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Read the following passage and blacken the 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.

The author uses the phrase "mint condition" in line 14 to describe______.

A. something perfect

Đáp án chính xác

B. something significant

C. something tolerant

D. something magical

Trả lời:

verified Giải bởi Vietjack

Đáp án A.

Key words: mint condition, line 14, describe

A. something perfect: điều gì đó hoàn hảo

B. something significant: điều gì đó quan trọng

C. something tolerant: điều gì đó có thể chịu đựng được

D. something magical: điều gì đó kì diệu

In mint condition: mới toanh, vậy đáp án chính xác là đáp án A vì cái gì đó mới toanh cũng có nghĩa là nó đang ở trong trạng thái hoàn hảo nhất của nó.

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