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://traloihay.net)