Reading comprehension
Reading Comprehension text and questions
Read the text and answer the following questions
Bradley sat at his desk in the back of the room. Last seat, last row. He felt safe there. The counselor had scared him. She was even worse than he had imagined. He looked at Jeff, who smiled at him and then returned to his work. Bradley was glad Jeff was his friend. Jeff and me are a lot alike, he thought. We’re both smart. We both hate the counselor. And we both like sneaking into the girls’ bathroom”.
(From the book There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom)
- Who is the text about?
- Where does the action take place?
- What does the main character like/dislike?
- What sort of student do you think the main character is?
Read the text and answer the following questions
”The White House is one of the smallest presidential mansions in the world, measuring only 170 feet in length, 85 feet in depth and sitting on a mere 18 acres of landscaped grounds. Architect James Hoban’s plan for a boxlike stone structure with a hipped roof, balustrade, and a columnar entrance, though clearly unoriginal was selected from the open design contest by judges who praised it as ’attractive, dignified, and flexible’. President Zach Herney, even after three and a half years in the White House, seldom felt at home here among the maze of chandeliers, antiques, and armed Marines”.
(From the book Deception Point by Dan Brown)
- How is the White House described?
- How does the president feel about living in the White House?
- Continue the story on your own. Write at least five sentences what happens next!
Read the text and work with the vocabulary
”Yes, of course, it’s fine to-morrow, said Mrs. Ramsay. But you’ll have to be up with the lark, she added. To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled in the expedition were bound to take place and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail within touch.”
(From the book To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf)
- Explain in English what the phrase “be up with the lark” means.
- Explain in English what is meant by “within touch”
- Explain in English what the word “joy” means.
- Translate the following words: added, conveyed, settled in, looked forward, night’s darkness
Read the text and work with the reading activities stated below
”It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in position of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However, little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters” (From the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
- Provide a title (suggest a suitable title that goes with the paragraph.
- Write down the words that you do not understand.
