Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 40:

Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop. Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist-skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.

Question 40: The word “emaciated” in the passage mostly means__________.

A. large and strong, difficult to control or deal with

B. able to get what one wants in a clever way, especially by tricking or cheating

C. living or growing in natural conditions, not kept in a house or on a farm

D. thin and weak because of lack of food and water

Đáp án và lời giải

Đáp án:D

Lời giải:

Đáp án D

Chữ “emaciated” trong đoạn văn chủ yếu có nghĩa là:

A. lớn và mạnh mẽ, khó kiểm soát hoặc đối phó với

B. có thể có được những gì mình muốn một cách thông minh, đặc biệt là bằng cách lừa hoặc gian lận

C. sống hoặc đang phát triển trong điều kiện tự nhiên, không được giữ trong một ngôi nhà hoặc trên một trang trại

D. mỏng và yếu vì thiếu thực phẩm và nước

“emaciated”: gầy mòn ~ mỏng và yếu vì thiếu thực phẩm và nước

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