Posts Tagged ‘english tests’
READING COMPREHENSION – 9
READING COMPREHENSION – 9 TRUE OR FALSE The Explorers is a delightful book. It is delightful for its vivid descriptions of the fifteenth century seamen who set out to explore the unknown Atlantic and for its colourful English. It is delightful also for the charming sketches included here and there by a most unusual artist-author. 1) The [...]
READING COMPREHENSION – 7
READING COMPREHENSION - 7 The outlook for the expansion of the silk-producing business in the United States is not bright there is no obvious reason why it should. In the first place, the silkworm requires hour-by-hour human care, and Americans, by disposition, are not suited to the work. Again, there is a strong belief that each country should [...]
READING COMPREHENSION – 6
READING COMPREHENSION - 6 When the world was young, the opportunity for inventing new words must have been unlimited. Even then, however, the inventor's task was less than half accomplished when he had emitted the new sound. Before he could regard his task as complete, he must induce his neighbours to use the sound as he had used it. Here we [...]
READING COMPREHENSION 5
READING COMPREHENSION 5 The Tartan Museum You cannot miss it. At first it was only the outside of the new Museum of Scotland that was unmissable, stuck on the corner of Chambers Street in Edinburgh, with its huge, yellow sandstone tower and cheese-wedge buildings, topped by a hulk of a hanging garden. Last winter the building was greeted [...]
