Lesson 25 – Reading – Unit 7 world population – Sách bài tập tiếng anh 11

Unit 7 sách bài tập tiếng anh 11

READING 

Part 1. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to answer or complete each of the following questions.

The population of the world has increased more in modem times than in all other ages of history combined. World population totalled about 500 million in 1650. It doubled in the period from 1650 – 1850. Today the population is more than six billion. Estimates based on research by the United Nations indicate that it will more than double in the twenty-five years between 2035 and the year 2060.

No one knows the limits of population that the earth can support. Thomas Malthus, an English economist, developed a theory that became widely accepted in the nineteenth century. He suggested that because world population tended to increase more rapidly than food supply, we should continuously constrain available resources. Malthus cited wars; famines, epidemics and other disasters as the usual limitations of population growth. With recent advances in science and technology, including improved agricultural methods and great progresses in medicine, some of the limiting factors in population growth have been lessened, with obvious results. International organizations have recommended programmes to encourage general economic development that target areas along with a decrease in birth rates to effect a lasting solution.

1. Which of the options below is the best title for the passage?

A. Thomas Malthus Theory

B. The United Nations’ Estimate

C. Limiting Factors in Population Growth

D. A Brief History of Population and Overpopulation

2. According to the passage, by the year 2000 the earth’s population should exceed the present figure by how much?

A. over four billion

B. over five billion

C. over six billion

D. over twelve billion

3. Who was Thomas Malthus?

A. a scientist

B. an economist

C. a doctor of medicine        

D. a United Nations’ representative

4. According to the passage, the limiting factors in population growth have been lessened because of________ .

A. improved technology

B. scarcity

C. disasters         

D. precaution

5. What do most experts recommend in order to solve problems of overpopulation?

A. famine and epidemic

B. medical advance and improved agricultural methods

C. economic development and a decline in the birth rates

D. conservation of available resources

Part 2. Read the passage. Fill each blank with one suitable word in the box.

The Sami live in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. There

are only (1)_______thirty-two thousand (32,000) of them, and most

of them (2)_______ in a modem life on the coast or in the forests.

Only a (3)_______of them live a traditional life. These few mountain

Sami are called nomads because they move from one (4)_______ to

another with their reindeer. Their life is (5)_______ the same as it was

a thousand years ago.

In winter the reindeer dig through the snow to find (6)_______for their

food. In spring these plants become very dry, and there are lots of insects.

Then the Sami (7)_______’ their reindeer to the coast. The reindeer live

on the thick grass there until winter. When the snow (8)_______deep,

the Sami and their reindeer begin moving slowly back to their winter homes. There is less snow there.

These nomads live in tents (9)_______ they move so often. They make

shoes, jackets, and pants of reindeer skin. They also wear beautiful blue

and red traditional clothes. They walk or (10)_______ on skis. They

have sleds, too. Reindeer pull the sleds.

Đáp án

Part 1.

1. D

2. C

3. B

4. A

5. C

Part 2. 

1. about	2. live	3. few	4. place	5. almost
6. plants	7. move	8. becomes	9. because	10. travel