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 28 to 34.
China - Missing Women
In China the growing difference between the genders is giving signals of alarm to Government authorities. According to the latest census figures, 119 boys are born for every 100 girls. [A] This striking difference is expected to shoot up by the year 2020 with almost 40 million unsettled bachelors. This distribution of the social ecology would create havoc in the future. The social leaders are trying to pressurize the masses into producing more females. The Government has embarked on policies extending innumerable incentives to the families bearing girls.
Monetary support, free education, guaranteed employment is being gifted to parents who gift the country with a girl child. The Government is trying to persuade people to suppress their personal preferences and regulate their community behavior according to the new blueprint to stimulate the girl ratio. [B] Sometimes the Government tries to woo them and sometimes it uses stein policies to force them into it
Consequent to the population explosion, the Government introduced, in the 80's, one child policy in China. Any additional pregnancy had to be terminated. This was aimed to put a check on the teeming millions. [C] The policy had no relation to extermination of girl child in the womb. But the policymakers had no idea about its long term impact. People, with a patriarchic mindset, came up with their preference for a single male child. The idea of a happy family became 'parents with a single male child'.
The Chinese culture has always promoted sons over daughters because the society has been dominated by males. In villages, where hard work is needed to sustain the agriculture, a boy is always preferable due to his superior physical strength compared to that of a girl. [D] In such circumstances, looking forward to a male baby seems justified. If people have to limit their families, it is obvious they would prefer a boy over a girl child. This problem has been accentuated by the use of ultrasound scanning which helps determine the sex of the fetus. This technology has played a crucial role in creating gender imbalance.
Which of the following is NOT correct about the one child policy in China?
A. Each Chinese family was allowed to have only one child,
B. Although the additional pregnancy was a girl child, it also had to be terminated.
C. The one child policy was introduced by the Chinese government in the 1980s.
D. With the purpose of controlling the population explosion, the Government introduced one child policy in China.
Đáp án B
Điều nào dưới đây không đúng về chính sách một con ở Trung Quốc?
A. Mỗi gia đình ở Trung Quốc chỉ được phép có một con.
B. Dù thai kì bổ sung có là một bé gái thì cũng phải bị loại bỏ.
C. Chính sách một con được giới thiệu bởi chính phủ Trung Quốc vào những năm 1980.
D. Với mục đích kiểm soát sự bùng nổ dân số, chính phủ đã áp dụng chính sách một con ở Trung Quốc.
Căn cứ vào thông tin sau:
“Any additional pregnancy had to be terminated. This was aimed to put a check on the teeming millions. The policy had no relation to extermination of girl child in the womb." (Bất kỳ thai kỳ bổ sung nào cũng phải chấm dứt. Điều này nhằm mục đích kìm nén hàng triệu người đông đúc. Chính sách này không có liên quan đến việc loại bỏ đứa con gái trong bụng mẹ.)