Bài tập tự luyện Tiếng Anh Lớp 11 - Unit 7 - Reading (Có đáp án)

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1. Unit 7 READING (BÀI TẬP TỰ LUYỆN) Giáo viên : NGUYỄN KIỀU OANH I . Read the passage below and choose one correct answer for each question . The human population has grown dramatically this century. In 1900 there were 1.6 billion people on Earth. By 1950 this figure had grown to 2.7 billion. By the end of the 20th century, the world population was about 6.6 billion . For thousand s of years, man lived in a very primitive way . Before the recent developments in agriculture, medicine and industry, life was difficult. It was hard to make a living from the soil without modern farming methods, and a few years of bad crops could mean famine and therefore death – as it still does today in some parts of the world. Illnesses as mild and as common as influenza could kill a Stone-Age man weakened by hunger; appendicitis was always fatal before the days of modern surgery. Even childbirth was a hazardous process. Under these conditions, the human race needed to reproduce at a high rate just to keep in existence. But the size if the population did not chang e very rapidly, for withou t modern medicine, many babies and young children died. So for a long time, the population grew very slowly. And this is still the case today in some parts of the world where the people live without the aids of modern technology . It was only about two centuries ago – which is less than one-thousandth of man’s existence – that the population growth pattern changed. New discoveries in medical science had a dramatic effect on the death-rate. Fewer children died in infancy, and adults lived longer. Consequently, the population began to expand rapidly. And in the 20th century, this acceleration of population growth has begun to cause severe social economic problems in many developing countries . 1. The world population in 1950 was ___ . A. 1.6 billion B. 1.9 billion C. 2.7 billion D. 6.6 billion 2. The word “primitive” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ___. A. ancient B. modern C. negative D. difficult 3. Some years of bad crops could lead to ___. A. agriculture B. modern farming methods C. famine D. illnesses 4. In the Stone Age, the population grew very slowly because ___. A. the human race needed to reproduce at a high rate B. many children died in infancy C. people lived without the aids of modern technology D. Both B and C are correct. - Trang | 1 -
2. Unit 7 5. Which of the following sentences is not TRUE? A. People also suffer from famine in some parts of the world today. B. Surgery is the best way to treat people who suffer from appendicitis. C. People in primitive societies developed new method of farming. D. People in the 20th century lived longer than before. II. Fill in each gap with a word from the box. shortage implement insist injustice expert double lack probably determination overpopulation birth-control distribution 1 . The two cases are most ___ connected . 2 . ___ all the quantities in the recipe to make enough for eight people . 3 . ___ is the practice of controlling the number of children a person has, using various methods of contraception . 4 . At the conference they discussed the cause s of poverty and ___ in the Third World countries . 5 . We are facing the problems of ___ . 6 . To ___ is to make something that has been officially decided start to happen or be used . 7 . A ___ is a situation when there is not enough of the people or things that are needed . 8 . He is an ___ in child psychology . 9 . The trip was cancelled through ___ of interest . 10. She has the ___ that her brother lacks . 11. They studied the geographical ___ of the disease . 12. They ___ on playing their music late at night . - Trang | 2 -