The Olympic Games are an international sports competition.  They started in ancient Greece.  But they were stopped in the 4^th century and did not start again until Baron de Coubertin revived them in 1896.  They are held every four years in different cities of the world.  There are no age limits, and no discrimination because of religion, color or political ideas.  There are Winter and Summer Olympic Games.  There are individual, group and team competitions.   The best topic is:

People most often think of heavy rain then they think of floods.  Rain falling at a rapid rate does not soak into the soil.  It spills over from fields and streams to destroy crops and homes.  Floods can also result from high winds, which toss ocean water into coastal areas.  High tide and melting ice also cause floods.   The best topic is:

No one knows how human beings learn a language.  In the 1950s a famous psychologist, E.F. Skinner, said that learning was simply the acquisition of news habits.  He taught animals to perform actions by rewarding them when they performed well and punished them when performed badly.  His ideas were widely used in language teaching.   The best topic is:

Reading text in a foreign language is not easy.  The reader has to recognize the structures which appear in the text and a good number of the words too.  Very often we do not need to know the exact meaning of all the words, if we can understand the ideas they contain.  Nevertheless, a specific word can be essential for our understanding of an idea.  Therefore, if that word is not already a part of our vocabulary, we have to guess its meaning.   The best topic is:

People who are traders around the cocoa ring are from different walks of life.  Most of them are connected with the cocoa business.  Some are cocoa brokers.  Some represent chocolates manufacturers.   The best topic is:

People can always catch more fish in rainy weather.  That is the opinion of an experienced fisherman named Joe.  He claims that the only times that he gas ever caught real trout were during heavy rainstorms.  Because Joe is a house painter, he works during good weather.  Perhaps that fact explains his fishing experience. Which sentence is the main idea?

Twice in this century, in 1969 and 1979, the international money market had no order. Everything seemed upset.  The value of money changed from hour to hour.  People began to look through their jewelry for unwanted pieces to sell.  The price of gold was changing so fast that no one knew what would happen. Which sentence is the main idea?

Tension and anxiety are obstacles to effective learning.  The ability to relax is just as important to success in school as the ability to read.  Anxiety can cause students to forget chapters that they might to read, to “go blank” at quiz time, or to fail to meet deadlines and to complete assignments on schedule.  Anyone can learn to rid him or herself to tension by resting the body, breathing deeply, and relaxing for three to four minutes before a test. Which sentence is the main idea?

Training a dog to be a watchdog often reduces unexpected results.  Some dogs quickly learn the difference between unwanted people and friends.  This is because their masters welcome friends into their houses.  However, some dogs will always attack the postman who comes to deliver letters.  One explanation for this behavior is that, although the postman comes to the house often, he never enters the house.  Therefore, the dog thinks the postman is someone not wanted, but keeps coming back anyway. Which sentence is the main idea?

Spiders those eight-legged bugs that many people fear, build webs in houses.  Because people think that the webs are dirty and ugly, they carefully sweep away the webs and kill the spiders.  People should not do this because spiders; webs catch files, cockroaches, and other insects that bring sickness.  Spiders can help to keep a household healthy.  Spiders are, therefore, useful household inhabitants. Which sentence is the main idea?

Saturn’s moon, Titan may possibly have some microscopic organisms, or tiny life forms. “Microscopic organisms” means …………

The patient is usually morose, but he seems happy today.

“The biosphere- the place where life occurs- is 95 percent ocean,” says oceanographer Slyvia Earle.  The place where life occurs is called ………...

Some 70 years ago, the owner of Rum Island granted botanist John Heslop Harrison, a university professor and member of Britain’s prestigious Royal Society, permission to study its plant life.  John help Harrison was all of the following except _____________.

The manager picked up the cup and sipped—he drank slowly.  Sipped means ……

I love those kittens, young cat, because they are slowly. “Kittens” means …….

Mr. Jim ordered his companions, or his friends, to follow the girl who stole his shirts. “companions: means ………..

There was nothing to salvage from the fire—that is the family couldn’t save anything.  “salvage” means………..

Your writing is illegible, in other word, it is very difficult.  I can’t read your note.  “illegible” means ………