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1. The movement of people towards cities has accelerated in the past 40 years, particularly in the less developed regions, and the share of the global population living in urban areas has increased from one third in 1960 to 47% (2.8 billion people) in 1999. The world's urban population is now growing by 60 million persons per year, about three times the increase in the rural population.

2. Increasing urbanisation results about equally from births in urban areas and from the continued movement of people from the rural surround. These forces are also feeding the sprawl of urban areas as formerly rural peri-urban settlements become incorporated into nearby cities and as secondary cities, linked by commerce to larger urban centres, grow larger.

3. The proportion of people in developing countries who live in cities has almost doubled since 1960 (from less than 22% to more than 40%), while in more-developed regions the urban share has grown from 61% to 76%. There is a significant association between this population movement from rural to urban areas and declines in average family size.

4. Asia and Africa remain the least urbanised of the developing regions (less than 38% each). Latin America and the Caribbean is more than 75% urban, a level almost equal to those in Europe, Northern America and Japan (all are between 75 and 79%).

5. Urbanisation is projected to continue well into the next century. By 2030, it is expected that nearly 5 billion (61%) of the world's 8.1 billion people will live in cities. The less-developed regions will be more than 57% urban. Latin America and the Caribbean will actually have a greater percentage of inhabitants living in cities than Europe will.

6. Globally, the number of cities with 10 million or more inhabitants is increasing rapidly, and most of these new 'megacities' are in the less-developed regions. In 1960, only New York and Tokyo had more than 10 million people. By 1999, there were 17 cities of more than 10 million people around the world, 13 of these were in less-developed regions. It is projected that there will be 26 megacities by 2015, 22 in less-developed regions (18 will be in Asia); more than 10% of the world's population will live in these cities, up from just 1.7% in megacities in 1950.

(Adapted from: http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsfl/mods/theme_popups/mod/3101s009.html)

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 of the passage?

A. Urbanisation in Asia.   

B. Problems in urbanised areas.

C. Global trends towards urbanisation.  

D. Births in urban areas.

Câu 54:

What percentage of the world population living in urban areas in 1960?

        A. About 33%          B. 47%          C. 60%          D. 38%

Câu 55:

What does the word "declines" in paragraph 3 most closely mean?

        A. gaps        B. expansions          C. moves          D. decreases

Câu 56:

What does the word "who" in paragraph 3 refer to?

        A. countries          B. people          C. cities          D. settlements

Câu 57:

What can be inferred about urbanization in paragraph 3 and 4?

A. Asia and Africa are the most urbanized regions, with urban populations over 75%.

B. Urbanization in more-developed regions has grown slower than in developing countries.

C. Urbanization is associated with smaller family sizes in developing countries.

D. The proportion of people living in cities in developing countries has nearly tripled since 1960.

Câu 58:

Which is NOT true about the projection of urbanisation by 2030?

A. More than 57% of the population in less developed countries will live in cities.

B. Europe will have more inhabitants living in cities than the Caribbean.

C. Nearly 5 billion of the world population will live in cities.

D. Latin America will have more urban inhabitants than Europe.

Câu 59:

What can be inferred about the growth of megacities from the passage?

A. The number of megacities in less-developed regions has been declining since 1960.

B. The growth of megacities is expected to remain concentrated in developed regions.

C. Asia is expected to account for the majority of new megacities by 2015.

D. The global population in megacities will remain at around 1.7% by 2015.

Câu 60:

Based on the information provided in the passage, what is the author's tone?

        A. Critical        B. Neutral        C. Optimistic        D. Informative

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