Ôn tập reading tiếng anh 2, Schemes and Mind Maps of English Language

Download Ôn tập reading tiếng anh 2 and more Schemes and Mind Maps English Language in PDF only on Docsity! I. Read the text. Match sentences A-F with gaps 1-5 in the text. There one sentence that you do not need. A. In fact, the history of illegal gardening goes back much further. B. There were areas of empty land because nobody wanted to build houses there. C. Instead of spreading death and destruction, it spread plant life! D. That's why the area was particularly unattractive. E. Similar groups began in other cities and then other countries, including Australia and Brazil. F. However, the authorities usually allow it to continue. In 1973, an artist called Liz Christy had a meeting with a group of friends to talk about the part of New York they lived in. It was a poor, unattractive neighbourhood. (1) …… Christy and her friends decided to do something to improve their environment. Secretly, they cleared away the rubbish from these areas of empty land. Then they planted flowers, trees and even crops. At the same time, they gave classes to local residents to teach them about gardening. The group called themselves the Green Guerrillas. (2) …… They weren't soldiers like normal guerrillas, but they did invent their own weapon: the seed bomb. It contains earth, seeds and water. (3) …… (4) …… Around 1650, a group of Englishmen who called themselves the Diggers decided to plant vegetables on common ground to feed the local people. It was an illegal act and the government put a stop to it. Modern “guerrilla gardeners” are acting illegally by using land they do not own. (5) …… After all, in many cases, they are making the environment better for everyone. II. Match sentences A-E with gaps 1-4 in the text. There is one sentence that you do not need. A. But they wouldn’t let his father go, and he died. B. At that time, the rulers of Australia were the English. C. Ned saved another boy’s life when he was at school. D. In one fight, the outlaws murdered three policemen. E. When he was 16, he went to prison for three years. Ned Kelly was Australia’s most famous outlaw in the 19th century. (1) …… . But Ned’s family had originally come from Ireland, not England, and the English police were often cruel to Irish families. So most Irish people in Australia hated their English rulers and saw Ned as a hero for fighting against them. There were seven children in the Kelly family and they were very poor. They sometimes had to steal food to survive. When Ned was 11, the police arrested his father. He went to prison and soon became ill. (2) …… Ned hated the police from that time on. Three years later, the police arrested Ned for fighting with another man. He was found not guilty, but the police put him in prison for ten days anyway. From then on, Ned was always in trouble with the police. (3) …… At the age of 19, Ned came out of prison and formed a gang called the “Kelly Gang”. When Ned was 23, the gang ran away from the police and became outlaws. They lived in the outback and robbed banks. For two years the police chased them. (4) …… They made suits of amour for protection, but in 1880, when the gang robbed a bank, the police shot Ned in the legs. At his trial they found him guilty of murder, and they executed him. IV. Read the text and match sentences A-F with gaps 1–5. There is one sentence that you do not need to use. John Myatt is an artist. He may not be the greatest artist in the world, but he is possibly the world's greatest forger. He is able to paint pictures in the style of famous artists like Monet and Matisse. (1) …… This unusual skill got Myatt into a lot of trouble in the 1990s. For many years he taught art at a secondary school, but then he got divorced and he gave up his job to spend more time with his children. In order to make some money he started painting pictures in the style of famous artists and selling them. (2) …… He was honest about his work – he wrote his name on the back, and he sold them for £150 each. However, one of his customers, John Drewe, started to resell Myatt's paintings as genuine, original works. Drewe had sold one of Myatt’s paintings for £25,000. He contacted Myatt and suggested that they go into business together, Myatt agreed. He continued to paint and Drewe sold his paintings to art collectors around the world. (3) …… The amazing thing is that Myatt painted his pictures with decorator's paint. (4) …… But it soon came to an end. Drewe was divorced too, and his ex-wife found out about the forgeries. She went to the police and they arrested Drewe and Myatt. At their trial Drewe was sent to prison for six years and Myatt for less than one year. (5) …… When he came out he started to produce pictures in the style of famous artists again. But he put his name on the back, as he’d done before he met Drewe. Myatt is now famous and instead of charging £150 for a painting, he can charge £40 – 50,000. That’s more than Drewe gave him for his “genuine” paintings! A. It wasn’t illegal. B. Then he decided to stop copying famous paintings. C. Myatt only spent four months in prison for good behaviour. D. They are so good that experts can’t tell that they are not originals. E. It was the same paint that people use to paint houses! F. Between 1986 and 1994 they sold about 200 paintings and made over a million pounds. …………….. Since this is usually highly restricted, with many parking meters in evidence, parking is a source of frustration to many motorists. People who are otherwise quite law-abiding are apt to take a bit of a risk when it comes to traffic offences. Thus, they ignore both signs that say “NO PARKING” and lines painted down the edge of the road which indicate parking restrictions. Should they be away from their cars for longer than the amount of time allowed by the parking meter, they are not worried - until they see that the traffic warden has left a parking ticket on their windscreen, (3) ……………... The authorities in more and more cities are trying to keep cars out of the city centre. (4) ……………... park- and-ride schemes so that people will leave their cars at the city boundary and complete their journey by bus. Still, there are fears that ever-increasing traffic will cause gridlock in cities, particularly at rush hours. With so many tailbacks and bottle-necks on so many roads, (5) …………….... Why, then, do so many of us persist in using our cars? 1. clog (v): gây cản trở 2. chock-a-block (a): cực kỳ đông đúc 3. frustration (n): sự thất vọng 4. traffic warden (n): nhiên viên kiểm soát việc đỗ xe 5. tailbacks (n): hàng dài xe cộ nối đuôi nhau VIII. Read the news report and decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F). Twenty years ago, recycling only did if you were really interested in being “green”. Today, recycling is a normal activity for families all around the UK. Local Councils make it easier for families to recycle by collecting materials from their houses. They even give them two different bins, so families can separate their rubbish from their recycling. Recently, some local councils have decided to do even more; they are putting computer chips inside the rubbish bins they give to families in their area. The chips measure the amount of rubbish in the bin and also give information about the kind of materials in the bin: paper, glass, metal etc. In other words, if the family throws away these materials instead of recycling them, the council finds out. And when this happens they write a letter to the family asking them to be more careful about recycling. The councils say their main aim is education. “If you regularly have problems putting the wrong items in your bins, we will simply provide guidance and possibly come out to visit you.” they claim. But many people think that putting computer chips in bins is like having “bin police”, and they are not happy about it! 1. If British families want to recycle, they have to go to their local recycling centre. 2. Some local councils give families two separate bins for their rubbish and their recycling. 3. The computer chips give information about the rubbish inside the bin. 4. If a family doesn't recycle enough, they get a letter from the council. 5. The councils say the main aim of the computer chips is to help the “bin police”. IX. Read the text. Are the following sentences true or false? I never stay in one country for a long time. It gets boring. I like to move on, see new places, and meet different people. It’s a good life most of the time. When I need money, I get a job. I can do most things - hotel and restaurant work, building work, picking fruit. In Europe you can pick fruit most of the year. It’s not easy work, but the money is not bad. I like to go south for the winter. Life is easier than in the sun, and northern Europe can get very cold in the winter. Last year I was in Venice for October. I did some work in a hotel for three weeks, and then I began slowly to move south. I always go by train when I can. I like trains. You can walk about on the train, and you meet a lot of people. I left Venice and went on to Trieste. There I got a cheap ticket for the slow train to Sofia, in Bulgaria. This train goes all the way down Eastern Europe and takes a long time - a day and a half. But that didn’t matter to me. The train left Trieste at nine o’clock on a Thursday morning. There weren’t many people on it at first, but at Zagreb more people got on. Two girls went along the corridor, past my carriage. They looked through the door, but they didn’t come in. Then an old woman came in, sat down and went to sleep. The two girls came back along the corridor and looked into the carriage again. The train left Zagreb and I looked out of the window for ten minutes, then I went to sleep too. When I opened my eyes again, the two girls were in my carriage. They looked friendly, so I said, “Hello”. 1. The writer is a traveller. 2. The writer doesn’t want to do hotel or restaurant work. 3. The writer prefers hot to cold weather. 4. The writer’s favourite means of transport is the train because it’s fast. 5. The writer was in a hurry when he left Trieste. 6. It took the writer a day and a half to go all the way down Easter Europe by train. 7. Sofia is a city in Italy. 8. The train left Trieste on a Thursday morning. 9. Two girls joined the writer after the train left Zagreb. 10. The writer started the conversation with the girls because they were pretty. X. Read the text. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? This year, thousands of young people in the UK will take a year off between school and university, or before their first job. The aim of this ‘gap year’ can be to travel, learn a new language, or get experience for a future career. Some people do voluntary work; others want to earn money. Here are three typical teenagers who are planning a gap year. EMMA ‘I’m going to take a gap year before university. I’m going to study Spanish and Portuguese at university, so I’ll go to South America where they speak both languages! I’m going to spend the first four months in Peru, and then I’m going to do voluntary work for a charity in Rio. The charity provides education for street children. We’re going to build a small school. Then I’m going to give English lessons at the school for two months. After that, I’m going to visit some other countries. I’ll do part-time jobs while I’m travelling. It will be great experience because I want to work in the tourist industry.’ PHOEBE ‘I’m really excited about my gap year job. I’m going to lead a team of volunteers on a six-month conservation project in Cabo Verde, Africa. The aim of the project is to protect turtles, because hunters kill them and sell their shells. We’ll build special nests on the beach for the turtles’ eggs and then we’ll watch the nests at night and check that they’re safe. We’ll also clean the beach so the baby turtles can get to the sea safely. I’ll earn money – but I’m not doing it for that reason. It will be useful experience because I want a career in conservation after university’. ROB ‘In November, I’m going to go to the French Alps for six months. For the first eleven weeks, I’m going to do a training course to become a ski instructor. It will be hard work! When I’ve got the qualification, I’ll stay and work until the end of the skiing season. I’ll earn about €700 a month, plus tips. I’ll have the perfect gap year job for me because I love skiing, and I need to save some money for university. But it won’t be my career– I want to be a lawyer.’ 1. All three teenagers are going to work in Europe. 2. Emma won’t earn any money during her gap year. 3. Phoebe will work with a group of people.