Reading Comprehesion

Reading Comprehesion

Reading Comprehesion

by Katherine Tucto and Stefany Rojas

The man behind KFC

​Harland Sanders was born in the USA in 1890, but his childhood wasn’t a happy one. His father died when he was only six. His mother didn’t have much money so she needed to find a job. She went to work in a shirt factory and Harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother and sister. It was when he first learned to cook.

He left home when he was twelve and worked on a nearby farm. After that he had a lot of different jobs and in 1930 he became the manager of a service station in Corbin, Kentucky. He started cooking meals for hungry travelers who stopped at the service station, and soon people came only for the food. Harland couldn’t serve everybody because the place was too small. So he decided to move to a 142-seat restaurant across the street where he could serve all his customers.

Over the next nine years he developed the secret chicken recipe that made him famous.

​The first official Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant didn’t open until August 1952 and by 1964 there were more than 600 KFCs in North America. That year Sanders sold the company for $2 million, but he continued to work as KFC’s public spokesman and visited restaurants all over the world. He travelled 250,000 miles every year until he died in 1980, aged 90. Six years later, PepsiCo bought KFC for $840 million.

​There are now KFC restaurants in more than 110 countries round the world and KFC has 12 million customers every day — but the recipe is still a secret!

​After reading the text carefully,

answer the following:

Multiple Choice

1.       What is the main idea in the text?

• a) KFC is located in 110 restaurants around the world.

• b)  KFC has 12 million customers every day.

• c)  The first official KFC open in 1964.

• d) Harland Sanders, despite not being alive, left a legacy through his secret chicken recipe.

Multiple Choice

2.       Where did Harland learn to cook?

•   a) At home.

• b)      In a company.

• c)       In a farm.

• d)      In a shirt Factory.

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3. When was Harland Sanders born?   

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4.    When did his father die?

Multiple Choice

5. What does this story try to explain?

• a)       The effort of a man who did not give up.

• b)       The greed of a man.

• c)       Make known the poverty of some inhabitants.

• d)       Publicize the difficult economic situation of the people.

   

Multiple Choice

6.      Taking into account the content of the reading,

it can be said that:

• a)       The story is completely real and has a positive message.

• b)       It is a fictional story.

• c)  The main character had no goals in life.

• d)  People fail to meet their goals.

   

Multiple Choice

7. Why do you think people returned to Harland's first restaurant?

• a)  Because the costumers loved Harland’s food.

• b) The restaurant has fun games.

• c)  They liked the friendliness of the waiters.

• d)   It was a comfortable place for the costumers.

   

Multiple Choice

8. What do you learn about the article?

• a) You're never too old to achieve dreams.

• b) If you can't, you should give up.

• c)  People don’t keep their promises.

• d)   It is necessary to wait so long to do a goal.

   

Multiple Choice

9. You consider it is correct that:

• a) Harland had such a difficult life.

• b) Harland has followed his dreams.

• c) Harland has abandoned his life on the farm.

• d)  His food tastes bad.

   

Multiple Choice

10. Which of the following expressions do you consider the most appropriate to tell the story?

• a) It is a content that transmits self-confidence and perseverance to meet your goals.

• b)The story transmits the reality of households economically.

• c)You must wait a long time to fulfill a dream.

• d) The purpose of the story describes people who do not follow their dreams.