Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question.

If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular fluids. In addition to the reptiles, birds, mammals and insects which we see all around us, other groups that have succeeded out of water include scorpions, snails, crustaceans such as woodlice and land crabs, millipedes and centipedes, spiders and various worms. And we mustn't forget the plants, without whose prior invasion of the land, none of the other migrations could have happened.

Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and reproduction. Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again. Seals have only gone part way back. They show us what the intermediates might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs. Whales [including the small whales we call dolphins] and dugongs, with their close cousins, the manatees, ceased to be land creatures altogether and reverted to the full marine habits of their remote ancestors. They don't even come ashore to breed. They do, however, still breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent to the gills of their earlier marine incarnation. Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air. However, they are, in one respect, less fully given back to the water than whales or dugongs, for turtles still lay their eggs on beaches.

There is evidence that all modern turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor which lived before most of the dinosaurs. There are two key fossils called Proganochelys quenstedti and Palaeochersis talampayensis dating from early dinosaur times, which appear to be close to the ancestry of all modern turtles and tortoise. You might wonder how we can tell whether fossil animals lived in land or in water, especially if only fragments are found. Sometimes it's obvious. lchthyosaurs were reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies. The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water. With turtles it is a little less obvious. One way to tell is by

measuring the bones of their forelimbs.

 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Seals are able to live on land and in the water. 

B. Some terrestrial habits were remained when the species reverted to water life. 

C. Apart from breathing and breeding, marine species were expected to change nothing to live on land. 

D. lchthyosaurs might have resembled dolphins.

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án C

Theo đoạn văn, câu nào sau đây không đúng?

A. Hải cẩu có thể sống được ở cả trên cạn lẫn dưới nước.

B. Một vài thói quen trên cạn vẫn được duy trì khi các loài quay trở về sống dưới biển

C. Ngoại trừ hô hấp và sinh sản, các loài dưới nước không phải thay đổi gì khi di chuyển lên cạn

D. Thằn lằn cá có nét tương đồng với cá heo.

Từ khóa: NOT TRUE

Căn cứ thông tin trong đoạn văn:

- "Seals have only gone part way back. They show us what the intermediates might have been like.” (Hải cẩu chỉ quay trở về 1 phần. Chúng cho ta thấy những sinh vật trung gian sống như thế nào)

- "Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air. However, they are, in one respect, less fully given back to the water than whales or dugongs, for turtles still lay their eggs on beaches.” (Rùa đã quay trở lại biển cách đây rất lâu và giống như tất cả những động vật có xương sống trở về sống ở dưới nước, chúng hít thở không khí. Tuy nhiên, xét về một khía cạnh nào đó, chúng trở lại môi trường nước không hoàn toàn như cá voi hoặc có nược, vì rùa vẫn đẻ trứng trên các bãi biển)

- "Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and reproduction." (Di chuyển từ môi trường nước lên cạn đòi hỏi phải thiết kế lại mọi mặt của cuộc sống, bao gồm hô hấp và sinh sản)

- “Ichthyosaurs were reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies. The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water." ( Thằn lằn cá là loài bò sát sống cùng thời với khủng long, với vây cá và cơ thể được  sắp xếp hợp lý. Hóa thạch của chúng trông giống như cá heo và chúng chắc chắn giống cá heo là sống trong môi trường nước)