(Viên chức Mầm non) 600 câu trắc nghiệm Trọng tâm tiếng Anh có đáp án - Phần 15

From the first history books ever written, it is clear that horse racing has always (1) _____ an important sport. It started in Central Asia about 4,500 years (2) ______and was a favourite sport in both Greek and Roman times. Modern horse racing began when Arab horse were brought to Europe (3)_______the 12^th century. At first, races were long and (4) ______just to horse, but at the beginning of the 18^th century this changed. Races became much shorter and had several hours racing against (5)_______other. Today, horse racing (6) _______watched by more people than any other sport I the USA, except baseball. It is also very popular in other parts of the world.

We are all slowly destroying the earth. The seas and rivers are (1) _____dirty so swim in. There is so much smoke in the air that it is unhealthy to live in many of the word’s cities. In one well- know city, for example, poisonous gases from car pollute the air so much that traffic policemen have to (2) _______oxygen masks

We have cut down so many trees that there are now vast areas of wasteland all over the world. As a (3)______farmers in parts of Africa cannot grow enough to eat. It certain countries in Asia, there is too little rice. Moreover, we do not take enough (4) _____ of the countryside. Wild animals are quickly dissappearing. For instance, tigers are rare in India now (5)______we have killed too many for them to survive. However, it isn’t enough simply to (6) ______about the problem. We must act now before it is too late to do anything about it. Join us. Save the earth. This is too important to ignore.

Today, people like to send postcards to their friends and family. These postcards often(1) _____ pictures of beaches, mountains or castles on them and you (2) _____write a message on the back. Many people send postcards when they are on holiday because postcards are cheap and the pictures on them are often (3) _____ than people’s own photos. Somebody sent the first postcard (4) ____ the end of nineteenth century. It had a picture of a town by the sea on it. Later on, postcards had pictures showing something in the news that week, perhaps an accident (5) ____ an important person’s visit. People liked to see them (6)____they did not have pictures in their newspaper then.

Before people started farming, they went to the forests to look for plants or fruit they could eat. This meat that people (1) _____moving all the time to find food. But about 12,000 years ago, (2) ______ the Middle East, people began to grow food. These people were the first farmers. Farming made (3)____possible for people to stay in one place and slowly their villages got bigger.

Some people in the villages became free to (4) ____ other work, like making clothes, because the farmers could grow food everyone.

Unfortunately, farming was difficult when the weather was bad and then some people did not get (5)_____food to eat. Today, farmers can grow more food and it travels thousands of kilomettres from (6)_____it is grown to our homes.

The first people to build ships were the Egypitans 5000 years ago. They used (1)____to travel on the River Nile, the longest river in Africa. In the sixteenth century, people from Europe travelled thousands of kilometers, in large ships. It (2) ______ important that they found new ways around the world. Life was hard for these sailors and on the journey, (3) ______died because they often didn’t have enough food.

In the nineteenth century, ships called “clippers”(4) _____ tea from China to Britain and wool from Australia to the USA. In very strong winds, clippers could sail 650 kilometers (5) ______day.

In modern times, the largest ships are oil tankers. Some of these are 400 meters long (6) ______- the sailors have to use bicycles to travel round the ships!