Reading Comprehension 1

Choose the best answer for these following questions
Text 1
The first ancient Olympic Games date back to 776 BC bit in those days only men could
compete. Married women were not allowed to take part in the games or even to watch them. Only
single woman could attend the competition. Some women did not accept this and dressed up as
men to go the games.
Although females couldn’t compete in the ancient Olympic Games, they had their own
opportunities for sporting competition. The Herean Games were for female athletes. They took
place every four years to honor the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus.
The first modern Olympic Games were in 1896 in Athens. Fourteen nations took part in
43 events with 241 athletes – 241 men and no women. Women made their first appearance in the
modern games four years later in Paris. There were 22 female competitors. Charlotte Cooper,
British tennis player, became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
In the following decades, talented sportswomen have continued to participate in both the
Olympic Games and the Winter Olympics. They have achieved greater and greater success in a
huge range of sports. In Athens 2004, Leontien Ziljaardvan Moorsel from Holland became the
first female cyclist to win four gold medals and six medals in total. At the winter Olympics in
Turin in 2006, Janica Kostelic from Croatia won a gold and silver medal. With a total of four old
medals and two silver in her career, she holds the record for medals won by a woman in Alpine
skiing.
1. Who takes part in the first Olympic Games?

a. Woman c. Men
b. Married women d. Male and female
2. How did the unapproved woman take part in the Olympic Games?
a. with bold make up c. dressed as a man
b. well-dressed d. came into a woman
3. When did the women take their debut in Modern Olympic Games?
a. 1896 c. 1900
b. 2006 d. 2004
4. From the text above, we can conclude that ………..
a. Woman has the equal position with man in sport
b. Man is superior than woman in the sport
c. Women has important role in Olympic Games
d. Sportswomen has developed in next decades after the first modern Olympic Games
Text 2
For thousands of years, there were no epidemic diseases. However, when people started
living in towns, infection could spread more easily. When traders and armies travelled from city
to city, they brought bacteria and viruses with them and spread infections to new populations.
Children were in the greatest danger: in the nineteenth century, 50 % of children died before the
age of five.
Most infections are spread in the same way: bacteria or viruses are passed on by coughing,
sneezing or by touching food with infected hands. People began to understand this as early as the
1300s. During the plague in Milan, the streets were regularly cleaned and the clothes of plague
victims were burned.
In the nineteenth century, Ignaz Semmelweiss observed that infection was spread by
doctors’ dirty hands and recommended washing hands before touching patients. Another early
way of avoiding disease was quarantine – sick people were isolated from healthy ones.
Vaccines were first used in the eighteenth century. In 1796, Edward Jenner vaccinated
people against smallpox (cacar). Nowadays, in many countries, people are vaccinated against
many common diseases, such as measles (campak) or TB.
5. How were bacteria and viruses spread in war time?

a. through the armies c. the soldier spread it into new population
b. during the travel d. they were spread easily
6. Which part of body is sensitive to spreading bacteria or viruses?
a. infected face c. infected hand
b. infected nose d. infected mouth
7. Which country did people know firstly about spreading bacteria and viruses?
a. UK c. Japan
b. Germany d. Italy
8. How did people avoid spreading viruses and bacteria?
a. By changing doctor for each patient
b. Doing quarantine
c. Avoiding the infected people
d. Mixing people in one community
9. From the text above, it can be concluded that the founder of vaccinisation was .....
a. Army and soldier c. Ignaz Semmelweiss
b. Edward Jenner d. unknown scientist
Text 3
People have always been interested in how animals’ communicate and scientists are
doing a lot of research in this area.
Most animals communicate by smell; they produce chemical substances called
“pheromones”. Scientists have discovered that rat can identify another rat; its age, sex and
social status, just by smelling its urine.
Ants spread pheromones to guide other ants to a food source. Bees not only use
pheromones but also “dance” to tell other bees where to find food. For example, if a bee
flies straight upwards, it means that they should fly directly toward the sun.
Everyone has heard bird’s singing. Research has shown that many other animals use sound
to communicate. Some male frogs make two-part calls; the first part can only be heard by
other male frogs, and it is a warning. Female only hear the second part which is a mating
call.
Scientists have known for some time that many animals like bats, whales and
elephants, communicate with sounds that people cannot hear. Their calls produce waves
that travel through the ground, water or air. We know that elephants probably receive these
signals with their feet or trunks. However, we know little about how whales hear.
Ecologists say that nowadays loud noise from ships is interfering with whale’s
communication.
1. Which the following is true based on the text?

a. Scientists are doing a lot of observation about how people communicate with
animals
b. Animals have different ways of communicating
c. People have tried to know animals’ communication by their gesture and sound by
the help of technology
d. It’s such interesting fact that animals have different ways of communicating based
on their habitat and population
2. The italic words in the structure show that it is a result of ........

a. fact b. evidence c. proof d. observation
3. The bold word in the text can be implied as .......... (p. 3, line 11)
a. sexual intercourse b. couple c. calling partner d. find soulmate

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Choose the best answer for these following questions

1. Who takes part in the first Olympic Games?

5. How were bacteria and viruses spread in war time?

1. Which the following is true based on the text?

2. The italic words in the structure show that it is a result of ........

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