Friday, January 17, 2020

B1.2-Reading-Test 27

Read the following passage and choose the best answers.




DUBAI: THEN AND NOW

Dubai is like no other place on Earth. It is the world capital of living large – a city of big business, luxury hotels, skyscrapers and huge shopping malls. In the early 20th century, Dubai was a successful trading port. People from all over the world stopped in Dubai to do business. But it was still a small city, and most people live as fishermen, merchants, or by raising animals. Then in 1966, oil was discovered. In time, this brought a lot of money into the region, and soon, Dubai began to change.

Today Dubai is one of the world’s most influential business centers. In fact, each year most of the city’s annual earnings come from business, not oil. The city is also a global trading port.

Recently Dubai has become a popular spot for tourists. People from abroad come to relax on its beaches, and every year, millions visit just to go shopping.

Dubai is also one of the world's fastest growing cities. Construction is everywhere. Buildings (some of the tallest on Earth) we built in months. The city also has a number of man-made islands. One of these, the Palm Jumeirah, is shaped like a palm tree and is particularly beautiful.

The city is still an amazing mix of people from different backgrounds. Individuals from 150 countries live and work in Dubai, and foreigners now outnumber Dubai natives eight to one!

Many people welcome the city's growth. But an increasing number of Dubai natives have concerns about the speed of change. As Mohammad Al Abbar, a Dubai businessman, says, “We must always remember where we came from. Our kids must know we worked very, very hard to get where we are now, and there's a lot more work to do.”


1. What is the main idea of this reading?
2. Before the mid - 1960s, many people lived _____.
3. Which sentence about Dubai is NOT true?
4. In paragraph 3, what does the word spot mean?
5. In the last paragraph, Mohammad Al Abbar says “We must always remember where we came from. Our kids must know we worked very, very hard to get where we are now, and there's a lot more work to do”. What does this mean?

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