Reading Comprehension Practice: Technology, Health, Society and Culture Exercises for English Learners

Reading Comprehension Practice: Technology, Health, Society and Culture

1. Google in China

1. b/c
2. Google does not live up to its goal to make information universally accessible, by providing information and informing users when access has been restricted on certain search terms.
3. Frustrated / banned / refuses / practise what it preaches / restricted
4. He will find a long list of condemnatory articles regarding this movement.

2. Mood and Food

1. Taste is affected by our mood, and our mood is affected by our surroundings. He hopes that it will help him treat depression.
2. • F – "When our ability to taste salt diminishes, the taste of food won't be strong."
   • T – "If we're feeling stressed or anxious, our ability to taste salt and bitterness diminishes."
   • F – "Levels of these chemicals are low in people who suffer from depression."
3. a/c/b
4. b

3. Brazilian Football

1. They are in deep financial trouble. When he believes a company is undervalued.
2. b/a/c
3. foreign / loyal / in debt / pick
4. If Brazilian football players earned more money in Brazil, they wouldn't prefer playing abroad.

4. Shopping Centres

1. • F – "It all started … in the USA."
   • T – "Shopping centres are consumer paradises."
   • T – "The shopping centre became the place for family meetings, with or without shopping."
2. b/c/a
3. are bigger and have got more parking space. Safe.
4. b

5. To Take Away

1. Let him stay at home. Connor's life is in danger. His size.
2. a/b
3. Improve / appointments / neglect / stuff
4. Because they give their son too much food and don't take care of his nutrition. She hasn't succeeded in trying to control Connor's eating habits.

6. New Rules

1. • He / she doesn't promise to look for a job and stay off the streets.
   • Homelessness will be ended.
   • The chronic homeless.
2. b/c
3. Refuse / vast majority / reluctant / advocates
4. • T – "… numerous agencies dealt with the homeless on a short-term basis."
   • T – "… millions are being spent …"

7. Love Your Neighbour

1. c/b
2. Would vote for their favourite song. Usually receives 12 points from Greece.
3. • T – "… a now-abolished rule requiring performers to sing in the language of the country they are representing."
   • F – "… hundreds of millions of people continue watching the programme live."
4. represented / now-abolished / irrespective of / without a doubt / expect