Upper-intermediat 5tudenf Book

What can you do?
REVISE & CHECK
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?
Read the article and choose a, b, or c.
1 a night b dawn c mid-day
2 a nothing b medicine c injections
3 a asleep b ill c well
4 a Because of b According to c Thanks to
5 a cooking b buying c taking care of
6 a so that b however c because
7 a appetite b sleep c sleeping tablets
8 a so b even c although
Still awake .. .
after 33 years.
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THESE PEOPLE?
a 5.22 You will hear five extracts from a news broadcast.
Match each extract with what it is about (A-G). There are
two topics you don't need.
A business D E sport
B crime D F travel
D
D
C show business D G weather D
D health D
b 5.23 Listen to a music expert talking and answer a, b, or c.
1 Music can sound like noise to you if _ _ .
a it is the first time you hear it
b it is sung in a foreign language
c you don't wlderstand the rules
2 Modern classical music _ _ .
a does not have rules
b can sound like noise
c is only experimental
3 A lot of young people __.
a have negative feelings about some kinds of music
b only like noisy music
c never go to classical concerts
4 They changed the music in the shopping mall because
a the young people complained
b they knew teenagers wouldn't like it
c they wanted to attract more customers
5 A lot of older people __ .
a never listen to pop music
b associate pop music with crime
c don't like music with a beat
CAN YOU SAY THIS IN ENCLlSH?
Can you ...?
D describe the kind of music you listen to and how it makes you feel
D describe your sleep habits and any problems with sleeping you have
D talk about things you used to do and things you have got used to doing
D talk about where you get your news from and compare the different kinds
of newspapers in your country
1\5 BIRDS AWAKEN the early risers at , __ on the farm,
none person is already up; in fact, he hasn't even been to bed.
Sixty-fou r-year-old Thai Ngoc, from central Quang Nam province
in Vietnam, claims that he has not slept for 33 years!
'My insomnia started many years ago after I got a fever. I have
tried sleeping pills and Vietnamese traditional medicine but
, ___ helps, not even to get me to sleep for a lew minutes:
said Ngoc. But amazingly, despite 11.700 consecutives sleepless
nights since then, he has never once been 3 _ _ _ • 'Fortunately,
the insomnia doesn't seem to have had a negative impact on my
health. I still feel healthy and can farm normally like other men.
I even carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer for 4km every day.'
, _ _ his wife, when Ngoc went for a medical check-up
recently, his doctor said he was in perfect health except for a
minor decline in liver function.
Ngoc lives V1(ith his six children on his farm at the foot of a
mountain. He spends the day farming and , _ _ his pigs and
chickens, and at night he often does extra farm work or guards
his farm to prevent theft. His neighbour Vu said that Ngoc
volunteered to help beat a drum during the night and guard the
house for the relatives of the dead during funeral ceremonies
6 _ _ they could take a nap. Vu also said that when the
villagers were planting sugar cane, several people asked Ngoc to
be their 'alarm clock' and to wake them up ea rly in the morning
to go to work as he was up anyway.
Phan Ngoc Ha, director of the Hoa Khanh Mental Hospital in
Danang, said that a chronic lack of 7 _ _ often causes
anorexia, lethargy, and irritability. But, in special cases, some
extreme insomniacs can still live and work normally, 8 __
this is a very small minority. Thai Ngoc is obviously one of them.
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