can stop adding the problem while scientists search for answers, and laws are pas
- Select the synonym of the bold and underlined word: Each year about fifty hundred species of plants and animals are already being eliminated.
- The bridge is a marvelous work of engineering and _______.
- Work on the production line is monotonous and lacks _______.
- He owns a series of _______ across the US and beyond.
- He says hell tell the authorities but its just an empty ______.
- Im sick of _______-heart liberal politicians.
- In the movie, he plays a concerned and _______ father trying to bring up two teenage children on his own.
- As a child I had an _______ friend called Polly.
- Phone me if there are any new _______.develop developed developing developments
- If you dont have anything _______ to say, Id rather you kept quiet.
- A healthy body will be able to fight off the illness _______ without the use of medicine.
- What does arise” in line 1 mean?stand up sit up get up spring up
- What does supply in line 2 mean?
- What does methods” in line 7 mean?
- Which word in the reading means a promise that something will be done or will happen, especially a written promise by a company to repair or change a
- Which word in the reading means living or growing in, happening in, or connected with water”?
- When do conflicts decline? when natural-resource shortages increase in the features of gradually increasing demands from a rising human population
- What may bring water to agricultural irrigation?
- Which sentence below is not correct?Argument often surrounds how a source should be used, or allocated, and for whom.
- Which sentence below is true? Conflicts improve when a natural resource crosses political borders.
- What is the passage above mainly about? Natural-resource shortages Agricultural irrigation The headwaters of a major river Conservation conflicts
