READING COMPREHENSION - SELLING HUMAN EGGS

Selling human eggs

A twenty-five-year-old English woman has advertised 1) __________ own eggs for sale 2) __________ the internet to pay off  her credit card debt. She 3) __________ that she has three jobs - a day job and two part-time jobs in pubs 4) __________ the evening, but thinks selling her eggs would be a better way to 5) __________ out her money problems.

Last year, the law changed and children 6) __________ from donated eggs can be told 7) __________ their biological mother is. Since then, fewer women have been donating eggs. Critics 8) __________ that it is dangerous to donate eggs and also say that people should do it for free and not for money. Despite the 9) ___________, it is likely that paying for eggs 10)___________________more common in the future.

Questions

Select the correct answer according to the text.

Principio del formulario 1 the her hers	6 born be born are born
2 in at on	7 that whom who
3 tells says speaks	8 saying says say
4 in on at	9 advices critics advertised
5 sorting sorted sort	10  will become will became had become

Find in the text the following categories.

1.      A  phrasal verb: _______________________________________

2.      An adverb: ___________________________________________

3.      A conditional verb: ____________________________________

4.      A past participle verb: _________________________________

5.      A connector: _________________________________________

6.       A conjuction: ________________________________________

7.       A relative word: ______________________________________

8.       An adjective: ________________________________________

9.      A composed noun: ____________________________________

10.   An infinitive verb: ____________________________________

READING COMPREHENSION - INTELLIGENT PILLS

TOPIC:   ______________________                 DATE: ____________     GRADE: __________

Intelligence pills

      Instructions: Read through the text, answer the questions that follow.

Some scientists have predicted that healthy adults and children may one day take drugs to improve their intelligence and intellectual performance.  A research group has suggested that such drugs might become as common as coffee or tea within the next couple of decades.

To counter this, students taking exams might have to take drugs tests like athletes.  There are already drugs that are known to improve mental performance, like Ritalin, which is given to children with problems concentrating.  A drug given to people with trouble sleeping also helps people remember numbers.

These drugs raise serious legal and moral questions, but people already take vitamins to help them remember things better, so it will not be a simple problem to solve.  It will probably be very difficult to decide at what point a food supplement becomes an unfair drug in an examination. 

Principio del formulario

Questions

Q1 - Only children will take pills to improve their intellectual performance.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q2 - Intelligence pills are already as common as coffee or tea.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q3 - Coffee is as common as tea.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q4 - Students could have to take intelligence drugs tests.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q5 - A sleeping pill helps people remember numbers.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q6 - Vitamins to help people study are illegal.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q7 - Food supplements are unfair.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q8 – There are already drugs that are known to improve mental performance.

 Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q9 - Food supplements must be taken by athletes.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q10 – F Red bull is a drink for athletes.

Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Final del formulario

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE REVIEW.

Dear students! You can do a short review o the following  topics: COMPARATIVE AND  SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES here. Just go to the  links:


http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Comparative%20Adjectives.pdf

http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Superlative%20Adjectives.pdf


Do this practice too.

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BOB                                                 HOMER                                            ALICE

28 YEARS OLD                             39 YEARS OLD                                9 YEARS OLD

55 KILOS                                       80 KILOS                                         33 KILOS

1.50 MT                                         1.55 MT                                            1.20 MT

               

1. Use the information of each one to do five comparative sentences.

a.  _________________________________

b.  _________________________________

c.   _________________________________

d.  _________________________________

e.  _________________________________

2. Choose the correct comparative of the adjectives.

a. Take an ice cream is  better than   best than to eat cake.

b. Travel by buses is  cheapest than   cheaper than travel by planes.

c. the plum is more bigger than   bigger than the strawberry.

d. smoking is  more dangerous  than  most dangerous than to drink alcohol.

e. I will try to be best than  better than all the rest of students.

 3. Choose the correct superlative of the adjectives.

a. Paul has got  the most expensive the expensivest car I know.

b. My house is the biggest  the most big in my street.

c. Summer is the hottest  the hotest season of the year.

d. Sara is really intelligent. In fact she is the intelligentest the most inteligent person I know.

e. Our class is  the most noisy the noisiest of the school. I wish it wouldn’t!

f. Nelly has bought the most interesting the interestingest book she saw at the bookstore.

g. My dog is the fattest  the most fat in the neighborhood.

h. Felipe is the happiest  the happyiest friend that I have had.

i. Sara really sings very badly. In fact she is the baddest the worst singer   I´ve heard.

j. Riosucio has many people  the most part the more part of them are from Indian resguards.