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 37 to 43.

A team of Russian scientists has challenged the theory that the woolly mammoths became extinct 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age. The scientists have reported that the beasts may have survived until 2000 B.C. on an island off the coast of Siberia, where researchers uncovered 29 fossilized woolly mammoth teeth ranging in age from 4,000 to 7,000 years. The question to be asked now is, how did these prehistoric pachyderms survive in their island environment? One possibility is that they adapted to their confined surroundings by decreasing their bulk. This theory is based on their smaller tooth size, which has led scientists to believe that they were only 6 feet tall at the shoulder compared with 10 feet of their full-sized counterpart. But would this be enough to enable them to survive thousands of years beyond that of other mammoths? Researchers are still working to uncover the reasons for this isolated group's belated disappearance.

According to the passage, the reason for the disappearance of the mammoths on the island is

A. that the temperature changed

B. is not yet known

C. that they were isolated

D. that larger mammoths killed them

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án B

Dựa theo đoạn văn lí do cho sự biến mất của voi ma mút ở hòn đảo là_______

A. nhiệt độ thay đổi

B. chưa phát hiện ra

C. chúng bị cô lập, cô đơn.

D. những con voi ma mút lớn hơn đã giết chúng

Giải thích: “Researchers are still working to uncover the reasons for this isolated group's belated disappearance” (Nhà nghiên cứu vẫn còn đang làm việc để khám phá lý do biến mất trễ muộn này.)