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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

It is estimated that by 2050 more than two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities, up from about 54 percent today. While the many benefits of organized and efficient cities are well understood, we need to recognize that this rapid, often unplanned urbanization brings risks of profound social instability, risks to critical infrastructure, potential water crises and the potential for devastating spread of disease. These risks can only be further exacerbated as this unprecedented transition from rural to urban areas continues.

How effectively these risks can be addressed will increasingly be determined by how well cities are governed. The increased concentration of people, physical assets, infrastructure and economic activities mean that the risks materializing at the city level will have far greater potential to disrupt society than ever before.

Urbanization is by no means bad by itself. It brings important benefits for economic, cultural and societal development. Well managed cities are both efficient and effective, enabling economies of scale and network effects while reducing the impact on the climate of transportation. As such, an urban model can make economic activity more environmentally-friendly. Further, the proximity and diversity of people can spark innovation and create employment as exchanging ideas breeds new ideas.

But these utopian concepts are threatened by some of the factors driving rapid urbanization. For example, one of the main factors is rural-urban migration, driven by the prospect of greater employment opportunities and the hope of a better life in cities. But rapidly increasing population density can create severe problems, especially if planning efforts are not sufficient to cope with the influx of new inhabitants. The result may, in extreme cases, be widespread poverty. Estimates suggest that 40% of the world's urban expansion is taking place in slums, exacerbating socio-economic disparities and creating unsanitary conditions that facilitate the spread of disease.

The Global Risks 2015 Report looks at four areas that face particularly daunting challenges in the face of rapid and unplanned urbanization: infrastructure, health, climate change, and social instability. In each of these areas we find new risks that can best be managed or, in some cases, transferred through the mechanism of insurance.

The word “that" in paragraph 4 refers to________.

A. unsanitary conditions

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B. disease

C. urban expansion

D. socio-economic disparities

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It is estimated that by 2050 more than two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities, up from about 54 percent today. While the many benefits of organized and efficient cities are well understood, we need to recognize that this rapid, often unplanned urbanization brings risks of profound social instability, risks to critical infrastructure, potential water crises and the potential for devastating spread of disease. These risks can only be further exacerbated as this unprecedented transition from rural to urban areas continues.

 

How effectively these risks can be addressed will increasingly be determined by how well cities are governed. The increased concentration of people, physical assets, infrastructure and economic activities mean that the risks materializing at the city level will have far greater potential to disrupt society than ever before.

Urbanization is by no means bad by itself. It brings important benefits for economic, cultural and societal development. Well managed cities are both efficient and effective, enabling economies of scale and network effects while reducing the impact on the climate of transportation. As such, an urban model can make economic activity more environmentally-friendly. Further, the proximity and diversity of people can spark innovation and create employment as exchanging ideas breeds new ideas.

But these utopian concepts are threatened by some of the factors driving rapid urbanization. For example, one of the main factors is rural-urban migration, driven by the prospect of greater employment opportunities and the hope of a better life in cities. But rapidly increasing population density can create severe problems, especially if planning efforts are not sufficient to cope with the influx of new inhabitants. The result may, in extreme cases, be widespread poverty. Estimates suggest that 40% of the world's urban expansion is taking place in slums, exacerbating socio-economic disparities and creating unsanitary conditions that facilitate the spread of disease.

 

 

The Global Risks 2015 Report looks at four areas that face particularly daunting challenges in the face of rapid and unplanned urbanization: infrastructure, health, climate change, and social instability. In each of these areas we find new risks that can best be managed or, in some cases, transferred through the mechanism of insurance.

 

Ước tính rằng trước năm 2050 hơn 2/3 dân số thế giới sẽ sống ở các thành phố, tăng lên từ khoảng 54% ngày nay. Trong khi thừa nhận nhiều lợi ích từ các thành phố có tổ chức và hiệu quả, chúng ta cần nhận thức rằng sự đô thị hóa nhanh chóng, và thường không có kế hoạch này mang lại các rủi ro về bất ổn xã hội sâu sắc, rủi ro đối với cơ sở hạ tầng quan trọng, khủng hoảng nước tiềm ẩn và khả năng lây lan bệnh dịch. Những rủi ro này chỉ có thể trầm trọng hơn khi quá trình chuyển đổi chưa từng có từ khu vực nông thôn sang thành thị vẫn tiếp diễn.

Mức độ giải quyết hiệu quả những rủi ro này sẽ ngày càng được xác định rõ bằng sự quản lý của các thành phố. Sự tập trung ngày càng gia tăng của con người, tài sản vật chất, cơ sở hạ tầng và các hoạt động kinh tế đồng nghĩa rằng các rủi ro hiện hữu ở cấp độ thành phố sẽ có thể gây rối loạn xã hội hơn bao giờ hết.

Đô thị hóa tự nó không xấu. Nó mang lại những lợi ích quan trọng cho sự phát triển kinh tế, văn hóa và xã hội. Những thành phố được quản lý tốt vừa hiệu quả vừa thành công, thúc đẩy kinh tế theo quy mô và hiệu ứng mạng lưới, đồng thời giảm tác động của giao thông đến khí hậu. Vì thế, một mô hình đô thị có thể khiến hoạt động kinh tế trở nên thân thiện với môi trường hơn. Ngoài ra, sự gần gũi và đa dạng người có thể khơi dậy sự cải tiến và tạo công ăn việc làm do việc trao đổi ý kiến làm sản sinh ra những ý tưởng mới.

Nhưng những khái niệm không tưởng này bị đe dọa bởi một số nhân tố thúc đẩy quá trình đô thị hóa nhanh chóng. Ví dụ, một trong những nhân tố chính là sự di cư nông thôn-thành thị, được xúc tiến bởi triển vọng về cơ hội việc làm tốt hơn và hy vọng về một cuộc sống tốt đẹp hơn ở thành phố. Nhưng mật độ dân số tăng nhanh có thể gây ra các vấn đề nghiêm trọng, nhất là nếu các nỗ lực quy hoạch không đủ để đối phó với làn sóng cư dân mới. Trong một số trường hợp cực đoan, hậu quả có thể là tình trạng nghèo đói diện rộng. Các ước tính cho thấy 40% quá trình mở rộng đô thị trên thế giới đang diễn ra ở các khu ổ chuột, làm trầm trọng thêm sự chênh lệch kinh tế-xã hội và gây ra nhiều tình trạng mất vệ sinh, tạo điều kiện cho sự lây lan dịch bệnh.

Báo cáo rủi to toàn cầu năm 2015 xem xét 4 khía cạnh phải đối mặt với các thách thức đặc biệt khó khăn khi trải qua quá trình đô thị hóa không có kế hoạch: cơ sở hạ tầng, sức khỏe, biến đổi khí hậu, và bất ổn xã hội. Ở mỗi phương diện, chúng ta nhận thấy các rủi ro mới có thể được quản lý tốt nhất, hoặc được chuyển giao trong một số trường hợp, thông qua cơ chế bảo hiểm.

Từ “that” trong đoạn 4 đề cập đến _______.

A. tình trạng thiếu vệ sinh

B. bệnh dịch

C. sự mở rộng đô thị

D. chênh lệch kinh tế-xã hội

Thông tin:

Estimates suggest that 40% of the world's urban expansion is taking place in slums, exacerbating socio-economic disparities and creating unsanitary conditions that facilitate the spread of disease.

(Trong khi thừa nhận nhiều lợi ích từ các thành phố có tổ chức và hiệu quả, chúng ta cần nhận thức rằng sự đô thị hóa nhanh chóng, và thường không có kế hoạch này mang lại các rủi ro về bất ổn xã hội sâu sắc, rủi ro đối với cơ sở hạ tầng quan trọng, khủng hoảng nước tiềm ẩn và khả năng lây lan bệnh dịch.)

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