Saving the Environment: One Home at a Time

Pollution can be seen not only throughout the world, but also in our own homes. It comes from household chemicals, the amount of water people use and the waste people produce and throw away. What can be done to stop this pollution? Surprisingly, a person can help save the environment by doing simple things.

First, we need to recycle, which allows products to be used over and over again. Recycling can also reduce the number of trees cut down to produce paper products. It takes very little effort. It is not hard to place plastic and glass bottles, aluminum cans and paper in a bin. Anyone can do it.

Second, we need to watch the amount of water used at home. It can be conserved by taking short showers instead of baths, repairing leaky faucets, using the dishwasher or washing machine only when fully loaded, or simply turning the faucet off while brushing your teeth.

Third, we need to reduce waste. We need to recycle whenever possible, but shouldalso try to use this waste effectively. For example, grass clippings and food scraps can be made into compost for plants. The average person produces 4.3 pounds of waste every day, but we can reduce that amount by recycling and reusing.

If we do our part in our own homes, we can help keep the planet from becoming more polluted.

1. Pollution is caused from the following sources except .

A. water in rivers B. water from households

C.wastes D. house chemicals

2. Recycling can help us .

A. never cut down trees B. produce more paper products

C.place garbage bins easily D. use products again and again

3. In order to save water, we can do all of the following things except .

A. fully use the washing machine

B.repair leaky faucets

C. take short showers instead of baths

D.turn the faucet off while brushing your teeth

4. Recycling helps to reduce waste because .

A. plants need to develop

B.waste can be recycled and reused

C.a person can do it in his home

D.an average man produces compost for plants

5. The word “It” in paragraph 2 refers to .

A. cutting down B. the number

C. recycling D. effort

1.There are two ....one at the front and one round the back(enter)

2.Thank you for a very....avening at your house(enjoy)

3.We can find lots of....and drinks at the supermarket(feed)

4.All the people walked in a ......dicrection (south_

5.There are three .a day from the post box on the corner(collect)

6.Every summer thousands of people flock to the.....(country)

7.We stopped at some ......shops to buy some food(near)

8.I can see the .......between you and your mother (similar)

9I have great .......for her as a writer (admire)

10.They met at a social ......organized by the company (gather)

I. Give the corect forrm of the words
1. Students can join one of our ___?_____ to clean rivers and beaches all around Vietnam. (CLEANUP)
2. We are taking these old newspaper to the    __?_______     bins in town. (RECYCLE)
3. You can help by _______?___ money to the charity. (DONATE)
4. We can ___?______ empty glass jars to store food, like jam and nuts. (USE)
5. Trees are very ____?____. They give food to people and animals. (USE)
6. Act Green Vietnam is an _____?____     charity in Ho Chi Minh city.

IV. Read the passage carefully, then do the tasks.

Tokyo, the City with the World’s Largest Population Density

As of 2018, the world population has climbed to around 7.3 billion people and is expected to reach
10 billion people by 2050. There’s a steady increase in Europe and the United States, while the Middle
East, Asia, and Africa are expected to grow even more in the future. But where are the most densely
populated places on the globe?
Metropolitan areas with a population of over 10 million are called megacities, and currently, there
are 37 of them dotted around the planet. Included in this number are Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, Japan’s
three biggest cities. While Japan is currently experiencing a decline in the population overall, Tokyo is an
exception and keeps growing, boasting the largest number of people of all the cities in the world.
People who come to Japan for the first time are often surprised by the mass os people in Tokyo’s
rush-hour trains during weekdays. Sightseeing spots, too, are always crowded and even when walking down
the street in a popular area, it is often hard to not bump into someone all the time. Tokyo city itself has a
population os 13 million people and it houses about 10% of the population of all of Japan. If you include
the neighboring perfectures of Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba, the total population reaches 38 million

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people! The total population of japan is about 127 million people, so that’s a whopping 30% and makes it
the most populous urban area in the world.
A. Decide if the following statements are true or false.
1. Tokyo is the most populated city in the world.
2. The population of Tokyo is growing despite Japan’s population decline.
3. Tokyo city itself has a population of 38 million people.
4. Around 10% of Japan ‘s population lives in Tokyo and the neighboring prefectures.
5. The trains in Tokyo are extremely crowded during peak time at weekends.
6. The streets in Tokyo’s popular areas are crowded with people.
B. Answer the questions.
1. What will the world’s population be by 2050?
______________________________________________________
2. What are megacities?
______________________________________________________
3. What is the population of Japan?
______________________________________________________
4. What percentage of Japan's population lives in the Tokyo area?
______________________________________________________

VII - 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.

Pollution can be seen not only throughout the world, but also in our own homes. It comes from household chemicals, the amount of water people use and the waste people produce and throw away. What can be done to stop this pollution? Surprisingly, a person can help save the environment by doing simple things.

First, we need to recycle, which allows products to be used over and over again. Recycling can also reduce the number of trees cut down to produce paper products. It takes very little effort. It is not hard to place plastic and glass bottles, aluminum cans and paper in a bin. Anyone can do it.

Second, we need to watch the amount of water used at home. It can be conserved by taking short showers instead of baths, repairing leaky faucets, using the dishwasher or washing machine only when fully loaded, or simply turning the faucet off while brushing your teeth.

Third, we need to reduce waste. We need to recycle whenever possible, but shouldalso try to use this waste effectively. For example, grass clippings and food scraps can be made into compost for plants. The average person produces 4.3 pounds of waste every day, but we can reduce that amount by recycling and reusing.

If we do our part in our own homes, we can help keep the planet from becoming more polluted.

44, The average person produces every day _______.

A. three point four pounds of waste B. thirty four pounds of waste

C. four point three pounds of waste D. forty three pounds of waste

45, If we do our part in our own homes, we can help keep ______.

A. the planet from becoming less polluted B. the planet from becoming more polluted

C. the house from becoming few polluted D. the planet from becoming little polluted

I. Give the corect forrm of the words
1. Students can join one of our ___cleanup_______ to clean rivers and beaches all around Vietnam. (CLEANUP)
2. We are taking these old newspaper to the    __recycling________     bins in town. (RECYCLE)
3. You can help by _______donate____ money to the charity. (DONATE)
4. We can ___use_______ empty glass jars to store food, like jam and nuts. (USE)
5. Trees are very ____useful_____. They give food to people and animals. (USE)
6. Act Green Vietnam is an _________     charity in Ho Chi Minh city.

Read the passage carefully, and then answer the questions below.

Getting In Touch Through The Ages

Nobody knows who wrote the first letter or when, but we know that 4,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt people carried letters by hand over hundreds of kilometers. Very few people could write, so there were special people, called scribes, who wrote letters for everyone else.

The first stamp didn’t appear until 1840 and it cost just one penny. Nowadays one of the original stamps cost €375. Letter writing was so popular in the 1840s that people delivered the post several times a day.

An American company - Remington and Sons - made the first typewriter in 1871. All the letters in the word "typewriter" were on the top line of the keyboard so that salesmen could demonstrate the machine more easily. Amazingly, the letters are still in the same place on the modern computer keyboard!

In 1875, when Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated a fantastic new invention called the telephone, nobody was very interested in it. The first fax machine appeared at around the same time, but it was so enormous that no one wanted one - in fact, fax machine didn’t become popular for another hundred years.

Then there was the walkie-talkie, a small two-way radio first used by the US army in the 1930s. However, since they weighed around 13.5 kilos, the talking was perhaps easier than the walking! After World War Two, they became popular with police officers.

Nowadays, we can send messages and pictures around the world in a few seconds using computers and mobile phones. It is hard to believe that e-mail was only invented in 1971, and the first text message was sent in 1992. Today we send over a billion text messages around the world every single day, and an incredible thirty-six billion e-mails.

1. How did people deliver letters in Ancient Egypt?

2. How much did the first stamp cost?

3. How often did they deliver letters in the 1840s?

4. How are the letters arranged on a modern computer keyboard?

5. When did the first fax machine appear?

6. Why was it difficult to walk with the first walkie-talkies?

7. When was the first text message?

8. How many e-mails do we send every day?

I. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the words in parentheses (4pts).

1. In ..............countries, they are now ...............in saving money and natural resources. (WEST /INTEREST)

2. One per cent of the........energy that reaches the Earth is enough to provide.for the total population. (SUN/POWERFUL)

3. We should save energy because by............ energy we can............. the Earth's.resources. (SAVE/ CONSERVATION)

4. We can............ the amount of gas by traveling by bicycle or ..............transport. (REDUCTION / PUBLICITY)