Giải chi tiết Bài 5 Cumulative Review 1 (Units I – Cumulative Review – SBT Tiếng Anh 11 Friends Global (Chân trời sáng tạo).
Câu hỏi/Đề bài:
5. Read the text again with the missing sentences. Underline the word or words in the sentences before or after the gap that link with vocabulary in the missing sentences.
(Đọc lại đoạn văn với những câu còn thiếu. Gạch dưới từ hoặc các từ trong câu trước hoặc sau chỗ trống liên kết với từ vựng trong câu còn thiếu.)
Lời giải:
1 with tears in their eyes, cries = so much emotion
(với đôi mắt đẫm lệ, khóc = rất nhiều cảm xúc)
2 start looking for = the search began
(bắt đầu tìm kiếm = việc tìm kiếm bắt đầu)
3 she thought it would be impossible = without success
(cô ấy nghĩ điều đó là không thể = không thành công)
4 at the invitation of = She asked … to take part in her research
(theo lời mời của = Cô ấy yêu cầu … tham gia nghiên cứu của mình)
5 Malta = There
(Malta = Ở đó)
Together again – after 78 years!
Imagine the scene: two sisters in their seventies running to greet each other with tears in their eyes. ‘Lizzie, Lizzie, how lovely!’ shouts one. How lovely to see you in the flesh!’ cries the other. 1 The reason for so much emotion is that twin sisters Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel have not seen each other since they were babies, 78 years ago. According to the Guinness World Records, the two women are the longest separated twins ever.
The twins’ mother, Alice Lamb, was unable to bring up both girls because she was a domestic cook in the house of an employer. She gave Ann up for adoption because she was the healthier of the two. Ann was fourteen when she found out she was adopted, and once her adoptive mother died, she decided to start looking for her birth mother. 2 In 2001, Ann collected a copy of her own birth certificate from the register office and the search began. With the help of her daughter, she also found a copy of Alice’s birth certificate, and later the two discovered that Alice had married a man who already had a son called Albert.
Alice’s stepson had died, but his son was able to tell them that Alice had a daughter in the USA. That was how they found out about Elizabeth.
Alice Lamb had originally intended for both of her daughters to be adopted, but in the end, she had to keep Elizabeth because of her poor health. At first, Elizabeth stayed with an aunt and then with a woman who did not care for her properly, prompting Alice to take Elizabeth to live with her in the house where she worked. Elizabeth remembers her mother telling her when she was fifteen that she was a twin, but at the time she thought it would be impossible to find her sister. 3 When she was an adult, she made several attempts to locate her, but without success. So she was more than delighted to receive Ann’s letter in 2014, and minutes after reading it, the two were talking on the phone.
The reunion was arranged in Los Angeles at the invitation of psychologist Nancy Segal, who has been studying twins separated at birth for nearly forty years. During her studies, Ms Segal has discovered that twins growing up in completely different families can share many similar attitudes. 4 She asked Ann and Elizabeth to take part in her research, and they agreed. At first glance, the sisters appeared to have quite a lot in common: both had married men called Jim, who had recently died, so both women became widows. Both of them were grandmothers and evidence from photos shows that they both like to pose in front of the camera.
However, there were also big differences in their lives. After leaving school, Arn worked for a printer until she got married, and remained her life in the town where she was born. Elizabeth left school to work in a sweet shop, but after going to night school, she joined the navy and moved to Malta. 5 There she met her husband and went back with him to settle in the USA. Ms Segal is going to take a DNA sample from each twin and study all their similarities and differences to establish whether Ann and Elizabeth are identical or non-identical twins. As for the sisters themselves, the most remarkable thing for them is that after such a short time, they feel like they have known each other all their lives.