REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Autor: theo | Publicado: 2017-01-14T14:36:00-08:00


R E P U B L I C&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
O F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I R E L A N D



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ireland&nbsp;
also known as the&nbsp;Republic of
Ireland is a sovereign state&nbsp;in
north-western&nbsp;Europe&nbsp;occupying
about five-sixths of the&nbsp;island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is&nbsp;Dublin.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The country's three main&nbsp;international airports&nbsp;at&nbsp;Dublin,&nbsp;Shannon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Cork&nbsp;serve
many European and intercontinental routes with scheduled and&nbsp;chartered&nbsp;flights.
Ryanair&nbsp;is
the country's largest airline.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ireland has made a significant
contribution to world literature in both the English and Irish languages.
Modern&nbsp;Irish fiction&nbsp;began
with the publishing of the 1726 novel&nbsp;Gulliver's
Travels&nbsp;by&nbsp;Jonathan Swift.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bram Stoker&nbsp;is
best known as the author of the 1897 novel&nbsp;Dracula. James Joyce&nbsp;(1882–1941)
published his most famous work&nbsp;Ulysses&nbsp;in
1922, which is an interpretation of the&nbsp;Odyssey&nbsp;set
in Dublin. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin. In 1925, George Bernard Shaw was the
Literature Nobel&nbsp; Prize Laureate as well
as Samuel Beckett in 1969.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Popular everyday beverages among the
Irish include&nbsp;tea&nbsp;and&nbsp;coffee. Alcoholic drinks associated with
Ireland include&nbsp;Poitín&nbsp;and
the world famous Guinness, which is a&nbsp;dry stout&nbsp;that
originated in the brewery of&nbsp;Arthur Guinness&nbsp;at&nbsp;St. James's Gate&nbsp;in
Dublin.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The&nbsp;shamrock, a type of&nbsp;clover, has been a national symbol of
Ireland since the 17th century when it became customary to wear it as a symbol
on&nbsp;St. Patrick's Day.&nbsp;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The most populous cities in Ireland
are Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.

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01-Shannon
is a ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­______________

a)novel&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; b)drink&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; c)tree&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; d)plant&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; e)city



02-Choose
the correct sentence according to the text:

a)Guinness
and Poitín are alcoholic beverages

b)Ryanair
is the only Irish airline

c)Oscar
Wilde published the Odyssey

d)Cork
is the most populous city in&nbsp; Ireland

e)there
are only three international airports in the Republic of Ireland



03-The
national symbol of Ireland is_________.

a)coffee&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; b)Guinness&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; c)shamrock&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; d)tea&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; e)poitín



04-_______________________
was a novelist.

a)Gulliver&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; b)Patrick&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; c)Arthur Guinness&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; d)Jonathan Swift&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; e)Ulysses



05-_________________
was an Irish brewer.

a)Ulysses&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; b)Bernard Shaw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; c)Bram Stoker&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; d)Samuel Beckett&nbsp;&nbsp; e)Arthur Guinness&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;