Read the text, then answer the questions:
1. In many secondary schools in Britain, it’s compulsory to wear school uniform. Some schools argue that
there are many disadvantages to this system. Most students don’t like wearing it. These are some reasons. Firstly,
when they have to wear the same clothes as everyone else they don’t have a chane to develop personal taste in
way their dresses. Secondly, some students who look untidy usually wear uniforms scruffy because most of them
come from poor homes so their uniforms are not as new or don’t fit properly. Finally, the main reason why most
students don’t like wearing school uniforms is that most schools choose such horrible colors and styles that are
not suitable for young people at all.
1. Is it compulsory to wear uniform in many schools in Britain?
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2. What do most students think when they have to wear the same clothes?
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3. Why some students who look untidy usually wear their uniforms scruffily?
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4. Give the main reason why most students don’t like school uniforms.
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2. England is not a large country. No town in England is very far from the sea, and many English families
spend their summer holidays at the seaside. There are no high mountains in England, no very long rivers and no
very large forests. There are many towns in England. No town is very far from another. The English countryside
between the towns is like a carpet of many colors. In spring and summer, the fields, meadows and forests are
light green or dark green and the garden are green, red, blue, yellow and white with flowers.
1. Is England a large country?
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2. Where do many English families spend their summer holidays?
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3. Are there many towns in England?
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4. What is the English country like?
3. Every child in Great Britain between the age of five and fifteen must attend school. There are three
main types of educational institutions: primary (elementary) schools, secondary schools and universities. State
schools are free, and attendance is compulsory . Morning school begins at nine o’clock and lasts for three hours,

until half past four. School is opened five days a week. On Saturdays and Sundays there are no lessons. There are
holidays at Christmas, Easter and in summer. In London as in all cities there are two grades of state schools for
those who will go to work at fifteen: primary schools for boys and girls between the ages of five and eleven, and
secondary schools for children from eleven to fifteen years. The lessons are: reading, writing, the English
language, English literature, English history, geography, science, nature study, drawing, painting, singing,
woodwork and drill (physical training)
1. What are the three main types of educational institutions?
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2. What are the two grades of state school for those who will go to work at fifteen?
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3. What subjects do children study at school?
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4. When do puplis have holidays?
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4. People who know Salley Ride say she is intelligent and confident. She also thinks deeply about things,
but she is not always serious. She is fun and enjoys humor, she is often in a hurry to get on with more important
things. At high school she was interested in science. At university, she studied English and Physics. After
completing her studies at Stanford University, she worked as a researcher. In 1977, she was one of the 1,000
women and 7,000 men who applied for astronaut training program. She was 25 years old. She was one of the 35
women who were accepted to start the program in 1978. As part of her training, she learnt to be a jet pilot and a
flight engineer. She married during her training. Her husband, Havley, is also an astronaut. They haven’t planted
to have any children yet.
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2. Who did she mary?
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3. What did she do in 1977?
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4. Give the fact from the text to prove that Salley Ride is intelligent.
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5. About two hundred years ago man lived in greater harmony with his environment because industry was

not much developed. Today the situation is quite different. People all over the world are worried about what is
happening to the environment, because of modern industry and the need for more and more energy. Newspapers
and magazines write about water pollution, air pollution and land pollution. Why there is so much discussion
about pollution? After all, people have been polluting the world around them for thousands and thousands of
years. The Earth is our home. We must take care of it, for ourselves and for the next generations. This means
keeping our environment clean.
1. Why are people all over the world worried about what is happening to the environment?
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2. What kinds of pollution do newspapers and magazines write about?
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3. Have people been polluting the world around them?
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4. For whom do we have to take care of the Earth?
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6. Energy is very important in modern life. People use energy to run machines, heat and cool their homes,
cook, give light, and transport people and products from place to place. Most energy nowadays comes from fossil
fuel-petroleum, coal and natural gas. However, burning fossil fuel causes pollution. Also, if we don’t find new
kinds of energy, we will use up all the fossil fuels in 21
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century. Scientists are working to find other kinds of
energy for the future. What might these sources be? When water moves from a high place to a lower place, it
makes energy. Water power gives energy without pollution. However, people have to build dams to use this
energy, which cost a lot of money. There is heat in rocks under the Earth. Scientists use this heat to make
geothermal energy. This kind of energy is cheap but it is possible only in a few places in the world. Solar panels
on the roof of houses can turn energy from the sun into electricity. Solar power is clean and there is a lot of it in
sunny places. But when the weather is bad, there is no sunlight for energy.
1. What do they use electricity for?
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2. What energy comes from fossil fuels?
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3. What will happen if we don’t find new kinds of energy?
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4. What kinds of energy don’t cause pollution?
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7. Are you looking for a cheap, clean, effective source of power that doesn’t cause pollution or waste
natural resources? Look no further than solar energy from our sun. At present, most of our electricity comes from
the use of coal and gas, oil or nuclear power. This power could be provided by the sun. One percent of the solar
energy that reaches the Earth is enough to provide power for the total population. Many countries are already
using solar energy. Solar panels are placed on the roof of a house and the Sun’s energy is used to heat water. The
energy can be stored for a number of days, so on cloudy days you can use solar energy and cars will use solar
power instead of gas by the year 2015.
1. What does most of our electricy come from?
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2. What is the cheap, clean, effective source of power that doesn’t cause pollution or waste natural resources?
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3. Can the solar energy that get to the Earth provide to enough power for the world’s population?
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4. When will cars use solar power instead of gas in Sweden?
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speech TV to bring from fought important space viewers
Television is one of man's most (1) ………… means of communication. It brings events and sounds (2)
………… around the world into millions of homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch
the president making a (3)……… or visit a foreign country . He can see a war being (4)………… and watch
statesmen try (5) ………… about peace . Through television, home (6) …………can see and learn about people
places and things all over the world. (7) …………. even takes its viewers out of the world. It brings them
coverage of American's astronauts as the astronauts explore outer (8) ………………