Previous reading_English 9_Second Term

Read the text and answer the questions:

What is a social entrepreneur?

• a) Someone who starts a business only to make money
  

• b) Someone who creates a business to help people and make a change
  

• c) Someone who only works for charities
  

• d) Someone who works for the government

Read the text and answer the questions:

Which company is mentioned as an example of an entrepreneurial change?

• a) Amazon
  
  

• b) eBay
  
  

• c) Microsoft
  
  

• d) Google

Read the text and answer the questions:

Why must social entrepreneurship be sustainable?

• a) So it can continue for a long time and have a lasting effect
  
  
  

• b) So it can depend on donations forever
  
  

• c) So it can avoid making a profit
  
  

• d) So it can get government support

Read the text and answer the questions:

What is funding?

• a) A way of making people famous
  
  
  

• b) Money that supports a business or project
  
  
  

• c) A type of education
  
  
  

• d) A new business idea

Read the text and answer the questions:

What does the word mission mean in the text?

• a) A company’s goal or purpose
  
  
  
  

• b) A group of workers in an office
  
  
  
  

• c) A business that sells only one product
  
  
  

• d) A government law

Read the text and answer the questions:

What is microlending?

• a) A type of bank for rich people
  
  
  
  
  

• b) A business strategy to sell products
  
  
  
  
  

• c) Giving small loans to poor people who cannot get loans from banks
  
  
  
  

• d) A new way to use social media

Read the text and answer the questions:

Who is Muhammad Yunus?

• a) A businessman who created eBay
  
  
  
  
  
  

• b) A social entrepreneur who won the Nobel Peace Prize for microlending
  
  
  
  
  
  

• c) A professor who teaches business students
  
  
  
  
  

• d) A politician who works with banks

Read the text and answer the questions:

Why do many banks not give loans to poor people?

• a) Because they believe poor people will not pay them back
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• b) Because they only want to give money to rich people
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• c) Because poor people do not need loans
  
  
  
  
  
  

• d) Because they only work with social entrepreneurs

Read the text and answer the questions:

What does the word eligible mean in the text?

• a) Allowed or qualified to do something
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• b) Too poor to get help
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• c) Someone who has a lot of money
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• d) A person who owns a business

Read the text and answer the questions:

How do microlending programs work?

• a) Poor people borrow small loans and usually pay them back
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• b) People receive money but do not have to return it
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• c) Only big companies can participate
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• d) Governments give large amounts of money to organizations