Bài tập & Lời giải
Follow your nose ...
Meet three people whose sense of smell has made a difference to their lives.
A. Helen Keller - a famous activist - was deaf and blind herself. With an extraordinary sense of smell, she could idenlity people's jobs by the odour on their clothes. ‘When a person passes,’ she said, ‘I get a scent impression of where he has been.’ For her, a smell can remind us of another lime and place.
B. James Bell has worked for a perfume company for over twenty years. He says, ‘To develop a superior sense of smell, you must train it, like a concert pianist.’ After passing a ‘smell test’, James studied perfumery in France, where he learned to recognise about 2,800 synthetic and 140 natural materials. Since then he has helped to create the world’s favourite fragrances.
C. Journalist Lucy Mangan has been anosmic since birth. So she can't smell anything, even the fragrances of roses. She has never tried different perfumes in a shop. As 75-95% of the food flavour comes from its smell, meals haven't had much flavour. Allhough she can feel the different textures of lasagne, steak or fish, they're all quite tasteless.
1. Read the article. Then complete the headings for paragraphs A-C with the words in the box.
(Đọc bài viết. Sau đó hoàn thành các tiêu đề cho đoạn A-C với các từ trong hộp)
distance food memory nose smell
A. Scent and ___________
B. Training a _____________
C. Life without ___________
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2. Read and listen to the article again and write true or false. Correct the false sentences.
(Đọc và nghe lại bài viết và viết đúng hay sai. Sửa các câu sai)
1. Helen Keller had a good sense of smell.
2. She says there’s a connection between smells and memory.
3. A person with a normal sense of smell can become a professional perfumer.
4. James Bell failed his first ‘smell test’ at the perfume company.
5. Lucy could smell everything when she was a baby.
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3. Find synonyms in the text for the words below.
(Tìm từ đồng nghĩa trong văn bản cho các từ dưới đây)
1. incredible 3. artificial
2. identify 4. organic
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4. VOCABULARY PLUS. Use a dictionary to check the meaning of the words in blue in the text.
(Sử dụng từ điển để tra nghĩa của những từ tô màu xanh trong đoạn văn)
odour
scent
perfume
fragrances
flavor
textures
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5. USE IT! Talk about which objects and places smell best to you. Which of them bring back memories?
(Nói về những đồ vật và địa điểm có mùi tốt nhất đối với bạn. Ai trong số họ mang lại những kỷ niệm?)