Đề thi vào lớp 10 môn Tiếng Anh năm học 2016 - 2017 sở GD - ĐT Vĩnh Phúc

My village was never a big village, nor was it particularly successful or well-known. It was a place where simple people worked on their land, tending citrus groves and running poultry farms. The most exotic plantation grew avocados, and a palm tree nursery was something of an attraction.

The village was established by a group of Greek immigrants in 1937 in what was then known as British-controlled Palestine. When we first moved here, one could still hear some Greek in the street, the local store sold original Greek delicacies and from time to time we were invited to sit on a neighbor’s porch and share some ouzo at the end of a working day.

In the last few years, my village has changed dramatically. Very few people work in agriculture now; they can no longer support their families growing oranges and chicken. As a result, they must find their income outside the village and rent out their land or sell their little family farms altogether. Some of the land is still used for agriculture, but no longer for the family farms. Now it is the agriculture of luxuries.

Jeans are very popular with young people all (06)__________ the world. Some people say that jeans are the “uniform” of youth, but they haven’t always been popular. The story of jeans started almost two hundred years ago. People in Genoa, Italy made pants. The cloth made in Genoa was (07)__________ “jeanos”. The pants were called “jeans”. In 1850, a salesman in California began selling pants (08)__________ of canvas. His name was Levi Strauss. Because they were so strong, “Levi’s pants” (09)__________ popular with gold miners, farmers and cowboys. Six years (10)__________, Levis began making his pants with blue cotton cloth called denim. Soon after, factory workers in the US and Europe began wearing jeans. Young people usually didn’t wear them.

Most paper is made from wood. When trees are cut down, they are transported (11)__________ land or water to paper (12)__________. Here they are cut down (13)__________ pieces and crushed up. This wood (14)__________ is then dried on a machine and made into paper. Paper-making is an important British (15)__________ , and paper from Britain is exported to South Africa, Australia and many other (16)__________. Some of the wood (17)__________ in British paper-making industry comes from trees grown in Britain, Norway, etc. One tree is needed for (18)__________ 400 copies of a typical 40-page newspaper. If half the adults in Britain each buys one daily paper, this (19)__________ up over 40,000 trees a day. Trees are being cut down (20)__________ than they are being replaced.