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IX. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
Your head aches and you sneeze and cough. Your (1) ……………is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these (2) ……………that you have a cold, and you feel completely (3) ……………. You are not sure if you will live through the day. Every one sufer (4) ……………the common cold at some time or other. It isn’t a serious (5) ……………, but over a billion dollars a year is spent on different kinds of cold medicine every year. This medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make you cough (6) ……………, make your head less intense, and stop your nose (7) ……………for a while. However, it can’t cure your cold. So far, (8) ……………no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it. (9) ……………to prevent and treat colds. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won't catch a cold. (10) ……………say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled, or you will catch cold, However, this is apparently not so. Although there is no cure or preventive medicine for colds, people have all kinds of ideas about
1. A. nose B. face C. head D. mouth
2. A. diseases B. fevers C. cures D. symptoms
3. A. sad B. hungry C. miserable D. thirsty
4. A. from B. of C. with D. about
5. A. misery B. illness C. headache D. wrong
6. A. less B. fewer C. much D. more
7. A. walking B. jogging C. running D. flowing
8. A. it is B. there is C. they are D. there are
9. A. what B. why C. where D. how
10. A. Other's B. Another C. Others D. Other
XI. Read the following passage and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
How many calories can you burn in one hour? Well, it all depends on the activity. You use calories all the time, even when you are resting. Reading, sleeping, sitting and sunbathing all use about 60 calories an hour.
Very light activities use 75 calories. Examples are eating, writing, knitting, shaving, driving and washing up. Light activities which use about 100 calories an hour include playing the piano, getting dressed and having a shower. Under moderate activities which use between 100 and 200 calories an hour we can put walking, doing housework, shopping and skating. Energetic activities use 200-400 calories. These include horse riding, cycling, swimming, skipping and dancing.
Finally there are strenuous activities which use up to 600 calories an hour. These activities include climbing stairs, jogging, digging the garden and playing football.
1. Choose the correct answers
2. The amount of calories we use an hour depends on the activity we do.
3. When we are resting, we don't burn calories.
4. Reading uses as many calories as writing.
5. The calories we burn for eating and washing up are the same.
6. Sunbathing uses more calories than driving.
7. Having a shower uses only 100 calories an hour.
8. Walking is a very light activity.
9. Cycling and dancing use the same amount of calories.
10. Horse riding uses the most amount of calories.
11. Playing football uses fewer calories than swimming.
XII. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before.
1. They won’t be able to come on Saturday.
It will be impossible __________________________________________
2. His novel has 1,500 pages.
He has a ____________________________________________________
3. Walking in the rain gives my brother pleasure.
My brother enjoys ___________________________________________
4. She knows a lot more about it than I do.
I don’t know ________________________________________________
5. Tom doesn’t have a computer at home, and he’d love to.
Tom wishes _________________________________________________
6. Lan’s father is a careful driver.
Lan’s father drivers __________________________________________
7. My brother likes playing soccer better than watching TV.
My brother prefers ___________________________________________
8. Nga didn't go to school yesterday because she was sick.
Because of _________________________________________________
9. I like fish and my sister does, too.
I like fish and so _____________________________________________
10. Learning how to use a computer is very easy.
It is _______________________________________________________
