Câu hỏi: A desert is a hostile, potentially deadly environment for unprepared humans. In hot deserts, high temperatures cause rapid loss of water due to sweating, and the absence of water sources with which to replenish it can result in dehydration and death within a few days. In addition, unprotected humans are also at risk from heatstroke. Humans may also have to adapt to sandstorms in some deserts, not just in their adverse effects on respiratory systems and eyes, but also in their potentially harmful effects on equipment such as filters, vehicles and communication equipment. Sandstorms can last for hours, sometimes even days. Despite this, some cultures have made hot deserts 'their home for thousands of years, including the Bedouin, Tuareg tribe, and Pueblo people. Modern technology, including advanced irrigation systems, desalinization and air conditioning, has made deserts much more hospitable. In the United States and Israel for example, desert farming has found extensive use. In cold deserts, hypothermia and frostbite are the chief hazards, as well as dehydration in the absence of a source of heat to melt ice for drinking. Falling through pack-ice or surface ice layers into freezing water is a particular danger requiring emergency action to prevent rapid hypothermia. Starvation is also a hazard; in low temperatures the body requires much more food energy to maintain body heat and to move. As with hot deserts, some people such as the Inuit have adapted to the harsh conditions of cold deserts.

A. troubles that human beings have to face in a desert 

B. desert storms and desert inhabitants

C. hot deserts and cold deserts in the United States

D. desert hospitality and environment 

Câu 1: What can the reader learn about Aitchison from the text?

A. He works in a different way from other artists. 

B. He often gets bored with his paintings.

C. He improved his drawing by going to art school.

D. He did some paintings for the Italian government.

Câu 2: What is the passage mainly about? 

A. A doctor

B. A teacher

C. A dentist 

D. An artist 

Câu 3: DO YOU DRINK TOO MUCH COFFEE?

A. A letter

B. A table

C. An article

D. A memo

Câu 4: What does the reader learn about Kal's parents?

A. They wanted Kal to help them run the family business.

B. They did not realise that Kal wanted to work in fashion.

C. They insisted Kal should continue with her job in advertising.

D. They did not think Kal worked hard enough at university. 

Câu 5: Kal decided to borrow £20,000 when…… 

A. all her clothes in the London shop were sold. 

B. her friends asked her to make clothes for them.

C. she lost her job at the advertising agency.

D. the fashion industry was in a period of growth.

Câu 6: What might a visitor at an exhibition say about Atchison's work?

A. I love his recent paintings of Scotland, which are very similar to a number of other Scottish painters.

B. You can still see the influence of his trip to Italy in some of these pictures.

C. You can tell he spent a lot of time drawing the picture before he started painting. 

D. I wonder if his law training helps him at all, especially in the selling his work.