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Reading Comprehension 2nd ESO

                                                               Queen of the Sky


Next autumn the biggest passenger plane in the world - the Airbus A380 - is going to make its first public flight. 

The plane is enormous - it's nearly 35 metres high and 75 metres long. To give you a better idea of its size, try imagining ten buses placed on top of each other for nearly an entire football field (a field measures 90 metres)!  The wings on the Airbus are long enough to park 70 cars on! There are also 500 kilometres of cables.

When it is full, the Airbus will carry 853 passengers - that's over 300 more than today's jumbo jets.  Inside the plane there's going to be lots of space for people to relax and travel in comfort.  There are also going to be cinemas, bars, shops, and even a gym with showers!

The new super-plane has Rolls Royce engines, which are very quiet, so it isn't going to cause as much noise pollution as ordinary planes.

The Airbus A380 is going to take holidaymakers between London Heathrow and Changi airport in Singapore.

GLOSSARY:
Passenger - pasajero
Wings - alas
Engine - motor
Holidaymakers - turistas

1.  Read the text and answer the questions.

a) Is the Airbus A380 big or small?
b) Is the plane going to be comfortable for passengers?


2.  Read the text again and decide if the sentences are true or false.

a) The Airbus flights started last autumn.
b) There is a football field on the plane.
c) There are parking spaces in the plane.
d) Jumbo jets carry more passengers than the airbus.
e) People can watch films on the plane.
f) The engines don't make much noise.


3.  Vocabulary.  Find the opposites of these words in the text.

a) smallest
b) last
c) very small
d) empty
e) outside
f) noisy

Reading Comprehension: Muzak

“MUZAK”

 “One moment, please.” As your telephone call is put on hold, music suddenly swells through the receiver. Muzak, “the background music “ so familiar to us today in public places as well as on the telephone, was invented by General George Squier in 1922. It was originally designed to increase productivity in the workplace but is has also had other purposes; for example, in the 1920s , Muzak was introduced into the lifts of skyscrapers to calm the passengers. But, can background music control behaviour as well as feelings? Psychology Proffesor Adrian North conducted a study to discover if this music could influence customers’ choices. His team arranged for a supermarket to play French accordion and German brass-band music at different times to see if this affected the sale of wines from these countries. The wines were clearly labelled and identified by country name and flag to avoid confusion, and the prices of the wines were comparable. After two weeks, the results were clear. When the German music was broadcast, 73% of the wine sold was German. Conversely, when the French music was aired, 77% of the wine sold was French. Most of the customers interviewed after doing their shoppings insisted that they had no preference for either country’s wine.

QUESTIONS 

1.-ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS FROM THE TEXT:

 a) Why was background music originally designed?

b) What did Proffesor Adrian North wanr to discover?

c) How were French and German wines identified?

2.-SAY IF THESE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE OR FALSE . PROVIDE SOME EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT. 

a) Muzak was introduced into the lifts of skyscrapers to make people work harder.

 b) Customers had previous preference for French wines.

 3.- FIND WORDS OR PHRASES IN THE TEXT THAT MEAN :

a) Become larger:

 b) Aims:

 c) Similar:

 4.1.- Change into the active voice:

Background music was invented by George Squier. _______________________________________________________________

 4.2.- Write the question for this answer :

 Paul has been listening to music for three hours. _________________________________________________________________?

4.3.- Write the following sentence in the negative:

The wines were clearly labelled and identified . _________________________________________________________________

 5.-WRITING: Write an e-mail to a friend or relative telling him/her about your plans for next summer

Reading comprehension: Travelling

TRAVELLING

 The government has recently presented its plans for air travel. It wants to make the two London airports bigger. Some people have already started complaining. They say that planes already make too much noise and cause too much pollution. They also say that the air travel is very cheap and easy. They think that the government should make air travel more expensive and stop people travelling by plane.

Of course there are problems with air travel but there are also so many good things about it.

My grandparents never went abroad and they didn’t know much about the rest of the world. They thought that the north of England was a foreign country. My life is very, very different. I work for a German company, so I often need to travel to Germany, I live with my Argentinean wife, and we go to Japanese, Italian, Spanish restaurants. We watch films from all over the world. We speak three different languages.

 Long ago it took days to travel from Europe to America and only rich people could travel, but now things have changed a lot. You can find very cheap tickets in the Internet. We sometimes go to Holland to spend the weekend –or France or Spain.

1. Give full answers to the following questions:

a) What are the plans the English government has?

 b) Do people agree with those plans? Say why/why not?

 c) What do they say about airplanes?

d) How different is the writer’s life from his grandparents?

e) Where does the writer sometimes spend the weekends?

2. Say if these statements are true or false. Provide some evidence from the text.

1. My grandparents thought that the south of England was a foreign country.

2. People can find cheap tickets in the Internet.

3. Find words or phrases that mean:

1. Contamination

2. In a foreign country

3. Business

4. 1 Change into the passive voice: “ The government has recently presented plans for air travel”

4.2 Write the question for the underlines part of this answer: “Some people have already started complaining”

4.3 Write the following sentence into the reported speech: “ My grandparents never went abroad and they didn’t know much about the rest of the world”

Reading Comprehension: Travelling

TRAVELLING

 The government has recently presented its plans for air travel. It wants to make the two London airports bigger. Some people have already started complaining. They say that planes already make too much noise and cause too much pollution. They also say that the air travel is very cheap and easy. They think that the government should make air travel more expensive and stop people travelling by plane.

Of course there are problems with air travel but there are also so many good things about it.

My grandparents never went abroad and they didn’t know much about the rest of the world. They thought that the north of England was a foreign country. My life is very, very different. I work for a German company, so I often need to travel to Germany, I live with my Argentinean wife, and we go to Japanese, Italian, Spanish restaurants. We watch films from all over the world. We speak three different languages.

 Long ago it took days to travel from Europe to America and only rich people could travel, but now things have changed a lot. You can find very cheap tickets in the Internet. We sometimes go to Holland to spend the weekend –or France or Spain.

1. Give full answers to the following questions:

a) What are the plans the English government has?

 b) Do people agree with those plans? Say why/why not?

 c) What do they say about airplanes?

d) How different is the writer’s life from his grandparents?

e) Where does the writer sometimes spend the weekends?

2. Say if these statements are true or false. Provide some evidence from the text.

1. My grandparents thought that the south of England was a foreign country.

2. People can find cheap tickets in the Internet.

3. Find words or phrases that mean:

1. Contamination

2. In a foreign country

3. Business

4. 1 Change into the passive voice: “ The government has recently presented plans for air travel”

4.2 Write the question for the underlines part of this answer: “Some people have already started complaining”

4.3 Write the following sentence into the reported speech: “ My grandparents never went abroad and they didn’t know much about the rest of the world”

Basic Reading Comprehension: Speedy

1.                  Fill in the gaps using the right option.

SPEEDY

She can do amazing things with a bike but, can she win an Olympic gold medal? Meet Shanaze, the queen of BMX racing.

Who is Shanaze?

Shanaze Reade, nineteen, is fast and brave and she wants to win. Her friends call her ‘Speedy Readey’ and you can see why, as she flies 1)_______ the race track on her bike.

What is BMX?

BMX, which was a new sport for the Beijing Olympics, is an extremely 2)______ race. Shanaze has  broken many bones because riders have to jump 3-4 metres up in the air. It’s a long way down.

Why did she take up this sport?

Shanaze is ‘sports-mad’, so when she saw her cousin race his BMX bike, she had to try it 3)_________ ! She was only ten and couldn’t 4)_________  a new bike, so she bought her first BMX bike second-hand for 1 pound.  By the 5)_______ she was fifteen she was under the eighteen world champion. When she is 6)______ ready to race, Shanaze can’t be nervous. ‘I visualize putting my brain into a box and closing it’, she 7)______ . ‘I become like a robot’.

Did she win an Olympic medal?

So what happened in the Olympic fainl? At the last turn, Shanaze knew she could win silver 8) ________ , but that wasn’t enough. Shanaze didn’t 9)_____  to think – she only wanted gold. She tried to overtake the bike in front, but crashed onto the 10) _____. She couldn’t win the gold medal. Was it the right choice? Shanaze thought so, it’s the Olympics and you have to give it everything and go for gold.

1-             a.  at                              b.  on                   c.  round

2-             a. Dangerous                  b. bad                   c. dirty

3-             a. also                            b. and                   c. too

4-             a. hire                            b. sell                   c. afford

5-             a. time                           b. end                   c. way

6-             a. being                          b. getting              c. doing

7-             a. says                           b. speaks              c. talks

    a. easy                           b. easily                c. easier

    a. should                        b. have                 c. must

10-                 a. ring                            b. track                 c. course