READING COMPREHENSION FOR11º

Read the texts and answer the questions

READING 1

Carpenters
Carpenters are involved in the construction of many different types of structures such as bridges or large buildings. Some carpenters change employers each time they finish a construction job. The duties of a carpenter differ just about each time the accept employment. In most cases, carpenters work in many different locations hundred miles away each year.
Carpentry is a very strenuous outdoor profession. Carpenters endure climbing, bending, and heavy laborious work. Often they put themselves at risk of injury working with sharp tools and they work in areas where it is all too easy to fall or slip.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
1. Which of following may a carpenter do in a normal day of work?
a. type letters b. package and ship mail
c. answer phones d. help build a bridge

2. What is unique about a Carpenters job?
a. They do the same thing all day.
b. They something different each new job they receive.
c. They always work for the same person throughout their career.
d. They wear sandals.

3. What is one skill that would handy to have if you were a Carpenter?
a. typing b. cooking
c. wood working d. sewing

4. Write three words that describe a Carpenter:
1. _______________________________
2. _______________________________
3. _______________________________

READING 2

TIFFANY'S COOKIES
Tiffany started baking cookies when she was in fifth grade. By the time she reached seventh grade, her cookies were locally famous. All of her friends would beg her to make her famous chocolate chip cookies almost every week.
Then one day a local reporter wrote a story about her and her famous cookies. The story was later picked up by National Television news. The story talked about the number of different recipes tiffany could make and how tasty her cookies were. Upon seeing the story, Coco Cookie Company called Tiffany to see if she would sell them her famous cookie recipe.
Tiffany sold them her oatmeal raisin recipe for twenty thousand dollars and her pudding cookie recipe for fifty thousand dollars, but she refused to sell them her chocolate chip recipe. She decided to keep this recipe and start her own company. On August 2002, she started Tiffany Boom Cookies Inc.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. When did tiffany began to bake cookies?
a. third grade b. fifth grade
c. seventh grade d. eighth grade

2. What cookie recipe was Tiffany's most famous for?
a. sugar cookies b. oatmeal cookies
c. raisin cookies d. chocolate chip cookies

3. What news story really lead to her big success?
a. local news b. county news
c. state news d. school news

4. What company purchased some of Tiffany's recipes?
a. Alpo cookies b. Bobo Cookies
c. Coco cookies d. none of these

5. How much money did Tiffany make from selling two of her recipes?
a. $20,000 b. $40,000
c. $65,000 d. $75,000