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 from 44 to 50

Carbon dating can be used to estimate the age of any organic natural material; it has been used successfully in archeology to determine the age of ancient artifacts or fossils as well as in a variety of other fields. The principle underlying the use of carbon dating is that carbon is a part of all living things on Earth. Since a radioactive substance such as carbon-14 has a known half-life, the amount of carbon-14 remaining in an object can be used to date that object.

Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,570 years, which means that after that number of years, half of the carbon- 14 atoms have decayed into nitrogen-14. It is the ratio of carbon-14 in that substance that indicates the age of the substance. If, for example, in a particular sample the amount of carbon-14 is roughly equivalent to the amount of nitrogen-14, this indicates that around half of the carbon-14 has decayed into nitrogen-14, and the sample is approximately 5,570 years old.

Carbon dating cannot be used effectively in dating objects that are older than 80,000 years. When objects are that old, much of the carbon-14 has already decayed into nitrogen-14, and the miniscule amount that is left doesn’t provide a reliable measurement of age. In the case of older objects, other age- dating methods are available, methods which use radioactive atoms with longer half-lives than carbon has.

Câu 44 : This passage is mainly about _____.

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Câu 45 : Which of the following is NOT true about carbon-14?

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Câu 46 : The word “it” in paragraph I refers to _________.

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Câu 47 : The word “underlying” in paragraph I could best be replaced by __________.

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Câu 48 : The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses _________.

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Câu 49 : It is implied in the passage that ____________.

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Câu 50 : It can be inferred from the passage that if an item contains more carbon-14 than nitrogen- 14, then the item is  _____________.

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