Nhận biết (M1)

The verse below is adapted from “A Remembrance of Puerto Cabello—The Mangle,” a poem D. A. Lozano wrote in 1844 and Agnes Blake Poor translated in 1918. Puerto Cabello is a town on Venezuela’s northern coast.

And while outside the tempest is raving o’er the ocean, And the ship is madly driving on some lone and desert shore; Thy warm and land-locked waters swell with an easy motion, And gently glides the light pirogue [canoe] at dipping of the oar.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

• A.

  To stress how fierce a storm is that is expected to reach Puerto Cabello shortly

• B.

  To convey how the speaker regards ordinary daily life in Puerto Cabello

• C.

  To weigh the materials from which two sorts of boat are built

• D.

  To set the calm of the waters at Puerto Cabello against the violence of waters beyond them