A. FINISH B. FINAL C. END D. CLOSEREAD THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND MARK...

Câu 42: A. finish B. final C. end D. closeRead 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.Most people think that lions only come from Africa. This is understandable because in fact mostlions do come from there but this has not always been the case. If we went back ten thousand years, wewould find that there were lions roaming vast sections of the globe. However now, unfortunately only avery small section of the lion's former habitat remains.Asiatic lions are sub-species of African lions. It is almost a hundred thousand years since theAsiatic lions split off and developed as a sub-species. At one time the Asiatic lion was living as far westas Greece and they were found from there, but in a band that spreads east through various countries of theMiddle East, all the way to India. In museums now, you can see Greek coins that have clear images of theAsiatic lion on them. Most of them are dated at around 500 B.C. However, Europe saw its last Asiaticlions roaming free two thousand years ago. Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiaticlions in the other areas declined steadily, but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappearedfrom everywhere but in India.The Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in India was established especially to protect the Asiatic lion. There arenow around three hundred Asiatic lions in India and almost all of them are in this sanctuary. However,despite living in a sanctuary, which makes them safe from hunters, they still face a number of problemsthat threaten their survival. One of these is the ever-present danger of disease. This is what killed morethan a third of Africa’s Serengeti lions in 1994, and people are fearful that something similar couldhappen in the Gir Sanctuary and kill off many of the Asiatic lions there.India's lions are particular vulnerable because they have a limited gene pool. The reason for this isinteresting is because all of them are descended from a few dozen lions that were saved by a prince whotook a particular interest in them. He was very healthy, and he managed to protect them; otherwise theywould probably have died out completely.When you see the Asiatic lion in India, what you sense is enormous vitality. They are very impressive animals and you would never guess that they have this vulnerability when you look at them.