READING
Read the passage and answers to the questions
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
One of the most popular quiz programmes on television in the world is called Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? In Britain, the quiz master is Chris Tarrant. He asks the contestants fifteen questions. The first questions are easy but later they are more difficult. If you can answer the fourteenth question, you can win £500,000. You can win a million pounds if you can answer the last question. Of course, the last question is very difficult.
All the questions on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? are multiple-choice questions. After you hear the question, you see four answers. Only one answer is correct. You have to choose the correct answer. If you don't know the answer to a question, there are three ways you can get help: you can ask the quizmaster to take away two wrong answers: you can ask the studio audience which answer is right; or you can telephone a friend and ask for help. You can only do these things once. Very few people win the million pounds. The first person won a millon pounds one year after the programme started.
Today, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? can be seen in more than 100 countries and is now the world's most popular quiz programme.

Answer the questions.
1.Who is the quizmaster in Britain?
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2. How many ways can you get help?
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3. How many questions do you have to answer?
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4. In how many countries can you watch the quiz show?
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After a good night’s sleep I woke up feeling as fresh as ________ and eager to start a new day.

Question VI: Make one sentence from two. Use the word(s) in brackets in your sentences.

1. I couldn't sleep. I was very tired.

Despite I couldn't sleep despite being vey tired.

2. They have very little money. They are happy.

In spite of .......................................................................................................................................

3. My foot was injured. I managed to walk to the nearest village.

Although ........................................................................................................................................

4. I enjoyed the film. The story was silly.

In spite of .......................................................................................................................................

5. We live in the same street. We hardly ever see each other.

Despite ..........................................................................................................................................

6. I got very wet in the rain. I was only out for five minutes.

Even though ..................................................................................................................................

Read the passage and do the tasks below

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?

One of the most popular quiz programmes on television in the world is called Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? In Britain, the quiz master is Chris Tarrant. He asks the contestants fifteen questions. The firsts questions are easy but later they are more difficult. If you can answer the last question, you can win f500,000. You can win a million pounds if you can answer the last question. Of course, the last question is very difficult.

All the questions on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? are multiple-choice questions. After you hear the question, you see four answers. Only one answer is correct. You have to choose the correct answer. If you don't know the answer to a question, there are three ways you can get help: you can ask the quizmaster to take away two wrong answers: you can ask the studio audience which answer is right; or you can telephone a friend and ask for help. You can only do these things once. Very few people win the million pounds. The first person won a million pounds one year after the programme started.

Today, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? can be seen in more than 100 countries and is now the world's most popular quiz programme.

a. Find the words in the text with these meanings.

1. A TV programme where people answer questions. .....................

2. The person who ask the questions. .....................

3. The people who try to answer the questions. .........................

4. The people who watch the programme in the studio. .......................

b. Answer the questions.

1. Who is the quizmaster in Britain?

2. How many questions do you have to answer?

3. How much do you win for the fourteenth question?

4. How many ways can you get help?

5. In how many countries can you watch the quiz show?

I, Choose the best answer

1, One basic question psychologists have tried to answer is ___________

A, people learn        B, how do people learn     C, people learn how    D, how people learn

2, Some ancient units such as the say, the foot, and the pound,______today

A, are still in use     B, that are still in use        C, which are still in use    D, still in use

3, My car broke down, ________a real nuisance

A, that was            B, which was                C, which were            D, where was

4, That contract, abot_____we had a disagreement last month, has now gone through

A, that            B, what          C, whom          D, which

5, A philatelist is a person____

A, that stamp collecting          B, who collec stamps        C, whose collect stamps          D, all

6, A new varieties of rice___is adapted to harsh climatic conditions has been developed

A, what        B, where      C, that        D, who

7, La Guardian Airport in New York city____after Fiorello La Guardian, one of New York's most popular mayors

A, which is named         B, named         C, which named       D, is named

I.        Make question with How and write the answers using suggestions. Ex:   old/ you.?// ten

- How old are you?

→ I am ten years old.

1. tall/ he?/ one meter and 50 centimeters

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2. heavy/ Hoa?/ 40 kilos

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3. high/ these buildings?/ over 150 meters

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4. long/ your dress?/ 140 centimeters

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5. deep/ the lake?/ about 5 meters

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6. wide/ the table?/ 80 centimeters

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7. much/ these shoes?/ eighty thousand dong

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8. big/ your house?/ about 160 square meters

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Ex 2. Fill in: “yet, already, just, ago, yesterday, since, for, always, ever, how long”.

1. have you known Peter and Charlie?

2. Anna woke up at 9 o’clock .

3. She hasn’t telephoned me .

4. I have wanted to travel abroad.

5. Have you been to Disneyland?

6. Is it really a year ______________ we last went on holiday?

7. I have finished my homework. I finished it two minutes ago.

8. Shakespeare was born over four hundred years .

9. We have been to Canada so we are going to USA this summer.

10. John has worked at this company seven years.

1. Question: What is always coming, but never arrives?
2. Question: What can be broken, but is never held?
3. Question: What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?
4. Question: What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
5. Question: What can one catch that is not thrown?
6. Question: What is it that if you have, you want to share me, and if you share, you do not have?
7. Question: If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?
8. Question: If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?
9. Question: If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?
10. Question: If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some kindling wood, and a newspaper, which would you light first?
11. Question: If you spell “sit in the tub” s-o-a-k, and you spell “a funny story” j-o-k-e, how do you spell “the white of an egg”?
12. Question: Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
13. Question: If Mrs. John’s bungalow is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs?
14. Question: How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own?
15. Question: How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?
16. Question: If an electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph, which way does the smoke blow?
17. Question: How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived?
18. Question: What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks?
19. Question: Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?
20. Question: "The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he did not have a brother. Who is lying?
21. Question: Uncle Bill’s farm had a terrible storm and all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are still alive?
22. Question: What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?