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Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa are two main provinces where there are more than 1.4 million Muong people living. They speak Muong language which belongs to the Mon-Khmer group. However, some ofthem also know Kinh languge. They cultivate mainly wet rice on terraced land, watered by small brooks. They also make handicrafts and exploit forest products such as mushrooms, dried fungus, ammonium to improve their living condition. Men dress in Indigo pajama and women wear skirts with many colorful patterns knitted on. The Muong build their houses on stilts with 4-roof architecture, which are about six feet off the ground. They are wooden houses in the shade of a big trees, huddling against the mountain, and looking out on their vast rice fields. Therefore, it is convenient for their living and farming. The Muong follow traditional religious animism, which means that they believe that non-living objects have spirits. They build the altars in their houses to worship ancestral spirits and other supernatural spirits. One of their most important festival is "Going to the fields Ceremony" where they perform traditional dance forms and send their wish for good crops. They also drink wine and enjoy special foods
- Which province do the Muong live in Vietnam?
- => The Muong live in Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa
- Which language group does the Muong language belong to? => The Muong language belongs to Mon-Khmer group.
- What do they do to earn their living? =>
They cultivate mainly wet rice on terraced land, watered by small brooks. They also make handicrafts and exploit forest products such as mushrooms, dried fungus, ammonium to earn their living.
- Why are their house convenient for their living and farming? => Because they
build their houses on stilts with 4-roof architecture, which are about six feet off the ground. They are wooden houses in the shade of a big trees, huddling against the mountain, and looking out on their vast rice fields.
- How do the Muong believe in animism? =>
They build the altars in their houses to worship ancestral spirits and other supernatural spirits.
- What are main activities in their festivals or ceremonies? => In their festivals or ceremonies
they perform traditional dance forms and send their wish for good crops. They also drink wine and enjoy special foods
Which province do the Muong live in Vietnam?
=> The Muong live in Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa
Which language group does the Muong language belong to?
=> The Muong language belongs to Mon-Khmer group.
What do they do to earn their living?
=> They cultivate mainly wet rice on terraced land, watered by small brooks. They also make handicrafts and exploit forest products such as mushrooms, dried fungus, ammonium to earn their living.
Why are their house convenient for their living and farming?
=> Because they build their houses on stilts with 4-roof architecture, which are about six feet off the ground. They are wooden houses in the shade of a big trees, huddling against the mountain, and looking out on their vast rice fields.
How do the Muong believe in animism?
=> They build the altars in their houses to worship ancestral spirits and other supernatural spirits.
What are main activities in their festivals or ceremonies?
=> In their festivals or ceremonies they perform traditional dance forms and send their wish for good crops. They also drink wine and enjoy special foods
Read the passage below and choose the best answers.
Each nation has many good people who take care of others. For example, some of high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or home for the elderly. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems. Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, or the shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers. Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go and play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to understand the problems of younger boys and girls. Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
1. What do volunteers usually do to help those who are sick or old in their homes?
A. They mow lawns, do shopping, and clean up their houses.
B. They cook, sew, and wash their clothes.
C. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.
D. They take them to baseball games.
2. What do they help boys whose fathers do not live with them?
A. To get to know things about their fathers.
B. To get to know things that boys want from their fathers.
C. To learn things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
D. To learn things about their fathers.
3. Which activity is NOT available for the students at the clubs?
A. playing games B. watching films C. going to interesting places D. learning photography
4. Why do they use many high school and college students as volunteers? Because......
A. they have a lot of free time.
B. they can understand the problems of younger boys and girls.
C. they know how to do the work.
D. they are good at playing games and learning crafts.
5. What do volunteers believe?
A. In order to make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.
B. The happiest people in the world are those who make themselves happy.
C. The happiest people in the world are those who are young and healthy.
D. Bringing happiness to others makes them the happiest people in the world
Đáp án: A
Giải thích: Dựa vào câu: “Many people had to live in houses made of straw and mud.”.
Dịch: Nhiều người phải sống trong những ngôi nhà làm từ rơm và bùn.
The Maori arrived in New Zealand from other Polynesian islands over a thousand years ago. They were the first people to live there. They made beautiful wooden buildings with pictures cut into wood. There are about 280,000 Maori today. Maori have brown skin dark brown eyes, and wavy black hair. In 1840, they agreed to become a British colony, government. Most of them live like the white New Zealanders. However, the Maori don’t forget their traditions. Children learn the language, music, and old stories. They have and they learned European ways quickly. Today, there are Maori in all kinds of jobs. They attend schools and universities and become lawyers and scientists. There are Maori in the yearly competitions in speaking, dancing, and singing. The Maori live a comfortable, modern life, but they keep their traditions by passing them to their children.
Questions:
1. Is New Zealand an island country?
-> Yes, it is
2. What is the population of the Maori?
-> There are about 280,000 Maori today
3. What do the Maori look like?
-> They have brown skin dark brown eyes, and wavy black hair
4. How do the Maori live today?
-> ???
5. What do they do at their yearly competitions?
-> They speaking, dancing, and singing at their yearly competitions
Question 21. The word “They” in paragraph 2 refers to __________.
A:the Hopi B:Women C:Men D:Children
Question 17. The Hopi _____________.
A:want traditional things instead of modern ones
B:want modern things instead of traditional ones
C:don’t want to remember their traditions
D:want both modern and traditional things
Question 20. The main idea of the passage is ______________.
A:the Hopi raise crops and animals in the Arizona desert
B:the Hopi want a comfortable, modern life
C:the Hopi keep their traditions even with modern life around them
D:kachinas are spirits of the things round the Hopi
Question 18. Winters in this part of Arizona are ____________.
A:cold B:hot C:warm D:cool
Question 19. The main Hopi food is _______________.
A:corn B:vegetables C:hamburger D:beef