Wider World 3 Test Reading Term I

1 Read the text about a teenager called Luke Tyndale, and choose the correct answer to the questions.

Luke Tyndale’s blog

In many ways, Luke Tyndale is a typical teenager. He likes looking around the shops in town with his friends or playing football on Saturdays with them, or just watching films at his house with his family. But one thing that Luke does is quite unusual. Every week he writes a blog for other people his age – about growing food and cooking it!

Luke’s family live on a farm, so everyone thinks that’s where he first got the idea, as he grows fruit and vegetables there. Says Luke, ‘Both my parents are great cooks, so I had plenty of chance to learn, but I wasn’t interested.’ But then Luke found a collection of recipes in a book that once belonged to his great-grandmother. The ideas he got for dishes were great, and he then began making other dishes he could share with people in a blog, so that they could make them too. He wanted the dishes to be really tasty, but cost very little, and use really fresh ingredients.

When Luke first started his blog, not many people seemed interested in what he was doing, but slowly the numbers of people have grown. Since he started two years ago, he has attracted 2,000 regular readers. Luke was hoping for more, but he’s happy!

Luke knows that his readers now expect a new recipe every week, so he has to spend the weekend trying to create a new dish. But he enjoys spending part of his weekend trying different foods and cooking methods to see what works. And growing and picking the fresh ingredients takes time, too, but Luke has learnt a lot from doing it.

Luke still finds time to see his friends. And they all love coming to his house, because they can try the tasty dishes that Luke has prepared – and that’s useful for Luke, because they tell him what they think!

1) In the first paragraph, we learn that Luke enjoys

Luke Tyndale’s blog

In many ways, Luke Tyndale is a typical teenager. He likes looking around the shops in town with his friends or playing football on Saturdays with them, or just watching films at his house with his family. But one thing that Luke does is quite unusual. Every week he writes a blog for other people his age – about growing food and cooking it!

Luke’s family live on a farm, so everyone thinks that’s where he first got the idea, as he grows fruit and vegetables there. Says Luke, ‘Both my parents are great cooks, so I had plenty of chance to learn, but I wasn’t interested.’ But then Luke found a collection of recipes in a book that once belonged to his great-grandmother. The ideas he got for dishes were great, and he then began making other dishes he could share with people in a blog, so that they could make them too. He wanted the dishes to be really tasty, but cost very little, and use really fresh ingredients.

When Luke first started his blog, not many people seemed interested in what he was doing, but slowly the numbers of people have grown. Since he started two years ago, he has attracted 2,000 regular readers. Luke was hoping for more, but he’s happy!

Luke knows that his readers now expect a new recipe every week, so he has to spend the weekend trying to create a new dish. But he enjoys spending part of his weekend trying different foods and cooking methods to see what works. And growing and picking the fresh ingredients takes time, too, but Luke has learnt a lot from doing it.

Luke still finds time to see his friends. And they all love coming to his house, because they can try the tasty dishes that Luke has prepared – and that’s useful for Luke, because they tell him what they think!

2) Where did Luke’s love of cooking start?

Luke Tyndale’s blog

In many ways, Luke Tyndale is a typical teenager. He likes looking around the shops in town with his friends or playing football on Saturdays with them, or just watching films at his house with his family. But one thing that Luke does is quite unusual. Every week he writes a blog for other people his age – about growing food and cooking it!

Luke’s family live on a farm, so everyone thinks that’s where he first got the idea, as he grows fruit and vegetables there. Says Luke, ‘Both my parents are great cooks, so I had plenty of chance to learn, but I wasn’t interested.’ But then Luke found a collection of recipes in a book that once belonged to his great-grandmother. The ideas he got for dishes were great, and he then began making other dishes he could share with people in a blog, so that they could make them too. He wanted the dishes to be really tasty, but cost very little, and use really fresh ingredients.

When Luke first started his blog, not many people seemed interested in what he was doing, but slowly the numbers of people have grown. Since he started two years ago, he has attracted 2,000 regular readers. Luke was hoping for more, but he’s happy!

Luke knows that his readers now expect a new recipe every week, so he has to spend the weekend trying to create a new dish. But he enjoys spending part of his weekend trying different foods and cooking methods to see what works. And growing and picking the fresh ingredients takes time, too, but Luke has learnt a lot from doing it.

Luke still finds time to see his friends. And they all love coming to his house, because they can try the tasty dishes that Luke has prepared – and that’s useful for Luke, because they tell him what they think!

3) When he started cooking, Luke made dishes that