MATERIAL LEVEL 3 READING PRACTICE
Level 3 La U en
mi Barrio Reading practice
1.
The 1990s
Read the text and answer the comprehension
questions. Use full sentences.
In
January 1990, I was at primary school and in January 2000, I was at university!
I left primary school in September 1990 and went to a secondary school five
kilometres from my house. I took the bus every day at 7.30am and didn't get
home until 5 o'clock in the evening. What a difficult life! My family bought a
satellite TV in 1990 and a new video the next year. In 1994, my brother bought
a computer and I got a bicycle the same year. I left my school in 1997 but
decided not to go to university like most people: instead, I went walking in
France alone for three months and then drove around America for three months
with my brother. For the first six months of 1998, I got a job in a health food
shop and then went to university in October 1998 in Wales.
1. How did he go to secondary school?
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2. When di he get a new video?
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3. When did he buy a bicycle?
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4. What did he do
when he finished school?
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5. Where did he work?
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2.
Read the text and answer the questions. Use full sentences.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney was born
on December 5, 1901. Disney became one of the best-known motion picture
producers in the world. He is particularly noted for being a film producer and
a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design.
Walt Disney portrait
Disney is famous for his contributions in the field of entertainment during the
20th century. His first success was through the series, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
which was created by the Disney studio for Charles Mintz of Universal Studios.
When Disney asked for a larger budget for his popular Oswald series, Mintz
refused and Disney had to quit. Later, Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney
started from scratch and co-founded Walt Disney Productions, now known as The
Walt Disney Company. Today, this company has annual revenues of approximately
U.S. $35 billion. This success is largely due to a number of the world's most
famous fictional characters he and his staff created including Mickey Mouse, a
character for which Disney himself was the original voice.
Disney won 26 Academy
Awards out of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him
more awards and nominations than any other individual. He is also the namesake
for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States,
as well as the international resorts in Japan, France, and China.
Disney died of lung
cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year,
construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy
Disney inaugurated The Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
1.
When did Walt Disney die?
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2. The Disney Studio's first production was Mickey Mouse. True ____ False __
Why:
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2.
Disney left Universal Pictures because they didn't agree to give him
more money for his productions. True _____
False _
Why:
__________________________________________________________________
4. Did Disney start The Walt Disney Company alone?
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5. What was the most important contribution Disney
gave to the world?
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3. Read the text
and answer the comprehension questions.
Many people who
live near the Theme Park are afraid to go into the Forest area. There is
a legend, that a woman who once lived in the forest as an outlaw hundreds and hundreds of years ago, still walks there as a ghost at
night.
The legend says, she was a great warrior from a rich family, but the wicked king, who ruled the country, killed her family and burned her castle, that is quite close to the Theme Park.
The legend says, she was a great warrior from a rich family, but the wicked king, who ruled the country, killed her family and burned her castle, that is quite close to the Theme Park.
Her name was Maureen. Maureen escaped being killed, by running into the forest. Because of this, the
King made a decree.
Many of the poor people, who knew Maureen, liked her very much and they told her what the King was going to do. Maureen decided to fight the King. She did this by helping the poor, by robbing the rich and giving their money to the poor. Every time someone rich came through the forest, she would rob him. Maureen was a heroine for the poor, but in the end, one of the poor betrayed her. |
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She was caught by the King´s soldiers and
hung in the forest by the King from one of the old oak trees. The legend
says, that her ghost still walks there by night.
So beware!
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1. Why
are some people afraid of the Forest Area in the Theme Park?
a. Some people are afraid of the dark.
b. Some people are afraid of a man who walks around at night as a ghost.
c. Some people are afraid of a woman who walks around at night as a ghost.
2 - What is the name of the woman in the legend?
a. Marine
b. Maureen
c. Marion
3 - Who killed
Maureen´s family and burned her castle?
a. The king killed her family.
b. The queen killed her family.
c. The witch killed her family
4 - What was the King like?
a. He was good.
b. He was nice
c. He was wicked.
5 - Where did Maureen go after her family was
killed and her castle burned?
a. She went to the Theme Park for the day.
b. She ran into the forest.
c. She ran to the poor people
6 - How did the poor
people feel about Maureen?
a. They did not like her.
b. They liked her.
c. They hated her.
7 - How much gold
would the King give for anyone who found Maureen?
a. He would give 500 silver coins.
b. He would give 50 gold coins.
c. He would give 500 gold coins.
8 - How did Maureen help the poor?
a. She won the lottery.
b. She robbed the King.
c. She robbed the rich, who came into the forest.
9 - Who betrayed
Maureen?
a. One of the rich betrayed Maureen.
b. One of the poor betrayed Maureen.
c. One of the poor King´s soldiers betrayed Maureen.
10 - How did she die?
a. She was hung
b. She was boiled alive.
c. She had her head chopped off.
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