Question

[Dương Minh]

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.

  Very few people in the modem world obtain their food supply by hunting and gathering in the natural environment surrounding their homes. This method of harvesting from nature’s provision is the oldest known subsistence strategy and has been practised for at least the last two million years. It was, indeed, the only way to obtain food until rudimentary farming and the domestication of wild animals were introduced about 10,000 years ago.

  Because hunter-gatherers have fared poorly in comparison with their agricultural cousins, their numbers have dwindled, and they have been forced to live in marginal environments, such as deserts and arctic wastelands. In higher latitudes, the shorter growing seasons have restricted the availability of plant life. Such conditions have caused a greater dependence on hunting, and on fishing along the coasts and waterways. The abundance of vegetation in the lower latitudes of the tropics, on the other hand, has provided a greater opportunity for gathering a variety of plants. In short, the environmental differences have restricted the diet and have limited possibilities for the development of subsistence societies.

          Contemporary hunter-gatherers may help US understand our prehistoric ancestors. We know from the observation of modem hunter-gatherers in both Africa and Alaska that a society based on hunting and gathering must be very mobile. While the entire community camps in a central location, a smaller party harvests the food within a reasonable distance from the camp. When the food in the area has become exhausted, the community moves on to exploit another site. We also notice seasonal migration patterns evolving for most hunter-gatherers, along with a strict division of labor between the sexes. These patterns of behavior may be similar to those practised by mankind during the Paleolithic Period.

A typical feature of both modem and prehistoric hunter-gatherers is that

A. they live in the forests for all their life

B. they don’t have a healthy and balanced diet

C. they don’t have a strong sense of community

D. they often change their living places

Answer 1

[Nguyen Hoang Hai]

Đáp án D.

Keywords: A typical feature, both modem and prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

Clue: “We know from the observation of modem hunter- gatherers in both Africa and Alaska that a society based on hunting and gathering must be very mobile....When the food in the area has become exhausted, the community moves on to exploit another site”: Từ quan sát những người thợ săn hiện đại ở cả Phi Châu và Alaska chúng ta biết rằng một xã hội dựa vào việc săn bắn và hái lượm phải rất linh hoạt.... Khi thức ăn trong vùng đã cạn kiệt, họ chuyển tới khai thác ở một vùng khác.

Chọn đáp án D. they often change their living places: thường xuyên thay đổi nơi sống là đáp án chính xác và phù hợp nhất.

Các đáp án còn lại không đúng:

A. they live in the forests for all their life: họ sổng trong rừng suốt đời.

B. they don’t have a healthy and balanced diet: họ không có chế độ ăn uống lành mạnh và cân bằng.

C. they don’t have a strong sense of community: họ không có ý thức mạnh mẽ về cộng đồng.