tailieunhanh - A resource for reading and words part 15

Tham khảo tài liệu 'a resource for reading and words part 15', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 3. Mr Suarez who sold lottery tickets on the street to support his family died. 4. To avoid getting when you step on the scales you should go on a diet. .5. money and went on the trip she was dreaming of. READING COMPREHENSION 1. The writer s mother . A was very careful with her money and would not waste it. B didn t like spending her money on presents. C worked as a magician. D enjoyed arranging surprise parties. E used to lock the door so that her son couldn t enter. 2. The bicycle the writer found in the room by accident. A was quite horrible. B cost him a fortune C didn t surprise him at all. D was the one he had always wanted to own. E was a brand-new bicycle. 3. The writer s mother somehow bought the bicycle. A as it was really cheap B although it was quite expensive for her C since she was also fond of cycling D because she was able to bring down the price E she had just had her salary. PASSAGE 106 THE OLD FISHERMAN I had walked along the river many times since meeting the fisherman that day in winter but I did not see him again until spring. It was late afternoon and I had bicycled to a point along the river about a mile downstream from where we had met hoping to find a deserted spot to draw a picture. I found a niche in the sloping floodwall and started drawing a junk moored not far from me. Half an hour passed and just as I finished the drawing I heard someone calling my Chinese name. I looked down to see Old Ding scrambling up the floodwall his boat anchored behind him. I noticed that he limped badly and when he got up close I could see that one of his legs was shorter than the other and set at an odd angle. Such was his balance and skill in the boats that I only saw his deformity when he came ashore. VOCABULARY To desert To leave abandon To scramble up To climb Angle Position perspective To limp To walk lamely To anchor To moor Deformity Abnormality defect To moor To make a boat ship etc secure to ground or buoys by means of cables etc.