III. READING (25 marks)
Part 1: Choose the suitable words from the given ones to fill in the text (11 marks)
when | off | weather | Take | on |
such as | global | lights | Have | wore |
climate | well-known | symbolic | Make | energy |
Earth Hour is an annual global campaign that encourages people around the world to switch off electricity at the same time for one hour. Earth Hour started in Australia in 2007 (1) ………………….. 2.2 million people in the city of Sydney turned (2) ………………….. all non-essential lights for an hour. Since then it has grown to a (3) ………………….. event. In 2013, millions of people in 7,000 cities and towns around the world switched off their (4) ………………….. for 60 minutes at the end of March. Every year, (5) ………………….. buildings around the world (6) ………………….. the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, the Petronas towers in Malaysia, the UK Parliament, Buckingham Palace and the Empire State Building (7) ………………….. part and ‘go dark' for Earth Hour. Switching off the lights for an hour can (8) ………………….. a small difference to the amount of (9) ………………….. we use, but Earth Hour is also a (10) ………………….. event to make people think about the problems of (11) ………………….. change.
