tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 94 - Adam’s Wine

Hi vọng IELTS Academic Reading Sample 94 - Adam’s Wine sẽ cung cấp những kiến thức bổ ích cho các bạn trong quá trình ôn tập nâng cao kiến thức trước khi bước vào kì thi của mình. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-15 which are based on Reading Passage 94 on the following pages. A D A M S WIN E A A Water is the giver and at the same time the taker of life. It covers most of the surface of the planet we live on and features large in the development of the human race. On present predictions it is an element that is set to assume even greater significance. B Throughout history water has had a huge impact on our lives. Humankind has always had a rather ambiguous relationship with water on the one hand receiving enormous benefit from it not just as a drinking source but as a provider of food and a means whereby to travel and to trade. But forced to live close to water in order to survive and to develop the relationship has not always been peaceful or beneficial. In fact it has been quite the contrary. What has essentially been a necessity for survival has turned out in many instances to have a very destructive and life-threatening side. C Through the ages great floods alternated with long periods of drought have assaulted people and their environment hampering their fragile fight for survival. The dramatic changes to the environment that are now a feature of our daily news are not exactly new fields that were once lush and fertile are now barren lakes and rivers that were once teeming with life are now long gone savannah has been turned to desert. What perhaps is new is our naive wonder when faced with the forces of nature. D Today we are more aware of climatic changes around the world. Floods in far-flung places are instant hews for the whole world. Perhaps these events make us feel better as we face the destruction of our own property by floods and other natural disasters. E In 2002 many parts of Europe suffered severe flood damage running into billions of euros. Properties across the continent collapsed into the sea as waves pounded the coastline wreaking havoc with sea defences. But it was not just the seas. Rivers swollen by .