Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading_part8', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Unit 16 Colours Put the sentences below in the correct order to make a summary of the passage. a The great variety of colours now available for interiors and fashion clothes means that there is less scope for innovation with the primary colours. b These are then adapted to suit the tastes of the individual counưies. c The experts are now looking more closely at mixing different tones for future designs. d Colour tastes vary from one European country to another. e People have gradually become accustomed to colours which were previously considered unacceptable. f A number of factors appear to determine these national preferences including the climate and skin colour. Even a nation s history geography or religion may have an influence. g Because of these variations the fashion designers can only predict general trends at a European level. h By experimenting with different colours and tones the designers have gready influenced colour sense in recent years. i However many of these unwritten rules are continually changing before our eyes. Colours have different meanings in different cultures. For example white is the colour of death in parts of Africa in the West it is black. A black cat is lucky in Britain in the USA it is unlucky red is a lucky colour in China. What colours do you associate with the following good luck danger cowardice innocence cold heat passion naivety your country This is trial version 65 WWW. adultp df. c om 17 The new world The story in this unit is by Alasdair Gray a contemporary Scottish writer. Look at the title and the first-two sentences. The New World MILLIONS of people lived in rooms joined by windowless corridors. The work which kept their world going or seemed to because they were taught that it did and nobody can teach the exact truth was done on machines in the rooms where they lived and the machines rewarded them by telling them how much they earned. What do you expect the story to be about Do you expect it to be optimistic or .
