According to the passage, natural evolutionary change is different from change

Xuất bản: 13/05/2024 - Cập nhật: 13/05/2024 - Tác giả: Chu Huyền

Câu Hỏi:

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
Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which arc the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is iodine, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems. As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of Earth’s ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine eco-common problems is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.
Certainly, there have been periods in Earth’s history when mass extinctions have occurred. The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic. There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and which died out.
However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes themselves that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt- time for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.

According to the passage, natural evolutionary change is different from change caused by humans in that changes caused by humans _______

Đáp án và lời giải

đáp án đúng: A

Trong bài đọc, tác giả nhấn mạnh rằng sự thay đổi do con người gây ra đang diễn ra với tốc độ và quy mô chưa từng có, điều này khác biệt rõ rệt so với những thay đổi tự nhiên diễn ra chậm hơn trong lịch sử Trái Đất. Chỉ trong vòng chưa đầy hai thế kỷ, những hoạt động tàn phá hệ sinh thái biển đã khiến quá trình tiến hóa thay đổi.

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Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.

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