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Unit 9: Lesson 5 - Reading : S Giáo D C Và Đào T o
Unit 9: Lesson 5 - Reading : S Giáo D C Và Đào T o
PRACTICE:
READING
I.-Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the question about the story.
I often hear or read about ‘natural disasters’ – the eruption of Mount St. Helen, a volcano
in the state of Washington. Hurricane Andrew in Florida, the floods in the America Midwest,
terrible earthquakes all over the world, huge fires, and so on. But I’ll never forget my first
personal experience with the strangeness of nature – ‘the London Killer Fog’ of 1952. It began on
Thursday, December 4, when a high-pressure system of warm air covered southern England.
With the freezing-cold air below, heavy fog formed. Pollution from factories, cars and coal stoves
mixed with the fog. The humidity was terribly high, there was no breeze at all. Traffic such as
cars, trains, boats stopped. People couldn’t see, and some walked onto the railroad tracks or into
the river. It was hard to breathe, and many people got sick. Finally, on Tuesday, December 9, the
wind came and the fog went away. But after that, even more people got sick. Many of them died.
Ii.-Read the following passage carefully, then write True (T) or False (F) for each statement.
The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day their country in the not-too-distant future
will disappear from the surface of the earth. Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has
been flooded by a sudden high tide. These tide, which swept across the island and destroyed
houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. This never happened before.
What is causing these mysterious high tides? The answer may be global warming. When
fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants are released, these pollutants hold heat in the
earth’s atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by
melting glaciers and polar ice caps.
If the situation continues, scientists say that many countries will suffer, Bangladesh, for
example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral island nations of the Pacific like Kiribati and
the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate – they would be swallowed by the
sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyone’s loss. Coral formations are home to more
species than any other place on the earth.
T F
1. In Kiribati there were sudden high tides coming when there was no wind or
rain.
2.High tides without wind or rain often happen in Kiribati.
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