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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of thequestions.
Isn’t it amazing how much time we spend talking about food?, “Have you ever eaten......?”, “What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal, and that what other people eat is strange or silly.
In most part of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating, like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a large amount of beer, and the French drink wine every day.
The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. Newzelanders eat sheep meat, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy raw fish.
So it seems that although eating is a topic that we can talk about for hours, there is little common sense in what we say about it. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always been eating, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits.
28. The text is mainly about............
A. people’s attitude to food B. the importance of meat
C. strange dishes in the world D. food and life
29. The writer think that ............
A. people eat only what is normal to everybody
B. people often change their feelings about food
C. people have different opinions about food
D. people like eating different food as they travel from one country to another.
30. In many Asian countries............
A. people almost always have rice in their meal B. rice is a perfect food
C. rice is included in every menu D. rice is completely eaten
31. The Japanese enjoy eating raw fish because............
A. it is not good to have fish cooked B. it is special to them
C. it is well boiled D. it doesn’t smell
32. People everywhere think that............
A. we can spend few hours talking about food
B. there is very little common sense in talking about food
C. there is very little common sense in what we say about the eating habits
D. we should do much to change our eating habits
III/ Fill in each blank in the conversation with a, an, some or any.
Nick: Let’s discuss what to prepare for our picnic.
Mi: You and I have been assigned to buy (1)___some_____fruit and drinks.
Nick: I think it would be better to buy fruit which are easy to peel, such as bananas or mandarins.
Mi: (2)___A_____kilo of mandarins and (3)____A____bunch of bananas are enough, I think.
Nick: Should we buy (4)____some____snacks such as crisps?
Mi: That’s fine. Let me write it down: (5)___a_____ big packet of potato crisps.
Nick: What about drinks? Should we buy soft drinks?
Mi: I don’t think that’s a good idea. Just buy (6)___some_____ bottles of mineral water.
Nick: My mother told me that she could bake (7)____an____apple pie for us.
Mi: Oh, that’s great.
IV/ Complete the conversation with suitable food quantifiers.
A: Can you go to supermarket and buy me some things?
B: OK. What do you want?
A: We’ve run out of milk so buy two (1)___carton_____of milk, please.
B: What about bread? There’s only one (2)___loaf_____ left in the fridge.
A: Yes you can buy a ____loaf____of bread. We also need a (1)___kilogram_____of cauliflower and a (1)___stalk_____ of celery. I will make some salad.
B: Do you need some bacon for a salad?
A: Good idea. Just buy 200 (1)____grams____of bacon.
B: Anything else?
A: That’s enough for today.
Polyester is now being used for bottles. ICI, the chemicals and plastics company, believes that it is now beginning to break the grip of glass on the bottle business and thus take advantage of this huge market.
All the plastics manufacturers have been experiencing hard times as their traditional products have been doing badly world-wide for the last few years. Between 1982 and 1984 the Plastics Division of ICI had lost a hundred and twenty million dollars, and they felt that the most hopeful new market was in packaging, bottles and cans.
Since 1982 it has opened three new factories’ producing “Melinar” , the raw material from which high quality polyester bottles are made.
The polyester bottle was born in the 1970s, when soft drinks companies : like Coca Cola started selling their drinks in grant two-litre containers. Because of the build-up of the pressure of gas in these large containers, glass was unsuitable. Nor was PVC, the plastic which had been used for bottles since the 1960s, suitable for drinks with gas in them. A new plastic had to be made.
Glass is still cheaper for the smaller bottles, and will continue to be so unless oil and plastic become much cheaper, but plastic does well for the larger sizes.
Polyester bottles are virtually unbreakable. The manufacturers claim they are also lighter, less noisy when being handled, and can be re-used. Shopkeepers and other business people are unlikely to object to a change from glass to polyester, since these bottles mean few breakages, which are costly and time-consuming.The public, though, have been more difficult to persuade. ICI’s commercial department is developing different bottles with interesting shapes, to try and make them visually more attractive to the public.
The next step could be to develop a plastic which could replace tins for food. The problem here is the high temperatures necessary for cooking the food in the container.
1.Plastics of various kinds have been used for making bottles
A. since 1982.
B. since the 1970s but only for large bottles.
C. since the 1960s but not for liquids with gas in them.
D. since companies like Coca Cola first tried them.
2. Why is ICI’s Plastics Division interested in polyester for bottles?
A. The other things they make are not selling well.
B. Glass manufacturers cannot make enough new bottles.
C. They have factories which could be adapted to make it.
D. The price of oil keeps changing.
3. Why aren’t all bottles now made of polyester? (Câu này mk hk chắc)
A. The price of oil and plastic has risen.
B. It is not suitable for containing gassy drinks.
C. The public like traditional glass bottles.
D. Shop keepers dislike re-usable bottles.
4. Manufacturers think polyester bottles are better than glass bottles because they
A. are cheaper.
B. are more suited to small sizes.
C. are more exciting to look at.
D. do not break easily.
5. Plastic containers for holding food in the same way as cans
A. have been used for many years.
B. are an idea that interests the plastics companies.
C. are possible, but only for hot food.
D. are the first things being made in the new factories.
