Unit 2 City Life
D. Reading
Bài 1 . Read the two passages and answer the questions below.
1. What is special about Venice?
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2. Where’s Los Angeles?
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3. What can visitors do in Venice?
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4. Which City is famous for its entertainment industry?
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5. Which city do you like better? Whỵ?
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Bài 2 Fill each blank with a suitable word to complete the passage.
If you live in a city, you will probably see many people, hear the noise of traffic, and smell the pollution(1) ………… cars and factories.
We are living in a new era in the history of the world. Before this, most people were farmers.They lived in small communities in the (2)………..
Now many people are leaving the farms and moving into the cities. They are looking for (3)……….. jobs. As a result, the cities are growing very quickly. Most cities are becoming more (4) . People are driving more cars, burning more fuel, using more water, eating more food, making more garbage, and (5)……….. more things in factories than ever before. Life in modern cities can bring many opportunities, but also manỵ difficulties.
The authorities are trỵing to plan for a better future.They are building new
roads, putting (6) ……….. new houses, looking for more water sources,
and limiting growth in certain areas. But people are still crowding into the
cities faster (7) ……….. the cities can take them.The cities are (8)……….. out of space. There are no easy answers to this problem.
Bài 3 Choose the correct option A, B, C, or D for each gap in the passage.
Homelessness is a problem in many big cities in the world. It occurs when a part of the population does not have any (1) ……….. place to call home. Hundreds of millions of people in the world spend at least some time of the year homeless. This is an issue that the authorities are trying to (2) ……….. . However, there are (3 ) ………..things that each person can do to help those people.
One of the things that you can do to help the homeless is to volunteer your time. If you have a lot of free time, you might go on an extended trip to help (4) ……….. homes or improve an impoverished area. Even with just a few hours a week, it is possible to make an impact in your own city. You can also sign up to help at a (5) ……….. soup kitchen: most cities have a mission of some kind (6) ……….. food to the homeless and offering temporary shelter.
| 1. A. common | B. regular | C. unusual | D. fìxed |
| 2. A. deal with | B. get over | C. lookthrough | D. find out |
| 3. A. little | B. less | C. more | D.fewer |
| 4. A. care for | B. show around | C. set up | D.pull down |
| 5. A. urban | B. central | C. capital | D.local |
| 6. A. cooking | B. supporting | C. helping | D.serving |
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