Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, is now considered the "safest place in the world," with no confirmedcases at all. The region had a close brush with Covid-19 when (44)\ hit the final cruise ships of theseason, but the virus didn't reach its frozen shores. And, because it's currently descending into winter, whenit's completely cut off, it should stay that way for now.(45) there's no official native population here -- unless you count the many penguins, whales, seals
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I have Learned, often the hard way, that there are a few simple rules about how to make life easier both before and after your journey. First of All, always check and double-check departure times. It is amazing how few people really do this carefully. Once i arrived at the airport a few minutes after ten. My secretary had got the ticket for me and i thought she said that the plane left at 10:50. I walked calmly to the departure desk, thinking I still had a little time to spare. I didn`t bother to take a good look at the ticket. The clerk at the desk told me politely but firmly that the departure time was 10:15 and that the flight was, according to international regulations, " now closed! ". I had to wait three hours for the next one and missed an importent meeting.
The second rule is to remember that even in this age of credit cards, it is still importent to have at least a little of the local currency with you when you arrive in a country. This can be absolutely essential if you are flying to a place few tourists normally visit. A few years ago, I took a business trip to Oklahoma. I flew there from London via Dallas,with very little time to change planes in between. I arrived there at midnight and the bank at the airport was closed. The only way to get to my hotel was by taxi and since I had no Dollars, i offered to pay in Pounds instead." Listen, Buddy! I only take Real money! " the driver said angrily. Luckily I was able to borrow a few dollars from a clerk at the hotel, but it was Embarrassing.
The third and last rule is to find out as much as you can about the weather at your destination before you leave, especially if you can take only a little baggage with you. I feel sorry for some of my colleagues who travel in heavy suits and raincoats in May, when it is still fairly cool in London or Manchester, to places like Athens, Rome or Madrid, where it is already beginning to get quite warm during a day. Few people understand just how importent it is to have the right sort of clothes with you in these days of rapid air travel.
I. Discuss these questions. Campare your answers.
1. Explain why the writer once arrived at the airport only a few minutes before the plane left.
2. Whose fault do you think it was? Thư writer's or his secretary's? Give reasons for your answer.
3. Explain why the writer think it is essential to have at least a little local currency when you arrive in a foreign country.
4. Describe some of the problems you could have if you ignore the advice in the last paragraph
V. Complete the sentences with a verb from the box in the correct form.
1. Why didn’t you your bed this morning?
2. I can’t come out now. I’m the cleaning.
3. Could you the dishwasher and put the things away, please?
4. It’s not fair. I breakfast yesterday. Nam should it today.
5. Look at this bin! Please the rubbish out now.
6. Mum, I’ve my room. Can I go out now?
7. Phong, the table. It’s nearly dinnertime.
8. A: Where’s Dad?
B: He’s the car. He always the car on Sunday morning.
V. Fill the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. Ms Lan is not in the office today. She (work) at home today.
2. “Where (you/come) from?” “I’m Italian - from Rome.’
3. “(you/ speak) French” “Just a little.”
4. Don’t forget your umbrella. It (rain) again.
5. “Can you help me with the dinner?” “Not now. I (watch) TV.”
6. In Viet Nam, children (look) after their old parents.
7. “Hi! What (you/do) here” “I (wait) for a friend.”
8. Can I look at the newspaper now? (you/read) it?
9. Can I phone you back? We (have) dinner.
10. Mr Long (work) in an office every day, but now he (help) his wife to prepare dinner.
C. READING
I. Read the passage, and decide whether the following statements are true (T), false (F), or not given (NG).
Career of the Year
Fourteen-year-old Ed Bond from London is this year's winner of the Young Career of the Year Award.
When he’s not at school. Ed looks after his mother, who is disabled and in a wheelchair. He also looks after his ten-year-old sister. He helps to do the washing and the cooking. ‘Ed’s great,’ says his father. ‘I have to go to work at six in the morning, so Ed has to help his mother a lot. He doesn’t have to do the housework but he does it anyway. We worry because he doesn’t have much free time, but he doesn’t complain.’ ‘I want to help.’ says Ed, ‘and anyway I don’t have to do so much at weekends because my dad’s at home.’
T F NG
1. Ed helps to look after his mother.
2. Ed’s mother can’t walk.
3. Ed’s father is also ill.
4. Ed is an only child.
5. Ed does all the shopping for the family.
II. Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
Family types vary in different countries and among different cultures. In Western, industrialized societies, the nuclear family ranks as the most common family type. It consists of a father, a mother and their children. But nuclear families exist together with many other types of family units. In the single-parent family, for example, a mother or a father heads the family alone. A blended family is formed when a divorced or widowed parent remarries. As divorce rates have risen, the number of single-parent and blended families has increased.
In many parts of the world, parents and children live together with other family members under the same roof. These complex families usually contain several generations of family members, including grandparents, parents and children. They may also include brothers or sisters and their families, uncles, aunts and cousins. Even when relatives do not live together, they still consider themselves members of the same extended family includes grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
1. The nuclear family ranks as the most common family type .
A. an many industrialized countries B. in countries with nuclear weapons
C. that consists of more than two generations D. that leads to the divorce of parents
2. In the single-parent family, .
A. there are often no children
B. only one parent lives with his or her child or children
C. the number of blended children has increased
D. children live with their grandparents
3. Grandparents, parents and children are mentioned as .
A. the three typical generations of an extended family
B. three branches of a family tree
C. the closest and happiest relatives in family units
D. a complex combination
4. The second paragraph is about .
A. American culture B. relatives and family members
C. the relationship between family members D. the extended family
5. The word “blended” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .
A. complex B. married C. mixed D. formed
III. Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
The American family unit is in the process of change. In the first half of the 20th century, there were mainly two types of families: the extended and the nuclear. An extended family includes mother, father, children and some other relatives, living in the same house. A nuclear family is composed of just parents and children livingunder the same roof.
As the American economy had progressed from agricultural to industrial one, people were forced to move to different parts of the country to get good jobs. These jobs were mainly in the large cities. Now, in fact, three-quarters of Americans live in urban areas which occupy 2.5% of the national total land mass. Of the 118 million in the labour force, only 3 million still work on the farm.
Since moving for better jobs has often divided the extended family, the nuclear family became more popular. At present, 55% of the families in the US are nuclear families. But besides the two types of traditional family groupings, the family is now being expanded to include a variety of other living arrangements because of divorce. There is an increase in single-parent families, in which a father or mother lives with one or more children. Divorce has also led to blended families, which occur when previously married men and women marry again and combine the children from former marriage into a new family. There are also some couples who do not want to have children to form two-person childless families.
1. A nuclear family is one that .
A. consists of father, mother, and children living in the same house
B. relatives live with
C. there are only grandparents, parents and their children living in
D. is bigger than extended family
2. The expression “under the same roof” means
A. a house with one roof B. a house with the roof the same as the wall
C. in the same building D. under the house
3. The nuclear family becomes more popular because of .
A. more divorces B. the division of the extended family
C. fewer jobs in big cities D. an increase in single-parent families
4. How many types of families have there been in the US since the first half of the 20th century?
A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five
5. A blended family is a newly-formed family .
A. with the combination of children of the two previously married father and mother
B. that has only father or mother living with children
C. in which there are no children
D. that there is only one couple living in with their newborn children
IV. Read the passage carefully, and do the tasks that follow.
The Role of the Japanese Mother
The focus of the mother is her home and family, with particular attention to the rearing of children. While most Japanese believe that a woman's place is in the home, women make up almost 40 percent of the labor force. More than half of these women are married. Many mothers with small children work only part-time so they can be home when their children are not in school. The extra income earned by the mother is often used to meet the cost of their children's education.
Japanese mothers take the responsibility of their child's education and upbringing very seriously. They seldom confront their preschool children because they want to foster an intimate, dependent relationship. The purpose of this approach is to get the child to obey willingly with the mother’s wishes and to shape the child's behavior over a long period of time. The close nature of the mother-child relationship and the strong parentalcommitment help to provide a strong foundation for the child's entry into elementary school.
Mothers are involved directly in with the child's school. Each day a notebook is sent back and forth between mother and teacher remarking on the child's mood, behavior, health, and activities both in school and at home. Mothers attend PTA meetings usually twice a month and are involved with school committee's working on special projects such as gardening and hot lunch preparation. School is a very stressful and competitive process so the Japanese mother concentrates all her efforts on getting her children through so they can get accepted into the appropriate universities.
Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.
Task 2: Read the passage, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
T F
6. Most Japanese women are housewives.
7. Taking care of children and bringing them up are of great importance to
Japanese mothers.
8. Japanese mothers tend to be very strict to their children at home.
9. Japanese mothers and teachers work together for the children's study
progress and comfort at school.
10. The Japanese mother concentrates all her efforts on getting her children
through, so the atmosphere at home is very stressful.
D. SPEAKING
Rearrange the sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation, writing the letter (A-H) in each blank.
1. ___ A. Nam: It’s not only for our mother's benefits but it also makes us more independent when we have grown up.
2. ___ B. Nam: Besides cleaning and cooking, my mother also does a lot of other things around the house although she goes to work.
3. ___ C. Nam: I agree with that saying. All of us take it for granted that our mother is responsible for doing all the housework.
4. ___ D. Nam: Besides the relationship, we enjoy a friendlier atmosphere in our home all the time when we attend to each other.
5. ___ E. Mai: So does my mother. My father, my brother and I try to share the burden so that my mother can follow her own interests.
6. ___ F. Mai: I’ve just read a saying about household chores, Nam. It’s “Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.”
7. ___ G. Mai: It’s very useful for our future life. And I think we will have better relationship when we share household chores with one another.
8. ___ H. Mai: Yeah, when we come home from school, our house is clean and tidy and lunch or dinner is ready for us to eat.
I. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with a suitable word.
About two hundred years ago, man lived ....................... (1) greater harmony with his environment ....................... (2) industry was not much developed. Today the situation is quite ....................... (3). People all over the world are worried about what is happening to the ....................... (4), because of modern industry and the need for more and more energy. Newspapers and magazines ....................... (5) about water pollution, air pollution, and land pollution.
Why is there so much discussion about ....................... (6)? After all, people have been polluting the world ....................... (7) them for thousands and thousands of years. But in the ....................... (8), there were not ....................... (9) people and there was lots of room in the world so people could move to another place ....................... (10) their settlements became dirty.
Now, however, many parts of the world are ....................... (11). People live in big cities and much of our waste, especially ....................... (12) from factories, electric power stations, the chemical industry and heavy industry ....................... (13) very dangerous. Fish die in the lakes, rivers, and seas; forest trees die too. Much of this ....................... (14) waste goes into the air and is carried by the ....................... (15) for great distances.
EX2:
1. Jake... (hit) hard in the game yesterday, but he is fine
2. Lisa raised many interesting questions, but few of these..........(answer) at the meeting yesterday
3. The Great Pyramid of Giza.....(locate) in Cairo, Egypt
4. This money must arrive right away, or my account ....(will/ overdraw)
5, Our plane ....(strike) by lightning last night, but er landed safely
6. A new library ....(will build) on this site next year
7. My coat....(must steal) It's no longer here!
8. Pizza and soft drinks ...........( be giving away) in the student center right now
9. Foods.......(need to buy) for the rest of the week
10. The printer .......(must fix) because it's working fine now
EX3: CHANGE THE ACTIVE SENTENCE TO A PASSIVE SENTENCE WHERE POSSIBLE. IF THE SENTENCE CANNOT BE CHANGED, WRITE CAN'T BE CHANGED
1. Police caught the escaped prisoners late last night
...................................
2. The examination consists of ten different question types
......................................................
3. By the time we arrived, doctors had reviewed the results of her blood test
................................
4. Next semester, the security guards will allow only registered students to enter the building at night
............................................................
5. The director is going to reassign the offices on the third floor
.............................................
6. Victor and I stayed at a beautiful lodge overlooking Lake Michigan
.........................
7. The baggage handlers have lost Martin's luggage
..........................
EX4. Correct the errors in the sentences. Each sentence contains one error. Use contractions when possible
1. One of my sister's friends have been awarded a full scholarship for college
2. The exam scores will no be released until they are certified
3. Were permitted you to use a dictionary during final exam?
4. A new student handbook has being drafted, but work on it has stopped for now
5. Your records may have been being lost. but we aren't completely sure yet
Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It’s a special, dark place completely different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall. Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don’t know it’s raining. The trees grow so closely together that rain doesn’t always reach the ground.
Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth’s surface, about six percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometers. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa. There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast Asia, Northeastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is called the “lungs of our planet” because it produces twenty percent of the world’s oxygen. One fifth of the world’s fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world’s species of animals, plants, and insects live in the Earth’s rainforests. Eighty percent of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example, pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came from rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer. With all the good things we get from rainforests, it’s surprising to find that we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres, or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest disappear every second. The forests are being cut down to make fields for cows, to harvest the plants, and to clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable species, the destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world.
Câu 33: What is the focus of this reading?
A. Kinds of forests B. Facts about rainforests
C. Where rainforests are located D. How much oxygen rainforests make
Câu 34: The word “humid” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. wet B. cloudy C. foggy D. rainy
Câu 35: Rainforests provide human all of the following EXCEPT?
A. Fresh water B. Oxygen
C. lungs of the world population D. Drugs used to fight and cure cancer
Câu 36: Why is the Amazon Rainforest called the “lungs of the planet”?
A. It helps circulation. B. It provides much of our air.
C. It uses much of the world’s oxygen. D. It helps us breathe.
Câu 37: Where would you NOT find a rainforest?
A. Australia B. South America C. Canada D. Vietnam
Câu 38: The world “all” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.
A. rainforests B. drugs people use C. food people eat D. the world’s species
Câu 39: The word “harvest” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. gather B. reduce C. destroy D. create
Câu 40: What is the most likely reason why the author is surprised that we are destroying rainforests?
A. They are necessary for the health of our planet.
B. It will be too expensive to replant them.
C. It will be too difficult to grow food without them.
D. They are necessary for the fight against cancer.
Điền từ giúp mình ạ:<< Mình cảm ơnn
* arrive - get - reach - come - approach - appear
1. It took us a long time to __ to the theatre but we __ in time for the first act.
2. The ocean liner __ on the horizon and within two hours it had __ the port.
3. Would you like to __ to our house tonight?
4. Was __ by a begger asking for money.
5. We __ at the village late at night.
* voyage - journey - trip - tour - excursion - travel - expedition - cruise - flight
6. Our class is going on a(n) __ to the zoo tomorrow.
7. Joan kept a diary of her __ through Europe.
8. Our __ on the ocean liner lasted two weeks
9. Many explorers have đie on __ to the Antarctic.
10. It's a nine-hour bus __ from Melbourne to Sydney.
11. We went on a Mediterranean ___ for our honeymoon.
12. We were given a(n) __ of the ancient castle as soon as we arrived.
13. Our __ to BAngkok was delayed so ourr __ to Asia was put off for a day.
* Site - position - location - point - place - room - space
14. The __ of the house is ideal, with the living __ overlooking the bay
15. To enter the building __ you must wear a hard hat.
16. What __ do you play in the school football team?
17. Do you live in a __ of your own or do you still rent?
18. The starting __ for the marathon is on the corner of Bell and Church Street.
* Address - road - street - way - direction - route - path
19. You'll need a map to find your __ around this city
20. I need your new __ so that I can keep in touch with you
21. I'll find the __ to your house by looking up the __ in the directory
22. We must follow the __ Judy gave us or we'll never find the __ her house is on
23. The hikers took the __ that led to the castle
24. We were up and ready at sunrise and headed in the __ of the moutains.
II. Complete the sentences with"used to" or "be used to"
1. Jane(work).................... for the telephone company, but now she has a job at the post office
2. Did work doesn't brother me. I(work)................................ hard. I've worked hard all my life
3. Dick(have)............................. mustache. but he doesn't any more. He shaved it off because his wife didn't like it. I (see, not)....................... him without his mustache. He still looks strange to me
4. When I was a child, I (think)...................................anyone over 40 was old. Of course, now that I'm middle- aged, I agree with those who say"Life begins at 40"
5. It(take)............................................ weeks or months to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to American , but now it takes only a matter of hours
6. Even though Jason is only 12, he(fly)................................. on airplane. His father is pilot and has taken Johnson with him in a plane many times
7. Michale(take)....................................... care of himself. He left home when he was 15 and has been on his own ever since
8. When I was growing up, my mother often sent me to the neighborhood store to get something for her. And each time I went there, Mr. Ditmar, the owner,(give)...................... me a piece of candy
Fill in cach gap with a noun to make an idiomatic expressions:
1. I feel …… for having deceived her
2. The enemy set……….. ....to the whole village before making a retreat
3. It's important for a firm to keep….... with changes in the market.
4. On the bus we should give……..to the old and the invalid.
5. The government is determined to put an ….... to terrorism
6. Don't take any….....of what he says.
7. Can you make……….. on that shelf for more books?
8. You should take………… of every chance you have to speak English.
9. Don't make …….....of that cripple
10. I take no ………..in politics at all.
11. We must not give……..to their demand.
12. He caught…………….. .of her through the window
13. She watched him until she lost …......of him.
14. We have lost ...........with him since 1975
15. The police lost every……... ...of the thief
16. You must make . ..for him because he has been ill.
17. Please pay …………. to what I am saying.
18. When judging his performance, don't take ……...of his age
19. We kept an…….....on a stranger
20. We keep in…… with them although we are a long way very far from their place.
21. Are wages keeping…......with inflation
22. She often takes….. of the house and her children when her husband goes away.
23. He takes…………..in his talents
24. They make no …....about your teaching.
25. She had a…...in her back.
