Tiếng Anh 5 - Đọc Hiểu
tháng 8 17, 2020
LEARNING TO MAKE A PERFECT PIZZA
According to the European Pizza-Makers’Association, making a good pizza is not a straightforward skill to learn. The ingredients seem very simple: flour, yeast, water and a bit of salt. (1) __________, water and flour can easily (2) __________a rather unappetizing gluey mix, and anyone who has eaten a (3) __________ quality pizza will know how bad it can make your stomach (4) __________ .
‘In Italy, 70 per cent of pizza makers could improve on their product, not to (5) __________ all the pizza makers around the world who (6) __________ uneatable meals,’ says Antonio Primiceri, the Association’s founder. He has now started a pizza school in an attempt to (7) __________ the reputation of this traditional dish. As part of an (8) __________ course, the students at Mr Primiceri’s school are taught
to (9) __________ common mistakes, produce a good basic mixture, add a tasty topping and cook the pizza properly. ‘Test the finished pizza by breaking the crust,’ advises Mr Primiceri. ‘If the soft (10) __________ inside the pizza is white, clean and dry, it’s a good pizza. If it is not like this, the pizza will (11) __________ your stomach. You will feel (12) __________ full and also thirsty.’
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OSTRICH MANIA
Ostriches are funny looking (13) __________ . They can't fly, and they can't sing. They swallow rocks, and even diamonds if they happen to find any, to help them (14) __________ their good.They are also known for being very bad - tempered and will bite or kick their handlers if they have a chance. Their scientific name is struthio camelus, which mean "sparrow" - camel. When travelers in the desert saw ostriches (15) __________ a distance, they sometimes thought they were camels.
It seems hard to (16) __________ that these birds would become an agricultural craze but they did. During the late 1800s and early 1900s ostrich farming was big business in South Africa . There was a huge demand from all over the world for ostrich (17) __________ to decorare womens hats and clothing. Some hats were adorned with feathers more than 20 inches high. At the height of the industry in 1913, there were 750,000 ostriches in one area of South Africa (18) __________ up to 100,000 tons of feathers a year. Ostrich feathers were almost as 60 to the South African economy as gold, diamonds, and wool. As is typical (19) __________ people get rich quickly, there was some extravagance. The best ostriches were worth as much as some houses. Ostrich farmers became very rich and built elaborate mansions called “feather palaces” to show off their wealth. These palaces had marble floors, many towers and balconies, and huge bathrooms.
However, with the start of World War I, (20) __________ changed. As a result, the demand for feathers fell quickly. Many ostrich farmers were (21) __________They had to sell their mansions and their lives changed completely. Ostriches (22) __________ still farmed today in several parts of the world, but mainly for leather and meat. The ostrich business will probably never be as big as it was during those peak years.
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THE INVENTION OF GOOGLE
Google is (23) __________ Internet search engine in the world. It was invented by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met in 1995, when they were both studying computer science at Stanford University, USA. They were also both fans of the (24) __________ TV programme Star Trek, and they loved spaceship computer. They dreamed of producing something that could also answer any question (25) __________ seconds.
Internet search engines at the time were slow and gave many websites that weren’t (26) __________ . In January 1996, Page and Brin decided to make a better and faster search engine. They thought the results should be based (27) __________ the popularity of each website – the most popular ones have the highest number of ‘weblinks’ (links to other websites).
Nobody would give them money for their project so they used their credit cards and bought as much computer (28) __________ as possible. They also borrowed money from family and friends. Then, in 1998, they (29) __________ a cheque for $100,000, and they started their own company. Their first office was in a friend’s garage! The company name Google comes form mathematics. A ‘googol’ is a very high number - 1 followed by 100 zeros.
The google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide (30) __________ it was fast, easy and (31) __________. By 2002 it was the biggest search engine on the internet. Now, more questions (32) __________ by google than any other internet service, from sport to science, and from music to medicine. Google hopes that in the future all the world's information will be put on the internet, so that everybody can find everything
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THE PERFORMING ARTS
In the past, British children were frequently encouraged to try out their performing skills for the benefit of adults. They did this by reading aloud, acting or (33) __________ a musical instrument. As they (34) __________ up they were taken to public places of entertainment – the theatre, the opera, circus or ballet. They looked forward to these (35) __________ with great (36) __________ and would remember and discuss what they had seen for many weeks afterwards. But nowadays, television and computers (37) __________ an endless stream of easily entertainment, and children quickly accept these marvelous (38) __________ as a very ordinary part of their everyday life. For many children, the sense of witnessing a very (39) __________ live performance is gone forever.
But all is not lost. The (40) __________ of a TV set may have encouraged a very lazy response from viewers in their own homes, but the (41) __________ of those with ambitions to become performing artists themselves does not seem to have been at all diminished. And live performances in public are still relatively (42) __________, albeit with an older, more specialist audience.
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UNDER THE CITY STREETS
While skyscraper offices and elegant apartment blocks remain the public face of most major cities, these cities also have a mass of secret tunnels and hidden pipes below ground which keep everything working. This other word exists, forgotten or neglected by all but a tiny (43)________ of engineers and historians.For example, there are more than 150 kilometers of rivers under the streets of London. Most have been (44)________ over and sadly, all that (45)________ is their names. Perhaps the greatest (46)________ to the city is the River Fleet, a (47)________ great river which previously had beautiful house on its banks . It now goes underground in the north of the city and (48)________ into the River Thames by Blackfriars Bridge.
The London Underground (49)________ 1,000 kilometers of underground railway track winding under the capital and more than 100 stations below street level. Along some underground railway lines, commuters can sometimes catch a (50)________ glimpse of the platforms of more than 40 closed stations which have been left under the city. (51)________ some are used as film sets, most like forgotten. Some have had their entrances on the street turned into restaurants and shops, but most entrances have been (52)________ down.
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