ACCORDING TO THE PARAGRAPH 4, WHAT IS THE LESSON THE FATHER WAN...

Câu 34.

According to the paragraph 4, what is the lesson the father wanted to impart to his

children?

A.

Moral lessons can come from the most unexpected and ordinary things.

B.

No matter what season it is outside, you always have to cherish it.

C.

The old age of humans is similar to the winter of nature.

D.

Persevere through the difficulties and better times are sure to come sometime sooner or

later.

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.

More than 200 reindeer have died of starvation on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with

scientists blaming their deaths on climate change. The wild deer carcasses were found on the

Arctic islands this summer by researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), which said

it had never

logged

so many deaths at once in 40 years of monitoring the animals’ population

level. “It’s scary to find so many dead animals,” project leader Ashild Onvik Pedersen told state

broadcaster NRK. “This is an example of how climate change affects nature. It is just sad.”

Svalbard’s capital Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on earth, is thought to be warming

quicker than any other settlement on the planet, climate scientists warned earlier this year. The

milder temperatures in the region led to unusually heavy rainfall in December, leaving a thick

layer of ice when the precipitation froze. This meant the reindeer could not dig through the

hardened tundra to reach the vegetation they graze on in their usual pastures, the NPI said.

Svalbard’s reindeer have been observed eating seaweed and kelp when food is

scarce, but

these

are less nutritious and cause them stomach problems.

A relatively high number of calves born last year increased the death toll, as the youngest and

weakest are often the first to die in harsh conditions. “Some of the mortality is natural because

there were so many calves last year. But the large number we see now is due to heavy rain,

which is due to global warming,” said Ms Onvik Pedersen.

A team of three scientists spent 10 weeks investigating population of the Svalbard reindeer

earlier this year. Researchers warned the decline of reindeer would cause unwanted plant

species, currently kept in check by the animals’ grazing, to spread across Arctic ecosystems in

Europe, Asia and North America.

Arctic reindeer and caribou populations have declined 56 per cent in the last two decades, a

report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last year. The report said

food security was partly to blame for falling herd numbers, while warmer summers could also

put the animals at greater risk of diseases spread by flies and parasites. The average temperature

in Longyearbyen has risen by 3.7C since 1900, more than three times the global average

increase of about 1C. In 2016, the entrance to the town’s “Doomsday” seed vault – which stores

specimens of almost all the world’s seeds – was flooded following heavy rainfall.

(Adapted from https://www.independent.co.uk/)