11 клас Focus 3 Reading Semester 1

Complete the sentences with the missing words. The first letters are given.

1. If you get hungry during the afternoon, you can have a healthy s_____________       like nuts or fruit.

2. If you eat f___________           foods like cakes and ice cream all the time, you will certainly gain some weight.

3. Our m_____________       salad includes lettuce, cabbage, carrots and tomatoes.

4. Could you buy a loaf of w_____________           bread, please? It’s much tastier than the white sort.

Complete the sentences with the missing phrasal verbs. Use the definitions in brackets to help you.

1. If temperatures continue to rise, many types of plants will ___________________         (disappear) in the near future.

2. If you _________________________                   (meet) with a dangerous animal in the wild, you should not approach or frighten it.

3. I’m amazed that you are able to __________ _____________               (not wake up) such a violent storm. It was extremely loud!

4. When I heard the bird call I knew I had to _________________           (stretch my arm to get) my binoculars and try to see them.

Choose the correct option.

X: So, does that sauce taste good?

Y: Well, it's a bit        [bland, sour, bitter]. I think it needs more salt and pepper.

X: You seem to spend a lot on your everyday shopping!

Y: I know, but I always buy           [fattening, light, organic] food because I’m worried about dangerous chemicals in normal products.

X: Do you think I should eat special foods in order to improve my health?

Y: No, you just need to eat a          [balanced, heavy, light] diet. Right now you eat too much meat and hardly any fruit or vegetables.

X: Do you like cauliflower?

Y: I don’t mind it when it’s      [sour, raw, ripe], but it smells disgusting after you cook it.

Read the text. For questions 1-5, choose the correct answer, A, B, C or D.

Pollution in many of the world’s cities is becominga major health problem. One of the worst affected is Beijing, the capital of China. Air quality was dangerously low on fifty-eight days last year. The winter months are especially bad. This is the time of year when more coal is burned to heat people’s homes. There is also less wind to blowthe smog away. At this time of year, pollution levels are sometimestwenty times higher than the WHO (World Health Organization) considerssafe. This causes illnesses and on the worst days old people and children are advised to stay indoors. Visibility is sometimes so bad that motorways have to closebecause of the danger of accidents.

In early 2014, some newspapersand websites showed a frightening vision of the future.On a smoggy morning, residents of Beijing watched the sunrise. However, as the real one was hidden, they had to do this on giant TV screens. The smog was so thick that the real sunrise was completely invisible. While this might seem shocking, the film of the sunrise was nothing unusual. The screens show adverts all the time. The one that the people were watching that morning was for a holiday company. The same advert is shown quite often, whatever the weather. Either the photographer was lucky or he knew exactly how the image would look and waited until he got the photo he wanted. Although the news reporting wasinaccurate, it mighthave done something to raise awareness of how bad the problemhas become. Politicians, too, have finallydecided that something must be done to reduce pollution levels.

The first idea is to reduce the amount of coal that people use. Factories will also be moved to areas further away from cities. Another target is older, more polluting cars. The worst offenders will be banned. In their place, greener and cleaner forms of transport will be encouraged.

Will these changeshelp? The Chineseknow from experience that it is possible to improve air quality very quickly if necessary. Before the 2008 OlympicGames, pollution in Beijing was reduced greatly. As well as reducing traffic levels and closing factories, other methods to reduce pollutionwere used. These included pouring water onto roads to reduce the amount of dust flying in the air. To help with this, scientists were even able to make clouds drop morerain. Since then, things have got worse rather than better but, at last, the governmentseems to be determined to do somethingabout the problem. For the peopleof Beijing and other large cities this will make a huge difference to their lives.

1 Winter in Beijing   [A, B, C, D]

A is very windy.

B can affect driving and road safety.

C has on average 58 days of dangerous levels of air pollution.

D has pollution levels twenty times worse than the rest of China.

2 In Beijing, people were photographed watching the sunrise on TV screens because   [A, B, C, D]

A it’s better than the real sunrise.

B they were posing for a photographer.

C it’s popular to watch the sunrise in Beijing.

D it’s in an advert that is shown regularly around the city.

3 The photograph   [A, B, C, D]

A shows how people plan holidays in Beijing.

B wasn’t carefully planned by the photographer.

C has had a positive impact on politicians.

D has been sold for a lot of money.

4 What does the government plan to do to reduce pollution levels?   [A, B, C, D]

A Build new factories to replace the old ones

B Remove the most polluting cars from the roads

C Ban people from burning coal during winter

D Make the city safer for cyclists

5 Since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games   [A, B, C, D]

A people realise there are ways to reduce air pollution.

B air quality has got a lot better.

C scientists have been controlling the amount of rain falling.

D the biggest problem has been dust on the roads.