Question

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 from 43 to 50.

    Very few people in the modern world obtain their food supply by hunting and gathering in the natural environment surrounding their homes. This method of harvesting from nature’s provision is the oldest known subsistence strategy and has been practised for at least the last two million years. It was, indeed, the only way to obtain food until rudimentary farming and the domestication of wild animals were introduced about 10,000 years ago.

    Because hunter-gatherers have fared poorly in comparison with their agricultural cousins, their numbers have dwindled, and they have been forced to live in marginal environments, such as deserts and arctic wastelands. In higher latitudes, the shorter growing seasons have restricted the availability of plant life. Such conditions have caused a greater dependence on hunting, and on fishing along the coasts and waterways. The abundance of vegetation in the lower latitudes of the tropics, on the other hand, has provided a greater opportunity for gathering a variety of plants. In short, the environmental differences have restricted the diet and have limited possibilities for the development of subsistence societies.

    Contemporary hunter-gatherers may help us understand our prehistoric ancestors. We know from the observation of modern hunter-gatherers in both Africa and Alaska that a society based on hunting and gathering must be very mobile. While the entire community camps in a central location, a smaller party harvests the food within a reasonable distance from the camp. When the food in the area has become exhausted, the community moves on to exploit another site. We also notice seasonal migration patterns evolving for most hunter-gatherers, along with a strict division of labor between the sexes. These patterns of behavior may be similar to those practised by mankind during the Paleolithic Period.

According to the passage, studies of contemporary subsistence societies can provide a___.

A. further understanding of prehistoric times

B. broader vision of prehistoric natural environments

C. further understanding of modern subsistence societies

D. deeper insight into the dry-land farming

Answer 1

Đáp án A

Câu này hỏi, “việc nghiên cứu những xã hội sinh tồn tạm thời có thể cung cấp …“.

Nhìn vào câu đầu đoạn 3:

Contemporary hunter-gatherers may help us understand our prehistoric ancestors.

Chú ý chữ prehistoric ancestors (những tổ tiên thời tiền sử).

ancestors nói lên thời đại (times).

Ta bỏ C, D vì chúng không nhắc đến nghĩa của tĩnh từ prehistoric (tiền sử)

Còn A, B. Ở câu B, danh từ mà prehistoric bổ nghĩa là natural environments (môi trường thiên nhiên) => yếu tố thiên nhiên, trong khi theo câu đầu đoạn 3 nói đến yếu tố con người, yếu tố thời đại.

Câu A vừa hội đủ ý này, vừa có thêm danh từ understanding giống động từ understand trong bài.