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4.5 Ielts.Reading.Key 2

Giải chi tiết IELTS (Trường Đại học Kinh tế Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh)

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4.5 IELTS COURSE

KEY READING – LESSON 2

Thực hành

Drinking Water
Introduction
● Drinking water is essential for human life.

● The '8 glasses a day' rule is a myth, except for the 1 .....elderly.................

Some effects of water on the body

● Drinking before 2 ...meals.................. may assist weight loss.

● Dr Amaldi's study shows that water speeds up 3 ....digestion..................

● A US research study showed that dehydrated bodies cannot control 4

...temperature...... so well.

Luyện tập 1

The Happy Planet Index

Year started: 1 ……2008…………

Number of countries it lists: 2 ………143………

Measures each country's happiness according to:

■ its effect on the 3 ……environment…… (i.e. the quantity of the Earth's 4 ……

resources………… that it uses);

■ the 5 ……health………… of the population (i.e. how long people live);

■ how happy its 6 ………citizens……… are.

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Luyện tập 2: FLOW-CHART COMPLETION

Freya Stark

Born in Paris in 1893

First formal education at 1 …

London University …………

Worked as a 2 …… nurse ………

in Italy

Studied at School of Oriental

Studies

Studied at School of Oriental

Studies

Travelled to the Lebanon, where

she learned 3…… Arabic ………

Made a journey to the Syrian

mountains on a 4 ……… donkey
…………

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In 1934, won a 5……… Gold

Medal ………… for a book

Spent a further 6 ……… 12

years ………… in the Middle
East

Luyện tập 3: DIAGRAM LABELLING

Complete labels (1-7) on the diagram.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage
for each answer.

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Luyện tập 4:

Questions 1-7

Complete the notes using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text.

The history of recycling in the UK

Eighteenth-century Britain

● People recycled products such as

- used (1) ………clothing/clothes/apparel……………………

- (2) …………building materials…………………

- anything made from (3) ……………metal………………

- old cloth.

● The (4) ……………paper……………… business relied heavily on recycled

materials.

● Recycling had two main advantages:

- it provided necessary (5) …………(raw) materials…………………

- it helped (6) ………the poor……………………

Nineteenth-century Britain

● More refuse was created by an increase in the number of

i) big cities

ii) inhabitants
and

iii) increasing (7) …………industrialisation…………………

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Questions 8-13

Complete the flowchart below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text.

The processing of waste up until the 1900s

Remains used in
agriculture or as
(12) …………
fuel…………………

(10) ……
dust………
Refuse and (11) ……
Waste collected by (8) … Waste taken to the (9)
checked for cinders………
private contractors dust-yard(s)…………
valuables …… left
behind

Sold to
merchants Remains disposed
of on the ground
or in the (13)
…………
Question 14
sea…………………
Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.

In the final paragraph, what are we told about waste disposal at the end of the
nineteenth century?

A. It was a respected business.

B. The work was relatively well-paid.

C. Authorities decided to burn the waste.

D. Disposal of waste had not yet been regulated.

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