Question

[Linh Anh]

      Read the following passage and choose the best option to indicate the correct answer to the following question.

        More than two hundred years ago, the term "environment pollution" is quite strange to people. They live healthily, drank pure water, and breathed fresh air. In those days, industry was not well-developed. Nowadays, the situation is quite different. The world today is faced with any major threats. The most dangerous threat of all is war, and after the threat of war is pollution. People all over the world are worried about things that are happening to the environment. Actually, it is man that is destroying the surroundings with any kinds of wastes from the devices that make human lives more comfortable and convenient. Everybody knows that cars emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous air and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycles. Manufacturers know that wastes from factories make water and soil polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on treating wastes safely. Scattering rubbish is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about pollution?

 38.  More than two hundred years ago __________ .

             A. the environment was polluted as much as it today.

             B. people were faced with pollution

             C. air was polluted badly

             D. people knew nothing about environmental pollution.

39.  The most dangerous threat that the world is faced with is _________ .

             A. water                       B. pollution                    C. air                               D. war

40. Everybody knows that cars emit dangerous gases __________.

             A. but they still prefer travelling by cars             B. so they do not travel by car any longer

             C. so they prefer travelling by bicycles               D. they no longer use cars

41. In former days, people ____________ .

             A. breathed fresh air, drank pure water and lived healthily

             B. lived in the polluted environment

             C. breathed polluted air, drank pure water and lived healthily

             D. were worried about pollution

42. Factory owners _____________ .

             A. have no awareness of pollution

             B. do not want spend money on treating the wastes safely

             C. treat wastes from their factories safely

             D. know nothing about pollution