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Directions: Read the texts 3 and 4 and mark (T) if the statement is true, (F) if it is false.

Th Form Olympiad 2014

Round III – Reading Comprehension

Directions: Read the texts ¹ 1 and 2. Choose the one best answer À, Â, Ñ, D to each ques­tion.

Text 1

Litter is garbage - like food, paper, and cans - on the ground or in the street. Where many people live together, litter is a problem. People don't always put their garbage in the garbage can. It's easier to just drop a piece of paper on the ground than to find a garbage can for it. But litter is ugly. It makes the city look dirty, and it spoils the view. Wind can blow papers far away. Often they are difficult to catch. When they blow against a fence, they stay there and become like a wall made of garbage. Litter is a health problem, too. Food and garbage bring animals, which sometimes carry disease. Some people want to control litter. They never throw litter themselves, and sometimes they work together in groups to clean up the city. In most places litter is against the law. The law punishes people who throw garbage on the streets. They usually pay a fine and occasionally they go to jail. Are you a "litterbug?"

 



1. All garbage found on the ground is...

A. litter. B. against the law.

C. causes disease. D. eaten by animals.

 



2. Papers are difficult to catch because...

A. animals take them. C. they spoil the view

B. they are ugly. D. the wind blows them far away.

 



3. People don't always put their trash in a garbage can because.


A. they never litter. C. the wind blows it away.

B. it's easier just to drop it. D. it carries diseases.

4. Litter spoils...


A. the water. B. children and animals.

C. the view. D. our health.

5. People may have to pay a fine if they...

A. pick up litter. C. throw garbage on the street.

B. control litter. D. bring garbage to animals.

Text 2

One Blind Man

Joseph Emmons can't use his eyes. He's blind. He has a trained dog named Buster that leads him where he wants to go. Buster sees for Mr. Emmons. He's called a seeing-eye dog. Although Mr. Emmons has a handicap, it isn't a big problem. He has a useful job and he earns his own money. Mr. Emmons sells brooms and mops to people in his part of the city. He has worked every day except Sunday for forty years. Mr. Emmons gets up at 6:00 every morning and eats break­fast with his wife. Then he leaves the house at 7:00. He holds Buster and walks from house to house. He carries his mops and brooms with him. While he talks to people, the dog sits and waits. The people choose a broom, and then they pay him. Buster doesn't let Mr. Emmons talk to people very long. He likes to keep moving. It takes four and a half months to walk to every house in his part of the city. Mr. Emmons visits each house every four months, and by then people are usually ready to buy new brooms.

6. Buster is...

A. blind B. a seeing-eye dog.

C. handicapped. D. a broom salesman.

 



7. Mr. Emmons earns his money by...

A. training dogs. B. making brooms.

C. selling brooms. D. visiting houses.

8. Mr. Emmons doesn't talk to people very long because,

A. buster won't let him. C. he gets very tired from walking.

B. he has to sell all the brooms. D. he hàs a handicap.

9. Over the past forty years Mr. Emmons has worked...

A. every day. C. four and a half months.

B. forty days a month. D. six days a week.

10. People only buy brooms...

A. every four months.

B. from Mr. Emmons.

C. from his part of the city.

D. when they need them.

Directions: Read the texts 3 and 4 and mark (T) if the statement is true, (F) if it is false.

Text 3

Many people have heard of the lost city of Atlantis, a city that is now at the bottom of the ocean. The story of Atlantis was first told by Plato, a famous Greek philosopher. In his story Plato claims that there really was a city called Atlantis which was ruled by Poseidon, god of the sea. According to Plato’s story the people of Atlantis were wealthy and powerful, and they also became immortal. This angered the other gods, especially Zeus, and so he destroyed the city, sending it to the ocean depths. Many people think that Atlantis was just a fictional place created by Plato to set his dialogues. However, others have argued that Atlantis was a real place and point to the island of Thera, a volcanic island, which was destroyed around 1500 BC by an explosion that caused more than half of the island to sink into the sea. What do you think? Have you heard of Atlantis, the lost city?

11. Poseidon was the sea god.

12. According to Plato’s story the people of Atlantis could live forever.

13. It was Zeus who ruined the city.

14. The city of Atlantis really existed.

15. The island of Thera was destroyed by earthquake.

 



Text 4.

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants. He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.

16. The children left London to live with the Professor because of the air raids.

17. The Professor’s house was in the center of Cambridge.

18. The Professor lived two miles away from the nearest post office.

19. Lucy laughed at the old man.

20. The children dislike the old man.

 




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