Pre-test Semester 1

BOLIVIAN WRESTLERS

      In El Alto in Bolivia, an audience is sitting around a huge wretling ring. The spectators are getting impatient and so they start to scream :’Bring them on! Bring them on!’ Suddenly, an announcer speaks into the microphone: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s time for Yolanda and Claudina!’ The crowd shouts and applauds with excitement.

     Two women enter. Yolanda and Claudina walk through the crowd like pop stars. They smile and greet their friends until suddenly the music stops. Both women jump into the wrestling ring and within seconds, Claudina hits Yolanda. Yolanda grabs Claudina. Claudina tries to escape, but Yolanda doesn’t let her go. She spins Claudina round and throws down on the floor. The audience goes crazy!

     As Claudina lies on the floor, Yolanda is smiling and waving to the crowd. She doesn’t see Claudina get up behind her. Then Claudina pushes Yolanda onto the ropes. The crowd shouts at herr. Claudina is the baddie in this competition so when Yolanda – the goodie – gets up and throws Claudina out of the ring, the crowd cheers with happiness. One minute Yolanda is winning. The next minute, Claudina is winning.

      Wrestling in Bolivia is incredibly popular and after a hard day’s work many people love watching this mixture of sport, drama and entertainment. Usually, the wrestling matches are between men wearing mask and special costumes. But in El Alto you can also see women wrestling where it’s especially popular.

      Yolanda is one of the top women wrestlers. Her father was also a wrestler so it’s a family tradition. During the day she makes clothes. She also has two daughters who both like to become wrestlers one day. Yolanda doesn’t think so. ‘My daughters ask me why I do this. It’s dangerous and they complain that wrestling doesn’t bring any money into the house.’ But Yolanda loves wrestling because of her fans and she has lots of them.

      One fan called Esperanza Cancina pays $1.50 ( a large part of her salary) to sit near the ring. She explains why she likes watching the wrestling: ‘ It’s a distraction. The women wrestlers fight here and we laugh and forget our problems for three or four hours. At home, we’re sad. What is the text about?

• Wrestling in Bolivia

• Yolanda's life

• Claudia's life

• Bolivian

BOLIVIAN WRESTLERS

      In El Alto in Bolivia, an audience is sitting around a huge wretling ring. The spectators are getting impatient and so they start to scream :’Bring them on! Bring them on!’ Suddenly, an announcer speaks into the microphone: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s time for Yolanda and Claudina!’ The crowd shouts and applauds with excitement.

     Two women enter. Yolanda and Claudina walk through the crowd like pop stars. They smile and greet their friends until suddenly the music stops. Both women jump into the wrestling ring and within seconds, Claudina hits Yolanda. Yolanda grabs Claudina. Claudina tries to escape, but Yolanda doesn’t let her go. She spins Claudina round and throws down on the floor. The audience goes crazy!

     As Claudina lies on the floor, Yolanda is smiling and waving to the crowd. She doesn’t see Claudina get up behind her. Then Claudina pushes Yolanda onto the ropes. The crowd shouts at herr. Claudina is the baddie in this competition so when Yolanda – the goodie – gets up and throws Claudina out of the ring, the crowd cheers with happiness. One minute Yolanda is winning. The next minute, Claudina is winning.

      Wrestling in Bolivia is incredibly popular and after a hard day’s work many people love watching this mixture of sport, drama and entertainment. Usually, the wrestling matches are between men wearing mask and special costumes. But in El Alto you can also see women wrestling where it’s especially popular.

      Yolanda is one of the top women wrestlers. Her father was also a wrestler so it’s a family tradition. During the day she makes clothes. She also has two daughters who both like to become wrestlers one day. Yolanda doesn’t think so. ‘My daughters ask me why I do this. It’s dangerous and they complain that wrestling doesn’t bring any money into the house.’ But Yolanda loves wrestling because of her fans and she has lots of them.

      One fan called Esperanza Cancina pays $1.50 ( a large part of her salary) to sit near the ring. She explains why she likes watching the wrestling: ‘ It’s a distraction. The women wrestlers fight here and we laugh and forget our problems for three or four hours.

At home, we’re sad. "Ezperanza explains why she likes watching the wrestling". The word like means.....

• Enjoys in general

• Wants to do in the future

• Similar behaviour to

• Similar appearance to.

BOLIVIAN WRESTLERS

      In El Alto in Bolivia, an audience is sitting around a huge wretling ring. The spectators are getting impatient and so they start to scream :’Bring them on! Bring them on!’ Suddenly, an announcer speaks into the microphone: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s time for Yolanda and Claudina!’ The crowd shouts and applauds with excitement.

     Two women enter. Yolanda and Claudina walk through the crowd like pop stars. They smile and greet their friends until suddenly the music stops. Both women jump into the wrestling ring and within seconds, Claudina hits Yolanda. Yolanda grabs Claudina. Claudina tries to escape, but Yolanda doesn’t let her go. She spins Claudina round and throws down on the floor. The audience goes crazy!

     As Claudina lies on the floor, Yolanda is smiling and waving to the crowd. She doesn’t see Claudina get up behind her. Then Claudina pushes Yolanda onto the ropes. The crowd shouts at herr. Claudina is the baddie in this competition so when Yolanda – the goodie – gets up and throws Claudina out of the ring, the crowd cheers with happiness. One minute Yolanda is winning. The next minute, Claudina is winning.

      Wrestling in Bolivia is incredibly popular and after a hard day’s work many people love watching this mixture of sport, drama and entertainment. Usually, the wrestling matches are between men wearing mask and special costumes. But in El Alto you can also see women wrestling where it’s especially popular.

      Yolanda is one of the top women wrestlers. Her father was also a wrestler so it’s a family tradition. During the day she makes clothes. She also has two daughters who both like to become wrestlers one day. Yolanda doesn’t think so. ‘My daughters ask me why I do this. It’s dangerous and they complain that wrestling doesn’t bring any money into the house.’ But Yolanda loves wrestling because of her fans and she has lots of them.

      One fan called Esperanza Cancina pays $1.50 ( a large part of her salary) to sit near the ring. She explains why she likes watching the wrestling: ‘ It’s a distraction. The women wrestlers fight here and we laugh and forget our problems for three or four hours.

Who is the goodie?

• Yolanda

• Claudina

• Esperanza

• Cancina

BOLIVIAN WRESTLERS

      In El Alto in Bolivia, an audience is sitting around a huge wretling ring. The spectators are getting impatient and so they start to scream :’Bring them on! Bring them on!’ Suddenly, an announcer speaks into the microphone: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s time for Yolanda and Claudina!’ The crowd shouts and applauds with excitement.

     Two women enter. Yolanda and Claudina walk through the crowd like pop stars. They smile and greet their friends until suddenly the music stops. Both women jump into the wrestling ring and within seconds, Claudina hits Yolanda. Yolanda grabs Claudina. Claudina tries to escape, but Yolanda doesn’t let her go. She spins Claudina round and throws down on the floor. The audience goes crazy!

     As Claudina lies on the floor, Yolanda is smiling and waving to the crowd. She doesn’t see Claudina get up behind her. Then Claudina pushes Yolanda onto the ropes. The crowd shouts at herr. Claudina is the baddie in this competition so when Yolanda – the goodie – gets up and throws Claudina out of the ring, the crowd cheers with happiness. One minute Yolanda is winning. The next minute, Claudina is winning.

      Wrestling in Bolivia is incredibly popular and after a hard day’s work many people love watching this mixture of sport, drama and entertainment. Usually, the wrestling matches are between men wearing mask and special costumes. But in El Alto you can also see women wrestling where it’s especially popular.

      Yolanda is one of the top women wrestlers. Her father was also a wrestler so it’s a family tradition. During the day she makes clothes. She also has two daughters who both like to become wrestlers one day. Yolanda doesn’t think so. ‘My daughters ask me why I do this. It’s dangerous and they complain that wrestling doesn’t bring any money into the house.’ But Yolanda loves wrestling because of her fans and she has lots of them.

      One fan called Esperanza Cancina pays $1.50 ( a large part of her salary) to sit near the ring. She explains why she likes watching the wrestling: ‘ It’s a distraction. The women wrestlers fight here and we laugh and forget our problems for three or four hours.

What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

• The audience goes crazy

• The two wrestlers before the fight

• The reason why a fan watches it

• Yolanda and Claudia like pop star

Measuring Health and Happiness

 

       The small country of Bhutan in the Himalayan  mountains is over one thousand years old. In the past it was a poor becoming more and more popular with tourists. Medicine and  health  is improving and its economy is growing. King Jigme Singnye Wangchuck, the king of Bhutan until 2006, talked  about his country’s ‘Gross National Happines” . In other words, he thought happiness  is the way to measure the country’s development.

       But how do you  measure happiness? Perhaps health  is the best way because a famous doctor once said, “Happy people generally don’t get sick. It’s also easy to measure how many people feel ill or unhealthy in acountry. For example one survey says  Iceland is the ‘healtiest country in the world’ because men and women  live a long time there,  the air is very clean and there are more doctors available per person than anywhere else in the  world.

       However, there was another survey of  the happiest countries in the world and Iceland was not near top. The questions on this survey included: How much do you earn? How healthy are you? How safe do you feel? After visiting 155 different countries, the researchers decided that Denmark feels happier than other countries.

       So does happiness equal money and good health? Not according to the artist Erik Krikortz. He feels that there are other ways of measuring happiness. Krikortz has a website and visitors click on different happy or sad faces to comment on how well they sleep, their family and friends, their level of stress, their inspiration and their physical activity. When you finish, his website adds the results for each area and it gives you a final result for your happiness.

        In his home city of Stockholm, Krikortz also shows the results of his survey as different coloured lights on the side of a large building in the city. For example, red means the people of  Stockholm are very happy, green is OK and purple means many people are sad. A lot of people look at the building every day and see how we are, Krikortz says. The coloured lights are also useful if you feel like visiting the city. For example, if the lights are red, you know the locals are feeling happy.

What is the text about?

• The country development

• Happiness in 155 countries

• Some different ways to measure happiness

• Krikortz’s survey

Measuring Health and Happiness

 

       The small country of Bhutan in the Himalayan  mountains is over one thousand years old. In the past it was a poor becoming more and more popular with tourists. Medicine and  health  is improving and its economy is growing. King Jigme Singnye Wangchuck, the king of Bhutan until 2006, talked  about his country’s ‘Gross National Happines” . In other words, he thought happiness  is the way to measure the country’s development.

       But how do you  measure happiness? Perhaps health  is the best way because a famous doctor once said, “Happy people generally don’t get sick. It’s also easy to measure how many people feel ill or unhealthy in acountry. For example one survey says  Iceland is the ‘healtiest country in the world’ because men and women  live a long time there,  the air is very clean and there are more doctors available per person than anywhere else in the  world.

       However, there was another survey of  the happiest countries in the world and Iceland was not near top. The questions on this survey included: How much do you earn? How healthy are you? How safe do you feel? After visiting 155 different countries, the researchers decided that Denmark feels happier than other countries.

       So does happiness equal money and good health? Not according to the artist Erik Krikortz. He feels that there are other ways of measuring happiness. Krikortz has a website and visitors click on different happy or sad faces to comment on how well they sleep, their family and friends, their level of stress, their inspiration and their physical activity. When you finish, his website adds the results for each area and it gives you a final result for your happiness.

        In his home city of Stockholm, Krikortz also shows the results of his survey as different coloured lights on the side of a large building in the city. For example, red means the people of  Stockholm are very happy, green is OK and purple means many people are sad. A lot of people look at the building every day and see how we are, Krikortz says. The coloured lights are also useful if you feel like visiting the city. For example, if the lights are red, you know the locals are feeling happy.

How did the King of Bhutan measure the country's development?

• By money

• By happiness

• By health

• By lights

Measuring Health and Happiness

 

       The small country of Bhutan in the Himalayan  mountains is over one thousand years old. In the past it was a poor becoming more and more popular with tourists. Medicine and  health  is improving and its economy is growing. King Jigme Singnye Wangchuck, the king of Bhutan until 2006, talked  about his country’s ‘Gross National Happines” . In other words, he thought happiness  is the way to measure the country’s development.

       But how do you  measure happiness? Perhaps health  is the best way because a famous doctor once said, “Happy people generally don’t get sick. It’s also easy to measure how many people feel ill or unhealthy in acountry. For example one survey says  Iceland is the ‘healtiest country in the world’ because men and women  live a long time there,  the air is very clean and there are more doctors available per person than anywhere else in the  world.

       However, there was another survey of  the happiest countries in the world and Iceland was not near top. The questions on this survey included: How much do you earn? How healthy are you? How safe do you feel? After visiting 155 different countries, the researchers decided that Denmark feels happier than other countries.

       So does happiness equal money and good health? Not according to the artist Erik Krikortz. He feels that there are other ways of measuring happiness. Krikortz has a website and visitors click on different happy or sad faces to comment on how well they sleep, their family and friends, their level of stress, their inspiration and their physical activity. When you finish, his website adds the results for each area and it gives you a final result for your happiness.

        In his home city of Stockholm, Krikortz also shows the results of his survey as different coloured lights on the side of a large building in the city. For example, red means the people of  Stockholm are very happy, green is OK and purple means many people are sad. A lot of people look at the building every day and see how we are, Krikortz says. The coloured lights are also useful if you feel like visiting the city. For example, if the lights are red, you know the locals are feeling happy.

What do visitors to Krikortz's website click on?

• With answers the questions

• By looking at people's faces

• By measuring the number of sick people

• By measuring the number of health  people

Measuring Health and Happiness

 

       The small country of Bhutan in the Himalayan  mountains is over one thousand years old. In the past it was a poor becoming more and more popular with tourists. Medicine and  health  is improving and its economy is growing. King Jigme Singnye Wangchuck, the king of Bhutan until 2006, talked  about his country’s ‘Gross National Happines” . In other words, he thought happiness  is the way to measure the country’s development.

       But how do you  measure happiness? Perhaps health  is the best way because a famous doctor once said, “Happy people generally don’t get sick. It’s also easy to measure how many people feel ill or unhealthy in acountry. For example one survey says  Iceland is the ‘healtiest country in the world’ because men and women  live a long time there,  the air is very clean and there are more doctors available per person than anywhere else in the  world.

       However, there was another survey of  the happiest countries in the world and Iceland was not near top. The questions on this survey included: How much do you earn? How healthy are you? How safe do you feel? After visiting 155 different countries, the researchers decided that Denmark feels happier than other countries.

       So does happiness equal money and good health? Not according to the artist Erik Krikortz. He feels that there are other ways of measuring happiness. Krikortz has a website and visitors click on different happy or sad faces to comment on how well they sleep, their family and friends, their level of stress, their inspiration and their physical activity. When you finish, his website adds the results for each area and it gives you a final result for your happiness.

        In his home city of Stockholm, Krikortz also shows the results of his survey as different coloured lights on the side of a large building in the city. For example, red means the people of  Stockholm are very happy, green is OK and purple means many people are sad. A lot of people look at the building every day and see how we are, Krikortz says. The coloured lights are also useful if you feel like visiting the city. For example, if the lights are red, you know the locals are feeling happy.

Which is easier to measure?

• Sickness and ill health

• Money

• Faces

• Numbers

Measuring Health and Happiness

 

       The small country of Bhutan in the Himalayan  mountains is over one thousand years old. In the past it was a poor becoming more and more popular with tourists. Medicine and  health  is improving and its economy is growing. King Jigme Singnye Wangchuck, the king of Bhutan until 2006, talked  about his country’s ‘Gross National Happines” . In other words, he thought happiness  is the way to measure the country’s development.

       But how do you  measure happiness? Perhaps health  is the best way because a famous doctor once said, “Happy people generally don’t get sick. It’s also easy to measure how many people feel ill or unhealthy in acountry. For example one survey says  Iceland is the ‘healtiest country in the world’ because men and women  live a long time there,  the air is very clean and there are more doctors available per person than anywhere else in the  world.

       However, there was another survey of  the happiest countries in the world and Iceland was not near top. The questions on this survey included: How much do you earn? How healthy are you? How safe do you feel? After visiting 155 different countries, the researchers decided that Denmark feels happier than other countries.

       So does happiness equal money and good health? Not according to the artist Erik Krikortz. He feels that there are other ways of measuring happiness. Krikortz has a website and visitors click on different happy or sad faces to comment on how well they sleep, their family and friends, their level of stress, their inspiration and their physical activity. When you finish, his website adds the results for each area and it gives you a final result for your happiness.

        In his home city of Stockholm, Krikortz also shows the results of his survey as different coloured lights on the side of a large building in the city. For example, red means the people of  Stockholm are very happy, green is OK and purple means many people are sad. A lot of people look at the building every day and see how we are, Krikortz says. The coloured lights are also useful if you feel like visiting the city. For example, if the lights are red, you know the locals are feeling happy. What color are the lights on the building when Stockholm is happy?

• Green

• Red

• Purple

• Yellow

The cycle rickshaw is a small – scale local means of transport ; it is also known by a variety of other names such as pedicab, bikecab, becak, or trishaw, or simply rickshaw which also refers to auto  rickshaws pulled by person on foot. Cycle rickshaws are human –powered, a type of tricycle designed to carry passengers in addition to the driver. They are often used on hire basis. Cycle rickshaws are widely used in major cities around the world. But most commonly in cities of South,  Southeast, and East Asia.

        Cycle rickshaw in Indonesia are called becak. Becak was considered an icon of the capital city of Jakarta prior to its ban in 1970s. Citing concerns of public order, the city government forbade them on the city’s main streets. However, many becaks still operate near slums through the city. Attempts at reinforcing the ban resulted in large-scale seizures of

The vehicle in the late 1990s and in 2007.

 

What is the text about?

• modern vehicle                                                

• vehicle four-wheeled

• traditional vehicle                                            

• modern transportation