Enriching Your Vocabulary English 10 - Lesson 10 (Có đáp án)

ENRICHING YOUR VOCABULARY 10
WORD IN ACTION
plague – conflagration – deluge – drought – landslide 
earthquake – famine – destitution – avalanche – insanity 
contamination - depression – subsidence – holocaust – gale
Exercise A. The following definitions refer to the words above. They all have unpleasant connotations as they are related to disasters, calamities, bad living conditions, natural phenomena, etc. Study them carefully, and then fill each blank with the word that corresponds to its definition.
1. A wide-spread scarcity or dearth of food that causes people to suffer from extreme hunger. ........
2. An unusually great flood accompanied by heavy rainfall that causes inundation such as that which affected Noah and his ark. ........
3. A long continuous spell of dry weather with marked lack of rain that stems the growth of plants. ........
4. Extreme poverty often accompanied by lack of property. ........
5. The sinking of the earth to a lower level because of underground movements and workings. ........
6. A strong and violent wind but of less force than that of a storm or tempest. ....
7. A very large scale destruction and loss of life that may result from use of strategic weapons, as in a nuclear war. ........
8. The slipping of a mass of land from a higher to a lower level. ........
9. An extremely contagious pestilence or epidemic disease, also known as the Black Death, that decimated Europe's population in the Middle Ages. ........
10. A decline in business marked by an extreme slump in production and purchase of foods such as the Great Crash on Wall Street in 1929, which ruined international trade. ........
11. A condition or state where the environment (water, air, soil) is made impure because of harmful chemicals and poisonous matter. ........
12. The fall of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain slope. ........
13. A great or disastrous fire, especially one breaking out in a forest. ........
14. A vibration of the earth's crust caused by disturbances of the inner layers of the earth. ........
15. Any mental disorder characierized by irrational or violent deviation from normal thinking. ........
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
A. Read the text below and choose the correct word A, B, C, or D to fit the gaps.
 Detroit (1)......St. Patrick's Day in Corktown, a neighborhood named for the many (2).....workers from County Cork. Some of the original workers' row houses there are being (3).....and the area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The parade covers about a dozen blocks along Michigan Avenue, on Sunday, March 12.
 The March 12 parade in San Francisco begins at 11:30 a.m. at Second and Market Streets and (4).....to the Civic Center Plaza. San Francisco's first celebration, in 1851, (5)......of a small party in Hayes Valley and a Shamrock Ball at a saloon on Pacific Street. Enthusiasm for the holiday waxed and waned over the years, but by 1956 it had become (6)......, with 35,000 marchers.
 San Diego (7).......its twenty-sixth St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday, March 11, at 11 a.m. Glittery Las Vegas, Nevada, will have its fortieth one on Saturday, March 18, at 11 a.m. To the south, the lrish in Tucson, Arizona, will step out at the same time.
 (8).....in bathing suits usually line the parade route in the Waikiki Beach district of Honolulu. (9).....to Pat Bigold, a writer who is half lrish, his city's St. Patrick's Day celebration on March 17 is the closest to the international (10)....... It takes place at noon, which is 5 p.m. in Boston.
1. A. commemorates
B. commiserates
C. celebrates
D. participates
2. A. immigrant
B. vagrant
C. destitute
D. hard
3. A. kept
B. flooded
C. demolished
D. preserved
4. A. detours
B. diverts
C. heads
D. retreats
5. A. was
B. consisted
C. devised
D. contrived
6. A. common
B. unpopular
C. localised
D. mainstream
7. A. kicks off
B. forwards
C. redirects
D. hands over
8. A. Audience
B. Addressers
C. Listeners
D. Spectators
9. A. According
B. Assuming
C. Lrstening
D. Deliberating
10. A. border
B. code
C. dateline
D. season
B. Fill the gaps in the following sentences with the correct answer A, B C or D.
1. The ship's masts were all destroyed in the strong.....
A. gales 	B. deluge 	C. famine 	D. eruption
2. fhey were, superficially at any....., a very unlikely pair to become friends.
A. aspect 	B. chance 	C. extent 	D.rate
3. The kidnapper had tried to.....her before.
A. speculate 	B. abduct 	C. dispel 	D. infer
4. He's a very.....writer whom few people have ever heard of.
A. wrinkled 	B. congested 	C. pale 	D.obscure
5. His untimely death......the decline of the empire.
A. shrank 	B. ameliorated 	C. precipitated 	D. exaggerated
6. David was given all the..... for rescuing the drowning boy.
A. merit 	B. blame 	C. credit 	D. reputation
7. Empires are born, they and finally fall into decline.
A. profit 	B. culminate 	C. deviate 	D. convert
8. During the....., he was afraid none of his family would survive.
A. famine 	B. destitution 	C. subsidy 	D. eloquence
9. The whole forest area was devastated by......
A. plague 	B. famine 	C. insanity 	D. conflagration
10. Hedgehogs, bears and other animals that hibernate remain during winter.
A. superficial 	B. passive 	C. dormitory 	D. dormant
ANSWER KEY
Words in Action
Exercise.
1. famine 2. deluge .3. drought 4. destitution 5. subsidence 6. gale 7. holocaust 
8. landslide 9. plague 10. depression 11. contamination 12. avalanche 
13. conflagration 14. earthquake 15. insanity
Vocabulary Practice
Ex.A.: 1. C 2. A .3. D 4. C 5. B 6. D 7. A 8. D 9. A 10. C
Ex.B.: 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. D
avalanche [tuyết lở]
deluge [đại hồng thủy]
landslide [đất lở]
conflagration [cháy lớn]
drought [hạn hán]