Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Coincident with concerns about the accelerating loss of species and habitats has been a growing appreciation of the importance of biological diversity, the (18) ______ of species in a particular ecosystem, to the health of the Earth and human well-being. Much has been written about the diversity of terrestrial organisms, particularly the exceptionally rich life associated tropical rainforest habitats. Relatively little has been said, (19) ______, about the diversity of life in the sea even though coral reef systems are comparable to rain forest in terms of richness of life.
An alien exploring Earth would probably (20) ______ priority to the planet's dominants – most distinctive feature - the ocean. Humans have a bias toward land (21) ______ sometimes gets in the way of truly examining global issues. Seen from far away, it is easy to realize that landmasses occupy only one-third of the Earth's surface. Given that two thirds of the Earth's surface is water and that marine life lives at all levels of the ocean, the total three-dimensional living space of the ocean is perhaps 100 times (22) ______ than that of land and contains more than 90 percent of all life on Earth even though the ocean has fewer distinct species.
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án A
Giải thích:
A. the number of + N đếm được dạng số nhiều: số lượng cái gì
B. a few of + N đếm được dạng số nhiều: một vài cái gì
C. each of + mạo từ/ đại từ đóng vai trò làm tân ngữ dạng số nhiều: mỗi cái gì/ ai
D. the amount of + N không đếm được: một lượng cái gì
Danh từ “species” là danh từ đếm được dạng số nhiều => loại C, D.
Trước chỗ trống có “the” => loại B.
Coincident with concerns about the accelerating loss of species and habitats has been a growing appreciation of the importance of biological diversity, the (18) number of species in a particular ecosystem, to the health of the Earth and human well-being.
Tạm dịch: Cùng với những lo ngại về sự biến mất ngày càng gia tăng của các loài sinh vật và môi trường sống là nhận thức được nâng cao về tầm quan trọng của sự đa dạng sinh học, số lượng loài trong một hệ sinh thái đặc thù, đối với sự tồn vong của Trái đất và con người.
Chọn A.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheer to indicate the option the best completes the following exchanges
Jenny and Peter are talking about Peter's coat.
Jenny: "Wow! What a nice coat you are wearing!" – Peter: "___________”
Children love playing in the mud, to run through the paddles, and getting very dirty.
After marriage, Mrs. Hoa always keeps a good ______ with her mother-in-law.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheer to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Until the invention of the telephone, skyscrapers were not considered very practicable.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheer to indicate the corrected answer to each of the following questions
