Đề chính thức thi vào 10 môn Tiếng Anh SGD Ninh Bình 2024 - 2025 có đáp án

Scientists believe that the smart home may be the home of the future. Smart homes may be of different shapes and sizes.

Scientists have designed an eco houseboat (7) _______ is a kind of house floating on the sea. However, (8) _________ houseboat is stable and doesn't rock heavily when there are big waves. It makes use of waves and solar energy to move around and provide power. It also has solar panels (9) _________ the top of the house to  generate electricity, and it can recycle (10) ________ kinds of household waste.

A robot controls everything in the house and does the housework. In the kitchen, smart refrigerators and dishwashers can automatically work by themselves. A smart oven can cook your favourite dishes. All thesethings and other (11) __________will make our life much better.

These days, power is a big concern for many countries. People are using more and more electricity, but our traditional sources of electricity, coal and oil are limited. In addition, both coal and oil power plants create a lot of pollution. How will we get enough electricity in the future? Some scientists are looking to the sky for answers.

The sun is an almost endless source of energy. Every minute, the earth gets enough energy from the sun to provide the world with electricity for a year. The problem is that this energy is in the form of heat and light. To use solar energy, we need to change it into electricity. Solar cells already do this for calculators and other electronics. Unfortunately, solar cells only produce a small amount of electricity. We can make larger solar cells, but it is very expensive.

Instead, scientists are now trying to build more solar power plants. These power plants use thousands of huge mirrors to focus the light of the sun on a small place where it creates a lot of heat. The heat will then be used to create electricity. This creates more electricity than solar cells, but not enough. The biggest solar power plant in the world creates 15 megawatts of electricity. In contrast, most nuclear power plants create about 1,000 megawatts of electricity.

Parents complain that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers say exactly the same thing about their parents. According to a recent survey, the most common arguments between parents and teenagers are those regarding untidiness and household chores. On the one hand, parents go mad over untidy rooms, clothes dropped on the floor and their children's refusal to help with the housework. On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents tell them off for dropping the towel in the bathroom, notcleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.

The survey, conducted by St George University, shows that different parents have different approaches

to these problems. However, some approaches are much more successful than others. For example, those who yell at their teens for their untidiness, but later clear up after them, have fewer chances of changing their teens' behavior. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the bad results of their actions are more successful. For instance, when teenagers who don't help their parents with the shopping don't find their favoritefood in the fridge, they are forced to reconsider their actions.

Psychologists say that the most important thing in relationships between parents and teenagers is communication. Parents should talk to their teens, but at the same time they should mull over what their children voice. Parents should scold their teens when they are untidy, but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and understanding each other that problems between parents and teens can be solved.