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TRƯỜNG ĐHKHTN – TP.HCM ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC 2014 – Tháng 6/2014
TRUNG TÂM BDVH & LTĐH Môn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút;
(80 câu trắc nghiệm)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer from 16 to 25

The ocean bottom - a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth - is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth's surface, the deep -ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space.

Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation's Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP).Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP's drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a ste ady position on the ocean's surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor.

The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around the world. The Glomar Challenger's core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger's voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that shape the Earth.

The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to understanding the world's past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years, because they are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change - information that may be used to predict future climates.

Question 1: The previous paragraph may discuss about ______.

A. The land B. The ocean C. The frontier D. The earth

Question 2: The author refers to the ocean bottom as a "frontier" because it______.

A. Contains a wide variety of life forms
B. Is not a popular area for scientific research
C. Is an unknown territory
D. Attracts courageous explorers

Question 3: The word "inaccessible" is closest in meaning to______.

A. Unusable B. Unreachable C. Unrecognizable D. Unsafe

Question 4: The author mentions outer space because______.

A. Rock formations in outer space are similar to those found on the ocean floor
B. The Earth's climate millions of years ago was similar to conditions in outer space.
C.It is similar to the ocean floor in being alien to the human environment
D. Techniques used by scientists to explore outer space were similar to those used in ocean exploration

Question 5: Which of the following is NOT true of the Glomar Challenger?

A. It is a type of submarine.
B. It has gone on nearly 100 voyages
C. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1968
D. It is an ongoing project.

Question 6: The word "extracting" is closest in meaning to

A. Breaking B. Removing C. Locating D. Analyzing

Question 7: The deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was______.

A. Composed of geologists form all over the world
B. The first extensive exploration of the ocean bottom
C. An attempt to find new sources of oil and gas
D. Funded entirely by the gas and oil industry