Reading Comprehension 10-11 КЛАС

Read the text and decide if the following statements are true, false or not mentioned. Write T, F or NM .

IT’S A HYBRID WORLD 

The wave of the future in automobiles is definitely the hybrid. Hybrids are vehicles that use a combination of petrol and battery power to run, making them very fuel efficient and better for the environment. Hybrids use much less petrol than a regular car and emit virtually no toxic air, which is a vast improvement for anti-pollution measures. This feature is also good for people with respiratory problems and other illnesses. Hybrids conserve energy. For instance, when the car is stopped, it shuts down everything that isn’t essential to save the battery power, and when the owner wants the car to ‘wake up’, they simply hit the accelerator. This unique feature makes a hybrid an extremely quiet car to be in, which is one of the first things people notice when riding in one. A well-known hybrid car is the Prius. The Prius, made by Toyota was introduced in Japan in 1997, and after that they were released worldwide. Today, these fuel-efficient cars have become a common sight on roads. Other companies have made competing versions of hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight, and the first hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape. One of the newest vehicles to join the hybrid family is the Persu hybrid. The Persu is a threewheeled vehicle, making it stand out from the rest of the hybrids. The Persu drives like a car, but looks like a motorbike. There is a driver’s seat with a passenger’s seat directly behind it and a small boot space. The Persu can achieve an amazing 120km per gallon, which outperforms almost every car on the market at the time of speaking. Right now, other kinds of vehicles are being developed with hybrid technology. Just a few include ships, buses, military vehicles, trains and even some types of aircraft. It’s definitely an exciting time for developments in the automotive industry.

1. Hybrids don’t need a lot of fuel to run.

Read the text and decide if the following statements are true, false or not mentioned. Write T, F or NM .

IT’S A HYBRID WORLD 

The wave of the future in automobiles is definitely the hybrid. Hybrids are vehicles that use a combination of petrol and battery power to run, making them very fuel efficient and better for the environment. Hybrids use much less petrol than a regular car and emit virtually no toxic air, which is a vast improvement for anti-pollution measures. This feature is also good for people with respiratory problems and other illnesses. Hybrids conserve energy. For instance, when the car is stopped, it shuts down everything that isn’t essential to save the battery power, and when the owner wants the car to ‘wake up’, they simply hit the accelerator. This unique feature makes a hybrid an extremely quiet car to be in, which is one of the first things people notice when riding in one. A well-known hybrid car is the Prius. The Prius, made by Toyota was introduced in Japan in 1997, and after that they were released worldwide. Today, these fuel-efficient cars have become a common sight on roads. Other companies have made competing versions of hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight, and the first hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape. One of the newest vehicles to join the hybrid family is the Persu hybrid. The Persu is a threewheeled vehicle, making it stand out from the rest of the hybrids. The Persu drives like a car, but looks like a motorbike. There is a driver’s seat with a passenger’s seat directly behind it and a small boot space. The Persu can achieve an amazing 120km per gallon, which outperforms almost every car on the market at the time of speaking. Right now, other kinds of vehicles are being developed with hybrid technology. Just a few include ships, buses, military vehicles, trains and even some types of aircraft. It’s definitely an exciting time for developments in the automotive industry.

2. Hybrid vehicles use environmentally-friendly petrol.

Read the text and decide if the following statements are true, false or not mentioned. Write T, F or NM .

IT’S A HYBRID WORLD 

The wave of the future in automobiles is definitely the hybrid. Hybrids are vehicles that use a combination of petrol and battery power to run, making them very fuel efficient and better for the environment. Hybrids use much less petrol than a regular car and emit virtually no toxic air, which is a vast improvement for anti-pollution measures. This feature is also good for people with respiratory problems and other illnesses. Hybrids conserve energy. For instance, when the car is stopped, it shuts down everything that isn’t essential to save the battery power, and when the owner wants the car to ‘wake up’, they simply hit the accelerator. This unique feature makes a hybrid an extremely quiet car to be in, which is one of the first things people notice when riding in one. A well-known hybrid car is the Prius. The Prius, made by Toyota was introduced in Japan in 1997, and after that they were released worldwide. Today, these fuel-efficient cars have become a common sight on roads. Other companies have made competing versions of hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight, and the first hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape. One of the newest vehicles to join the hybrid family is the Persu hybrid. The Persu is a threewheeled vehicle, making it stand out from the rest of the hybrids. The Persu drives like a car, but looks like a motorbike. There is a driver’s seat with a passenger’s seat directly behind it and a small boot space. The Persu can achieve an amazing 120km per gallon, which outperforms almost every car on the market at the time of speaking. Right now, other kinds of vehicles are being developed with hybrid technology. Just a few include ships, buses, military vehicles, trains and even some types of aircraft. It’s definitely an exciting time for developments in the automotive industry.

3. Most people with health problems prefer to buy hybrids.

Read the text and decide if the following statements are true, false or not mentioned. Write T, F or NM .

IT’S A HYBRID WORLD 

The wave of the future in automobiles is definitely the hybrid. Hybrids are vehicles that use a combination of petrol and battery power to run, making them very fuel efficient and better for the environment. Hybrids use much less petrol than a regular car and emit virtually no toxic air, which is a vast improvement for anti-pollution measures. This feature is also good for people with respiratory problems and other illnesses. Hybrids conserve energy. For instance, when the car is stopped, it shuts down everything that isn’t essential to save the battery power, and when the owner wants the car to ‘wake up’, they simply hit the accelerator. This unique feature makes a hybrid an extremely quiet car to be in, which is one of the first things people notice when riding in one. A well-known hybrid car is the Prius. The Prius, made by Toyota was introduced in Japan in 1997, and after that they were released worldwide. Today, these fuel-efficient cars have become a common sight on roads. Other companies have made competing versions of hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight, and the first hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape. One of the newest vehicles to join the hybrid family is the Persu hybrid. The Persu is a threewheeled vehicle, making it stand out from the rest of the hybrids. The Persu drives like a car, but looks like a motorbike. There is a driver’s seat with a passenger’s seat directly behind it and a small boot space. The Persu can achieve an amazing 120km per gallon, which outperforms almost every car on the market at the time of speaking. Right now, other kinds of vehicles are being developed with hybrid technology. Just a few include ships, buses, military vehicles, trains and even some types of aircraft. It’s definitely an exciting time for developments in the automotive industry.

4. You can start the engine of a hybrid by just hitting the accelerator. 

Read the text and decide if the following statements are true, false or not mentioned. Write T, F or NM .

IT’S A HYBRID WORLD 

The wave of the future in automobiles is definitely the hybrid. Hybrids are vehicles that use a combination of petrol and battery power to run, making them very fuel efficient and better for the environment. Hybrids use much less petrol than a regular car and emit virtually no toxic air, which is a vast improvement for anti-pollution measures. This feature is also good for people with respiratory problems and other illnesses. Hybrids conserve energy. For instance, when the car is stopped, it shuts down everything that isn’t essential to save the battery power, and when the owner wants the car to ‘wake up’, they simply hit the accelerator. This unique feature makes a hybrid an extremely quiet car to be in, which is one of the first things people notice when riding in one. A well-known hybrid car is the Prius. The Prius, made by Toyota was introduced in Japan in 1997, and after that they were released worldwide. Today, these fuel-efficient cars have become a common sight on roads. Other companies have made competing versions of hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight, and the first hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape. One of the newest vehicles to join the hybrid family is the Persu hybrid. The Persu is a threewheeled vehicle, making it stand out from the rest of the hybrids. The Persu drives like a car, but looks like a motorbike. There is a driver’s seat with a passenger’s seat directly behind it and a small boot space. The Persu can achieve an amazing 120km per gallon, which outperforms almost every car on the market at the time of speaking. Right now, other kinds of vehicles are being developed with hybrid technology. Just a few include ships, buses, military vehicles, trains and even some types of aircraft. It’s definitely an exciting time for developments in the automotive industry.

5. When the Prius was first released, a lot of Japanese people bought it. 

Read the text and decide if the following statements are true, false or not mentioned. Write T, F or NM .

IT’S A HYBRID WORLD 

The wave of the future in automobiles is definitely the hybrid. Hybrids are vehicles that use a combination of petrol and battery power to run, making them very fuel efficient and better for the environment. Hybrids use much less petrol than a regular car and emit virtually no toxic air, which is a vast improvement for anti-pollution measures. This feature is also good for people with respiratory problems and other illnesses. Hybrids conserve energy. For instance, when the car is stopped, it shuts down everything that isn’t essential to save the battery power, and when the owner wants the car to ‘wake up’, they simply hit the accelerator. This unique feature makes a hybrid an extremely quiet car to be in, which is one of the first things people notice when riding in one. A well-known hybrid car is the Prius. The Prius, made by Toyota was introduced in Japan in 1997, and after that they were released worldwide. Today, these fuel-efficient cars have become a common sight on roads. Other companies have made competing versions of hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight, and the first hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape. One of the newest vehicles to join the hybrid family is the Persu hybrid. The Persu is a threewheeled vehicle, making it stand out from the rest of the hybrids. The Persu drives like a car, but looks like a motorbike. There is a driver’s seat with a passenger’s seat directly behind it and a small boot space. The Persu can achieve an amazing 120km per gallon, which outperforms almost every car on the market at the time of speaking. Right now, other kinds of vehicles are being developed with hybrid technology. Just a few include ships, buses, military vehicles, trains and even some types of aircraft. It’s definitely an exciting time for developments in the automotive industry.

6. One type of hybrid vehicle looks like a motorbike.

Read the text and decide if the following statements are true, false or not mentioned. Write T, F or NM .

IT’S A HYBRID WORLD 

The wave of the future in automobiles is definitely the hybrid. Hybrids are vehicles that use a combination of petrol and battery power to run, making them very fuel efficient and better for the environment. Hybrids use much less petrol than a regular car and emit virtually no toxic air, which is a vast improvement for anti-pollution measures. This feature is also good for people with respiratory problems and other illnesses. Hybrids conserve energy. For instance, when the car is stopped, it shuts down everything that isn’t essential to save the battery power, and when the owner wants the car to ‘wake up’, they simply hit the accelerator. This unique feature makes a hybrid an extremely quiet car to be in, which is one of the first things people notice when riding in one. A well-known hybrid car is the Prius. The Prius, made by Toyota was introduced in Japan in 1997, and after that they were released worldwide. Today, these fuel-efficient cars have become a common sight on roads. Other companies have made competing versions of hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight, and the first hybrid SUV, the Ford Escape. One of the newest vehicles to join the hybrid family is the Persu hybrid. The Persu is a threewheeled vehicle, making it stand out from the rest of the hybrids. The Persu drives like a car, but looks like a motorbike. There is a driver’s seat with a passenger’s seat directly behind it and a small boot space. The Persu can achieve an amazing 120km per gallon, which outperforms almost every car on the market at the time of speaking. Right now, other kinds of vehicles are being developed with hybrid technology. Just a few include ships, buses, military vehicles, trains and even some types of aircraft. It’s definitely an exciting time for developments in the automotive industry.

7. SUV was the first hybrid vehicle which had three wheels.

Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Can you believe it?  

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ⊏________________ ⊐. He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.___ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3. _____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _______ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.⊏_______________⊐ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3. _____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _______ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.____ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3.⊏ _______________⊐ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _______ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.____ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3.____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. ⊏_____________⊐ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.____ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3.____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _____.

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. ⊏_______________⊐ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.