tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading 34

Để đạt thành tích cao trong kì thi sắp tới, các bạn có thể tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading 34 sau đây, nhằm rèn luyện và nâng cao kĩ năng giải đề thi IELTS, nâng cao kiến thức cho bản thân. | IELTS Academic Reading 34 READING PASSAGE 34 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 13-26 which are based on Reading Passage 34 below. Moles happy as homes go underground A The first anybody knew about Dutchman Frank Siegmund and his family was when workmen tramping through a field found a narrow steel chimney protruding through the grass. Closer inspection revealed a chink of sky-light window among the thistles and when amazed investigators moved down the side of the hill they came across a pine door complete with leaded diamond glass and a brass knocker set into an underground building. The Siegmunds had managed to live undetected for six years outside the border town of Breda in Holland. They are the latest in a clutch of individualistic homemakers who have burrowed underground in search of tranquillity. B Most falling foul of strict building regulations have been forced to dismantle their individualistic homes and return to more conventional lifestyles. But subterranean suburbia Dutch-style is about to become respectable and chic. Seven luxury homes cosseted away inside a high earth-covered noise embankment next to the main Tilburg city road recently went on the market for 296 500 each. The foundations had yet to be dug but customers queued up to buy the unusual part-submerged houses whose back wall consists of a grassy mound and whose front is a long glass gallery. C The Dutch are not the only would-be moles. Growing numbers of Europeans are burrowing below ground to create houses offices discos and shopping malls. It is already proving a way of life in extreme climates in winter months in Montreal Canada for instance citizens can escape the cold in an underground complex complete with shops and even health clinics. In Tokyo builders are planning a massive underground city to be begun in the next decade and underground shopping malls are already common in Japan where 90 percent of the population is squeezed into 20 percent of the landspace. D Building