Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Until recently, hunting for treasure from shipwrecks was mostly fantasy; with recent technological advances, however, the search for sunken treasure has become more popular as a legitimate endeavor. This has caused a debate between those wanting to salvage the wrecks and those wanting to preserve them.
Treasure hunters are spurred on by the thought of finding caches of gold coins or other valuable objects on a sunken ship. One team of salvagers, for instance, searched the wreck of the RMS Republic, which sank outside the Boston harbor in 1900. The search party, using side-scan sonar, a device that projects sound waves across the ocean bottom and produces a profile of the sea floor, located the wreck in just two and a half days. Before the use of this new technology, such searches could take months or years. The team of divers searched the wreck for two months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine, but they did not find the five and a half tons of American Gold Eagle coins they were searching for.
Preservationists focus on the historic value of a ship. They say that even if a shipwreck's treasure does not have a high monetary value, it can be an invaluable source of historic artifacts that are preserved in nearly mint condition. But once a salvage team has scoured a site, much of the archaeological value is lost. Maritime archaeologists who are preservationists worry that the success of salvagers will attract more treasure-hunting expeditions and thus threaten remaining undiscovered wrecks. Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict underwater searches and unregulated salvages. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all.
All of the following were found on the RMS Republic EXCEP____________.
A. wine bottles
B. silver tea services
C. American Gold Eagle coins
D. crystal dinnerware
Đáp án C.
Key words: RMS Republic, EXCEPT
Clue: The team of divers searched the wreck for two months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine, but they did not find the five and a half tons of America Gold Eagle coins they were searching for. - Đội lặn tìm kiếm con tàu trong hai tháng, tìm thấy những dụng cụ uống trà bằng bạc, dụng cụ ăn bằng pha lê, hàng ngàn chai rượu nhưng họ không thấy 5,5 tấn đồng vàng Eagle của Mỹ.
A. wine bottles: chai rượu
B. silver tea services: những dụng cụ uống trà bằng bạc
C. American Gold Eagle coins: đồng vàng Eagle của Mỹ
D. crystal dinnerware: dụng cụ ăn bằng pha lê
Lưu ý đề bài yêu cầu tìm đáp án sai do đó ta chọn đáp án C.