C. Urbanization trends will increase the separation between home and workplace.
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Đáp án C
Dự đoán nào trong đoạn 2 sau đây là không đúng?
A. Dân số thế giới sẽ tăng trưởng đáng kể.
B. Con người sẽ có tuổi thọ dài hơn.
C. Xu hướng đô thị hóa sẽ làm tăng sự ngăn cách giữa nhà và nơi làm việc.
D. Nhiều người dân chọn khu đô thị để sống hơn.
Từ khóa: Predictions/ not true
Căn cứ thông tin đoạn 2:
Demographic changes in world population and population growth will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida thinks urbanization trends will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate driven and erasing the divisions between home and work.
(Sự thay đổi nhân khẩu trong dân số thế giới và tốc độ tăng trưởng dân số chắc chắn sẽ rất nhanh. Nhà sinh vật – toán học của Đại học Rockefeller, Joel Cohen, nói rằng có khả năng đến năm 2050, đa số người dân thế giới sẽ sống ở vùng đô thị, và sẽ có tuổi thọ trung bình cao hơn đáng kể so với mọi người ngày nay. Nhà lý thuyết về thành thị, Richard Florida, cho rằng xu hướng đô thị hóa sẽ tái tạo lại hệ thống giáo dục Hoa Kỳ, làm cho nền kinh tế suy giảm về kinh doanh bất động sản và xóa bỏ sự phân chia giữa nhà ở và nơi làm việc).
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.
THE RISE OF OLDER CITIES
Many older cities are having modern makeovers and they are being given a new (23) ____. Sometimes the impetus for this type of change comes from the need to provide new facilities for particular events being held in the city - a sporting event, or something similar. On other occasions the change just seems to take place almost naturally.
Take Birmingham, for instance, (24) ____ it was previously an unfashionable place to live, it has now become trendy, and this change has been brought about largely by the new-look architecture that can be found everywhere in the city. The old shopping centre has been knocked down and completely rebuilt, and new shopping malls are (25) ________ to attract shoppers with the high quality of their services and goods. The area located around the canal, once hidden away and surrounded by decaying factories was often used as a rubbish tip, but it has now become a trendy place made up of modern offices, bars, sought-after apartments and restaurants. To (26)______ up, Birmingham has become the place to be. Even in what was formerly the poorest part of the city an old factory has been converted into a lively complex of studios, galleries and coffee bars. With its theatres, museums and football teams Birmingham is (27) ____ worth visiting and has something for everyone.
Certain parts of town were restricted to residential use, while others were set aside for industrial or commercial development.
Although many people use the word "milk" to ____ to cows’ milk, it also applies to milk from any animal, including human milk and goat's milk.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Over the last century, there ____ many significant changes in the way we live.
I had no idea that you and he were on such intimate__________. I thought you were only casual acquaintances.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
He's really out of shape, so he'd better start exercising. Otherwise, he won't be able to join us on the hiking trip next monthMark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Many new medicines today eradicate diseases before they become too widespread.
The first time that Gertrude went skiing, she bruised one of her legs and broke another.
