10 Bài Open Cloze có đáp án - Read the texts below and think of the word which best fits each space. Mã A116480

Read the texts below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

1 The Importance of Family

In Western Europe and the USA, family life 0) has changed dramatically over the last forty years. The number of families that depend 1) ………….... both parents going out to work, or where 2) …… ……….. is one parent raising the children alone, is much greater than it 3) ………………. to be. Also, many more people move away from their families 4) ….......... ever before. 5) …………………. these changes, most people still think 6) ……………….. their family as one of the most significant parts of 7) …………… lives.

A recent American survey showed that 8) ……………….. people think that spending time 9) ……… ………… home is more important 10) ………………. earning a high salary or having a challenging job. The majority of young people surveyed said that they 11) ………………….. be happy to earn less money if they had more time to 12) ……………………. with their loved ones. Older people also commented that they had worked 13) ………………… hard in the past when they should have 14) …………… with their families. 15) ……………………. the typical family doesn’t follow the traditional model today, it is still a vital part of our lives.

2 The Eden project

The Eden Project (1) ………. the original idea of a man (2) ………. Tim Smith. He wanted (3) …… …. explain the importance of plants to humans. From this the Eden project developed. The project is in the town of St Austell, (4) ………. is in Cornwall in the south of England, and it covers an area as big (5) ………. 35 football pitches. It consists (6) ………. two huge covered conservatories, or Biomes.(7) ……… are over 100,000 plants representing 5,000 species (8) ……… many of the world's climatic zones. The Humid Tropics Biome is (9) ………. largest greenhouse (10) ………. the world. It is home to plants of the rainforest such (11) ………. bananas, rubber, cocoa and coffee. The Warm Temperate Biome (12) ………. filled with plants from the Mediterranean region of the world. Outside sunflowers, hemp, tea, and (13) ………. other British plants grow. (14) ………. you visit The Eden Project, you won't be disappointed. Entertainment and education are central to the project and there are all (15) ………. of events including art, lectures, storytelling, drama, and music.

3 Collecting things

A new book (1) ……… just come out with the title To Have and to Hold. According to the title, it would seem just a story of collecting and collectors, but actually it goes much further (2) ………. that. As well as telling us about great collectors of the past, it also investigates the reasons why people collect things. In past centuries, only wealthy people (3) ………. afford to travel and most collections started with just a (4) ………. strange objects which had been brought on trips abroad. In the days before photography and television, this was the only (5) ………. people could see objects from other cultures. Gradually, museums were established (6) ………. that ordinary people would be (7) ………. to see these treasures too. These days, everyone seems to be (8) ………. collector. The book describes collectors (9) …… …. the « archaeologists of the present» and it contains some fascinating interviews. (10) ……… instance, there's the man (11) ……… has 50,000 items of food packaging stored tin his home, and the teenager willing to spend large sums of money on the rare Star Wars toy that (12) ………. complete her collection. In explaining (13) ……… we collect things, however, the book sees no difference (14) ………. great art collectors and teenagers collecting items related (15) ………. their favourite pop stars. The social and psychological explanations for collecting, it says, are much the same.

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