AN IDEAL CITY (TOPIC: ARCHITECTURE)

The period of new growth of interest and activity in the areas of art, literature, and ideas in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries

• Prehistory

  (Thời tiền sử)

• Middle Ages
  (Thời Trung cổ)

• the Renaissance

  (thời kì Phục hưng)

• Bronze Age

  (Thời kì đồ đồng)

Which is the meaning of "embody" in this sentence?

A true Renaissance man, he embodied scientific spirit, artistic talent and humanist sensibilities.

• to protect something from harm (bảo vệ)

• to completely change something so that it is much better (cách mạng hoá)

• to say that an event or action will happen in the future (dự đoán)

• to represent a quality or an idea exactly (hiện thân)

Question: The current climate crisis is predicted to cause more deaths than the plague.

Text: The Renaissance marked the transition (đánh dấu sự chuyển đổi) from the 15th century to modernity (hiện đại) and took place after the spread of the plague (sự lây lan của bệnh dịch hạch) in the 14th century, which caused a global crisis resulting in some 200 million deaths across Europe and Asia.

Today, the world is on the cusp of (ở đỉnh điểm) a climate crisis, which is predicted to cause widespread displacement (di cư), extinctions (tuyệt chủng) and death, if left unaddressed.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Displacement ???

• a serious disease which kills many people

• the situation in which people are forced to leave the place where they normally live

• a situation in which something no longer exists

• a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering

Khủng hoảng khí hậu

Which is the meaning of "catastrophe" in this following sentence?

Then, as now, radical solutions (các giải pháp triệt để) were called for to revolutionize the way people lived and safeguard humanity (bảo vệ nhận loại) against catastrophe

• a sudden event that causes great suffering or destruction

• people in general

• a situation in which businesses, countries, etc. compete against each other very strongly

• a serious and growing problem

Catastrophe (thảm hoạ) = ???

Which is the meaning of "pestilience" in this following sentence?

Around 1486 – after a pestilence that killed half the population in Milan, Italy – Leonardo turned his thoughts to urban planning problems.

• displacement

• , extinctions

• death

• plague

Question: Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘ideal city’ was constructed (xây dựng) in the 15th century.

Text: Around 1486 – after a pestilence that killed half the population in Milan, Italy – Leonardo turned his thoughts to urban planning problems. Following a typical Renaissance trend, he began to work on an ‘ideal city’ project, which – due to its excessive costs – would remain unfulfilled.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Answer explanation

FALSE - ông bắt đầu thực hiện dự án ‘thành phố lý tưởng’, dự án này – do chi phí quá nhiều– nên vẫn chưa được hoàn thành

Question: Poor town planning is a major contributor to climate change.

Text: Yet given that unsustainable urban models are a key cause of global climate change today, it’s only natural to wonder how Leonardo might have changed the shape of modem cities.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NOT GIVEN

Answer explanation

TRUE

unsustainable urban models = Poor town planning

a key cause = a major contributor