WHAT IS THE PASSAGE MAINLY ABOUT

Câu 38 (VD):

What is the passage mainly about?

A.

How earthquakes and tsunamis occur.

B.

What kind of damage natural disasters can cause.

C.

Why tsunamis are deadlier than earthquakes.

D.

When earthquakes are the most likely to happen.

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.

Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the

country's impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over

five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada's population passed the 20 million mark. Most of these

surging

growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930s and the war had held

back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued

through the decade of the 1950s, producing a been exceeded only once before in Canada's

history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were population increase of nearly fifteen

percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been settled. Undoubtedly,

the good economic conditions of the 1950s supported a growth in the population, but the

expansion also derived from a

trend

toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average

size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in

the world.

After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling

until 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of

births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society.

Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married

couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards

were cutting down the size of families.

It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller

families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial

Revolution. Although the growth in Canada's population had slowed down by 1966 (the

increase in the first half of the 1960s was only nine percent), another large population wave was

coming over the horizon.

It

would be composed of the children of the children who were born

during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.