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/)