Cùng tham IELTS Academic Reading Sample 159 - Endless Harvest để các bạn ôn tập lại các kiến thức đã học, đánh giá năng lực làm bài của mình cũng như làm quen với cấu trúc đề thi để chuẩn bị kì thi được tốt hơn với số điểm cao như mong muốn. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26. which are based on Reading Passage 159 below. Endless Harvest More than two hundred years ago Russian explorers and fur hunters landed on the Aleutian Islands a volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific and learned of a land mass that lay farther to the north. The islands native inhabitants called this land mass Aleyska. the Great Land today we know it as Alaska. The forty-ninth state to join the United States of America in 1959 Alaska is fully one-fifth the size of the mainland 48 - states combined. It shares with Canada the second longest river system in North America and has over half the coastline of the United States. The rivers feed into the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska - cold nutrient-rich waters which support tens of millions of seabirds and over 400 species of fish shellfish crustaceans and mollusks. Taking advantage of this rich bounty Alaska s commercial fisheries have developed into some of the largest in the world. According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game ADF amp G Alaska s commercial fisheries landed hundreds of thousarids of tonnes of shellfish and herring and well over a million tones of ground fish cod sole perch and pollock in 2000. The true cultural heart and soul of Alaska s fisheries quot however is salmon. Salmon notes writer Susan Ewing in The Great Alaska Nature Fact book 4pump through Alaska like blood through a heart bringing rhythmic circulating nourishment to land animals and people. The predictable abundance of salmon allowed some native cultures to flourish and dying spankers quot feed bears eagles other animals and ultimately the soil itself All five species of Pacific salmon - chinook or king chum or dog Coho or silver sockeye or red and pink or humpback - spawn in Alaskan waters and 90 of all Pacific salmon commercially caught in North America arc produced there. Indeed if Alaska was an independent nation it would be the largest producer of wild salmon in the world.
