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An Embarrassing Experience
When I was a student, I had a summer job in an expensive restaurant in Glasgow. One day we were expecting forty members of a football team for lunch. I was given the job of peeling potatoes. I thought I was managing quite well with my small knife until the owner appeared to see how I was getting on. She was amazed that I was using a knife and asked why I wasn't
using the potato peeler. I had no idea what a potato peeler was so she led me into a small room behind the main kitchen. There, on the table, was a small machine like the rubbish bins some people have in their bathrooms.
She explained as if to a small child that I had to put the potatoes in, close the lid and press the button. When she came back ten minutes later, I told her I thought it was quicker to do it by hand. She asked what I meant. "Well, they aren't ready yet," I replied. You can imagine how I felt when she lifted the lid and took out the potatoes the size of peas. The potato peeler was not automatic.
True / False:
1. The story happened in summer
2. On that day the restaurant had forty guests.
3. The football team members would have potato for lunch.
4. At first, the author peeled potatoes with a knife.
5. The potato peeler was a rubbish bin.
6. The owner of the restaurant explained how to use the potato
peeler very carefully.
7. The potato peeler could stop when the potatoes were ready.
Dịch đoạn văn và Làm bài tập
Đọc kỹ đoạn văn sau và điền T (đúng) hoặc F (sai) vào chỗ trống tương ứng với phương án trả lời đúng.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which means "Doctors Without Borders", was established in 1971. It is now the world's largest independent organization that provides emergency medical relief. The aim of the organization is to help people who have suffered badly in wars or natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods.
Each year, about 3,000 people are sent abroad to work in over seventy different countries worldwide. MSF relies on volunteer professionals but also works closely with local professionals; in most projects, there are seven local staff members to everyone foreigner. Volunteers are paid about $800 a month and receive travel expenses. They usually work for nine months to a year on a project and then go home; however, about 50% of volunteers go on more than one mission. One volunteer reports, "working in politically sensitive / areas with limited resources can be frustrating, but there is huge satisfaction in making even a small or temporary difference to people. What better recommendation than to say I'm about to leave on a third mission!".
What qualities and skills- do you need to become a volunteer? You have to be able to deal with stress, and you need to be able to work independently as well as in a team. You are not required, however, to have medical qualifications. Besides medical professionals, MSF needs the skilled support of technical staff such as building engineers and food experts.
The reaction of volunteers returning from MSF speaks for itself "One of my biggest challenges was organizing a team to open a new hospital in a town that had had no medical care for three years," one volunteer said. This volunteer concluded that the project was a success for two reasons:
the reduction of deaths and the fact that the local people were so thankful. Another volunteer says, "With MSF, I have had the chance to travel and test my skills to the limits both professionally and personally. The rewards can be enormous".
I
1. Medecins Sans Frontieres provides worldwide emergency medical relief.
2. There are more local people than foreigners working on most MSF Projects.
3. Most volunteers work on only one project.
4. You have to be medical professional to volunteer for MSF.
1. Medecins Sans Frontieres provides worldwide emergency medical relief.
II
2. There are more local people than foreigners working on most MSF Projects.
3. Most volunteers work on only one project.
4. You have to be medical professional to volunteer for MSF.
Through a series of experiments an American scientist has obtained an understanding of the social structure of the most complex of ant societies. he ants examined are the only creatures other than man to have given up hunting and collecting for a completely agricultural way of life. In their underground nests they cultivate gardens on soil made from finely chopped leaves. This is a complex operation requiring considerable division of labour. The workers of this type of ant can be divided into four groups according to size. Each of the groups performs a particular set of jobs. The making and care of the gardens and the nursing of the young ants are done by the smallest workers. Slightly larger workers are responsible for chopping up leaves to make them suitable for use in the gardens and for cleaning the nest. A third group of still larger ants do the construction work and collect fresh leaves from outside the nest. The largest are the soldier ants, responsible for defending the nest.
To find out how good the various size groups are at different tasks, the scientist measured the amount of work done by the ants against the amount of energy they used. He examined first the gathering and carrying of leaves. He selected one of the size-groups, and then measured how efficiently these ants could find, leaves and run back to the nest. Then he repeated the experiment for each of the other size groups. In this way he could see whether any group could do the job more efficiently than the group normally undertaking it.
The intermediate-sized ants that normally perform this task proved to be the most efficient for their energy costs, but when the scientist examined the whole set of jobs performed by each group of ants it appear that some sizes of worker ants were not ideally suited to the particular jobs they performed.
1. In which way are the ants different from other non-human societies?
Chọn câu trả lời đúng:
A. They do not need to search for food
B. They do not need to look for shelter
C. Individuals perform different functions
D. Individuals vary in social status
When I was a student, I had a summer job in an expensive restaurant in Glasgow. One day we were expecting forty members of a football team for lunch. I was given the job of peeling potatoes. I thought I was managing quite well with my small knife until the owner appeared to see how I was getting on. She was amazed that I was using a knife and asked why I wasn't
using the potato peeler. I had no idea what a potato peeler was so she led me into a small room behind the main kitchen. There, on the table, was a small machine like the rubbish bins some people have in their bathrooms.
She explained as if to a small child that I had to put the potatoes in, close the lid and press the button. When she came back ten minutes later, I told her I thought it was quicker to do it by hand. She asked what I meant. "Well, they aren't ready yet," I replied. You can imagine how I felt when she lifted the lid and took out the potatoes the size of peas. The potato peeler was not automatic.
True / False:
1. The story happened in summer
2. On that day the restaurant had forty guests.
3. The football team members would have potato for lunch.
4. At first, the author peeled potatoes with a knife.
5. The potato peeler was a rubbish bin.
6. The owner of the restaurant explained how to use the potato
peeler very carefully.
7. The potato peeler could stop when the potatoes were ready.
Dịch đoạn văn và Làm bài tập
Đọc kỹ đoạn văn sau và điền T (đúng) hoặc F (sai) vào chỗ trống tương ứng với phương án trả lời đúng.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which means "Doctors Without Borders", was established in 1971. It is now the world's largest independent organization that provides emergency medical relief. The aim of the organization is to help people who have suffered badly in wars or natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods.
Each year, about 3,000 people are sent abroad to work in over seventy different countries worldwide. MSF relies on volunteer professionals but also works closely with local professionals; in most projects, there are seven local staff members to everyone foreigner. Volunteers are paid about $800 a month and receive travel expenses. They usually work for nine months to a year on a project and then go home; however, about 50% of volunteers go on more than one mission. One volunteer reports, "working in politically sensitive / areas with limited resources can be frustrating, but there is huge satisfaction in making even a small or temporary difference to people. What better recommendation than to say I'm about to leave on a third mission!".
What qualities and skills- do you need to become a volunteer? You have to be able to deal with stress, and you need to be able to work independently as well as in a team. You are not required, however, to have medical qualifications. Besides medical professionals, MSF needs the skilled support of technical staff such as building engineers and food experts.
The reaction of volunteers returning from MSF speaks for itself "One of my biggest challenges was organizing a team to open a new hospital in a town that had had no medical care for three years," one volunteer said. This volunteer concluded that the project was a success for two reasons:
the reduction of deaths and the fact that the local people were so thankful. Another volunteer says, "With MSF, I have had the chance to travel and test my skills to the limits both professionally and personally. The rewards can be enormous".
I
1. Medecins Sans Frontieres provides worldwide emergency medical relief.
2. There are more local people than foreigners working on most MSF Projects.
3. Most volunteers work on only one project.
4. You have to be medical professional to volunteer for MSF.
1. Medecins Sans Frontieres provides worldwide emergency medical relief.
II
2. There are more local people than foreigners working on most MSF Projects.
3. Most volunteers work on only one project.
4. You have to be medical professional to volunteer for MSF.
Tương tự bài trên
Through a series of experiments an American scientist has obtained an understanding of the social structure of the most complex of ant societies. he ants examined are the only creatures other than man to have given up hunting and collecting for a completely agricultural way of life. In their underground nests they cultivate gardens on soil made from finely chopped leaves. This is a complex operation requiring considerable division of labour. The workers of this type of ant can be divided into four groups according to size. Each of the groups performs a particular set of jobs. The making and care of the gardens and the nursing of the young ants are done by the smallest workers. Slightly larger workers are responsible for chopping up leaves to make them suitable for use in the gardens and for cleaning the nest. A third group of still larger ants do the construction work and collect fresh leaves from outside the nest. The largest are the soldier ants, responsible for defending the nest.
To find out how good the various size groups are at different tasks, the scientist measured the amount of work done by the ants against the amount of energy they used. He examined first the gathering and carrying of leaves. He selected one of the size-groups, and then measured how efficiently these ants could find, leaves and run back to the nest. Then he repeated the experiment for each of the other size groups. In this way he could see whether any group could do the job more efficiently than the group normally undertaking it.
The intermediate-sized ants that normally perform this task proved to be the most efficient for their energy costs, but when the scientist examined the whole set of jobs performed by each group of ants it appear that some sizes of worker ants were not ideally suited to the particular jobs they performed.
1. In which way are the ants different from other non-human societies?
Chọn câu trả lời đúng:
A. They do not need to search for food
B. They do not need to look for shelter
C. Individuals perform different functions
D. Individuals vary in social status
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