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1. How do children learn about wildlife? And is what they learn the sort of thing they should be learning? It is my belief that children should not just be acquiring knowledge of animals but also developing attitudes and feelings towards them based on exposure to the real lives of animals in their natural habitats. But is this happening?

2. Some research in this area indicates that it is not. Learning about animals in school is often completely disconnected from the real lives of real animals, with the result that children often end up with little or no understanding or lasting knowledge of them. They learn factual information about animals, aimed at enabling them to identify them and have various abstract ideas about them, but that is the extent of their learning. Children's storybooks tend to personify animals as characters rather than teach about them.

3. For direct contact with wild and international animals, the only opportunity most children have is visiting a zoo. The educational benefit of this for children is often given as the main reason for doing it but research has shown that zoo visits seldom add to children's knowledge of animals – the animals are simply like exhibits in a museum that the children look at without engaging with them as living creatures. Children who belong to wildlife or environmental organizations or who watch wildlife TV programmes, however, show significantly higher knowledge than any other group of children studied in research. The studies show that if children learn about animals in their natural habitats, particularly through wildlife-based activities, they know more about them than they do as a result of visiting zoos or learning about them in the classroom.

4. Research has also been done into the attitudes of children towards animals. It shows that in general terms, children form strong attachments to individual animals, usually their pets, but do not have strong feelings for animals in general. This attitude is the norm regardless of the amount or kind of learning about animals they have at school. However, those children who watch television wildlife programs show an interest in and affection for wildlife in its natural environment, and their regard for animals in general is higher.

(Adapted from New English File, by Christina Latham -Koenig, Oxford University Press)

Choose an option (A, B, C or D) that best answers each question from 53 to 60.

Câu 53:

What could be the best title for the passage?

A. Zoos: The Best Opportunity to Learn About Animals

B. Methods of Learning About Animals at School

C. Learning About Animals at School

D. Research on Learning About Animals

Câu 54:

What does the author believe children should learn about wildlife?

A. Only factual knowledge about different animal species.

B. How to study animals in a laboratory environment.

C. Attitudes and feelings towards animals through real-life exposure.

D. That animals should always be kept in zoos for observation.

Câu 55:

What is the word "disconnected" in paragraph 2 closest in meaning to?

        A. removed        B. separated        C. disagreed        D. divided

Câu 56:

What opinion does the writer express in the second paragraph?

A. The amount of acquired knowledge about animals at school is adequate.

B. Children's storybooks are an effective way of teaching them about animals.

C. Children's learning about animals at school has the wrong emphasis.

D. What children learn about animals at school is often inaccurate.

Câu 57:

What does the word “their” in the third paragraph refer to?

        A. children        B. animals        C. zoos        D. activities

Câu 58:

According to the third paragraph, which method is most effective for children to learn about animals?

A. Visiting a zoo to see animals in enclosures.

B. Watching wildlife TV programs or joining environmental organizations.

C. Learning about animals in a traditional classroom setting.

D. Observing animal exhibits in museums.  

Câu 59:

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Learning about animals in their natural habitats teaches children more about animals than other methods.

B. Children's storybooks give factual information about animals.

C. Zoo visits have less educational benefit than they are believed to have.

D. The writer raises the issue of the outcome of what children learn about animals.

Câu 60:

What can be inferred from paragraph 4 about children's attitudes to animals?

A. They depend on whether or not they have pets.

B. They differ from what adults might expect them to be.

C. They are based on how much they know about the animals.

D. They are not affected by what they learn about them at school.

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