Reading Comprehension 7th grade II term

Read texts and match it with their names.

1) This is certainly a charming street in Kyiv, old and picturesque (мальовнича), filled (наповнена) with galleries, cafes and museums, including (включаючи) the house of Mikhail Bulgakow. It also has its own mu­seum, the quaintly (химерно, дивакувато) named Museum of' One Street. But the most attractive place in this street is St Andrew's Cathedral.

 This is the Queen's main London home. It has been the official London home place of Britain's kings and queens since 1837. Queen Victoria was the first monarch (монархом) to live there.

 This is the world's highest observation (спостережницьке) wheel. It is also known as Millennium Wheel. It stands 135 metres high on the south bank of the River Thames between Westminster and Hungerford Bridges (Вестмінстерським і Хангерфордським мостами).

This is a nice park with unique and fantastic (mostly ceramic) statues pretty close (досить близько) to the city centre. Children love it, and adults can enjoy its beauty, peacefulness (спокоєм) and comfort. Good place to take fun pictures with friends.

Read the text and match (a—d) to the highlighted texts 1—4.

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1)  ______ Warner Bros. Studio Tour London provides an amazing new oppor­tunity to explore the magic of the Harry Potter films. This walking tour takes you behind the scenes revealing facts about the special effects and animation that made these films so popular all over the world.

2)  ______ Tickets must be purchased in advance. No tickets on the door. Adult Ticket: £59.00 per ticket

Child Ticket: £52.00 per ticket

3)  ______ The Warner Brothers Studio is generally open all year except on Bank Holidays.

4)  ______ There are direct trains from both London Euston (20 minutes' jour­ney) and Birmingham New Street (1-hour journey). A shuttle bus runs from Watford Junction to the Studio Tour.

a) How to get there.                  

b) Activities.                                 

c) When to visit.

d) Prices.

A Scottish Summer Camp

Summer camps are becoming more and more popular with young people, but what are they like? Last month, junior reporter Sally Henshaw travelled to Loch Lomond, Scotland, to find out.

‘I’ve been travelling for ten hours,’ I thought, when the minibus finally drove past a sign saying ‘Welcome to Camp Lomond’. It was dark, and I just wanted to go indoors and jump into a nice, soft bed. But the camp leaders had other ideas. We all had a barbecue, then we sat around a campfire and talked (or fell asleep). Finally, one of the leaders divided us into groups of three and gave us the really bad news.

‘Now it’s time to put up your tents,’ he said.

1. How did Sally feel when she first arrived?

I don’t know how three of us managed to sleep in a tent the size of a single bed, but somehow we did. When we woke up the next day, my new friend Ingrid opened the front of the tent, and we all looked out. There, shining silver between the trees, was Loch Lomond. ‘Loch’ means ‘lake’ in Scottish, and Loch Lomond is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen! That morning after breakfast, we went horse riding around the lake. I’ve never ridden in such an amazing place.

 2. The next morning, Sally ...

In the next few days, I went BMX biking, tried rock climbing and played volleyball every day until I couldn’t stand up! It was great! The camp organises different activities every day. Most sports activities are in the afternoon, and in the morning you can choose lessons like drawing, chess, drama and cookery. I’ve never been very good at art or board games − and I’m not a great actor − so I went along to the cookery class.

3. What types of activities did Sally do at the camp?

I love food, but I didn’t know how to cook anything before I went to Scotland. Since I’ve been home, I’ve been baking cakes for my parents! (And they haven’t been to hospital with food poisoning yet, so I must be quite good at it!)

4. What happened after she came home from the camp?

You have to work hard on a summer camp. Everybody has to do chores, and you do activities all day, too − you can’t just sit around and hang out. But I really had a great time. The best thing about the camp was making new friends. Since I came home, Ingrid and I have been texting every day. The activities are great, but the people are even better.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to go on a summer camp? I’ll tell you the answer in two words: exhausting and fun!

5. Overall, how did Sally feel about Camp Lomond?

The History of Graffiti

The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or ‘tags’, on buildings all over the city. In the mid seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as ‘masterpieces’.

1. Why was the seventies an important decade in the history of graffiti?