Reading - Unit 15 trang 110 Sách bài tập (SBT) Tiếng Anh 11

A. READING

Part 1. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Đọc đoạn văn để chọn đáp án đúng nhất cho mỗi câu hỏi sau. 

When the Americans were getting ready to send their first men to the moon, an old Irishman was watching them on television in the bar of a hotel.

There was an Englishman in the bar too, and he said to the Irishman, “The Americans are very clever, aren’t they? They are going to send some men to the moon. It’s a very long way from our world.”

“Oh, that’s nothing,” the Irishman answered quickly. “The Irish are going to send some men to the sun in a few months’ time. That’s much farther away than the moon, you know.”

The Englishman was very surprised when he heard this. “Oh, yes, it is,” he said, “but the sun’s too hot for people to go to.”

The Irishman laughed and answered, “Well, the Irish aren’t stupid, you know. We won’t go to the sun during the day, of course. We’ll go there during the night.”

1. Who were in the bar of the hotel?

A. an American man and an Englishman

B. an Englishman and an Irishman

C. an Irishman and an American man

D. a group of the Americans

2. That the Americans sending their first men to the moon was_____________________ to the Englishman.

A. admirable                  B. weird                   C. normal                D. threatening

3. What did the Irishman think about the Americans’ sending their men to the moon?

A. It was something unbelievable.

B. It was a concerning event.

C. It was not something incredible.

D. It was nothing to the Americans.

4. Why was the Englishman surprised when the Irishman told about sending their men to the sun?

A. The sun is not hot enough to go to.

B. The sun is much farther away than the moon.

C. The sun will bum the earth if they go to.

D. The sun is so hot that people cannot go.

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the author?

A. The Irish are not stupid when sending their men to the sun.

B. The sun is cool at night for the Irish to send their men there.

C. The Englishman showed his respect to the Americans’ event.

D.The Americans succeeded in sending their men to the moon.

Hướng dẫn giải 

1. B         2. A         3. C           4. D        5. C 

Dịch bài đọc 

Khi  Mỹ chuẩn bị đưa những người đầu tiên lên mặt trăng, một người Ireland cổ đã theo dõi họ trên truyền hình trong quán bar của một khách sạn.

Có một người Anh trong quán rượu, và ông ta nói với người Ireland, "Người Mỹ rất thông minh, phải không? Họ sẽ đưa một số người lên mặt trăng. Đó là một chặng đường dài với thế giới của chúng ta. "

"Ồ, không có gì," người Ireland trả lời nhanh. "Một người Ireland sẽ gửi một số ngườ lên mặt trời trong một vài tháng. Điều đó xa hơn mặt trăng, bạn biết đấy. "

Người Anh đã rất ngạc nhiên khi nghe điều này. "Ồ, vâng, đó là," anh nói, "nhưng mặt trời quá nóng để đến."

Người Ireland cười vang và trả lời: "À, người Ailen không ngu ngốc, bạn biết đấy. Chúng ta sẽ không đến mặt trời trong ngày, tất nhiên. Chúng tôi sẽ đến đó vào ban đêm. "

Part 2. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn đáp án đúng nhất cho mỗi câu hỏi. 

Some day people will certainly try to build settlements on the moon. The best place for houses in a moon town will be a cave or a tunnel. Underground houses will not be squashed by meteorites that constantly fall on the moon from outer space. This will be important on the moon, since daytime is so hot that food could be cooked in the rocks, and the nights get bitterly cold.            ,

Pioneer moon homes may be made of airtight plastic that can be blown up like a balloon inside the cave. The reason for this is that the moon has no air around it. The pioneers will have to take along from the earth the oxygen masks when they are away from home. But the balloon house itself will be filled with air. Perhaps the house will have beds, tables and chairs, built into it. These can be inflated, too. So people will sleep, eat and work on air! Moon-house building will be easy. The moon’s gravity is less than the earth’s. Everything weighs only one-sixth as much as it does on the earth.

1. Why will the pioneers have to take along from the earth the oxygen they need for breathing?

A. Because the moon homes are made of airtight plastic.

B. Because the balloon house will be filled with air.

C. Because moon people will sleep, eat and work on air.

D. Because the moon has no air around it.

2. If a stone weighs 18 tons on the earth, how much does it weigh on the moon?

A. six tons

B. fifty-five tons

C. one hundred and eight tons

D. three tons

3. According to the passage, can people build cities on the moon?

A. No, they can’t.

B. Perhaps people can do.

C. Of course. People can build cities on the moon in the future.

D. People only think so.

Hướng dẫn giải