Bài giảng Chuyên đề ngữ pháp tiếng Anh - Reading: Wild horses

 CHAPTER 14
 Wild Horses
 1 Preview Questions
 • Do you have wild horses in your country?
 • Some states in the U.S. have many wild 
 horses. Can you think of problems that wild 
 horses might cause?
 • Can you think of reasons why it is good for 
 horses to remain wild?
 3 “If the wild horse population isn’t controlled, 
everyone suffers,” one official told a crowd of nearly 
200 people. 
 “These horses damage the land,” the official 
continued. “This means cows and other wildlife suffer. 
As a result, ranchers and hunters also suffer.”
 But wild horse supporters say that the number of 
wild horses is much less than 38,000, and that the 
government’s roundups are unnecessary and 
dangerous. 
 5 After rounding up the horses, the government puts them up 
for adoption. “Anyone with land and $125 can adopt a wild 
horse,” said the director of the adoption program. Currently, 
there are about 40,000 horses ready for adoption. The 
government has been rounding up and adopting out horses 
since the 1970s.
 “We take good care of these animals,” the director said. “I just 
hope that we can find them all homes.”
 7 Reading Comprehension
 Choose the correct completion.
 3. The wild horse supporters believe that
 a. the roundups help the horses.
 b. the roundups damage the land.
 c. the roundups are not safe for the horses. 
 4. The people at the adoption program believe that
 a. adoption helps the wild horses.
 b. there aren’t enough wild horses.
 c. it is easy to find home for the wild horses.
 9 GRAMMAR The following comments are quoted speech. 
 Add the correct punctuation and capitalization.
PRACTICE
 3. “hasHas anyone anyone tried tried to to understand understand our our side side asked?” a 
 askedrancher a ourrancher cows. need“Our foodcows too need food too.”
 4. “itsIt ’trues true that that we we have have thousands thousands of ofhorses horses waiting 
 waitingfor adoption for adoption the director,” the said director the program said. “ Tishe not 
 programperfect is not perfect.”
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