tailieunhanh - Luyện thi IELTS (p25)

Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện thi ielts (p25)', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | abcasiapacifc com studyenglish STUDY ENGLISH IELTS PREPARATION ACTIVITY SHEET EPISODE 5 GLOBAL WARMING ACTIVITY 1 Practise identifying referents and the noun phrases to which they refer in the following paragraph about sharks. The shark is a carnivorous meat-eating sea mammal. It is one of the most feared fish in the ocean having the reputation of attacking humans. There are many species that roam the great oceans of the world. They vary in size and habit. Though the whale shark is considered the largest it is relatively harmless and mainly eats small fish and plankton. Other sharks include the hammerhead mako and bull. These are fast powerful sea animals that feed on larger fish such as mackerel tuna and herring. The white shark on the other hand is the most frightening and dangerous. It gets this reputation because of its size and keen sense which enables it to prey successfully. Since the early 1960 s scientists have been studying sharks because of their potential to provide the medical world with defences against diseases such as cancer and arthritis. That would be welcomed by all. ACTIVITY 2 Read the passage on planets. Choose the correct referent and identify to which noun phrase the pronoun refers. Check your punctuation. A planet is a large round object that travels around the sun. There are nine planets which together comprise a part of the solar system. 1. this these that include Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto. Much like stars in appearance planets differ from 2. they them their in that 3. they them their shine steadily while stars twinkle. 4. this these those may be the result of the light and heat that stars produce on 5. its they their own 6. this these that which the planets emit is reflected light from the sun. Though the planets differ substantially in size and vary widely in terms of 7. their its they surface conditions 8. them they these are similar insofar as orbital movement is concerned. All of 9. them they .