Tham khảo tài liệu 'test your reading web_part10', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | First reading. Are these definite write D or possible write P 1 Cathy Freeman s silver medal 2 The 10 000 athletes 3 The TV audience of billion 4 The 27th Olympics is the biggest yet. 5 The 27th Olympics is the best yet. 6 Ian Thorpe s four gold medals_ 7 Ian Thorpe s ten world records 8 The Australian women s hockey team s two gold medals . 9 The Australian women s hockey team s three gold medals. 10 The Australian women s hockey team s 191 wins in seven years Second reading. Match the beginning of these sentences 1-6 with the ends a-1 . Australians felt proud when Australians make no apology for Australians hope that The Sydney Globe believes that a the 27th Olympics will be the best. b Ian Thorpe is Australia s brightest medal hope. c is expected to win a third gold medal. d at the age of fourteen. ZWis trial LXwww adultpdtuWlli 2 111 SECTION 6 Ó9 Encyclopaedia entry a 20th century painter This is taken from The Encyclopaedia of 20th Century Art. Franz Marc Biography Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was born on 8 February 1880 in Munich Germany. He was the second son of the Munich landscape painter Wilhelm Marc and his wife Sophie. After deciding not to become a priest he studied art in Munich but broke off his studies after a visit to Paris in 1903 where he was fascinated by French Impressionism though he disagreed with it. In 1907 he married Marie Schnur also a Munich painter who had an illegitimate child with an earlier partner. She and Marc divorced in 1908. An early painting Schlich the dog jumping was a Christmas present to his mother in that year. In 1910 Marc joined a group of painters based in Munich called The Blue Rider whose best known member was the Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky. In 1911 he married another Munich painter called Maria Franck in London. On 4 March 1916 Marc was killed at the battle of Verdun. Marc s early painting and drawing were realistic studies of horses in the style he had learned at the Academy in Munich. He was .
