Đề kiểm tra giữa kì 2 Tiếng Anh Lớp 12 - Năm học 2021-2022 - Trường THPT Đoàn Kết (Có đáp án)

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Read the following passage and choosc the correct answer to cach of the questions from 24 to 28.
(1.25 point)

Rainforests cirele the globe for twenty degrees of latitude on both sides of the cquator. In that
relatively narrow band of the planet, more than half of all the species of plants and animals in the world
make their home. Several hundred different varieties of trees may grow in a single acre, and just one of
those trees may be the habitat for more than ten thousand kinds of spiders, ants, and other insects. More
species of amphibians, birds, insecls, mammals, and reptiles live in rainforests than anywhere else on
carth.

Unfortunately, half of the world”s rainforests have already been destroyed, and at the current rat,
another 25 per cent will be lost by the year 2000. Scientists estimate that as many as fifty million acres
are destroyed annually. In other words, every sixty seconds, one hundred acres of rainforest ¡s being
cleared. When this happens, constant rains erode the former forest floor, the thin layer of soil no longer
supports plant life, and the ecology of the region is altered forever. Thousands of species of plants and
animals are condemned to extinction and since we aren°t able to predict the ramifcations of this loss to a
đelicate global ecology, we don°t know what we may be doïng to the future of the human species as well.
Question 24. What is the point of view that the author expresses in this passage? “

A. The author believes that the rainforest will survive.
B. The author believes that preserving the rainforest is important to the global ecology.
C. The author believes that he can predict the future of global ecology.
D. The author believes that the extinction of species is a natural process.
Question 25. According to the passage, more than half of all the specics of pÌants and animals
A. live in twenty rainforests.
B. live in several hundred different varieties of trees.
€. live in a forty-degree band of latitude.
D. live in areas where the rainforest has been cleared.