Reading

1. Read the sign. What is it about? Tick the correct answer

Slow! Dangerous crossroad.

2. Read the advertisement. What is it about? Tick the correct answer

Half price football shirts - sale must end this afternoon.

3.Read the sign. What is it about? Tick the correct answer

Road closed until weekend.

4. Read the note. What is it about? Tick the correct answer

Carla,

Jim Jordan can't come to talk next Monday, but Grey will send John Jones an email and he'll talk about the same thing. Can you meet him at the school entrance at 2 o'clock, half an hour before the meeting starts? Bring him to the school office.

Thanks.

S Becket

10. Some parts are missing from the text. Choose the right part from the list below.

Teens are left Speechless

All over the world, teenagers' bedrooms are beginning to sound like a library. Instead of chatting away on a traditiol landline telephone, of even a mobilephone, teenagers are busy communicating online.

According to a 2018 report by the Pew Internet & American life project, 53% of teens___________ mostly communicate with friends via written messages; and 61% of the time they chat through a service called "instant messaging".

11. Read the text and choose the correct heading

People can write blogs about anything. Some people write about holidays, new things they have bought, TV series, politics or simply about their lives. A lot of celebrities have their own blogs too and their blogs are very popular.

12. Read the text.

We may not be superheroes, but remember, each of us has something that’s worth shouting about. It’s a fact – everyone is an individual and that’s what makes you who you are. Be proud of why you’re different. If you love who you are, people are more likely to love you too.

This text tells to …

13. Read the text

Mike is 16 years old and lives in Manchester. He has 154 friends — and he makes two or three more friends every week. About 20 of his friends also live in Manchester. Some go to the same school, others go to the same sports centres. He often sees them. The others live in other cities and countries. Mike has never met these friends, but he talks to them on the Internet. They are his ‘MySpace’ friends.

This text tells about …

14. Read the text and complete the sentence

Most teenage boys and girls have to face a lot of body changes. Their body grows, faces get spotty and all this makes teens feel unattractive. Their self-esteem falls and they wish they looked differently. A lot of them compare themselves with others, especially with celebrities.

Teenagers......

15. Read the text and answer the question

Professor McCabe describes newly-invented and original methods of cheating students use. An example he gives is the “water bottle trick,” where students remove the label from the bottle, write their cheat notes on the back of it, then put the label back on. The water then makes the cheat notes look bigger.

According to Professor McCabe the water bottle trick is.....

16. Read the text and the statement to it. Tick if the statements are true or false.

Most of Britain’s most popular newspapers are tabloids. These include

The Sun, The Mirror, The Express and The Daily Mail. Although some tabloids

are serious newspapers and the broadsheets also have tabloid editions, many

people talk about tabloid journalism or the tabloid press to refer to a type

of a newspaper that contains many articles about music, sport and famous people, and less serious news, and is often insulting to women and people from other countries. The word «tabloid» is less widely used in the USA, where most of the important national newspapers are of a regular size. The best known US tabloid, which uses short articles and large photographs, is the New York Daily News. Serious tabloids include the Chicago Sun Times.

The New York Daily News is issued in the UK.

 You can hear the tunes of music everywhere, even in the streets.