Reading đọc hiểu: Getting around

Read the passage and tick TRUE or FALSE

Travel is something which people do every day. It is very difficult to avoid the need to travel. It may be a trip to school, university or to work. Travelling can often take a long time. People often enjoy travelling abroad for holidays. But for some people travelling is not fun at all. Some people suffer from travel sickness. This means that they will become very unwell each time they travel.

Travelling can be either affordable or costly. It often depends on how far you want to travel and the choice of transport. Using a bicycle will not cost anything as you power it by using your legs. However, the use of a bicycle can be hard work and can take a lot of time to travel long distances. Cars and motorcycles are faster modes of transport, but are more expensive to use as gasoline is needed for them to work.

A train is another mode of transport which is ideal for travelling long distances within the same country, or between countries which are connected by land. A train driver will stop at train stations on route to allow passengers wishing to proceed to the scheduled destination to board the train.

1. Travelling is unavoidable in our lives.

2. Everyone like travelling.

3. Travelling is always expensive.

4. Travelling by bike is cheaper than by car.

5. Passengers can catch trains everywhere.

Read the passage, and then answer the questions.

Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go to their offices, factories or schools everyday by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up earlier in the morning and come home later in the evening.

One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of one’s own.

Then, in the country one can rest from the noise and hurry of the town. Although one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better at night, and during weekends. In summer evenings one enjoys the fresh, clean air of the country. If one likes gardens, one can spend one’s free time digging, planting, watering and doing the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden.

- Notes:

even though/ although : mặc dù

- advantage (n) : (sự) thuận lợi

- rent (v) : thuê mướn

- dig (v) : đào bới, xới

- water (v) : tưới nước

- of one’s own : của riêng mình

- mean (v) : có nghĩa là

1. What do many people who work in London prefer?

2. What is one advantage of living outside London?

3. What can a person enjoy when he lives in the country?

4. What can a person get in the country with the same money of a small flat in London?

5. What can a person with the interest in gardening do in the country?

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer:

NOISY NEIGHBORS

Do you sometimes have problems with your neighbor such as noise or littering? Well, the people of Pilton Somerset, England have such problems every summer. For three or four days every year, the village is full of people of all ages who come here for the annual Glastonbury pop music festival. They usually stay in tents, caravans and motorhomes. They leave drink cans and papers all over the street. The music plays until the early hours of the morning, and you can hear people talking and singing all night. The quiet country village becomes a nightmare to live in and some villagers are even thinking of moving to another village. A villager said that last year; “I don’t want to stop the Glastonbury Festival. I just want the fans to enjoy the festival without disturbing normal village life”.

What happen in Pilton Somerset every summer?

Visitors litter the street with _______.

How long is the pop music festival every year?

What is Pilton like during the rest of the year?

The villagers just want to ______.