6. Read the Learn this! box and complete it with the adjectives below. (Đọc hộp Learn this! và hoàn thành nó với các tính từ bên dưới.)

LEARN THIS! Extreme adjectives

a. Some adjectives are extreme equivalents of simpler adjectives.

delicious = very tasty 

disgusting = very unpleasant 

fantastic = very (1) _____

filthy = very (2) _____

starving= very (3) _____

tiny = very (4) _____

b. Very common adjectives often have more than one extreme equivalent

enormous, massive, gigantic, giant, immense = very big

7. Match the extreme adjectives highlighted in the text with the simpler adjectives below.

(Nối các tính từ cực đại được tô màu trong bài đọc với những tính từ đơn giản hơn bên dưới.)

Extreme adjectives

1. very bad 

2. very good

3. very big

4. very sad

5. very frightening

6. very tired

1. Match the pairs of adjectives with similar meanings. Put them in the correct columns.

(Nối các cặp tính từ có nghĩa tương tự. Đặt chúng vào các cột chính xác.)

2. Read the text. Underline five extreme adjectives from exercise 1.

(Đọc văn bản. Gạch chân năm tính từ cực độ trong bài tập 1.)

Alone at sea

[A]

On 29 January 1982, Steven Callahan left the Canary Islands in a small yacht. (1)__________ But a week later, during an awful storm, something (probably a whale) hit the yacht and made a huge hole in it. (2)__________ He had to act quickly!

[B]

Steven got into an inflatable life raft and just had time to get a sleeping bag, a first-aid kit, some food, maps, and a torch from the yacht before it sank. He also managed to get a copy of a book called Sea Survival. (3)__________ But he couldn’t rescue the radio from the yacht.

[C]

(4)__________ His food ran out after a few days so he had to survive by catching sea-birds, fish and flying fish. He drank rain water which he caught in the raft.

[D]

After about two months at sea, the raft was 3,000 km from the place where the yacht sank. (5)__________ But unfortunately they didn’t see him. He was beginning to think that he might not survive. He was starving, exhausted, weak and very thin.

[E]

Finally, after 76 days, some fishermen saw the sea-birds that were flying around the raft and took Steven to the island of Guadeloupe. After his terrifying experience, he was finally in the Caribbean!

3. Read the Reading Strategy. Match sentences A-G with gaps 1-5 in the text. There are two extra sentences.

(Đọc Chiến lược Đọc. Nối các câu A-G với khoảng trống 1-5 trong văn bản. Có hai câu phụ.)

A. During this time, Steven saw nine ships.

(Trong thời gian này, Steven đã nhìn thấy chín con tàu.)

B. Water was coming in and the boat was sinking fast.

(Nước tràn vào và thuyền đang chìm nhanh.)

C. But he couldn’t swim back to the yacht.

(Nhưng anh ấy không thể bơi trở lại du thuyền.)

D. It contained lots of useful information about surviving at sea.

(Nó chứa rất nhiều thông tin hữu ích về việc sống sót trên biển.)

E. He was planning to sail to the Caribbean.

(Anh ta định đi thuyền đến Caribbean)

F. Some men were fishing near Steven’s raft.

(Một số người đàn ông đang đánh cá gần bè của Steven.)

G. Alone in the life raft, Steven travelled slowly across the Atlantic Ocean.

(Một mình trên bè cứu sinh, Steven chậm rãi đi khắp Đại Tây Dương.)