TIẾNG ANH 10 FRIENDS GLOBAL

UNIT 6: MONEY

READING TEST

Exercise 1: Read the text. Match sentences A–G with gaps 1–5. There are two extra sentences. (2,5 points)

Shopping habits in the UK have changed over the last sixty years, and this can be seen in the changing

appearance of any British high street – the main shopping street in a town or city. In the 1950s, high streets had

rows of individual shops selling different things. 1___ Most people did this every few days in order to buy fresh

food. The high street was a sociable place to be.

This started to change in the 1970s with the arrival of supermarkets. They gave people the chance to buy

everything that they needed in one place. People didn’t need to go to individual shops any more. 2___ So this

new type of shop, along with a new way of storing meat and fruit at home, meant that instead of doing a small

shop every few days, people could buy all the food that they needed for a week, or sometimes even a month.

As supermarkets became more popular, they changed from small local shops to huge superstores. 3___ They

took people away from the high street. They also tried to offer customers everything that they needed, like a

coffee shop, a hairdresser's and a chemist's. 4___ But this meant that the shops on the high street started to close

down as they lost their customers.

These days, more and more people are choosing not to go to supermarkets to do their shopping. 5___ People are

also trying to spend less money, so a new type of discount shop has become very popular. It may be because of

this that people have stopped doing big weekly or monthly shops. Now they go to shops more frequently to buy

what they need for the next few days. So, in many ways, people seem to be going back to the way people

shopped in the 1950s.

A The idea was to get customers to spend all their money in one place.

A Customers knew exactly where to find the things they needed in each shop.

B And because of their size, many of these supermarkets were outside town.

C People loved it because they had never had the chance to do all their shopping there before.

D At the same time, more and more people had freezers in their houses.

E There was a greengrocer's next to a butcher's next to a baker's, and people visited each place to do their

shopping.

F Instead, they are using the internet to shop from home and get their shopping delivered.

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Exercise 2: Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following

passage. (2,5 points)

China’s child labour is a huge problem, and there is (1) _________ evidence that it is increasing in China. 2.

Although there is no official figure on the number of children working in China, it is (2) __________ by many

that of the 10 million children out of school, over 5 million are working in factories. It was reported in Sichuan,