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Every year on April 22nd, more than 190 countries celebrate Earth Day to protect the planet. The first Earth Day started in 1970 in America. Today more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it one of the largest movements. By taking part in activities like picking up litter and planting trees, you can help protect nature and the environment. You can also do things like buying green products and practising reduce, reuse and recycle. We can celebrate Earth Day and protect the earth at the same time. Moreover, we should continue doing things to save the earth every day of the year.

What activities do people do on Earth Day?

1. picking up litter 

2. protecting endangered species 

3. planting trees 

4. buying green products 

5. helping neighbours 

The Earth Day comes from the idea of a former US politician Gaylord Nelson. He was worried about the world pollution, and the health of plants and animals. In 1969, he decided that the world should have a special day to teach people about how to make environment better. His idea became popular and on 22 April 1970 the first Earth Day was celebrated. Since then, environmentalists have used the day to educate people about their roles in protecting our planet. Earth Day finally became a global celebration around the world. On this day, people come together to talk about global warming, protecting rare animals and saving energy sources. Question 19: The word “their” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

A: Dr. Nelson’s

B: politicians’

C: people’s

D: environmentalists’

Fill one suitable word in each space of the following passage

About two hunderd years ago man lived in great harmony with his environment......(1)........industry was not much developed. Today the situation is quite different.People all over the world are worried about......(2)......is happening to the enviroment, because od modern industry and the need for more and more energy. Newspaper and magazines write about water pollution, air pollution and land pollution.

Why is.......(3)......so much discussion about pollution ? After all, people have been .......(4)....... the world around them for thousands of years. But in the past, there were not many people and lots of room in the world so they could move to another place when their sattlements became ......(5).....

Now, however, many parts os the world are crowded, people live in big cities and much of our waste, especially waste from factories, electric power stations, the chemical industry and heavy industry is very dangerous. Much of this dangerous waste goes into the air and is carried by the ......(6)....... for great distance.

The earth is our home. We must take care of it, for ourselves and for the........(7)...... generations. This means keeping our environment clean. Ecologists, the scientists who study the relation between living ......(8).....and the environment point out the importance of this task. However, each of us must do everythingpossible to keep the land, air and water clean.

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR I. Match a word in column A with its description in column B, writing the answer in each blank. Answer A B ______ 1. A thunderstorm A. It is created when the surface layer of the ground collapses. It varies in size and are found all over the world. It is an area of ground that has no natural external surface drainage. When it rains, all of the water stays inside it and typically drains into the subsurface. It can vary from a few feet to hundreds of acres and from less than 1 to more than 100 feet deep. ______ 2. A tornado B. The Earth has a crust under the oceans and the land that we live on. This crust made of massive areas of flat rock called tectonic plates, which float on the Earth’s mantle, the inside layer of the Earth. When the plates move slowly together, this movement forces energy through the crusts to the Earth’s surface. The energy causes the Earth to tremble and shake. ______ 3. A hurricane C. It is a very bright flash of electricity that happens in a thunderstorm. It is actually a spark that crosses the gap between two clouds or between a cloud and the Earth. It carries an enormous charge of electricity. Trees are burned, metal can be melted and people can be killed. ______ 4. An earthquake D. It is caused by earthquakes at sea. It forms when energy from an earthquake displace hundreds of cubic kilometers of water from the seabed. Large waves begin moving through the ocean from their epicenters. When it reaches shallow water near coastal areas, it increases in height. The sign comes before it strikes when the waterline suddenly retreats, exposing hundreds of meters of beach and seabed. ______ 5. A volcano E. It is a very violent windstorm. The air is concentrated and whirls up rapidly. It is grey in colour and looks like an elephant’s trunk swaying down from the clouds to touch the ground with its tip. ______ 6. A tsunami F. It is a hill or mountain formed when molten material or lave from the inside of the Earth is forced through the Earth’s crust by gases. It can produce vast clouds of very fine volcanic dust which looks like smoke. ______ 7. A sinkhole G. It is a storm where you hear thunder and see lightning. There is usually heavy rain. It is an electric storm. ______ 8. Lightning H. It is the most violent storm known on Earth. It is a tropical storm. It forms at sea and causes dangerous, stormy seas. It can reach the land and destroy buildings and trees. It can blow high waves onto the land and cause flooding. II. Complete each sentences with the correct word from the box. drought flood hurricane landslide tornado 1. When there is a ___________, a lot of water covers an area where there usually isn’t water. 2. A ___________ refers to a long time without rain. 3. When there is a ______________, a lot of rocks and earth fall down a hill. 4. A____________ is a storm with a lot of wind that moves over water. 5. A____________ is a storm in which the air moves very quickly in a circle. III. Use the verbs in the box in the correct form to complete the sentences. bury evacuate rage take recover scatter provide suffer 1. The government _____________ health and other services to the affected regions. 2. Action were _____________ to limit the effects of the floods in Quang Ninh. 3. The Red Cross helped homeless families to ____________ from the disaster through the project. 4. The majority of concerned areas have ___________ from cholera epidemics after the floods and landslides in Central America. 5. Early September, mudslides caused by heavy rains _____________ an entire village of 480 inhabitants. 6. Thousands of villagers ____________ from flood-prone areas after the warnings from the weather bureau. 7. Tiny particles of dust, smoke, salt or pollution droplets that ___________ through the air to cause haze. 8. The fires ____________ for more than a week in the southern region of Chile, which has been hit by a severe drought. MONG MỌI NGƯỜI GIÚP ĐỠ

IV.Read the passage. Decide which of the following statements is True(T), Palse(F) or No information(NI)

We are all destroying the Earth. The seas and rivers are too dirty to swim in it. These is so much smoke in the air that it's unhealthy to live in many of world's cities. We've cut down so many trees that there are now areas of wasteland all over the world. Farmers in many parts of Africa can not got grow enough to eat and in some Asian countries there is too little rice. Wild animals are quickly disappearing because we have killed too many. However, it isn't enough simply to talk about the problem. We must act before it's too late to do anything about it. Join us now. Save the Earth. This is too important to ignore

1._____ We can swim in the seas and rivers because they are not polluted now.

2._____ We are planting a lot of trees in areas of wasteland.

3._____ There isn’t rice enough to eat in many parts of Africa.

4._____ We are killing too many wild animals.

5._____ It’s not important to save the Earth.

6._____ It's pleasant to live in a lot of cities in the world now

7._____There are areas of wasteland now because many trees are cut down

8._____Rice can grow enough in many parts of Africa

9._____Animals are not as many now as they were a few years ago

10.____It's time to act if we want to save the Earth

II. Fill in the blank of the following passage with ONE suitable word. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

There is much more water than land (1)___________ the surface of the earth. The sea and oceans (2)_____________ nearly four-fifths of the whole world, and only one-fifth of (3)__________ land. If you traveled over the earth (4)______ ________different directions, you would have to spend much more of your time (5)________________ on water than on roads or railways. We sometimes forget that (6)_______________ every mile of land there is four miles of water.

There is much water on the surface of our earth that we (7)______________ to use two words to describe. We use the word seas to (8)______________ those parts of water surface which (9)______________ only a few hundreds of miles wide, the word oceans to describe the huge areas of water which are thousands of miles wide (10)__________ very deep.

III. Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Identify your answer by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

One of the most urgent environmental problems in the world today is the shortage of clean water. Having clean drinking water is basic human right. But acid rain, industrial pollution and garbage have made many sources of water undrinkable. Lakes, reservoirs and even entire seas have become vast pools of poison. Lake Baikal in Russia is one of the largest lakes in the world. It contains a rich variety of animals and plants, including 1,300 rare species that do not exist anywhere else in the world. But they are being destroyed by the massive volumes of industrial effluent which pours into the lake everyday. Even where law existed, the government did not have the power to enforce them. Most industries simply ignore the regulations. The Mediterranean Sea occupies 1% of the world’s water surface. But it is the dumping ground for 50% of all marine pollution. Almost 16 countries regularly throw industrial wastes a few miles off shore.

Water is free to everyone. A few years ago people thought that the supply of clean water in the world was limitless. Today, many water supplies have been ruined by pollution and sewage. Clean water is now scarce, and we are at last beginning to respect this precious source. We should do something now.

1. According to the writer, one environmental problem in the world today is ________ .

A. acid rain B. industrial pollution. C. safe water shortage. D. population explosion .

2. Many sources of water are not drinkable because of _______ .

A. acid rain. B. industrial pollution. C. garbage D. all A, B, C, are correct

3. What is serious problem of Lake Baikal in Russia?

A. It contains a rich variety of animals and plants.

B. It is polluted by massive volumes of industrial wastes discharged into it .

C. It has 1,300 rare species that do not exist anywhere else in the world .

D. The government did not have the power to enforce laws and regulations.

4. How many countries throw industrial waste into the Mediterranean Sea regularly?

A. nearly 16 B. exactly 16. C. exactly 15 D. less than 15.

5. What is the message to the reader?

A. We should take action to protect our water resources.

B. We should take all water resources into account.

C. We should limit the use of water resources.

D. We should encourage people to use safe water.

Thinking the Unthinkable

Today ,it seems that no one is uninformed about the environment .Every day the media shows us more evidence of climate: (1)........ weather,melting icecaps and (2)............. seas.Most of us belive we can so somethings to(3)............ global disasters such as (4)............ or conserving energy.

it's strange to recall that before the 1960s few people knew of the damage we were going to the planet.however one scientist had already realized the dangers ahead.And today,this same man believes it may be too late to (5)........... h world.

In the 1960s, professos James Lovelock came up (6)... one of the most famous theories on the environment the Daia hypothesis.According to this hypothesis,the earth's atmosphere,soil,and oceans work in concert to(7)........ an inhabitable environment for humans .if we dirupt these elements too severely the earth may one day become unhibitable.

Is Lovelock right this time too? Surely can we prevent this nightmare,(8)......... we all recycle,use renewable energy and travel less by plane and care? Lovelock disagrees.According to him it is now impossible to reveese global

Now over 90 years old Lovelock many not live to (10)........ if he is right or not

Complete the passage with the comparative form of the adjectives in brackets.

Is life better now than it was in the past? Of course in many ways life is (1)…(easy) now. We lived in the world which is (2)…(clean) and safer. It’s generally (3)…(healthy) as well, and because of improvements in medical care, both men and women can expect to live (4)…(long) lives. Our day-to-day existence is (5)…(comfortable), but are we (6)…(happy)?

Read the passage, then answer the questions.

Every day of the year throughout the world, about twenty million paper bags and newspapers are screwed and thrown away

Making paper requires a lot of wood pulp and the work of million of workers. Many countries have had plans to recycle waste paper to save money and labor. In countries where there is the cooperation of the public, paper mills recycle as much as sixty percent of waste paper. Their simple work is to take away the ink, crush it and make it into pulp again. For every ton of recycled newsprint, twelve trees can be saved. We can insist that the more paper people save, the more trees are preserved.

l. How many paper bags and newspapers are thrown away every day?

2. What material do paper mills need to make paper?

3. What have many countries done to save money and labor in making paper?

4. What percentage of waste paper is recycled with the help of the public?

5. What do the paper mills do to reuse waste paper?

6. How many trees can be saved for every ton of recycled newsprint?