Listening comprehension exercises

Exercise 25. Listen to the text “The rescue of occupants”.

Exercise 26. Complete the sentences.

1. If you become trapped in a hallway or stairs … .

a) try to move down; b) try to move up; c) stay where you are.

2. Conditions are … on upper floors.

a) better; b) worse; c) the same.

3. Start your search … .

a) on the door; b) on an inside wall; c) on an outside wall.

4. a) Always ventilate the room; b) Don’t ventilate the room; c) Ventilate only if it doesn’t cause spread of fire.

5. Search … .

a) behind the furniture; b) behind and under the furniture; c) under the furniture.

Exercise 27. Answer the questions.

1. What should firefighters pause during search for?

2. What should you do if you are trapped in a hallway and are unable to go down and out?

3. What is the procedure of sharing your breathing apparatus with a victim?

4. What do people drop articles out of the windows for?

5. What is the most important and hazardous duty of a firefighter?

Exercise 28. Write if these statements are true or false.

1. If necessary give your breathing apparatus to the victim.

2. Deep breathing will extend the remaining air in the breathing apparatus.

3. After searching firefighters should leave signs indicating that the room has been searched.

4. Firefighters should search all closets and cupboards including shower stalls.

5. After searching the room a firefighter should leave the door open.

Exercise 29. Retell the text in writing.

Additional exercises

Exercise 30. Read, translate and retell the text.

Dieting

But it has taken a long time to find out exactly what these are. Sea travel led to some increase in understanding. When it became possible to build ships that could go on long voyages, sailors started to spend many months at sea. They also started getting a strange disease called “scurvy”. Eventually, it became clear that they needed fruit or vegetables to survive. Today, we know that Vitamin C is the reason. Although the discovery helped their lives, there was much more that wasn’t known. Nobody knew, for example, why some people got fat and others didn’t, or what to do about it.

The word “diet” originally meant “things that people usually eat”, but, these days, we use the word to mean an eating pattern or programme designed to change something. We could be talking about any one of many different kinds. There are diets for avoiding certain chemicals, like salt, and there are diets to increase amounts of certain things, like potassium. There are even diets to help people put on weight. However, despite all these, we usually say “diet” about losing weight. This is certainly the area where the money gets spent. And it has a long history.

Then, in 1890s, a chemist called Wilbur Atwater began investigating how foods consisted of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. He found that he could measure the heat value of these by burning them and called a unit of this heating a “calorie”. This measurement he created can be seen as the start of modern food science and dieting. Since then, knowledge has come quickly – some people say too quickly!

But when did it all start? There’s a story that in 1087, William the Conqueror, King of England, had become so fat that he could no longer ride his horse. He stayed in bed and drank alcohol instead of eating food to try to lose weight. Now, it may or may not have worked for him, but we can’t really recommend it as an approach for most people. What’s important is the kinds of food you eat, because different foods contain different things our bodies need.

Exercise 31. Arrange the paragraphs of the text in correct order.

Exercise 32. Put different types of questions to the text.

Exercise 33. Change the beginning of each of the following words, using the right prefix, to form the opposite of the word.

Happy, behave, like, responsible, toxic, logical, understand, polite, complete, do, agree, correct, possible, combustible, legal, resistible, advantage, belief, real, visible, mortal, regular, flammable, literate, moral.

Exercise 34. Choose from these words to complete the sentences below: to, than, too, also, both, and. One word is used twice.

1. I like meat … fish. 2. I like … meat and fish. 3. I like meat and … fish. 4. I like meat and fish … . 5. I like meat more … fish. 6. I prefer meat … fish. 7. I’d rather have meat … fish.

Exercise 35. 1) Sort out the following pieces of advice into two columns: healthy and unhealthy ones according to your opinion.

Go to bed late; reduce calories; have enough rest; work and study late at night; avoid stress at home, work; swallow your food wholesale; be a fitness fanatic; cut down on sweets, cakes, chocolate; ventilate properly the house; lose weight if you are overweight; follow a sensible diet; learn to relax; eat between meals; stay in shape; give up smoking; eat quickly; lead an active lifestyle; eat low-fat food; be moderate in eating and drinking; go in for sport.