Listening You will hear two speakers who talk about the rising in food price. Listen and do the task below. You should listen three times. 1. Economist across the world are expressing concern about……………. A. Rising fuel prices B. health problems C. rising food prices D. environmental problems 2. Food Price index is at its highest level since it began in …………… A. 1919 B. 1990 C. 2009 D. 1989 3. Demonstrations and deadly food riots have broken out this month, as they did in………………. A. 2006 B. 2007 C. 2008 D. 2009 4. One reason for the shortages of food is caused by…………….. A. High fuel price B. Bad weather C. Water shortage D. Water contamination 5. Listen to the last part of the report and fill in the blank For example, the current ……………….in Australia has done great damage to crops in the usually fertile Queensland area. Chickpea, wheat, sorghum and corn are among the… ……………..affected. Floods also have harmed other vegetables and fruits. Local agriculture producers report that standing water could……………up to half of next ear’s sugar crop. And economists say prices for the fruits and … …………………could likely increase over the next…………....months. Crop Vegetables Flooding Destroy Six
Reading Seasons and life Read the passage and do the task that follows/do the tasks that follow The thing I like about living on a farm when I was small was the change of seasons. Spring, summer, autumn and winter- I could see them all come and go, each one was completely different. If I hadn't been born and raised in the country, I would have never been able to tell the difference. Now in the city, you can buy summer flowers in winter and eat the same vegetables all the year round. Whereas, in the country, I could only eat things at certain times of a year- for example strawberries in June and turnips in winter. I lived my childhood with the seasons. Also we made most of our food and would never eat frozen or tinned food. Everything was fresh- so it must be better than type of food I am taking now in the city. City people may think people in the country miss a lot of good things about modern life, but in my opinion they miss a lot more than rural people - they miss real life.. 1. What is the main idea of this passage? A. Food in the country comparison to that in the city. B. Comparison between life on a farm and that in the city. C. Seasons in the country D. The author’s childhood. 2. According to the author, the seasons on farm are …….. A. Similar B. beautiful C. very different from one another D. different from those in the city 3. What can be inferred from the passage about the experience of seasons in a year for the city people? A. Seasons are familiar B. They see different seasons come and go C. It may difficult to tell seasons differences. D. Food is similar in all four seasons 4. The word “them” in line 2 refers to A. City people B. 4 seasons C. Good things about modern life D. People in the country 5. All the following are true EXCEPT that A. There are 4 seasons in the country where the author used to live B. The author was born and raised on a farm C. People in the country eat the same types of food all the year round D. The author takes frozen and tinned food