Question

Read the following passage and mark letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

Until recently, hunting for treasure from shipwrecks was mostly fantasy; with recent technological advances, however, the search for sunken treasure has become more popular as a legitimate endeavor. This has caused a debate between those wanting to salvage the wrecks and those wanting to preserve them.

Treasure hunters are spurred on by the thought of finding caches of gold coins or other valuable objects on a sunken ship. One team of salvagers, for instance, searched the wreck of the RMS Republic, which sank outside the Boston harbor in 1900. The search party, using side-scan sonar, a device that projects sound waves across the ocean bottom and produces a profile of the sea floor, located the wreck in just two and a half days. Before the use of this new technology, such searches could take months or years. The team of divers searched the wreck for two months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine, but they did not find the five and a half tons of American Gold Eagle coins they were searching for.

Preservationists focus on the historic value of a ship. They say that even if a shipwreck's treasure does not have a high monetary value, it can be an invaluable source of historic artifacts that are preserved in nearly mint condition. But once a salvage team has scoured a site, much of the archaeological value is lost. Maritime archaeologists who are preservationists worry that the success of salvagers will attract more treasure-hunting expeditions and thus threaten remaining undiscovered wrecks. Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all.

From the passage, you can infer that a preservationist would be most likely to

A. shun treasure-seeking salvagers

B. be a diver

C. put treasures in a museum

D. do archaeological research

Answer 1

A

Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Từ đoạn văn, có thể suy ra những người muốn bảo tồn tàu có thể là người

A. tránh xa việc khai thác của cải          B. làm thợ lặn

C. để của cải (trong tàu chìm) trong bảo tàng         D. thực hiện nghiên cứu khảo cổ

Thông tin: Preservationists focus on the historic value of a ship.[…] Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages. (Những người muốn bảo tồn tập trung vào giá trị lịch sử của một con tàu.[…] Những người muốn bảo tồn đang vận động cơ quan lập pháp để hạn chế việc tìm kiếm tàu chìm và những vụ khai thác trái quy định.)

Đáp án:A