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Directions: Read the story. Then answer the questions below.
Dieter loves to run.
He runs in the morning. He runs in the afternoon. He runs in the
evening. He runs at night.
Dieter loves to run, but it hurts to run.
When Dieter runs, it hurts.
His legs hurt. His arms hurt. His back hurts. His head hurts. When
Dieter runs, his whole body hurts.
Then, Dieter starts thinking. He starts dreaming.
He dreams about his job. He dreams about his home.
He dreams about his family. He dreams about
his friends. He dreams about the world.
At first, running hurts. No one likes it when it hurts.
When it hurts, Dieter dreams about things that do not hurt.
This is why Dieter loves running. Running gives him the best dreams.
Sometimes, Dieter forgets that he is running. Sometimes, he runs all morning.
Sometimes, he runs all afternoon. Sometimes, he runs all night.
Dieter runs and dreams.
Questions:
1) What does Dieter love to do?
A. He loves to run.
B. He loves to dream.
C. He loves to think.
D. He loves to hurt.
2) When Dieter runs, it hurts. What
does this mean?
A. He feels good.
B. He feels bad.
3) What does Dieter do while he is
running?
A. He dreams.
B. He sleeps.
C. He eats.
D. He drinks.
4) What does Dieter dream about?
I. his job
II. his family
III. his future
A. I only
B. I and II
C. II and III
D. I, II, and III
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Directions: Read the story. Then answer the questions below.
Julian works at the bookstore.
First, his job is to unload boxes of books from the truck.
Then he opens the boxes. After that, Julian puts the books in different piles.
One pile is for books that tell true stories. These are called books of fact.
Another pile is for books that tell stories that are not true. These are called books
of fiction.
Julian then puts the books on shelves in the bookstore.
Putting books on shelves is what Julian likes to do best at work.
When Julian has free time at work, he likes to read through all of the books.
His favorite books are the ones that tell true stories about real people and their
lives.
On Sunday and Monday, Julian does not work at the bookstore.
On these days, he stays at home. He uses this time to write a story about
himself.
Julian grew up in Peru. Now he lives in the United States. He works at the
bookstore to pay for school.
Julian wants to be a teacher.
One day, he hopes to turn his story into a book.
He hopes to see it at the bookstore.
Questions:
) Where does Julian work?
A. on a truck
B. at a bookstore
C. in Peru
D. at an art store
) What must Julian do first at his job?
A. open the boxes of books
B. read through all of the books
C. unload boxes of books
D. sort through piles of books
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Directions: Read the story. Then answer the questions below.
Jethro gets ready for his job interview.
He takes a shower.
He shaves.
He brushes his teeth.
He cuts his fingernails.
He combs his hair.
He puts on the new suit he bought just for today.
Jethro feels confident. He is also very nervous.
Here is why. Jethro graduated at the top of his class in college. Still, Jethro
knows the economy is bad. His dad just lost his job at the bank a few weeks ago!
Many people are interviewing for the very same job. There is a lot of
competition.
Jethro is still positive. He thinks he has a good chance of getting the job at the
technology company.
Jethro arrives at his interview at 9:45. He is 15 minutes early. He realizes the
importance of being prompt. He does not want to be late.
“Have a seat. Mr. Stone will be right with you,” the receptionist says.
Jethro sits. He thinks about what he has learned to do in an interview.
Look people in the eye.
Give a firm handshake.
Speak clearly.
Jethro feels ready.
“Mr. Stone is ready to see you now,” the receptionist says.
Jethro takes a deep breath and walks into Mr. Stone’s office.
“Good to meet you, sir,” Jethro says and gives Mr. Stone a firm handshake and a
smile.
Questions:
11 )) What kind of job is Jethro
interviewing for?
A. a college job
B. a banking job
C. a technology job
D. a receptionist job
22 )) What is one thing Jethro does to get
ready?
I. He talks to his dad.
II. He calls Mr. Stone.
III. He combs his hair.
A. I only
B. I and II
C. III only
D. I, II, and III
) What time is Jethro's interview?
A. 9:
B. 9:
C. 10:
D. 10:
) What does it mean to be
confident?
A. to be early
B. to be sure
C. to be worried
D. to be nervous
55 )) Why might Jethro be nervous?
A. He did not do well in school.
B. He is not a very good speaker.
C. He does not like to wear suits.
D. Many others are interviewing for
the same job.
66 )) What is competition?
A. when people get ready to go out
B. when people go for a job
interview
C. when people feel they are not
good enough
D. when many people are going
after the same thing
) Why is it good that Jethro gets to
his interview early?
A. It gives Jethro time to think.
B. It helps Jethro speak clearly.
C. Mr. Stone likes people to be
early.
D. The receptionist asks him to be
there early.
) What has Jethro learned to do in an
interview?
A. be positive
B. tell good jokes
C. talk about his college experience
D. look people in the eye
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One of the most popular foods of all time is chocolate. People nowadays eat chocolate in
many different forms. We eat chocolate candy, and we drink hot and cold chocolate drinks.
The chocolate we eat today is made from a lot of different ingredients, but the most impotant
ingredient is cacao bean.
The story of cacao bean and its long journey to stores and supermarkets all over the world
started hundreds of years ago in Mexico. Cacao trees need hot and humid weather, and they
originally grew in the Yucatan Pinunsula.
The Maya were the fist people to eat cacao beans. They picked cacao beans from wild trees
and cleared land to cultivate their own trees. They made a drink from cacao beans and
exchanged the beans for other goods. They also used cacao beans for religious ceremonies.
Mayan merchants traveled north and introduced cacao beans to the Aztec people. Soon the
cacao bean was part of the Aztecs´ lives. They used it as a drink, as part of religious
ceremonies and even as money. With 10 beans, you could buy a rabbit. With 100 beans, you
could buy a slave. One of the Aztec god.
The Aztecs could not grow cacao trees because of the dry climate. When the Aztecs
conquered the Maya, they asked for cacao beans as a tribute.
I. Read and circle the mistakes in the sentences.
- The chocolate isn´t popular nowadays.
- The cacao trees grow in Europe.
- The Maya made bread from cacao beans
II. Read the story and answer the questions.
- Where does chocolate come from?
- What is the most important ingredient in chocolate?
- Where did cacao beans originally grow?
- Who were the first people to eat cacao beans?
- Who introduced the cacao beans to the Aztecs?
- What did the Aztecs use the cacao beans for?
- What did the Maya give the Aztecs as a tribute?
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The Aztecs made a special drink from cacao beans. They mixed cacao with vanilla, black pepper and
honey. Then they poured the drink from height so it had foam. The drink wasn´t very sweet, and the
Aztecs called it Cacahuatl or “bitter water”. Only the king and the nobles drank Cacahuatl. Some
people say that the Aztec king Moctezuma II drank 50 cups of Cacahuatl a day.
When Hernán Cortés came to Mexico, Moctezuma gave him a Golden cup full of this precious drink.
Hernán Cortés took three chests of cacao beans back to Spain with him in 1528. At first, nobody
liked the strange drink. Someone added hot water and sugar to the cacao beans and this drink bacame
popular. The Spaniards tried to keep the recipe secret, but slowly it spread across Europe.
By the 1700s, there were chocolate shops in many European cities. Chocolate was very expensive.
Only rich people could buy it. In the early 1800s, a doctor in England invented a new chocolate
recipe. He added milk instead of water to the mixture of sugar and cacao. Children started drinking
hot chocolate, and it became even more popular.
The next step in the transformation of the cacao bean happened in Holland. In 1828, Conrad van
Houten made cocoa butter and cocoa powder from the beans. This was the start of solid chocolate.
With this new method, a company called Fry´s of England made the first chocolate bar in 1847. Then
in 1876, the Swiss company Nestlé added milk to the recipe and made the first milk chocolate bar.
At first, chocolate bars were very expensive, but then, in 1894, Hershey´s made the first cheap
chocolate bar. Other chocolate companies did the same, and soon ordinay people were buying
chocolate in stores all over the world.
I. Read the story and answer the questions.
- What did the Aztecs mix with cacao?
- What was the drink called?
- Was the drink sweet?
- Who did Moctezuma II meet?
- How many chests did Hernán Cortés take to Spain?
- What did the Spaniards add to the recipe?
- What did an England doctor add to the recipe?
- when was the first milk chocolate bar made?
- Were the first chocolate bars expensive?
- Who made the first cheap chocolate bar?
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