UNIT 7: WORLD POPULATIONĐọc đoạn văn sau và chọn một câu trả lời thích hợp nhất, từ câu 1 đến câu 5 The population of the world has increased more in modern times than in all other ages
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Đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn một câu trả lời thích hợp nhất, từ câu 1 đến câu 5
The population of the world has increased more in modern times than in all other ages of history combined World population totalled about 500 million in 1650 It doubled in the period from 1650 - 1680 By the year 2000, the population will be about 6.6 billion Estimates based on research by the United Nations indicate that it will double in the twenty-five years between 1975 and the year 2000
No one knows the limits of the population that the earth can support Thomas Malthus, an English economist, developed a theory that became widely accepted in the nineteenth century He suggested that because world population tended to increase more rapidly than food supply, we should continuously constrain available resources Malthus cited wars, famines, epidemics and other disasters as in the usual limitations of world population growth With recent advances in science and technology, including improved agricultural methods and great progresses and
in medicine, some of the limiting factors in population growth have been lessened, with obvious results International organizations have recommended programmes to encourage general economic development that target areas along with a decrease in birth rates to effect a lasting solution
Câu 1: Which of the options below is the best title for the passage?
A A Brief History of Population and Over-population B Limiting Factors in Population Growth
C The United Nations' Estimate D Thomas Malthus's Theory
Câu 2: What is the population from the estimates based on research by the US?
A Two million B Five hundred million C Seven billion D Over six billion
Câu 3: Who was Thomas Malthus?
A A scientist B An economist C A doctor of medicine D A United Nations' representative Câu 4: According to the passage, the limiting factors in population growth have been lessened because of
A precaution B disasters C improved technology D scarcity
Câu 5: What do most experts recommend in order to solve problems of overpopulation?
A Medical advance and improved agricultural methods B Famine and epidemic.
C Economic development and a decline in the bith rate D Conservation of available resources.
Dùng những từ đã cho điền vào chỗ trống để hoàn thành câu:
1 It is vital that food is made _ to the famine areas
2 They are doing some fascinating into the language of dolphins
3 A big company like IBM has huge of money and skills
4 The _ of wearing jeans and cowboy hats has been coming back
5 There is a _ of thirty minutes for the reading test All papers must be sent in at the end of thirty minutes
6 The of the 100-year-old sewage and water systems will cost millions of pounds
7 I like to go swimming early in the morning, when the swimming pool is largely _
8 Can you read the _ again? Is it a / θri: əʊ eit ri: əʊ eit / or an / eit əʊ θri: əʊ eit ri: /?
9 The province declared independence several years ago, but it remains unrecognized by the community
10 One of the country's most pressing social problems is the
11 China is the world's most country It has the world's largest population
12 Safe methods for family planning have been encouraged to apply to control the birth rate
Bài 1: Dùng từ / cụm từ gợi ý viết thành câu điều kiện hoàn chỉnh Sử dụng "If"
1 The wind is blowing hard, so I won't take the boat out for a ride
-> If the wind weren't blowing hard, I would take the boat out for a ride.
2 I feel better now because you talked to me about my problems last night
Trang 2-> I wouldn't feel better now if you hadn't talked me about my problems last night.
3 Ann carried heavy furniture when she helped her friend move Her back hurts nows
4 Paulo is working on two jobs right now, so he doesn't have time to help you with your remodeling
5 I wasn't working at the restaurant last night I didn't wait on your table
6 Because Diane asked questions every time she didn't understand a problem, she has a good understanding of geometry now
7 A fallen tree was blocking the road, so we didn't arrive on time
8 Rita is exhausted today because she didn't get any sleep last night
9 Olga and Ivan weren't paying attention, so they didn't see the sign marking their exit from the highway
10 The doctor doesn't really care about his patients He didn't explain the medical procedure to me before surgery
Bài 2: Chọn phương án thích hợp nhất.
Câu 1: If Jake _ to go on the trip, would you have gone?
A doesn't agree B wouldn't agree C didn't agree D hadn't agreed
Câu 2: The lecturer last night didn't know what he was talking about, but if Dr Mason , I would have
listened carefully
A was lecturing B lectured C had been lecturing D would lecture
Câu 3: more help, I could call my neighbour.
Câu 4: If you to my advice in the first place, you wouldn't be in this mess right now.
A had listened B listen C listened D will listen
Câu 5: We the game if we'd had a few more minutes.
Câu 6: If I could speak Spanish, I _ next year studying in Mexico.
A would spend B would have spent C had spent D will spend
Câu 7: If energy _ inexpensive and unlimited, many things in the world would be different.
Câu 8: It would have been a much more serious accident _ fast at the time.
Câu 9: Do you think there would be less conflict in the world if all people _ the same language?
Câu 10: "Can I borrow your car for this evening?" - "Sure, but Nora's using it right now If she _ it back,
you're welcome to borrow it."
Câu 11: I didn't know you were asleep Otherwise, I so much noise when I came in.
Câu 12: I didn't get home until well after midnight Otherwise, I your call.
Câu 13: I William with me if I had know you and he didn't get along with each other.
C wouldn't have brought D didn't bring
Câu 14: I _ you sooner had someone told me you were in hospital.
Câu 15: If I _ the same problem you had a child, I might not have succeeded in life as well as you have.
Câu 16: Unless you all of my questions, I can't do anything to help you.
Câu 17: Had you told me that this was going to happen, I _ it.
Trang 3A hadn't believed B would never have believed
Câu 18: interested in that subject, I would try to learn more about it.
Câu 19: If you can give me one good reason for your acting like this; _ this incident again.
Câu 20: _ then what I know today, I would have saved myself a lot of time and trouble over the years.
A Had I known B If I would know C Did I know D If I know
Bài 3: Lược bớt " If" trong câu sau:
1 If I were at your age, I'd do things differently
-> Were I at your age, I'd do things differently.
2 If Bob shows up while I'm away, please give him my message
3 If my uncle had stood up to sing, I'd been embarrassed
4 If she were ever in trouble, I'd do anything I could to help her
5 If the manager questions these figures, have her talk to the bookkeeper
6 I wouldn't have known about your new job if I hadn't talked to your mother
TEST ON CONDITIONALS AND WISHES Câu 1: "Are you lost?" - "I think so I wish we a map with us today."
Câu 2: When I stopped talking, Sam finished my sentence for me as though he my mind.
Câu 3: Ed invented a lot of money with a dishonest advisor, and lost nearly all of it Now he is having serious
fanacial problems He in this position if he'd listened to some of his friends
Câu 4: Please keep your voice down in this section of the library If you to talk loudly, I will have to ask
you to leave
Câu 5: "I'm really sorry about what happened during the meeting I felt I had no choice." - " It's okay I'm sure you
wouldn't have done it if you ."
Câu 6: If my candidate had won the election, I happy now.
Câu 7: "Here's my phone number." - "Thanks, I'll give you a call if I _ some help tomorrow."
Câu 8: The world _ a better place if we had know a hundred years ago what we know today about the earth's
environment
Câu 9: I wish you some money for your rent, but I'm broke myself.
Câu 10: "Why didn't Bill get the promotion he was expecting?" - "He may not be qualified If he had been qualified,
he _ that promotion last year."
A had been given B would be given C was given D would have been given Câu 11: Was Pam seriously injured in the automobile accident?" - " She broke her arm It _ much worse if
she hadn't been wearing her seat belt."
Câu 12: "How do you like your new apartment?" - "The apartment itself is great, but I wish I used to the
constant noise from the street below."
Câu 13: I would never have encouraged you to go into this field it would be so stressful for you I'm sorry
it's been so difficult for you
A and I have known B had I known C should I know D but I knew
Trang 4Câu 14: Page 12 of the manual that came with the appliance says, " _ any problem with the merchandise,
contact your local dealer."
Câu 15: "What _ today if you hadn't come here this weekend?" - "I guess I'd be putting in extra hours at my
office."
A are you doing B can you do C would you be doing D will you be doing Câu 16: I _ you to the woman I was speaking with, but I couldn't think of her name.
A will introduce B would have introduced C would introduce D couldn't have
introduced
Câu 17: If someone into the store, smile and say, "May I help you?"
Câu 18: Gloria never seems to get tired I surely wish I her energy.
Câu 19: you, I'd think twice about that decision It could be a bad move.
Câu 20: If I could find Rob's phone number, I _ him about the change in plans Maybe somebody else will
call him
Câu 21: Marge walked away from the discussion Otherwise, she _ something she would regret later.
Câu 22: I wish Janet _ to the meeting this afternoon.
Câu 23: If you _, I would have brought my friends over to your house yesterday evening to watch TV, but I
didn't want to bother you
A hadn't been studying B had studied C didn't study D studied
Câu 24: If I weren't working for an accounting firm, I in a bank.
Câu 25: The medicine made me feel dizzy I felt as though the room _ around and around.
indirect speech exercises.
Read the notes to previous indirect speech exercises.
Note that want or would like is often useful when the speaker reports a request made to himself or made through
him to someone else:
Tom (on the phone to Ann): Could you book me a room in a hotel for tonight?
Ann (telling Mary about this): Tom wants me to book him a room for tonight.
(Tom said that I am to book would also be possible but more authoritative.)
Similarly:
Mrs Jones (on the phone to Mary): Could you ask Mrs Smith to ring me back?
Mary (telling Mrs Smith about it): Mrs Jones rang She wants/would like you to ring
her back.
(She says that you are to ring would be possible but very authoritative.)
1 Letter (from Paul to Ann): Please get me a small tent and camping equipment for two people
Ann (telling Mary about this): Paul wants
2 Mr White (on phone to Mr Black's secretary): Ask Mr Black to meet me at six in the bar on the ground floor Secretary (reporting this to Mr Black): Mr White would like
3 "Shall I go and get a candle?" said Ann when the light went out suddenly
"I'd rather you got another bulb," said Mr Jones
"But there aren't any," said Ann, "and the shops are shut."
4 "Don't worry about a few mistakes," said Peter, "I make mistakes all the time."
"Do you learn from your mistakes?" I asked, "Or do you keep making the same ones?"
5 "I'm looking for a man called Albert, who drinks in this bar," I said,
"I should keep away from Albert if I were you," said the barman "He doesn't like strangers and might turn nasty."
6 "Could I have a look at your paper for a moment?" said the man
Trang 5"I just want to see the football results."
"I haven't quite finished with it," I said, "Could you wait a moment?"
"I can't wait long," he said, "I'm getting off at the next stop."
7 "You woke everyone up last night," said my mother "You must try to be quieter tonight."
"We will," I promised
8 "The soup's cold again," complained Mr Jones "Why do I never have hot soup?"
"Because the kitchen's so far from the dining room," explained his wife If you insist on living in a castle you must put up with its disadvantages.'
"What about getting an ex-Olympic runner as an au pair girl?" said Mr Jones
"She wouldn't stay," sighed his wife
9 "Your licence is out of date," said the policeman
"It is," I admitted, "but I've applied for a new one."
"Next time, he said severely, "apply for a new one before your current one has expired."
10 "I ll have the money for you next week Shall I post it to you?" I said
"Could you keep it in your safe till I can come and collect it?" said Tom, "A lot of my mail has been going astray lately and I'd hate to lose one of your large cheques."
11 "Could I borrow your map again?" said Peter
"You're always borrowing it Why don't you get one of your own?" I said
12 "When you hear the fire bell," he said, "shut the windows and go downstairs."
"And what shall we do if the stairs are blazing?" I asked
13 "Can you hear that noise?" Ann said, "What do you think it is?"
"I think it's only rats running up and down inside the wall," I said
"I think it's someone trying to get in," she said "You'd better go and see."
14 "It's your turn to baby-sit tonight," they told Ann
"It can't be!" said Ann indignantly, I baby-sat last night! And the night before! And I'm only supposed to do two nights a week!'
"Could you possibly do it just this once?" they said, "And we promise not to ask you to do any next week."
15 "This is the best restaurant in town," said the taxi driver, "The only problem is that they expect guests to wear ties."
"Then why have you brought us here?" said the tourists indignantly
"Don't get excited," said the taxi-driver, opening a box I keep ties specially for gentlemen in your predicament What colour would you like? They're all the same price."
16 "Shall I start tomorrow?" I said
"I'd rather you started today," said Tom
17 "Why don't you go and see the film? It may help you to understand the book," I said
'But the film's quite different from the book,' Ann pointed out
18 "I saw the two climbers," said the helicopter pilot "And one of them sat up and waved to me."
"Which one of them waved?" I said