Reading Comprehension Test Form-9 (Term II) copy

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Mytchett Community Centre

Contact: Mrs L. West

140 Mytchett Road, Mytchett, Surrey

Tel: 01252 373073

Contact Mrs L. West on Monday, Thursday and Friday mornings. For details of the current youth work programme log onto our site www.mytchett-community-centre.co.uk

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The Old Dean Youth Centre

Contact: Mr Jeremy Crouch (Youth Leader)

Kingston Road

Camberley GU15 4AE

Tel: 01276 66225

The centre caters for all sorts of groups of any age. We are first and foremost a Youth Club open four nights a week for young people. We do not have a membership system. We do, however, keep name and address of users for health and safety reasons.

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One of the world’s most (1)…           [seriously, serious] problems is the use of child labour. June 12 is the World Day Against Child Labour. All around the world people will take (2)...       [apart, part] in activities to raise awareness of the damage child labour (3)…       [does, doing] to children, families and societies. The day is also one on which the world (4)…           [promotion, promotes] the human rights of children. The United Nations (5)…     [set, let] out in its Millennium Development Goals a number of targets to help prevent child labour. By 2015, it hopes all children (6)…          [compete, complete] their primary education and that there is (7)…          [equals, equality] in education. To do this, governments must take steps to reduce poverty and (8)…           [provision, provide] enough jobs for adults. These are the two main reasons why we have child labour today.

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Below is a list of five modern inventions which could seem unbelievable just
some years ago.

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The punk subculture appeared in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa in the mid-to-late-1970s, and has since undergone several developments.

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The punk subculture is centred around listening to recordings or live concerts of a loud, aggressive genre of rock music. Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. It is rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, usually shortened to punk. Most punk rock uses guitars and noisy drumming that are derived from 1960s garage rock.

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Punks try to shock people with the highly theatrical use of clothing: ripped clothing is held together by safety pins or wrapped with tape; ordinary clothing is decorated with marker or with paint; a black basket liner becomes a dress, shirt or skirt; safety pins and razor blades are used as jewellery.

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Some punks make their hair stand in spikes, cut it into Mohawks (a hairstyle which consists of shaving both sides of the head, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair) or other dramatic shapes, often colouring it with vibrant, unnatural colours.

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The punk subculture has developed a variety of dancing styles, which appear chaotic and violent.

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The Best Job in the world

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them my job.That is because I say,'I am a pilot!' What is so surprising about that? I am a female and, in Britain, only 300 of the 13 000 airline pilots are women.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a nurse.I changed my mind after flying in a plane for the first time when I was thirteen. My brother and I went to see the pilots in the cockpit during the flight-you can't do it nowadays. It was an amazing experience.I remember thinking,'This is much more exciting than being a nurse!'

It takes several years to become a pilot.First. you get a Commercial Pilot's Licence and take a complete medical examination. It is so important for you to be fit and healthy in this job. then, to fly passengers planes, you fly 1 500 hours as a trainee pilot and pass a written exam. Also, when you are qualified, instructors check your flying skills every six months.

At the moment, I am working on short flights between Mancester and European destinations like Barcelona, Nice and Milan. Some people say that this is not as hard as flying long distances to America or Asia, but I disagree. The sky above Europe is the busiest airspace in the world. It can make flying difficult, especially when the weather is bad.

Being a pilot is an incredibly responsible job. The lives of hundreds of people are in your hands. It's essential for pilots to be prepared for anything to happen at any time. It is very important to think quickly and stay calm under the pressure.

As a first officer, I always work with another pilot, a captain.The captain sits on the left-hand side and the first officer on the right. We share the job of flying the plane on each journey. It is safer to have two pilots in case one of us becomes ill and is unable to fly.

I know there are easier jobs, but there is nothing as exciting as flying a plane.

• The writer of the article is....          [man, woman, child, teenager]

• Passengers....visit pilots on a flight nowadays.           [sometimes, often, never, always]

• It takes______ to become a pilot .                         [less than a year, more than a year, one year, three years and a month]

• Qualified pilots are checked....                 [regularly, every six years, occasionally, sometimes]

• The airspace over Europe is....          [exciting, busy, quiet, boring]

• How many airline pilots in Britain are men?                            [three hundred, around thirteen thousand, less than three hundred, one thousand three hundred]

• Was the author a nurse before she became a pilot?     [Yes, No]

• How many hours do you fly when you are training to fly passenger planes?                           [five hundred, one thousand, five thousand, one thousand five hundred]

• What is important for pilots to do when there is a problem?

• A. It is very important to think quickly and stay calm under the pressure.

• B. It is very important to panic under the pressure.

• C. It is very important to smile under the pressure.

• D. It is very important to think slowly and to be excited under the pressure.   [A, B, C, D]