Unit 6: An excursion - Reading

a. Built in 1049, in the shape of a lotus (Được xây dựng vào năm 1049, có hình một bông sen.)

b. Picturesque site, wonder of the world, 165 kilometers from Hanoi (Địa điểm đẹp như tranh vẽ, kì quan của thế giới, cách Hà Nội 165 km.)

c. Mountain resort (altitudeL 1,500m) with some wonderful places to visit: Xuan Huong Lake, pine forests, waterfalls...(Khu nghỉ dưỡng trên núi (độ cao: 1 500 m) với nhiều địa danh đẹp để thăm quan: Hồ Xuân Hương, rừng thông, thác nước, ...)

d. On the left bank of the Huong River, 6 kilometers from Hue City (Ở bên bờ trái của Sông Hương, cách thành phố Huế 6 km.)

Guide to answer

1. d (Thien Mu pagoda) 

2. b (Ha Long Bay)

3. a (The One-pillar Pagoda)

4. c (Da Lat City)

I'd like to visit Da Lat because it's a famous and beautiful holiday resort with the cool weather and picturesque sights. In this place you relax your mind in the peaceful and quiet atmosphere and you can feel comfortable with the world and forget all your sorrow and anxious of the noisy life.

Read the letter and then do the tasks that follow. (Đọc lá thư và làm các bài tập theo sau.)

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete each of the sentences. (Chọn câu trả lời đúng nhất A, B, C hay D để hoàn thành mỗi câu này.)

1. Lan wrote the letter to ________.

A. inform Minh of her days off

B. complain about her parents

C. tell Minh about the plan for her class trip

D. talk about what she and her classmates will do at Huong Pagoda

2. The students decided to go on an excursion because they wanted to ________.

A. understand their geography lessons better

B. relax after work

C. have a campfire

D. A and B

3. The students have changed their destination as _______

A. it is impossible to visit the caves near

B. it costs them a lot to visit

C. they prefer Huong Pagoda to

D. many of them have been to

Guide to answer

1 - C

2 - D

3 - A

Answer the questions. (Trả lời các câu hỏi.)

1. When are Lan and her classmates going on a trip? (Khi nào Lan và các bạn cùng lớp sẽ đi tham quan?)

2. Why are they visiting some caves? (Tại sao họ dự định thăm quan một vài hang động?)

3. How far is Thay Pagoda from their school? (Chùa Thầy cách trường của họ bao xa?)

4. What are the student's plans for their trip to Huong Pagoda? (Kế hoạch của các học sinh cho chuyến thăm quan tới Chùa Hương là gì?)

5. What is Lan anxious about? Why? (Lan lo lắng điều gì? Tại sao?)

Guide to answer

1. They're going on a trip when they have some days off after the first term.

2. They're visiting some caves becaue they want to understand their geography lesson better and some of them have never been inside a cave.

3. It's only over 20 kilometres.

4. They're going to make a two-day trip and have a night campfire at Chua Huong. They are bringing their own food and sharing the buses with some other classes to make the trip cheap.

5. Lan's anxious about her parents' permission. They may not let her stay the night away from home.

Fill in each blank in the summary of the letter with a suitable group of words from the box below. (Điền mỗi chỗ trống ở bài tóm tắt của lá thư với cụm từ thích hợp ở khung dưới đây.)

her classmates    want to see      their trip       is going to go on have learnt         to persuade them       some caves     only problem

 

Lan's class (1) ______ a two - day excursion to visit (2) ______ near Huong Padoga. They (3) _____ with their own eyes what they (4) _____ in their geography lessons recently and relax after their hard work, as well. They have planned (5) ______ carefully. For Lan, the (6) _____ is getting her parents' permisson. She will try (7) ______ so that she will be able to join (8) _____ on the excursion.

Guide to answer

(1) is going to go on

(2) some caves

(3) want to see

(4) have learned

(5) their trip

(6) only problem

(7) to persuade them

(8) her classmates

Minh thân mến,

Mình viết thư để thông tin cho bạn đây. Học kỳ một sắp kết thúc và trường mình sẽ nghỉ vài ngày. Nhân dịp này lớp mình sẽ đi tham quan vài hang động gần Hà Nội vì mới đây chúng mình học về sự hình thành của đá. Hơn nữa nhiều bạn chưa bao giờ tham quan hang động nên mình nghĩ chuyến đi này ắt hẳn sẽ rất thú vị.

Ban đầu bọn mình muốn đi Chùa Thầy vì nó chỉ cách Hà Nội có 20 cây số và có thể đi du khảo trong ngày.

Tuy nhiên cho đến hôm nay bọn mình mới biết là các hang động gần Chùa Thầy mãi ra Tết mới mở cửa trở lại. Vì thế thay vào đó chúng mình sẽ tham quan các hang gần chùa Hương. Một đêm lửa trại trong chuyến du khảo hai ngày sẽ là một sự kiện tuyệt vời trong đời học sinh! Để đỡ tốn kém, chúng mình đem theo thức ăn và đi cùng xe với các lớp khác.

Bây giờ thời tiết ấm hơn nhiều. Mình tin là bọn mình sẽ được hưởng khí trời đầy ánh nắng.

Vấn đề duy nhất là phải xin phép bố mẹ. Bố mẹ mình có thể không muốn cho mình ở lại đêm. Mình sẽ cố gắng thuyết phục bố mẹ vậy.

Thôi nhé, cho mình gửi lời thăm bố mẹ và em gái bạn.

Thân,

Lan

MOON ROCKS HOLD HIGH PRIORITY

1/ Shortly after stepping onto the surface, Armstrong took a “grab sample,” or contingency sample, scooping it up into a Teflon bag on the end of a light collapsible rod. The pole he discarded, but the bag of soil he rolled up and—with some difficulty—tucked into a pocket above his left knee.

2/ With a specially made aluminum scoop on an extension handle, and with a pair of long aluminum tongs, Armstrong later gathered a larger quantity of the dark lunar soil and representative samples of the lunar rocks. These he put into two boxes, each formed from a single piece of aluminum. A ring of soft metal, indium, lined the lip of each box; when the box was closed and the straps drawn tight around it, a knifelike strip around the edge of the lid bit deeply into the indium, thus helping to seal the samples in a vacuum and to protect them against contamination.

3/ It had been decided in advance that the most important single thing the astronauts could do—scientifically speaking—would be to bring back samples of the moon.

4/ All told, the astronauts brought back about 48 pounds of lunar material. In addition, they undertook to gather a bit of the sun. To be sure, it was a very small sample, less than a billionth of an ounce at best, but presumably it was enough to tell a great deal about the solar furnace. The sample was gathered by trapping particles of the solar wind.

5/ In every direction, the lunar surface was pocked with thousands of little craters and many larger ones, five to fifty feet across and littered with angular blocks.

6/ As Astronaut-scientist Don Lind commented in Houston during the flight, “He is certainly going to get back in the spacecraft with his pants on, so we will have this sample for sure.”

Key

5 – 3 – 1 – 6 – 2 - 4

Trên đây là nội dung bài học Reading Unit 6 tiếng Anh lớp 10 - An excursion, hi vọng qua bài học các em sẽ nắm được một số thông tin hữu ích về kiến thức địa lý và rèn luyện được kỹ năng đọc hiểu của mình. Để củng cố và nâng cao kiến thức đọc hiểu mời các em tham gia thực hành Trắc nghiệm Unit 6 lớp 10 Reading

• Câu 1: Read the passage carefully, then choose the one best answer, a, b, cor d. For the last few months I have spent every Saturday in my flat and have done nothing more exciting than work at home, read the newspapers and watch television. I had begun feeling, bored with this and so, last weekend I though I would do something different. I rang up several of my friends and we decided to go to London for the day. I was really excited as I hadn't been to London since I was ten. We decided to go by coach as this was by far the cheapest means of transport that was available even though it meant that we needed to get up very early. Once in London we decided to take a sightseeing tour as we wanted to see some of the famous buildings. After the tour we bought some sandwiches and ate them in a small park. In the afternoon two of us went shopping and the others went to the theater. We met up again at 6:30 p.m. and went to a small restaurant in Soho. The meal was really good but, unfortunately, it took much longer than we had expected. We had to get a taxi back to the coach station. Luckily, we got there just two minutes before our coach left.

  According to the passage the writer_____

  • A. usually spends his weekend at home.
  • B. went to London with some of his friends.
  • C. has lived in London for ten years.
  • D. feels bored with his life.

• Câu 2:

  He felt so excited about going to London because________.

  • A. he hadn't been there before
  • B. he hadn't been there for ten years
  • C. he went there ten years ago
  • D. he hadn't been there for a long time

• Câu 3:

  Why did they decide to go by coach?

  • A. Because it was available.
  • B. Because they wanted to start early.
  • C. Because other means of transport were more expensive.
  • D. Because it was one of the most efficient means of transport.

• Câu 4:

  Which of the following is true?

  • A. They all went shopping before going to theater.
  • B. They made a sightseeing tour of London and then had lunch.
  • C. They had lunch in a small restaurant.
  • D. They left the city at 6:30 p.m.

• Câu 5:

  It can be inferred from the text that__________.

  • A. they nearly missed the coach because of the meal.
  • B. they didn't enjoy the meal in the restaurant very much.
  • C. the coach had already left when they got to the station.
  • D. they missed the coach and had to take a taxi back.

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