Kyiv (variant II) Reading Comprehension Activity

Reading Comprehension Test

II variant

I Write the words in the correct order to make sentences:

1 are / many / galleries/ Kyiv/ in / art / There

2  proud / capital/ Ukrainians/ of/ are /their

II Read the text and choose the correct variant:

The Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra is on the green hills above the Dnipro. In the 9^th century a monk called Anthony dug a small cave there. Later some other monks came and stayed there.

Many talented and famous people lived in the Kyiv- Pecherska Lavra. They wrote about their lives in the caves. Some of the monks were great artists. They painted beautiful icons.

Some of the monks were doctors and helped people. Today the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra is both a monastery and a tourist attraction. Monks live, study, work and pray here.

1 Where is the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra?

2 Who dug a small cave in the 9^th century there?

3What did monks paint?

4 Whom did they help as doctors?

5 What is the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra today?

III Complete the table according to the city sights are situated in and translate them:

IV Translate the following sentences into English:

1 В Києві є багато галерей та Києво-Печерська Лавра.

2  Українці пишаються своєю столицею.