Việc ôn tập sẽ trở nên đơn giản hơn khi các bạn đã có trong tay IELTS Academic Reading Sample 137. Tham khảo tài liệu không chỉ giúp các bạn củng cố kiến thức mà còn giúp các bạn rèn luyện giải đề, nâng cao tư duy. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-28 which are based on Reading Passage 136 on the following pages. Questions 14-18 Reading Passage 136 has six sections A-F. Choose the most suitable headings for sections A-D and F from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers i-ix in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i The probable effects of the new international trade agreement ii The environmental impact of modern farming iii Farming and soil erosion iv The effects of government policy in rich countries v Governments and management of the environment vi The effects of government policy in poor countries vii Farming and food output viii The effects of government policy on food output ix The new prospects for world trade 14 Section A 15 Section B 16 Section C 17 Section D Example Answer Paragraph E vi 18 Section F Section A The role of governments in environmental management is difficult but inescapable. Sometimes the state tries to manage the resources it owns and does so badly. Often however governments act in an even more harmful way. They actually subsidise the 1 exploitation and consumption of natural resources. A whole range of policies from farmprice support to protection for coal-mining do environmental damage and often make no ZIM ACADEMY Room 2501 Ocean Group Building 19 Nguyen Trai Thanh Xuan Dist Hanoi economic sense. Scrapping them offers a two-fold bonus a cleaner environment and a more efficient economy. Growth and environmentalism can actually go hand in hand if politicians have the courage to confront the vested interest that subsi-dies create. SectionB No activity affects more of the earth s surface than farming. It shapes a third of the planet s land area not counting Antarctica and the proportion Is rising. World food output per head has risen by 4 per cent between the 1970s and 1980s mainly as a result of increases in yields from land already in cultivation but also because more land has been brought under .
