tailieunhanh - A resource for reading and words part 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'a resource for reading and words part 3', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | READING COMPREHENSION 1. It is obvious that the room upstairs in Norah s house is A very comfortable B not cold C small D tidy E not safe 2. They sleep in the room downstairs because . A it is larger than the one upstrairs B the strong wind may break the windows upstairs C it has a stove which warms very well D it has many large windows E they can see the gale better there 3. The flowers in Norah s garden. A attract everybody s attention. B need looking after carefully. C should be watered every week. D are badly affected by the salt spray. E like to be sprayed with salty water. PASSAGE 17 BALLONING One of my great ambitions is to learn how to pilot a balloon on my own. I look forward to weekends because my father who s a balloonist takes us all ballooning with him every weekend. I m the only one who rides with him in the basket which is fastened to the bottom of the balloon with nylon ropes. Sometimes he allows me to pilot the balloon on my own when the wind isn t too strong but he always stays with me in the basket. VOCABULARY a DEFINITIONS Ambition Goal aim desire To pilot To direct to conduct to fly To ride To travel To fasten To tie up To allow To let On one s own Alone EXERCISES Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words defined above 1 . You can at least organize your life around your aims and 2. Army duties included parachuting and . of light aircraft. 3. I in the car to our destination. 4. The air hostess requested that the seat belts. 5. He just went have a long private think. READING COMPREHENSION 1. The writer always wanted . A to have his own balloon. B to ride with his father in the basket. C to be a balloonist like his father. D to be a pilot. E to learn how to fly a balloon. 2. The writer pilots the balloon. A only on weekends. B when his father is without him. C only when the weather is calm. D because his father is a balloonist. E because his father takes them on every weekend . 3. From the passage