/ 6) Read the following passage, then answer the questions:
Some editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Once, a journalist was instructed to write an article on a new president’s palace. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and refused to publish
it. The article began: "Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace." The editor at once sent a telegram telling the journalist to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
The journalist set out to obtain these important facts. But he took a long time to send them and the editor got impatient. In another telegram he said if he didn't reply soon, he would be fired. A week later, the editor was informed that the poor man had been arrested and sent to prison.
A) Give short answers to the following questions:
1- Who arrested the journalist? The police or the guards of the president’s palace
2- Why was the editor impatient? ( The journalist took a long time to send him the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
3- Where was the journalist asked to go? a new president’s palace to get information for an article about it)
Choose the correct answer from a. b. c or d:
4- The underlined word refers to the........................................
a) sentence b) telegram
c) article d) palace
5- To be 'fired' here means to be.....................................
a) shot with a gun b
) dismissed c) set on fire d) promoted
A) Answer the following questions:
1- Leila and Amalia were helpless in the mountains. (
Explain this statement)
They had accident. Amalia was about to die. Her leg was broken. Leila had to find help in a lonely road in the mountains but there was no one to help so Leila tried bravely to get help and went to the villagers who helped Amalia
2- Who was the mask kept by and where? The mask was kept by Pablo in a safe in the hut
Read the following quotation and then answer the questions:
"United Mining operations in Peru ended in 1999."
What was 'United Mining'? it is a company works in mining
What did this statement show? It shows that Martin is liar as the company ended its operations in 1999
C. Complete the following to make meaningful sentences:
Ramon was chosen to get into the tomb first
because he was small enough to get through the hole in the wall
Amalia was a good archaeologist and so experienced
that Dr.Hafez chose her to be his assistant and in charge of a team of archaeologists