Tài liệu A resource for reading and words part 3 docx

READING COMPREHENSION

1. It is obvious that the room upstairs in Norah's house is

A) very comfortable
B) not cold
C) small
D) tidy
E) not safe

2. They sleep in the room downstairs because ....

A) it is larger than the one upstrairs
B) the strong wind may break the windows upstairs
C) it has a stove which warms very well
D) it has many large windows
E) they can see the gale better there

3. The flowers in Norah's garden........................

A) attract everybody's attention.
B) need looking after carefully.
C) should be watered every week.
D) are badly affected by the salt spray.
E) like to be sprayed with salty water.

PASSAGE 17
BALLONING

One of my great ambitions is to learn how to pilot a balloon
on my own. I look forward to weekends because my father,

who's a balloonist, takes us all ballooning with him every
weekend. I'm the only one who rides with him in the basket,
which is fastened to the bottom of the balloon with nylon
ropes. Sometimes he allows me to pilot the balloon on my
own when the wind isn't too strong, but he always stays with
me in the basket.

VOCABULARY

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DEFINITIONS

Ambition: Goal, aim, desire

To pilot: To direct, to conduct, to fly

To ride: To travel

To fasten: To tie up

To allow: To let

On one's own: Alone

> EXERCISES

• Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words
defined above

1 . You can at least organize your life around your aims and

2. Army duties included parachuting and .... of light aircraft.
3. I have ............them in the car to our destination.
4. The air hostess requested that the passengers.......... their
seat belts.

5. He just went away .......... to have a long private think.
READING COMPREHENSION

1. The writer always wanted .................

A) to have his own balloon.
B) to ride with his father in the basket.
C) to be a balloonist like his father.
D) to be a pilot.
E) to learn how to fly a balloon.

2. The writer pilots the balloon
...........

A)

only on weekends.
B)

when his father is without him.
C)

only when the weather is calm.
D)

because his father is a balloonist.
E)

because his father takes them on every weekend,.

3. F r o m the passag e w e u n d e r stand that,
......

A)

his father stays on the. ground when it isn't windy.
B)

his father is always with him when he is piloting.
C)

the writer pilots the balloon but the others don't help him.
D)

ballooning on one's own is very difficult.
E)

ballooning is a very nice outdoor activity.

PASSAGE 18

THE STRANGER

We're more than halfway now; it's only two miles farther

to
the tavern, said the driver. ", I'm glad of that!" answered the
stranger, in a more sympathetic mood. He meant to say more
but the east wind blew clear down a man's throat if he tried
to
speak. The girlish voice was something quite charming,
however, and presently he spoke again. "You don't feel the
cold so much at twenty below zero out in the Western
Country. There is none of this damp chill," he said, and
then
it seemed as if he had blamed the uncomplaining young
driver.

VOCABULARY

^ DEFINITIONS-

Tavern: Pub, inn

Sympathetic: Understanding, kind

Mood: Frame of mind, temper

Girlish: Like a girl, relating to a girl

Charming: Delightful, attractive

Presently: Now, currently

Damp: Wet, moist, humid

Chill: Coldness

To blame: To hold responsible, to accuse

Uncomplaining: Tolerant, patient

> EXERCISES

Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words
defined above

1. Life in a small village could be deadly dull, and Henry
had
been absolutely .... when he chose to be.
2. Sudden changes of .... from cheerful and alert to sullen
and moody
3. A wipe down with a .... cloth is all that's needed to keep
them clean.

4. Continued heavy investment was .... for a 40 per cent fall
in profits.
5. The first rays of the sun shook the .... of the morning from
their bodies.

READING COMPREHENSION

1. It is obvious from the passage that they have..................

A) come only two miles.

B) two miles left.
C) more than two miles to go
D)

less than two miles
E)

a lot of miles to cover

2.

We learn from the passage that the driver
.................

A)

has been driving for some time
B)

is a close friend of the passanger
C)

is traveling with a beautiful lady.
D)

is driving a woman to her house
E)

is bored with the passanger.

3.

One may conclude from the passage that the stranger.

A)

has been to the Western Country before.
B)

is used to such a climate
C)

is not from" the Western Country.
D)

has been complaining about the driver.
E)

doesn't like the driver at all.

PASSAGE 19

MOTORCARS

The motorcar has been among the biggest influences on life
in the 20th century, a powerful factor in the progress of
civilization. It can, unfortunately, be a source of danger- but
for every life it takes, it saves a dozen, speeding the
desperately ill to hospital, carrying food to the places where
there is a food shortage. It has disturbed many of the quiet

places where people go at their leisure, but opened new
playgrounds to millions. Because of it, the ability to ride a
horse is a rare skill, railways are no longer a decisive factor in
molding our communities.

VOCABULARY

^ DEFINITIONS-

To influence: To affect

Factor: Reason, cause

Progress : Development

Civilization: People, nation, culture

Source: Origin, basis

To speed: To drive too fast, to race

Desperately: Urgently, badly

Shortage: Lack

Leisure: Free time

Playground: Playing field

Decisive: Important, vital

To mould: To shape

EXERCISE
Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words
defined above
1. Most of the third-year students had been back for a month
already, .... trying to catch up with their second-year work.
2. They gave excuses of .... of time to explain why they did
not finish the work.
3. His method of management has produced .... changes.
4. A pedestrian zone also gives you the opportunity to
wander at your .... through the wide selection of shops.
5. In the lounge of the residential home the white-haired
woman was .... a lump of clay.