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Đề Thi Thử Đại Học Khối A1, D Anh Văn 2013 - Phần 5 - Đề 2

Tham khảo đề thi - kiểm tra 'đề thi thử đại học khối a1, d anh văn 2013 - phần 5 - đề 2', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | PRACTICE TEST 5 Read the following passage and choose the best answer. 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 45 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 Question 1 What is the main idea of this passage A. Searching for wrecks is much .