Ejercicios de Comprensión Lectora en Inglés: Home Alone, Spyphones, Yellow Journalism, The Global Village, Married or Single y Climate Change

Ejercicios de comprensión lectora y gramática en inglés

Home alone

1. There are many more one-person households and more single parents.

2. Women are not so willing to get married, they are more independent, and more women become single mothers.

3. True. Many other… process (lines 3-4)

4. False. The prototypical… old-fashioned. (lines 8-9)

5. False. These changing… parents. (lines 10-11)

6. True. Obsession… friends. (lines 13-14)

7. Decreasing

8. Currently

9. Up

11. JD, whose portrait of Captain Sparrow is superb, is starring in Finding Neverland.

12. Michael asked her where she had found those trainers.

13. He would scare the Dursleys to death.

14. That box is too heavy to carry.

Spyphones

1. It cuts out background noise and enables you to speak in very noisy situations.

2. If you can hear the person on the other end, you will know the noise will be cut out in the conversation.

3. False. People… boss (lines 1-2)

4. False. [The device] does not use a microphone (lines 5-6)

5. False. You can only see an earpiece (line 7)

6. True. A wireless version is also being developed (lines 7-8)

7. Useless

8. Construction

9. Boss

10. Loudness

11. Nothing can be heard in a helicopter.

12. Michael wondered why he did that every day.

13. I would have left him right away.

14. They changed me 40 dollars for the wine.

Yellow Journalism

1. They are manipulated, badly treated, exaggerated, not carefully checked, with distortion of facts, lack of objectivity, manipulation of language.

2. Because two of the earliest yellow papers carried a cartoon character called "The Yellow Kid".

3. FALSE: "Sometimes… falsified" (lines 2-3)

4. FALSE: "These papers… success" (lines 8-9)

5. FALSE: "The war… Cuban rebels" (lines 11-12)

6. FALSE: Hearst is said… the war" (lines 13-14)

7. Exciting

8. Event, fact

9. Employ

10. Nickname

11. Alice asked her brother to buy her the paper if he was going out.

12. The yellow press is considered dishonest by many people.

13. Clark Kent worked for a newspaper which was called the Daily Planet.

14. What does the yellow press specialize in?

The Global Village

1. Because many foreign children have arrived lately.

2. Jobs and houses are offered to foreigners if they bring at least two children to the local school and stay in the village for at least five years.

3. False. Remote village / "As far from big cities as Aguaviva." (lines 1-3)

4. False. "Foreigners now make up nearly half of all the pupils" (line 7)

5. True. "Foreign families with at least two children…" (line 11)

6. False. "Ten families carefully selected from thousands of applicants…" (lines 12-13)

7. Brazilian, Chilean, Cuban.

8. Mayor

9. Carefully

10. Historical

11. Was driving

12. The village would have disappeared.

13. My little sister can't be expected to behave responsibly.

14. He has been attending Italian lessons since / because his family moved to Rome five years ago.

Married or Single

1. Because married people have lower risks of dying / because when you are married, you have someone who takes care of you.

2. Premature death

3. True. "Married men… single counterparts" (lines 3-4)

4. False. "It is clear… people alive." (line 10)

5. False. "When the effects… of death." (lines 7-8-9)

6. False. "However, while… dying prematurely." (lines 11-12-13)

7. Chance

8. Expert

9. Warning

10. Small

11. My aunt said that single men should drive slowly if they wanted to live longer.

12. How long have you been married?

13. If I were pregnant…

14. That man talks a lot; so / therefore, he has more chances to become a politician.

Climate Change

1. According to the text, economists think climate change is a long-term threat and therefore we should worry about other more important issues such as water shortage or economics.

2. They criticized their comments and accused them of not being realistic about the problem.

3. False. "A group of economists, including three Nobel Prize winners…" (lines 1-3)

4. False. "The effects were expected to happen in a far future" (line 5)

5. False. "The experts' conclusions have been attacked by many scientists" (lines 9-10)

6. True. "They were what he called the 'Real Madrid' team of 'galactica' economists" (lines 11-12)

7. Criticized

8. Winner

9. Serious

10. Expectation

11. He said they were there that day to reach consensus.

12. Many scientists have attacked their conclusions.

13. What should money be spent on?

14. If governments spent less money on wars, they could spend more money on other important subjects.