Read again. What country is Dubai in? 

SKIING IN A SHOPPING MALL

Dubai is a city in the United Arab Emirates. Around two million people live there. The Mall of the Emirates is the second-largest mall in Dubai. Over 36 million visitors visit this mall every year. The mall is very big. It’s also very famous, and has over 25 awards.

You can spend the whole day here. It has everything! You can go shopping. You can eat. You can watch a movie or see a play here, too. The Mall of the Emirates has about 500 stores: clothing stores, bookstores, and electronic stores. There are more than 85 restaurants and cafés, two hotels, a movie theater with 14 screens, and a theater. It even has a ski slope. It’s true—you can ski in the desert! It’s hot in Dubai, but it’s very cold on the ski slope.

Read the article quickly. Underline the places you can go to in this mall.

SKIING IN A SHOPPING MALL

Dubai is a city in the United Arab Emirates. Around two million people live there. The Mall of the Emirates is the second-largest mall in Dubai. Over 36 million visitors visit this mall every year. The mall is very big. It’s also very famous, and has over 25 awards.

You can spend the whole day here. It has everything! You can go shopping. You can eat. You can watch a movie or see a play here, too. The Mall of the Emirates has about 500 stores: clothing stores, bookstores, and electronic stores. There are more than 85 restaurants and cafés, two hotels, a movie theater with 14 screens, and a theater. It even has a ski slope. It’s true—you can ski in the desert! It’s hot in Dubai, but it’s very cold on the ski slope.

Question 4: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word.

If you live in a city, you probably see many people, hear the (1) .................... of traffic, and smell the pollution (2) .................................. cars and factories.We are entering a new time in (3) ....................... history of the world. Before this, most (4) .................... were farmers.They lived in the country. Now many people are leaving the farms and moving into the cities. They are looking for better jobs. THe cities are growing very quickly. Most cities are very crowded.People are driving more cars, burning more fuel, (5) ......................... more water, eating more food, making more garbage, and producing more things in factories than (6) ............................. before.Life is becoming difficult.

Some governments are trying to plan the future \. They are building new roads , putting (7) ...................... new houses, looking for more water, and limiting growth in certain areas. Still, city planners are getting worried .People are crowding into the cities (8)....................... than cities can take them. The cities are running out (9).............................. room. WHat is the answer to this problem?

Life in an island community
Off the west coast of Scotland, there are many small island communities. Life in these communities is very different from life in the big cities. People from the cities often say that life in the islands is slow and boring. But the island people tell a different story.
Many families live by fishing or farming, and people usually have more than one job. Many families have rooms for tourists who come to visit the islands in summer. The tourists go walking and fishing and play sports. Sometimes they study Gaelic, the local language. And they stay in a 'bed and breakfast' with a local family or in one of the small island hotels. In the long summer evenings, people meet and talk together. They tell stories of where they live and what they do. 
The children on the islands go to small local schools. They have their classes in English and Gaelic. Sometimes there are only eight or ten children in one school! When they are twelve, they go to secondary school in a bigger town on the island. When they finish that school, they decide whether to go to university in a big city, or to stay and work on the island.
a. Do people on the island mainly do one job?
________________________________________________________________________.
b. What languages do children speak at school?
_______________________________________________________________________.
c. How do people from the cities say about life in the island?
________________________________________________________________________.
d. Do the children go to secondary school when they are twelve?
________________________________________________________________________.

Write a suitable word in each gap to complete the passage.

Today many people in the word are leaving their small villages in the country for big and noisy cities. This means that they are (1)_____ the peaceful hills, mountains, fields and rivers of the countryside for the busy word of streets, buildings, traffic and crowds. In many (2)_____ people come to live in towns and cities because they need word. After one or two factories have been built (3)_____ or near a town, people come to find word and soon an industrial area begins to grow. There is ususlly an erea nearby (4)_____ the factory workers live. The families of these workers need schools, hospitals and markets, so more and more people (5)_____ to live in the area to provide these services - and so a city grows.

Listen to a talk on predictions about our future cities and then fill in the numbered blanks with ONE word. Your browser does not support the audio element.

People have very different oppinions about the cities of the future. Those who are(1)_____think that’s our cities will become more and more polluted, so they will no longer be safe and healthy places to live in. Pessimists point out that both global warming and(2)______have increased rapidly over the past twenty years, but(3)______have no effective ways to control them. There are no signs that this(4)____will be solved in the future. In addition, more and more people are living the countryside and moving to big cities to look for work As a result, cities will become(5)____. This means there will more people, more waste and havier traffic. All these factors will lead to more pollution. On the other hand, (6)_____people believe that city dwellers will have a better life thanks to important achievement in technology and medicine. Modern(7)____and well-equipped hospitals in cities will provide better, quicker and more effective  treatment for people. How about environmental problems? Optmists also think that scientists will find ways to cut down the cost of(8)____energy sources and make them available to everybody. They hope that these energy sources will step by step replace(9)______fuels such as gas, coal and oil in the next twenty years. Then city dwellers will live in a cleaner and healthier(10)_____.

Question 5:

I. Choose the correct word A, B, C or D for each gap to complete the following passage

Today many people int he world are leaving their small villages in the country ( 1 ) ......................... bid and noisy cities. This means that they are leaving the peaceful hills, mountains, fields ( 2 ) ................... rivers of the countryside of the busy world ( 3 ) ....................... streets, bulidings, traffic and crowds.

In many countries people come to live in towns and cities ( 4 ) ...................... they need work.After one or two factories have been built in or near a town, people come ( 5 ) ....................... work and soon an industrial area begins to grow. There ( 6 ) usually an area nearby where the factory workers ( 7 ) ........................ . The families of these workers need schools, hospitals and markets ( 8 ) ......................... more and more people come to live in the area to provide these services and so a city grows

1. A. with B. for C. in D. about

2. A. and B. or C. but D. so

3. A. on B. of C. for D. in

4. A. so B. and C. because D. although

5. A. to find B. find C. to do D. do

6. A. are B. were C. is D. was

7. A. work B. play C. visit D. live

8. A. beacuse B. but C. so D. however