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READING:
A.Read the passage and choosse the best answer:
Hi Millie, Well, here I am in the country. I knew that my grandparents lived a long way
from supermarkets and tall apartment buildings, but theres only one shop and a few
hundred people in the (1) _________ that they live in. Its a beautiful place. Its beside a
lake, and in the middle of the lake, theres a small (2) _________. Nobody lives there, but
Grandpa has a boat, and he took us out there yesterday. It is so (3) _________, with only
birdsong and the sound of the wind. There are pretty flowers everywhere which I wanted
to (4) _______, but Grandpa told me not to do that because the flowers are for everyone.
Tomorrow there is a festival in a place near my grandparents house, and we are going to
watch folk games and the other entertainment. Grandma wants me to take (5) _________
in the cake competition, so I plan to bake something this evening. Ill write you after the
festival and tell you all about it and send a picture of my prize if I win! Love Lou
1. A. house B. village C. town D. city
2. A. land B. beach C. island D. field
3. A. noise B. quiet C. quite D. noisy
4. A. take B. have C. get D. pick
5.A. part B. place C. off D. over
B. Read the blog. Write T (True), F (False), or NG (Not Given) if the information is
not in the text.
Most of the time, I write about blizzards, typhoons, floods, and so on. But I don’t ski in a
blizzard or get wet in a flood. Well, this week’s blog is different, because this time I was
there when something big happened!
I was on holiday in an area which has earthquakes. I knew that before I went. But the last
big earthquake there happened 50 years ago, so I didn’t really think about it when I
booked.
During the first few days, I went swimming every morning in the warm sea and then, in
the afternoon, I walked up the side of the mountain behind the town. I didn’t climb over
rocks or anything like that. I just walked slowly up a few hundred meters of one of the
old donkey tracks.
On the afternoon of the fifth day, I was on the mountain when the ground started to move.
I remembered about the earthquakes then, and I thought, ‘The ground will open up and
I’ll fall in.’ Then I looked down at the town and saw a huge wave coming very fast
towards it. Houses near the beach disappeared under the water. I was safe on the side of
the mountain, but my hotel fell down and I lost all my stuff.
23. The writer’s blog is usually about bad weather.
24. The writer thought there might be an earthquake while he was there on holiday.
25. One of the donkey tracks went to the top of the mountain.
26. The writer fell into a hole during the earthquake.
27. The writer watched as the tsunami hit the town.
