Bồi dưỡng học sinh giỏi Tiếng Anh Lớp 6 Global Success - Chuyên đề 5: Đọc hiểu

 Carlos : Excuse me, is this seat free?
Miguel : Yes, it is.
Carlos : Thanks. (Carlos sits down) . I’m Carlos.
Miguel : Hi, Carlos. I’m Miguel. Are you a new student here?
Carlos : Yes, I am. This is my first day at school. How is this class?
Miguel : It’s great. The students are very nice and the teacher is fantastic.
Carlos : Wow! The teacher is that good?
Miguel : Yes, she is. Mrs. Lee is one of my favorite teachers.
Carlos : UmmIsn’t this Mrs. Kim’s class?
Miguel : No it isn’t.
Carlos : Isn’t this room 401?
Miguel : No, it isn’t. This is room 410. Room 401 is across the hall.
Carlos : Oops. I’m in the wrong class.
17. Miguel is a new student.
 A. True B. False
18. Migue is very happy with his class.
 A. True B. False
19. Carlos’s class is in room 410.
 A. True B. False
20. Carlos is in Mrs. Kim’s class.
 A. True B. False
21. Carlos and Miguel are in the same class.
A. True B. False
III/Read the text and choose the answer that you think fits best according to the text.
 We live in a house in a suburb of Manchester. We’ve got a living room, a dining room, and a 
kitchen downstairs. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bath room.
Outside, there’s a garage, a front garden, and a back garden. The house isn’t very big but we like it.
It’s convenient for shops and school and things like that, and the neighbors are very friendly.
18. They live _____ .
 A. in the city center B. in a flat
 C. in the countryside D. in a suburb of Manchester
 The living room is ______ .
 between the dining room and the kitchen
 opposite the bedroom
 downstairs
 upstairs
 There are _____ rooms upstairs.
 A. two B. three
 C. Four D. five
21. The house is ______ .
 A. big B. expensive
 C. beautiful D. convenient for
22. The neighbors are ______ .
 A. Noisy B. friendly
 C. hard-working D. generous
IV/Read the text and choose the answer that you think fits best according to the text. 19. The guests have cakes, tea and wine at 5 o’clock.
 A. True B. False
 20. Monika usually goes to a club in the evening.
 A. True B. False
VI/Read the text and choose the answer that you think fits best according to the text.
We live in London. We’ve got a flat near the center of the city. It’s in a new building. We’ve got a 
living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and a kitchen. The flat’s expensive, but it’s very good. We like to 
be near the center. We can walk to the shops and in the evening it’s very convenient for the theater 
and clubs. We haven’t got a garden and we’d prefer to have a garage, too. We have to leave our car 
on the street.
12. They live ______ .
A. near the city center B. in Paris C. in the country D. in a village
13. There are _____ rooms in their flat.
 A. two B. three C. four D. five
14. Their flat is ______ .
 A. in an old building B. very good
 C. expensive and bed D. far from the city center
15. They ______ .
 A. don’t have a garden B. have a small garage
 C. leave their car in the car park
 D. cannot walk to the shops because they’re far from their flat.
VII/Fill in the gaps in the text with the word or words which make sense.
 There is only one shop in the village, but (16)______ everything. (17) _____ newspaper and
books, you can buy such things as clothing, household goods and furniture. There is (18) ______
post office in one corner. The trouble is that the man (19) ______ shop is very unpleasant person.
His clothes are dirty, he is unshaven, and worst of all, he is (20 ) ______ to his customers.
 16. A. it seems to sell B. it likes to buy
 C. they can buy D. there has
 17. A. Because of B. And
 C. As well as D. More than
 18. A. at last a B. both a
 C. something for a D. even a
 19. A. it is his B. Who runs the
 C. for managing the D. whose
 20. A. not very fond B. seldom impolite
 C. often quite rude D. nearly very angry
VIII/Read the text and choose the answer that you think fits best according to the text.
 1. Martha lives in a bedside in London. It’ a part of an old house. She’s got one room and a 
kitchen and she shares a bathroom with three other people. In her room there’s a bed, an armchair, 
and a coffee table, and she’s got a television and a hi-fi, to. In the kitchen there’s a cooker and a 
sink. There’s a small table and two chairs. The kitchen’s quite small, but it’s OK. There are lots of 
pubs, cafes and takeaways on the street, so she doesn’t cook a lot.
19. Martha lives______.
 A. in the country B. in a big apartment
 C. in a hostel D. in London C. Elephants D. Elephants’ trunks
 2. How much does a baby elephant weigh at birth?
 A. 70 pounds B. 200 pounds C. 300 pounds D. 1,200 pounds
 3. According to the passage, elephants can use their trunks for the following activities EXCEPT?
 A. bathing B. fighting C. drinking D. communicating
 4. An Indian elephant has _________than an African elephant.
 A. a longer tail B. a stronger trunk C. smaller ears D. bigger teeth
 5. Which kind of elephant is the largest?
 A. the Indian elephant B. the African elephant
 C. the Asian elephant D. the Indian and Asian elephant
Bobbi Brown is a very busy man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs. He is a postman, a 
policeman, a fireman, a taxi driver, a school bus driver, a boatman, an ambulance man, an accountant, 
a petrol attendant, a barman and an undertaker. Also, he and his wife, Margaret, have a shop and a 
small hotel.
 Bobbi lives and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only one hundred and 
twenty people live on Gigha but in summer this number will be doubled because of tourists who come 
by boat every day.
 Every day Bobbi gets up at 6.00 and makes breakfast for the hotel guests. At 8.00 he drives the 
island’s children to school. At 9.00 he collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses 
on the island. He also delivers the beer to the island’s only pub. Then he helps Margaret in the shop.
 He says: “Margaret likes being busy, too. We never have holidays and we don’t like watching 
television. In the evenings Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At 10.00 we have a glass of 
wine and then we go to bed. Perhaps our life isn’t very exciting, but we like it”.
 1. Bobbi Brown is a very busy man because____________.
 A. he is 60 years old B. he has thirteen jobs
 C. he lives and works on the island D. he is a postman
 2. In summer, about ____________tourists come by boat every day.
 A. 120 B. 60 C. 240 D. 150
 3. He usually takes the island’s children to school by ____________.
 A. bus B. taxi C. boat D. ambulance
 4. What does Bobbi do in the evenings? ~ ____________.
 A. He makes supper B. He watches television
 C. He goes to bed early D. He does the accounts
 5. They don’t watch television in the evenings because ____________.
 A. They have a glass of wine B. They never have holidays
 C. They don’t like it D. They are always tired in the evening
 Cricket
 Cricket ia an English game. People from most other countries think it is very, very slow, but the 
 English
think it is exciting.
 There are two teams with eleven players on each team in a cricket match. They play outdoors 
on a field. They play around two wickets. A wicket is three sticks in the ground with two sticks across 
them at the top. The wickets are twenty meters apart.
 One player is a bowler. He stands by one wicket and throws a ball at the other wicket. He tries 
to hit one of the top sticks and make it fall to the ground. ............................................................................................................................................................
 3.Headache is very common disease in the USA. Every year, about fifty million people have to go to 
 the doctor because of headache. The symptoms of a headache very various. People can see black dots 
 or bright spots in front of their eyes. They may also have pains only on one side of the head. 
 Sometimes when the pain goes away, the head is sore. People have headache when they work too 
 hard or they are too nervous about something. Medicine can help cure the disease but people usually 
 have to do more than taking tablets. They can prevent headaches by changing their diets to their 
 lifestyle or simply by going to bed.
 Quetions:
 Why is headache a common disease in the USA?
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 What can people see when they have headache?
 ..........................................................................................................................................
 When do people have headache?
 ..........................................................................................................................................
 How can people prevent headache?
 ...........................................................................................................................................
 Can people have pains on only one side of the head?
 ..........................................................................................................................................
 What do you do to prevent headache?
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Hello, We are Thanh and Hiep. We are from Dong Nai. Many things in Ho Chi Minh Ciy are 
new and strange to us. We know the way to our school but we must ask the way to other places
such as post offices, cinemas, parks...The people here are very nice. They always show us the way to 
the places we need to come. We live with our aunt in an apartment near the Ben Thanh market. It is 
about one kilometre from our aunt's apartment to our school and we can get to our school in fifteen 
minutes on foot. We are very happy to live and learn in this city.
 Where are Thanh and Hiep from?
 Are many things in Ho Chi Minh City new and strange to them?
 Which places do they know to get to?
 Where do they live?
 How far is it from their aunt's apartment to their school?
 How long can they get to their school on foot?
Mr and Mrs. Brown lived in a small house near London with their child. Sometimes Mr. Brown came 
back home very late, when is wife and the child were asleep. Then he open the front door of his 
house with his key and came in very quietly.
 One night, he came home at midnight. He lost his key, so when he arrived home, he rang the 
doorbell. Nothing happened. He rang it again. Again nothing happened. Nobody moved inside the 
house. Mr. Brown knocked at the bedroom window, he spoke to his wife, he shouted, but she did not 
wake up. At last he stopped and thought for a few seconds. Then he began to speak like a small child. 
“Mummy!” he said, “I want to use the bathroom!” He spoke quietly but at once Mrs Brown woke up. 
Then he spoke to her, and she opened the door for him.
 1. How many children Mr. Brown have?
 2. What time did Mr. Brown come home one night?
 3. Why didn’t he open the door to come in?
 4. How many times did he try to ring the doorbell?
 5. How did he wake his wife?
Marie was born in Poland in 1867. She learnt to read when she was 4 years old. She was intelligent 
and had an excellent memory. She finished high school when she was only 15 years old. Are in ...................
5. Fishing (1)______ my favorite sport . I often fish for hours (2)_______ catching anything . But
this does not worry me. Some fishermen (3)_______ unlucky . Instead of catching (4)______ ,
they catch old boots and rubbish . I am even less lucky. I never catch anything - not even old boots. 
After having spent whole mornings (5)______ the river. I always (6)________ home with an
empty bag . "You must give up fishing ! " my friends (7)_________ : " It's a waste of 
(8)____________ " . But they (9)__________ realize one important thing. I'm (10)__________ 
interested in fishing . I am only interested in sitting on the boat and doing nothing.
6. Americans like sport very much. One of the (1)............. popular kinds of sports in Autumn is
football. All the high schools(2)........... universities have their own teams.
 In winter the most popular kind of sports (3)........... basketball. There is usually a match every
evening in one school gymnasium or another. In some parts of the United States there is a lot of
(4).............. and ice. Many people like skiing and skating.
 In the other two (5).............., millions of Americans enjoy baseball. The schools have their
games in (6)..............., but the most important professional games are played during summer. Many
people listen to the games (7) .......... the radio, watch them on television or read about them (8)
.............. the newspapers.
 7. I had a holiday in Vietnam with tet and Boby. We arrived(1).Dalat yester day.it is a very
beautiful(2)..and is know as the city of Eternal Spring.Da lat is very famous(3).its
waterfalls lakes and flower gadens .on the first two days the weather was fine, warm and sunny 
sowe(4).some sightseeing I(5)a lot of photographs.on Thursday we went
shopping.every thingwas cheap so we bought lots of souverirs and nice sweaters (6)you .in the
evening we had (7)in a lovely little restaurant and the went to a (8).to enjoy Trung
Nguyen coffee.last night we went to the theater and didn’t get back (9)..11pm.therefore,we got
(10)late this morning and decided to have a relaxing day at the hotel
8. We are sure you are interested ( 1 ) __________ sports. Many of you certainly play (2)
___________ games as volleyball or football, basketball or tennis. People who play a game are (3)
_________ . Players form teams and play matches against (4) __________ teams – their opponents.
Two people playing with each other are (5) ___________. Each team can lose or win. In a football
match players try to score as many goals as they (6) ____________.
 There (7) ___________ so many kinds of sports such as cycling, boxing, swimming,
gymnastics, rowing (8) ____________ many more. You can (9) _____________ an active part in
all of them or you can just be a devoted fan. Everybody may choose the sport he is fond of 
(10) ________________ interested in.
 The common cold
9. Your headaches and you sneeze and( 1 )Your nose is all stuffed up, and it kept
running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these symptoms that you have a a
(2).. You feel very unpleasant. You are not sure if you will live through the day.
 Everyone may catch the(3)cold at some time or other. It isn’t (4)..serious
illness, but people spend a billion dollars on different kinds of cold medicine
every(5)..This medicine can relieve the (6)..It can make you cough
(7).., make your headache less intense, and stop your (8)running for a while.
However, it can’t cure your cold. So far, there (9)no cure for the common cold. There is
no medicine to(10).it .