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. 

People travel for a lot of reasons: Some tourists go to see battlefields or religious shrines. Others are looking for culture, or simply want to have their pictures taken in front of famous places. But most European tourists are looking for a sunny beach to lie on. 

Northern Europeans are willing to pay a lot of money and put up with a lot of inconveniences for the sun because they have so little of it. Residents of cities like London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam spend a tot of their winter in the dark because the days are so short, and much of the rest of the year in the rain. This is the reason why the Mediterranean has always attracted them. Every summer, more than 25 million people travel to Mediterranean resorts and beaches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason, sun!

The huge crowds mean lots of money for the economies of Mediterranean countries. Italy’s 30,000 hotels are booked solid every summer. And 13 million people camp out on French beaches, parks and roadsides. Spain’s long sandy coastline attracts more people than anywhere else. 37 million tourists visit yearly, or one tourist for every person living in Spain.

But there are signs that the area is getting more tourists than it can handle. The Mediterranean is already one of the most polluted seas on earth. And with increased tourism, it’s getting worse. The French can’t figure out what to do with all the garbage left by campers around St. Tropez. And in many places, swimming is dangerous because of pollution. 

          None of this, however, is spoiling anyone’s fun. The Mediterranean gets more popular every year with tourists. Obviously, they don’t go there for clean water and solitude. They tolerate traffic jams and seem to like crowded beaches. They don’t even mind the pollution. No matter how dirty the water is, the coastline still looks beautiful. And as long as the sun shines, it’s still better than sitting in the cold rain in Berlin, London, or Oslo.

The latter half of the last sentence in paragraph 3, “or one tourist for every person living in Spain” means _____.

A. every Spanish is visited by a tourist every year.

B. every person living in Spain has to take care of a tourist annually.

C. every  year  almost  as  many  tourists  visit  Spain  as  there  are  people  living  in  that country.

D. all the 37 million people living in Spain are tourists.

Answer 1

Đáp án C

Nửa phần sau của câu cuối đoạn 3: “mỗi du khách đều tương đương với mỗi người dân sống ở Tây Ban Nha” có nghĩa là _______.

A. Mỗi năm, người dân Tây Ban Nha lại được 1 khách du lịch tới thăm.

B. Mỗi người dân Tây Ban Nha phải chăm sóc 1 khách du lịch vào hằng năm.

C. Hằng năm, gần như số khách du lịch tới Tây Ban Nha tương đương với số dân cư sống tại đây.
D. Có tất cả 37 triệu người sống ở Tây Ban Nha là khách du lịch.

Giải nghĩa: “Spain’s long sandy coastline attracts more people than anywhere else. 37 million tourists visit yearly, or one tourist for every person living in Spain.”– (Những bờ cát dài ở Tây Ban Nha thu hút nhiều khách du lịch hơn bất cứ nơi nào khác. Có 37 triệu du khách tới thăm hằng năm, hoặc có thể nói rằng mỗi du khách đều tương đương với mỗi người dân sống ở đây). => Hằng năm Tây Ban Nha tiếp đón 37 triệu du khách, số lượng này bằng với số dân cư ở Tây Ban Nha.