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Fast
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Fast reading exercise
will help you to develop your reading speed as well as your
comprehension. Try to finish the following passage in four
minutes.
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| I was very disappointed
not to be able to go to the jazz
concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said
that you could buy tickets
at the theatre box office
in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work
from 9 o'clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theatre
was during my 45-minute lunch
break. Unfortunately, the theatre is on the other side
of the town, and the bus service
between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if
you are lucky, you can make the
round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday,
I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus.
By the time I saw one come around
the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip-
so I gave up and went back
to office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on
Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed, I got
on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly
twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line
of people at the box office. I
heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour.
Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line,
I caught the next bus and headed
back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope
was to make the trip by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it
would be worth it to hear the concert. The trip by taxi
only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I
got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting
in line. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had
already sold all the tickets. |
Comprehension
Exercise
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d 7. b 8. d |
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1.The writer is probably ____________.
a. a worker b. a college teacher
c. manager of a company d. a clerk
2. He learned _______ that there would be a concert last Friday.
a. from his friends b. from one of his colleagues
c. over the radio d. from the newspaper
3. He could go and buy the ticket ________.
a. any day before work hours b. both before and after
work hours
c. only during lunch time d. on Saturday and Sunday
4. He tried to go to the theatre every day but only managed
to get there ________.
a. once b. twice
c. three times d. four times
5.One day the writer took _________to get to the theatre by
bus.
a. forty-five minutes b. fifteen minutes
c. exactly twenty minutes d. over an hour
6. He failed to get the ticket on Friday because _____________.
a. It was impossible to make the round trip to the theatre in
45 minutes
b. The concert wasn't on Friday
c. The taxi fare was too expensive
d. The tickets had been sold
out
7.The word "relieved" in the last sentence but one
may best be replaced by _____.
a. " surprised " b. "pleased"
c. " puzzled " d. "sorry"
8. The story is about ________.
a. a good concert
b. someone enjoying a good concert
c. someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends
d. someone's disappointment at not being able to go to the concert |
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