Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading_part10', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Answer key 5 Suggested answers Built on mountain tops boats at the end of the street traffic stops to let ships and yachts go through lift-bridges Indians lay salmon nets in the canal there are more chandleries than boutiques the public library enforces a limit on borrowings maximum 100 you can safely walk the streets after dark it is exactly as big now as Dickens s London was in the 1820s. 6 Water. He uses the sense of sight to describe the city. Unit 13 Home town 2 Negative 3 a b 4 He finds Des Moines cosmopolitan in comparison with the rest of Iowa. 5 Suggested answers hub It refers to Des Moines centre hayseed From the country negative accost Aggressive contact snidely Sarcastic Dog Water etc They are not places that the writer recommends you to visit they are all meant to be ludicrous names. delirious It is meant to be ironic delirious with boredom means extremely bored. warped chipped Not straight and level and not round and smooth. Warped can be used to describe a plank of wood that has been left out in the rain. Chipped can be used to describe a cup that has had a small piece broken off it. 6 Positive intelligent sensible natural conservatism trusting amiable open friendly serene Negative dopey slow 8 He feels nostalgic and homesick for the town. Unit 14 Looking for a rain god 3 shallow wells shady watering places lush tangled trees This is dismal watering places powdery ground anguish summer scanty rain 4 The striking contrast with the normal happy years emphasises the horror of the drought and enables the reader to understand better the helplessness of the people and their reactions. 5 The rain flew away the rain clouds fled away the sun danced with a strange cruelty the sun sucked up . . The use of words usually associated with human actions suggests a malignant intention and renders the situation even more terrible. 6 Suggested answers Tn the rush of the first hope of rain . . . The family sat down in despair waiting and waiting. Their hopes had run so
