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7 Technology
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What building in Australia is known by
most people in the world? If you say the
Sydney Opera House, you're right. The building
is known for its white top, which looks like a
group of sailing boats sitting in the water.
Music is played there, but the building is
also used as a theatre, where plays are
performed. It was designed by Danish architect
Jorn Utzon in 1957, but the building wasn't
completed until 1973.
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07 Reading
3 The Sydney Opera House ...
A is used for music only.
B was designed in 1957.
C was built by a Danish man.
1 KET Read the texts and for each question,
choose the correct answer A, B or C.
Table tennis is quite a popular game these days.
Like all games, it was invented by someone, but
with this game, we're not sure who it was. It
after their evening dinner. The dinner table was
was first played in the 1880s by British people
cleared and some books were stood up across
the centre. The players used other books to hit
small ball across the table and over the books
that were standing up. That's how table tennis
Today, the ancient Italian city of Pompeii is
visited by millions of people every year. What
makes this place so special? It was destroyed
in 79 AD by the volcano that the city was built
on. The city was completely covered and no one
knew it was there for almost 1,700 years. Then,
in 1749, the city's buildings were found in the
ground. Scientists started to study the area to
learn what life was like so many years ago, and
many people visit it today for the same reasons.
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was started!
1 Where was table tennis first played?
A in a sports centre
B in someone's home
C in a restaurant
4 Pompeii was covered in the ground...
A for millions of years.
B for more than 1,700 years.
C for almost 1,700 years.
The Mona Lisa is a painting that is known by
ку
many people. In this painting, a woman is shown
sitting with her arms folded and smiling. It
seems normal, doesn't it? However, it's her smile
that makes this painting famous. The smile is
very small and when you see it
, you think, 'What
is this woman thinking about? It was painted in
the 16th century by a man named Leonardo da
Vinci, and it wasn't known who the woman in
the painting was until 2005.
Many Americans believe that their country was
discovered in 1492 by a man from Italy known
as Christopher Columbus. This is true in a way,
but Columbus never actually saw what is called
the United States of America today. The first
piece of land that he saw was an island known
as Hispaniola, which is found hundreds of
kilometres to the south-east of Miami. He made
four trips from Spain to this island and other
islands nearby, in Central America and South
America, but he never reached North America.
2 The Mona Lisa ...
A was painted in 2005.
B was painted by a woman.
C is a painting of a woman.
5 The land that Christopher Columbus first saw is
known as ...
A) North America.
B Central America.
C Hispaniola. Дай умалаю

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