YES/NO/NOT GIVEN

Câu trong bài đọc : European countries are becoming increasingly concerned by major threats to European forests, threats which know no frontiers other than those of geography or climate: air pollution, soil deterioration, the increasing number of forest fires . There has been a growing awareness of the need for countries to get together to co-ordinate their policies. In December 1990, Strasbourg hosted the first Ministerial Conference on the protection of Europe's forests. The conference brought together 31 countries from both Western and Eastern Europe. The preparatory work for the conference had been undertaken at two meetings of experts

Câu hỏi: Forest problems of Mediterranean countries are to be discussed at the next meeting of experts

• True

• False

• Not Given

Câu trong bài đọc: "Their initial task was to decide which of the many forest problems of concern to Europe involved the largest number of countries and might be the subject of joint action. Those confined to particular geographical areas, such as countries bordering the Mediterranean or the Nordic countries, therefore, had to be discarded. However, this does not mean that in future they will be ignored"

Câu hỏi: Problems in Nordic countries were excluded because they are outside the European - Economic Community

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Câu trong bài đọc : "As a whole, European countries see forests as performing a triple function: biological, economic and recreational. The first is to act as a 'green lung' for our planet; by means of photosynthesis, forests produce oxygen through the transformation of solar energy.At the same time, forests provide raw materials for human activities through their constantly renewed production of wood"

Câu hỏi: Forests are a renewable source of raw material

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Câu trong bài đọc: "The ever-increasing human population needs more space. Industries use more and more of the Earth’s natural resources. The result: in less than one hundred years, as many as two hundred known species of birds and mammals have vanished."

Câu hỏi: "The increase of human population and the needs of industries result in the death of lots of birds and mammals."

• Yes

• No

• Not Given

Câu trong bài đọc: “This method required greater planning and advanced knowledge of surveying, mathematics and geometry as both ends of a tunnel had to meet correctly at the center of the mountain"

Câu hỏi: Only experienced builders were employed to construct a tunnel using the counter-excavation method

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

Câu trong bài đọc: "An inscription written on the side of a 428-meter tunnel , built by the Romans as part of the Salde aqueduct system in modern-day Algeria"

Câu hỏi: The information about a problem that occured during the construction of Saldae aqueduct system was found in the ancient book

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

Câu trong bài đọc: “At the national level, the goverments sell logging concessions to raise

money for projects, to pay international debt, or to develop industry”

Câu hỏi : The goverments of poorer tropical countries sell logging concessions to raise money

for projects, to pay international debt, to develop industry, or to build up a strong defense

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN

Câu trong bài đọc : “Willis’ company was active in the tea trade between China and Britain,

where speed could bring shipowners both profits and prestige, so Cutty Sark was design to

make the journey more quickly than ever before”

Câu hỏi: John Willis wanted Cutty Sark to be the fastest tea clipper travelling between the UK

and China

• YES

• NO

• NOT GIVEN