Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the answer to each of the question.
Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It's a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don‘t know it's raining. The trees grow so closely together that rain doesn't always reach the ground.
Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth's surface, about six percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometers. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa. There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast Asia, Northeastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is called the “lungs of our planet” because it produces twenty percent of the world's oxygen. One fifth of the world's fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world's species of animals, plants, and insects live in the Earth's rainforests. Eighty percent of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example, pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came from rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer. With all the good things we get from rainforests, it’s surprising to find that we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres, or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest disappear every second. The forests are being cut down to make fields for cows, to harvest the plants, and to clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable species, the destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world.
Why don't people know it‘s raining in the rainforests?
A. Because the trees grow very tall there.
B. Because they are the habitats of millions of flora and fauna.
C. Because the branches are too dense for the rain to touch the ground.
D. Because it hardly rains in the rainforests.
Đáp án C
Tại sao mọi người lại không biết là trời đang mưa trong rừng mưa nhiệt đới?
A. Bởi vì cây ở đó mọc quá cao.
B. Bởi vì đó là nơi sinh sống của hàng triệu động vật và thực vật.
C. Bởi vì các cành cây ở đó quá dày đặc để mưa có thể chạm tới mặt đất.
D. Bởi vì trời rất ít mưa ở rừng mưa nhiệt đới.
Từ khóa: don’t know/ raining
Căn cứ vào thông tin đoạn 1:
“It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don't know it’s raining. The trees grow so closely together that rain doesn't always reach the ground.” (Trời mưa rất nhiều ở rừng mưa nhiệt đới, nhưng đôi khi bạn không biết là trời đang mưa. Cây cối ở đây mọc dày đặc đến mức mưa không mấy khi chạm đến mặt đất).