Thông qua việc giải trực tiếp trên IELTS Academic Reading Sample 110 - The Little Ice Age các bạn sẽ nắm vững cấu trúc đề thi, rèn luyện kỹ năng giải đề, hãy tham khảo và ôn thi thật tốt nhé. Chúc các bạn ôn tập để đạt kết quả cao! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 110. Questions 14-17 Reading Passage 2 has six paragraphs A F. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B and D F from the list of headings below. Write the correct number i ix in boxes 14-17 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i Predicting climatic changes ii The relevance of the Little Ice Age today iii How cities contribute to climate change iv Human impact on the climate v How past climatic conditions can be determined vi A growing need for weather records vii A study covering a thousand years viii People have always responded to climate change ix Enough food at last Example Answer Paragraph A viii 14. Paragraph B Example Answer Paragraph C v 15 Paragraph D 16 Paragraph E 17 Paragraph F 1 ZIM ACADEMY Room 2501 Ocean Group Building 19 Nguyen Trai Thanh Xuan Dist Hanoi THE LITTLE ICE AGE A This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other climatic shifts but before I embark on that let me provide a historical context. We tend to think of climate - as opposed to weather - as something unchanging yet humanity has been at the mercy of climate change for its entire existence with at least eight glacial episodes in the past 730 000 years. Our ancestors adapted to the universal but irregular global warming since the end of the last great Ice Age around 10 000 years ago with dazzling opportunism. They developed strategies for surviving harsh drought cycles decades of heavy rainfall or unaccustomed cold adopted agriculture and stock-raising which revolutionised human life and founded the world s first pre-industrial civilisations in Egypt Mesopotamia and the Americas. But the price of sudden climate change in famine disease and suffering was often high. B The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth century. Only two centuries ago Europe experienced a cycle of bitterly cold winters mountain glaciers in the Swiss Alps .
