Reading comprehension (cont)

I. Complete the sentences. Each time use one of the verb form in the box with the correct preposition (on / about / of / to / for).
E.g: 0. when I realised that I had taken the wrong umbrella, I immediately apologized for my mistake.

belong care consist die apologize
wait depend dream listen


1. Tom is very selfish. He doesn`t .................. other people.
2. "Does this bike .................. you?" - "No, it isn`t mine."
3. "Are you playing tennis tomorrow?" - "I hope so, but it ................. the weather."
4. A soccer team ..................... 11 players.
5. If you smoke, there`s a great chance that you will ................. lung cancer.
6. Last night, I ................. spending my vacation in the US.
7. He was ................ his children coming home from school.
8. I often .................. the radio while doing the housework.
II. Match the two half sentences in the two columns in a suitable way.

Column A
Column B

1. If you need money to buy this book, ...
2. I will pick you up ...
3. If you want to gain weight, ...
4. If you work harder...
5. You should practise speaking English every day ...
6. If you want to be healthier, ...
7. I will give this book to you ...
8. If you are too lazy, ...
a. if you want to improve it.
b. if you don`t have your bike.
c. you should play sports every day.
d. you can ask your parents for some money.
e. you will pass the final exam.
f. your parents will punish you.
g. you have to eat a lot of meat.
h. if you like it.


III. Complete the sentences. Each time use one of the words in the box.

turn off exam miss advise vacation
questions press carelessly accident birthday


1. You should ............. the lights before going to bed.
2. We`re going to have an English ................ this afternoon.
3. She will ............. a lot of lessons.
4. My parents ..................... me to learn harder for my final test.
5. I will attend an extra English course in my summer.
6. She is so intelligent that she can answer all my ...................
7. If you want to open the machine, you have to .................. the button.
8. She drives very ................. Last week, she had an ................
9. I wish I could go to your ..................... party next week.
IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions below.
Zamenhof invented a new language called Esperanto to improve understanding between people of different countries. He showed Esperanto to his friends to find out what they thought about it. Later in the same year he went to study at a university in Moscow. He wanted to improve Esperanto. Zamenhof`s friends then worked hard to spread the new language. They tried to persuade schools throughout the world to teach it. However, only a few people today speak Esperanto because more and more people use English as a foreign language.
1. Why did Zamenhof invented a new language?

2. What did he show Esperanto to his friends for?

3. Where did he go to study?

4. Who helped him to spread the new language?

5. Do many people today speak Esperanto?

V. Read the passage below and write T next to the true sentence; write F next to the false one.
A LANGUAGE EVERYONE KNOWS
There is one language we all speak, no matter what country we live in; the language of numbers.
The language of numbers is called MATHEMATICS. You are learning it in school now. The simplest kind is called ARITHMATIC. In high school and college you will learn other kind of mathematics. To help all of us with mathematics, machines have been invented. They let us do problems faster and with fewer mistakes. We know that the abacus or counting board was first of these machines. It was invented many thousands of years ago, but it is still being used in China, Japan, and other countries. Today, computers are used all over the world. These computers seem to think. Of course, they really don’t. They do only what people tell them to do. But they do it much better and faster than a person could. Inside, a computer may look very confusing to you. But the people who run it know just what to do. They can make a computer store up facts and give them to other people. They can make it solve hard problems and help us to live better. Like people all over the world, these machines speak the same language: NUMBERS.
1. ......................... The simplest kind of mathematics is Arithmetic.