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Reading Comprehension Test 

Form 9

I. Decide if the statements 1-10 are true (T) or false (F). 

1. The television is in excellent working order.

2. It was manufactured in November, 1936.

3. It is possible to use the television to watch digital TV.

4. Jeffrey Borinsky has owned the television since it was made.

5. Jeffrey particularly likes watching old programmes on the set.

6. Lain Logie Baird is an inventor.

7. The competition was set up by the inventor of TV, John Logie Baird.

8. The television will go to a museum.

Text: Completely reliable…and built to last

It was made over seven decades ago – and unlike modern gadgets it is completely reliable: it was built to last.

A television that was around for King George VI’s 1937 Coronation and survived the Second World War is now thought to be Britain’s oldest working set.

The black-and-white Marconiphone 702 dates back to 1936 and is still in its original condition. It has a 12-inch screen and was manufactured around November 1936, the same month as the BBC television service from Alexandra Palace was first broadcast.

The set is likely to have screened landmark occasions including George VI’s Coronation Procession, the 1948 London Olympic Games and the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. When new, it cost 60 Guineas - the equivalent of around £ 11,000 today.

The set has been converted from analogue to digital, brining it firmly into the twenty-first century. Jeffrey Borinsky, a consultant engineer from North London, entered a competition to find the country’s oldest TV. He has owned the set for ten years. He said: “ I still enjoy watching my Marconiphone occasionally, especially cartoons from the 1930s, which the original owner might also have seen on the set. Now it is digital, it can be used for many years to come.”

The competition was set in May by lain Logie Baird, television curator at the National Media Museum in Bradford and grandson of the inventor of TV, John Logie Baird. He said: “A small fraction of pre-War televisions still exist - many stopped working or were simply thrown out when a newer set arrived, and we know about 3,000 were lost in the London bombings.’’

The set will join a display of televisions from across the ages at the National Media Museum.

II. Match the headings (A-G) to the paragraphs 9-13. There are two extra headings.

          А. Certain time for shopping on the Internet

         B. Growing popularity of the Internet

C. Getting credit cards from other people

D. Window-shopping as a way-out for people who are afraid to buy something

E. The reasons of using the Internet for shopping

F. Websites for stores

G. The necessity to have a credit card for buying something 

Text: Shopping on the Internet

9. Shopping on the Internet, or shopping online is becoming more and more popular. More and more people are using the Internet to buy things. Why do people use the Internet to shop?

10. Some people say it is more convenient. They don’t have to leave their homes to order something, and they can shop for anything they want at any time, day or night. Other people say they can find things for sale that they can’t find in the stores near their homes. Still other people say they can find better prices on the Internet.

11. If you want to buy something on the Internet, you need a credit card. You have to type your credit card number and some other information on the website and send it to the store over the Internet. You have to be sure that the store will not use your information in the wrong way. You don’t want someone to get your credit card number and charge something to your account. Of course, you always have to be careful with your credit card number, because people sometimes steal credit card numbers from stores and restaurants too. 

12. For people who are too nervous to shop on-line, the Internet is a good place to go window-shopping. Window-shopping is when you go to a store and look at the things for sale, but don’t plan to buy anything. Window-shopping is easy on the Internet. You can see what kinds of products are available and how much they cost. You can visit stores with branches near you, or you can visit stores that are only on the Internet.

13. Some stores have a website for information about their stores, but not for shopping. Some stores have a website for information about their stores, and you can shop online there too. Some stores are only for online shopping.   

III. Match the parts A-L to the gaps 14-23. There is one extra part.

A any library on earth

B to afford it

C her own home page

D through their computers 

E a school student

F on teachers

G to get them away

H to the Internet

I the most wired school

J to few people

K as fifty billion dollars

Text: Computers in the classroom

Kids are going all over the world without ever leaving their school. They are using their computers.

A school in California could be (14) ___ in America. They are wired to the Internet (15) ____.

Thirty students are able to use the Internet every day. The kids are between the grades of kindergarten and fifth grade. The teacher says that it is hard (16) ____ from the computers. They do not even want to go to recess.

Internet has opened the world to many people. Now students can go to (17) ____. They can get information. They can visit a child in another country.

Laura Bacon likes to visit with other students. She’s going to Peggy’s page. Peggy is (18) ____ in London, England. She put (19) ____on the Internet. It includes pictures of Peggy, her school, her mom, dad and friends. You can send her mail, too.

A scientist helped to wire the school. He says, “There is a plan to connect 12 thousand California schools (20) _____.

Wiring schools in California can cost a lot of money. It needs to be done on volunteer effort or schools will not be able (21) ___.They think that it will cost as much (22)____.

Some people say that the money should be spent (23) ____ instead of computers. Some people say that it would be worth it to wire all of the classrooms.

IV. Read the text and choose the correct letter A, B or C.

Text: Lightning

As you read through this, some 2,000 thunderstorms are tearing apart the skies across the world. And every second a hundred lightning bolts are striking the ground with their terrifying roar – fingers of electricity up to 32 kilometers long that burn all they touch with temperatures that reach 30,000ºC. It’s hardly surprising that lightning was feared by earlier cultures as a sign of anger from their gods.

Lightning still has the power to thrill and fascinate. It is now also an active area of research for scientists, who are still struggling to uncover its secrets and are looking for ways to protect against the potentially disastrous effects of lightning strikes.

Britain only has about 10 days of thunderstorms a year. Yorkshire and the south Midlands are the worst affected. By contrast, countries close to the equator suffer most from thunderstorms. Countries like Nigeria, for example, tend to have a thunderstorm every two days.

For centuries, however, there was a little anyone could do to protect themselves or their property from lightning. And up until the 18th century, people were often given dramatic proof that lightning can strike in the same place several times. The bell tower of San Marco in Venice has, to date, been severely damaged or destroyed nine times.

Predicting when and where it is likely to strike is one of the ways we have made lightning less of a menace. Forecasting lightning is taken very seriously in America, for example, where scientists keep a constant eye on weather patterns that could lead to violent storms. New methods enable scientists to warn people in threatened areas before a storm reaches them.

A good indication of the fact that a lightning strike is directly overhead is when your hair stands on end. In potentially fatal circumstances, crouch down low with your hands on your knees. Never lie on the ground. If stuck out in a storm never shelter under an isolated tree, which can act as a lightning conductor, and stay away from anything made of metal.

Although the number of fatalities has decreased, lightning is no less common than it was in the past. The reason for the decrease in deaths is that fewer people work out in the open. Those most at risk today include sports people, especially golfers: dozens are struck worldwide each year.

Lightning protection is more important today than ever. The widespread use of electronic technology means a surge of electricity caused by lightning could have devastating effects on a hospital, for example. If lightning were to strike one of the complex electronic systems we use, the consequences would be disastrous.

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