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(123doc) de Thi Olympic Co Dap An Khoi 10
(123doc) de Thi Olympic Co Dap An Khoi 10
of elderly people and the sharp drop in the number of teenagers leaving school.
The size of the elderly population is (1) (verb) because peole are living longer
and 2 (adj) babies have been born.
In 1911, only five percent of the UK population was older than 65. Today, the 3
(noun) is more than 15 per cent. Over the next decade the greatest 4 (noun) will be
in people aged 75 and over. The drop in the number of school leavers was 5 (verb) by
the fall in the birth rate 6 (preposition) 1964 and 1977. This trend is known 7
(preposition) the “demographic time bomb” – because demographers knew that, once
the birth rate fell, there was 8 (determiner) way to stop it 9 (verb) an explosive effect on
the economy and on society 16 years later.
However, the impact may 10 (adverb) be a short – term According to some
forecaster the UK’s birth rate may soon become one of the highest in western Europe.
Companies have to 11 (verb) into account the age of the population when they
are deciding what goods to produce and when they are recruiting staff.
In Britain and most of Europe, the birth rate fell between the early 1960 s and the
mid 1970 s. That 12 (verb) that, by the second half of the 1980 s, the number of
teenagers leaving school and looking for jobs each year fell sharply.
In 1986, there were 6.2 million people 13 (adj) between 16 and 24 in the labour
force. By the turn of the century, this is likely to 14 (verb) fallen to 4.9 million. That
means that companies who generally recruited many of their staff 15 (adverb) from
school have had to think of other ways of attracting workers.
At the other end of the age scale is the significant increase in the number of
elderly people in the population. Over the 16 (adjective) ten years, several companies
have 17 (verb) up which specialize 18 (preposition) building “sheltered
accommodation” for elderly people – groups of houses or flats where there is a warden
on 19 (noun) to give help. In the 1970 s, these companies were virtually unknown.
They have come into 20 (noun) because of demographic change.
B. Read the article below for mutiple – choice questions
JOURNEY TO THE FRONT LINES
The following morning the exodus began. Huoy and I packed the mosquito net,
the mats and the clothes into bundles once again and attached them to the
shoulderboard. Another journey. The Khmer Rouge said we were going to the “front
lines”, but didn’t explain what or where the front lines were. For all we knew we were
going to the moon.
Around us, the other inhabitants emerged from the huts they had built of thatch
and reeds and pieces of plastic, and started down the paths. It was a cold morning. The
“new” people wrapped their kramas around their shoulders to stay warm. Those who
didn’t have kramas or extra shirts shivered and rubbed themselves with their hands. We
walked down the paths towards the railroad tracks, but not everybody in Phum Chleav
was lucky enough to leave. Through the open door of a hut, we saw an old lady lying
unconcious against a wall. Unable to walk and too heavy to carry, she had been left
behind.
As we climbed onto the railroad tracks, which was elevated a few feet above the
nearby ground and was the only dry place in the landscape, we looked around at the
pitiful spectacle.
And then I understood why the rice fields had been so empty of workess. It was
as if all the patients I had visited in their huts had been multiplied many time over and
put in a parade before our eyes. People with shrunken faces and haunted vacant eyes,
with legs and arms as thin as sticks or else puffy and bloated with edema. Leaning on
canes or on relatives’ shoulders, or alone, they walked with that terrible economy of
movement that signals the approach of starvation.
As Huoy and I watched, a thin, scrawny, midde – aged woman put down the
end of the hammock she had been carrying, slung under a bamboo pole. The man inside
the hammock called out weakly, “Sweet, sweet, bring me with you. Don’t leave me
behind”. But the women shook her head and trudged off down the railrood track. After
a moment of indecision the man carrying the other end of the hammock abandoned it
and hobbled off after her. No one went to the hammock to help the man. I didn’t. Even
if I could have helped him, there was no way that Huoy and I could have carried him. If
we tried to carry him, we probably wouldn’t make it ourselves.
What made it worse, what made it more appalling was that somehow it was
ordinary. You heard the cries of the weak but you didn’t pay much attention because
you were concentrating on yourself and your own survival. We had all seen death
before. In the exodus from Phum Chleav, the atrocious had become normal.
How fast man changes! How fast he sheds his outer humannity and becomes the
animal inside! In the old days – only six months before – nobody abandoned the dead.
Now everything had changed – not just our burial customs but also all our beliefs and
behaviour. We had no more monks and no religious services. We had no
more family obligations. Children left their parents to die, wives abandoned their
husbands and the strongest kept on moving. The Khmer Rouge had taken away
everything that held our culture together, and this was the result: a parade of the selfish
and dying. Society was falling apart.
1. On being told they were going to the “front lines” the writer felt.
A. apprehensive about being close to the fighting.
B. resigned at having to embark on another journey.
C. relieved that they were leaving Phum Chleav.
D. worried about not knowing the way.
2. The write describes the people as “new”
A. because they had only just woken up
B. because they had only recently arrived in the camp
C. as an ironical reference to their political re-education
D. because they were all going to the “front lines”
3. There had been so few workers in the fields because
A. most of the ground had been flooded
B. the weather had been too cold
C. There had been a lack of medical supplies
D. They had not had enough food.
4. When the man in the hammock was left behind
A. his companions did not hesitate before abandoning him
B. the writer felt angry with the man’s relatives
C. the writer knew that the man would die
D. the writer tried to persuade Huoy to carry him
5. What shocked the writer about the exodus from Phum Chleav was
A. The brutarity of the Khmer Rouge soldiers
B. The fact that he had got used to seeing such suffering
C. The number of people who died
D. The poor state of health of the people
6. The writer suggests that people quickly abandon all values except for
A. religious beliefs
B. old customs and traditions
C. the bond between parents and children
D. the sense of self – presevation
IV. Vocabulary
Choose the word which best completes each sentence
1. I’m not all that interested in politics and ………… affairs
A. actual B. recent C. modern D. current
2. After the revolution, the ex – president eventually found a safe ……….. in the
Far East
A. refuge B. sanctuary C. haven D. asylum
3. Because of the dominance of retail chain – stores, most shopping centres show
the same bland ……………. and no imagination.
A. similarity B. likeness C. equality D. uniformity
4. Kylie’s new song show ought to do well in the charts – it’s got good lyrics and
a nice ……….. tune
A. catchy B. harmonious C. melodious D. strident
5. Some intriguing new facts …………. to light during the course of
investigation
A. came B. brought C. turned D. made
6. Conservationists are worried that many potentially valuable …………. of
plants and animals are threatened with extinction
A. examples B. variationsC. species D. brands
7. The evidence that carbon dioxide levels are rising is …………
A. inevitable B. unavoidable C. indelible D. undeniable
8. The polution problems in the town have been ………… by mass tourism in
the summer months
A. exacerbated B. developedC. augmented D. contributed
9. You shouldn’t buy that car. I know the engine is fine, but most of the
bodywork has been ………….. away by rust
A. eaten B. dissolved C. erased D. crumbled
10. The Pyramids are perhaps the most famous of the seven …….. of the ancient
world
A. structures B. spectacles C. wonders D. contructions
PHAÀN NAØY LAØ PHAÙCH
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