- Câu hỏi 834768:
Mô tả câu hỏi
Read the text and do the activities that follow.
The 1001 night
The Thousand and one nights is probably one of the most famous books in the world. It is a collection of stories first told by travelers from Persia, Arabia, India and China between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. In later years professional storytellers also told the stories in coffee houses in Turkey, Egypt and many other countries. The Thousand and one nights contains well-known stories like Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, so people often think they are just for children – but they were originally for adults.
Shahrazad’s story
There was once an Indian King called Shahriyar. One day King Shahriyar found his wife with another man so he killed her and her lover. After that the King married a different woman everyday and killed her the next morning before she could stop loving him. This continued for three years.
Shahrazad was the clever and beautiful daughter of the King’s adviser. When her father told her what was happening, she decided to marry the King. Shahrazad’s father tried to stop her because he knew she was going to die. But Shahrazad had a plan to save herself and all the women in the kingdom. The King and Shahrazad got married a few days later.
After the wedding, while the King was drinking with his friends, Shahrazad went to find her sister. ‘I need your help,’ said Shahrazad. ‘Come to the palace this evening and ask me to tell you a story’.
So that night, Shahrazad was getting ready for bed when her sister came to visit her. She began telling her sister a story called The Fisherman and the Genie. While she was telling the story, the King came into the room. He started listening to her story too, and became more and more interested.
Shahrazad continued telling the story all night, but she stopped just before the end and said, ‘The morning’s here, husband. Am I going to die now?’. ‘No, no’, said the King. ‘Tell me the end of the story’. ‘I’ll tell you this evening, but not before’, said Shahrazad with a smile.
That night Shahrazad finished the story – and then immediately began another. This continued night after night. The King never heard the end of a story until the next evening. He couldn’t kill his wife because he always wanted to know how each story ended.
As time passed, the King fell in love with Shahrazad. He knew he could never kill her because he couldn’t live without her and her stories. To show Shahrazad he really loved her, the King married her again. The stories Shahrazad told the King became the stories of The Thousand and one nights.
Are these following sentences true (T) or false (F)
- ...... The King killed his first wife.
- ...... He was married to his next wife for three years.
- ...... Shahrazad worked for the King.
- ...... Shahrazad’s father didn’t want her to marry the King.
- ...... Shahrazad asked her mother to help her.
- Câu hỏi 834769:
Mô tả câu hỏi
advisor save palace Genie
Match the words with their definitions (1-5)
- The official home of a person of very high rank, especially a King or Queen. ......
- To make someone or something safe from danger, harm or destruction. ......
- A magical creature in old Arabian stories that will do what you want when you call. ......
- Someone whose job is to give advice because they know a lot about a subject. ......
- Câu hỏi 834770:
Circle the answer that matches the meaning of each bold word or phrase.
My uncle has a farm.
A. a place for skiing
B. an area of land used for growing crops, breeding and keeping cow, sheep, pigs…
- Câu hỏi 834773:
Mô tả câu hỏi
Read the text and do the activities that follow.
The Royal Family
- Prince William is a member of the British royal family. He’s the Queen’s grandson and the eldest son of Charles and Diana. His brother’s name is Harry. Diana, their mother, isn’t alive now, but they have a stepmother, Camilla.
- William’s wife is Kate Middleton. She’s originally from an ordinary family- but of course, she’s now the Duchess of Cambridge and part of the royal family! Kate has a brother, James, and a sister, Pippa. Their parents, Michael and Carole, have an online business.
- In some ways, Kate and William are a normal couple. They have friends from university and they have hobbies and interests too. For example, William loves football and Kate likes photography. In the winter, they go skiing together.
- In other ways, their lives are very different from their friends’ lives. William is the future King of the United Kingdom – and fifteen other countries too, including Canada and Australia. Kate and William have a lot of official duties. They help charities in the UK and Africa, they visit other countries and they meet important visitors to the UK.
- The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby, St James’s Palace has confirmed. All the Members of the Royal Family and the duchess’s family, the Middletons, are delighted: “The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry and members of both families are delighted with the news.”
The baby will be third in line to the throne, after Prince Charles and Prince William. A spokesman said the duchess has been admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in central London with acute morning sickness and is expected to stay for several days: “As the pregnancy is in its very early stages, Her Royal Highness is expected to stay in hospital for several days and will require a period of rest thereafter.”
6. Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, says he and his wife “could not be happier” after the duchess gave birth to a baby boy, at 16:30, 22nd July 2013 UK time at St Mary’s Hospital, west London. William was present at St Mary’s for the birth. The young parents spent time with their son before telling the news to their families and the world. The Queen’s gynecologist Marcus Setchell, who led the team that delivered the baby, described the new arrival as “wonderful baby, beautiful baby”. A bulletin signed by him was taken by a royal aide from St Mary’s to the palace under police escort. The news has been since displayed on an easel in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace in line with tradition. A Palace spokesman said the names of the baby would be announced in due course. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: “The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are delighted at the news.”
Match paragraph headings A-F with paragraphs 1-6.
| A. William and Kate expecting a baby |
...... |
| B. Kate’s family |
...... |
| C. The Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a baby boy |
...... |
| D. Royal duties |
...... |
| E. William family |
...... |
| F. An ordinary couple |
...... |
- Câu hỏi 834777:
They …… be on holiday but I’m not sure.
A. may
B. must
C. can
D. should
- Câu hỏi 834783:
Office workers “admit being rude”
Most office workers say they are rude or bad-mannered at work. Two out of three workers regularly arrive late for meetings, most ignore emails and three out of four use bad language. In a survey of 1,000 workers, two-thirds say that pressure of work is the reason for bad manners.
Other common examples of bad office etiquette include ignoring colleagues and answering mobile phone calls during meetings. Using mobile phones in meetings is impolite and distracts others, research by the University of Surrey shows. If you respond to call when speaking to somebody, it means that the phone call is more important than the person, the survey said. If you answer a call during a meeting, it could mean that the meeting is not important.
Mr Jacobs, managing director of Office Angels, a recruitment firm say it is easy for people to forget their manners in the working environment, which is often very informal and very busy. Workers can forget proper etiquette such as introducing people at meetings, and this is often bad for working relationships.
Psychologist Dr Colin Gill believes that people are not as polite as they were twenty years ago. He said: ‘Courtesy is no longer something that is so much respected in our society.’ People think it is ‘stuffy to be polite or formal.’
Now some organisations are actually investing money in training their junior managers to be polite. Office Angels is encouraging people to arrive on time for meetings, turn off mobile phones and avoid bad manners at work is such a simple thing to do,’ Mr Jacobs says, ‘ and it can have a dramatic impact on improving your working environment and your relationships with others.’
The author wants to ………………………….
A. give specific figures of bad manners at work
B. give advice on how to behave politely at work
C. give specific examples of bad manners at work
- Câu hỏi 834795:
Each bold word below has more than one meaning. Circle the right meaning in the text.
Do-it-yourself projects teach teens important skills, engage their minds in fruitful pursuits and give them tangible rewards for hard work
A. to attack
B. to take part in
C. to employ
- Câu hỏi 834796:
Circle the answer that matches the meaning of each bold word or phrase.
Teens who are looking for a quick afternoon do-it-yourself project would likely enjoy creating items out of duct tape.
A. thing made from plastic
B. a band of cloth
- Câu hỏi 834806:
Listen and chosse the main idea of the text.
A. A Sport Game
B. An Auction
C. A Game Show
- Câu hỏi 834812:
Mô tả câu hỏi
Complete the dialogue. Use the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
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Imogen
Thomas
Imogen
Thomas
Imogen
Thomas
Imogen
Thomas
Imogen
Thomas
Imogen
Thomas
Imogen
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Is Till at home?
No, she ...... (play) volleyball at the park.
Really? But Tilly ...... (not like) sport.
I ...... (know) that. But she’s with friends.
Is William with them?
William? I’m not sure...
He’s tall with dark blue tracksuit.
Sorry. I ...... (not know) him.
It doesn’t matter.
What ...... you ...... (do) now?
I ...... (send) Tilly a text message.
...... you ...... (ask) her about William?
No, I ...... (tell) her a secret about him.
William really ...... (like) her.
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