Elementary
Read the article and answer the questions.
Black Hollywood – A movie review
Patricia Denning stars in a sad movie about ambition and heartbreak.
When Cecilia leaves college in Texas, she has everything: a wonderful boyfriend, Carl, an interesting job and an expensive house in a pretty town. Her life is perfect. Even her black Labrador dog, Perky, is a star: he wins the local dog competition and Hollywood wants to put him in a movie.
Cecilia goes to Hollywood with him and leaves her boyfriend alone back home. When the studio fires Perky, Cecilia decides to stay in Hollywood and tries to get other movie roles for her beautiful dog.
Carl gives Cecilia an ultimatum: come home and stop behaving crazily, or stay there forever. Cecilia decides to stay in Hollywood and wants to become an actress herself. She sends Perky back to Texas and starts an acting course. After six months, Cecilia realizes she can’t act and she misses home, but it’s too late. Carl has found another girlfriend. Cecilia tries to win him back, and also discovers a lot about herself on her long journey.
This is a very sad movie, which makes you think about what we want from life. Patricia Denning is very convincing as Cecilia, but the star of the movie is gorgeous Perky, the black Labrador who steals our hearts. Black Hollywood is in cinemas from next week.
- What does Cecilia not have?
a. A pet
b. A great job
c. A wonderful husband
d. A house she loves - When does her wonderful adventure begin?
a. When her dog wins a competition
b. When she goes on vacation to Hollywood
c. When she marries her boyfriend, Carl
d. When she buys the house in a pretty town - What happens to Perky in Hollywood?
a. He becomes a star
b. He makes two movies and retires
c. He isn’t very successful
d. He’s too nervous to work - What is Carl’s reaction to Cecilia living in Hollywood?
a. He’s supportive
b. He’s angry
c. He doesn’t care
d. He doesn’t know she went - Why does Cecilia stay in Hollywood?
a. She has no money
b. She hates Carl
c. She wants to become an actress
d. She is too busy making movies
Intermediate
Read the article and answer the questions.
President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA. His parents were Thomas Lincoln, a farmer, and Nancy Hanks. His family was very poor. Abraham had one brother and one sister. His brother died in childhood. They grew up in a small log cabin house, with just one room inside.
Although slavery was legal in Kentucky at that time, Lincoln’s father, who was a religious Baptist, refused to own any slaves. When Lincoln was seven years old, his family moved to Indiana, and later to Illinois. In his childhood he helped his father on the farm, but when he was 22 years old he left home and moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he worked in a general store. Later, he said that he had gone to school for just one year, but that was enough to learn how to read, write, and do simple math.
In 1842, he married Mary Todd Lincoln. They had four children, but three of them died when they were very young. Abraham Lincoln was sometimes called Abe Lincoln or “Honest Abe” after he ran miles to give a costumer the right amount of change. The nickname “Honest Abe” came from a time when he started a business that failed. Instead of running away like many people would have, he stayed and worked to pay off his debt.
He has also been called the “Great Emancipator” because of his work to end slavery in the United States. In 1863, he declared that all slaves held in the rebellious Confederate States were free. He also sponsored the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Ratified in 1865, nine months after his assassination, that amendment completely outlawed slavery in the United States.
Answer True or False for these questions about the Abraham Lincoln reading.
Lincoln was born in the south of the United States. | True | False |
Lincoln’s family were not rich but didn’t have any financial problems. | True | False |
Lincoln’s father, like most people at the time, owned a few slaves. | True | False |
When Lincoln grew up, he didn’t work on the family farm anymore. | True | False |
Lincoln didn’t have a lot of success as a businessman. | True | False |
Lincoln lived to see the constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery. | True | False |
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Elementary
- What does Cecilia not have?
a. A pet
b. A great job
c. A wonderful husband
d. A house she loves - When does her wonderful adventure begin?
a. When her dog wins a competition
b. When she goes on vacation to Hollywood
c. When she marries her boyfriend, Carl
d. When she buys the house in a pretty town - What happens to Perky in Hollywood?
a. He becomes a star
b. He makes two movies and retires
c. He isn’t very successful
d. He’s too nervous to work - What is Carl’s reaction to Cecilia living in Hollywood?
a. He’s supportive
b. He’s angry
c. He doesn’t care
d. He doesn’t know she went - Why does Cecilia stay in Hollywood?
a. She has no money
b. She hates Carl
c. She wants to become an actress
d. She is too busy making movies
Intermediate
- true
- false
- false
- true
- true
- false