Analyzing Current Events: Reading Comprehension Exercises

Twitter and Facebook at School

Part 3b, Part 5a

Comprehension Check:

• A: (Internet, Curriculum)
• B: (Scheme, Safety)
• C: (Anyone, Defamed)

Vocabulary Focus:

Transition, Concern, Issue, Actually

Answers Summary:

1b, 2b, 3c

Teen Spirit: What's It Really Like to Be a Teenager?

Part 3a, Part 4b

Comprehension Check:

• A: (First we, 25th years)
• B: (These results, development)
• C: (The truth, easier)

Vocabulary Focus:

Transition, Concerned, Baffled, Massive

Answers Summary:

1c, 2b, 3a

Cigarettes May Have to Be Sold in Plain Packets

Part 2b, Part 4a

Comprehension Check:

• A: (We are, country)
• B: (Cigarettes, explicit)
• C: (All levels, harmful)

Vocabulary Focus:

Ban, Appealing, Plain, Requiring

Answers Summary:

1b, 2c, 3a

Tablets to Beat Desktop Sales

Part 2a, Part 3b

Comprehension Check:

• A: (Millions, gadgets)
• B: (People, tablet)
• C: (Apple, standstill)

Vocabulary Focus:

Device, Launch, Forecast, Trend

Answers Summary:

1c, 2c, 3c

What the Titanic Means Today

Part 2-3a, Part 3-4b

Comprehension Check:

• A: (The great, control)
• B: (For 100, society)
• C: (Two years, so on)

Vocabulary Focus:

Smart, Flawed, Landmark, Steady

Answers Summary:

1c, 2b, 3c

Cleaner Ruins $800,000 Artwork That She Thought Was Dirty

Part 2a, Part 6b

Comprehension Check:

• A: (The sculpture, Dortmund)
• B: (He thought, bucket)
• C: (Cleaning, memo)

Vocabulary Focus:

Removed, Damaged, Litter, Display

Answers Summary:

1a, 2c, 3a

Young Turn to Piracy to Watch Pay TV for Free

Part 3a, Part 5b

Comprehension Check:

• A: (Broadcasting, Atlantic)
• B: (And, one)
• C: (Yet, reprimanded)

Vocabulary Focus:

Screens, Bits, Linked, Chances

Answers Summary:

1a, 2b, 3b

Alert Pizza Delivery Driver Saves Customer's Life

Part 2a, Part 3b

Comprehension Check:

• A: (We make, to call)
• B: (Guy, Wilson)
• C: (How many, 911)

Vocabulary Focus:

Elderly, Likely, Break, Banged

Answers Summary:

1b, 2a, 3a

Spain: No Country for the Young?

Part 3b (Nada for Part 1a)

Comprehension Check:

• A: (I only, month)
• B: (It is, market)
• C: (Many, overqualified)

Vocabulary Focus:

Plentiful, Paralyzed, Scarce, Advance

Answers Summary:

1a, 2a, 3c

Scientists Call for Research on Climate Link to Geological Disasters

Part 1b, Part 3c

Comprehension Check:

• A: (It was, likely)
• B: (Melting, ground)
• C: (Studies, world)

Vocabulary Focus:

Likely, Rise, Link, Distant

Answers Summary:

1b, 2c, 3c

Are You Awake? They're Online

Part 4a, Part 5c

Comprehension Check:

• A: (The average, study)
• B: (And because, hours)
• C: (It found, grades)

Vocabulary Focus:

Fears, Pack, Findings, Tethered

Answers Summary:

1a, 2c, 3c