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middle east technical university department of basic english

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contents foreword xi acknowledgements xiii mary 1 hanako 1 2 longleat house new york university 3 university of london 3 4 jim kate 5 the old england restaurant the statue of liberty 7 tomiko 8 tomiko king and ted 9 the garston family 10 11 cinemas 12 plaza shopping centre the international hotel 13 job advertisements 15 young love 16 various advertisements 17 san francisco 18 letter from halima and ahmed 20 derek 22 roland-evi-della ·23 letter from pam 24 joan 26 mahatma gandhi 27 william shakespeare 28 alfred hitchcock 29 charlie chaplin 30 super tanker disaster 31 selton s second shopping centre 32 lebrats visit 33 the buzz survey 34 d.h lawrence 35 the funniest film 35 v 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

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34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 tom s diary elvis presley going to britain transportation in turkey amy s restaurant small cars home swefet home a meeting laura letter from wendy education at home 1 education at home 2 john lennon guide to good eating radio times reader holidays seaford school bedgebury school letter from george nottingham bangor a language teacher s personal opinion the worlds of walt disney letter from family friends agency letter from kathy single fathers club plane crash in peru inverness lacrosse the barasana the motor car industry the ostrich rudyard kipling video clips dreams oranges the postage stamp volcanoes containers luminous and non-luminous bodies coal vi 37 38 39 41 42 43 43 45 46 48 49 50 51 53 54 55 56 58 59 60 62 64 66 67 69 71 73 74 75 76 77 79 81 83 85 86 89 91

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72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 cars of the future using electricity polymer ba iteries for electric vehicles effects of cigarette smoking microscopic organisms roller-skating takes off learning about mars pirates geothermal energy bali life in space nice not easy the olympic marathon the technological revolution manchester sen or sz vive la difference tornadoes industrial medicine and safety learning about computers seat belts james dean skyscrapers temperate climates the pen popular vs quality newspapers acid rain 1 acid rain 2 the kon-tiki voyage 1947 u.s cities past and present spas good or bad arts or science our first words your diet danger for the fun of it losing fertile land money vii 93 94 96 98 99 102 103 106 109 111 113 115 117 119 121 123 125 127 129 131 132 133 135 136 138 140 142 143 144 146 148 151 153 155 157 160 162

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109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 money then and now the cashless society dams motherhood in a changing world women in ghana ordinary aspirin is truly a wonder drug solar energy desalination methods renewable and non-renewable resources bookworms what a good idea a load of rubbish work at home woman pilot saves gangster from prison industrial pollution around the world in a paper plane food rural migration outward bound a plain man s guide to investment the samaritans what happened to the dinosaurs the elephants graveyard a nation of pet-lovers business goes green a greener world a 90-day stretch glenn curtis flying grandmother proprietary schools vegetarianism the ozone layer a holiday brochure the consumer society the elizabethan grammar school viii 164 165 167 169 170 172 173 175 177 178 179 182 185 187 189 191 194 196 198 200 202 203 204 206 207 209 211 213 215 217 219 221 224 225

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143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 one woman s race across alaska phobias the haunted house white lies the dirty old man of europe food additives holidays body language computers in the modern world the computer a national disease getting the u.s to go metric the cash machine fair play for women s football what is news tv or not tv that s the problem the earth s spreading deserts mr jones first to ski cross continent inflation home-schooling explorers of america a rose-red city a survey on education the royal national institute 227 230 232 234 236 238 240 242 243 245 247 249 251 253 255 257 258 262 264 266 268 270 272 274 for the blind how to see a city stuntpeople computer education running away from troubles friendship american cities culture shock communication and culture free trade two strangers on a train village voice what is this thing called love ix 276 277 279 281 283 285 287 289 290 293 295 296 299

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180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 who s crazy british universities less equality in education more quality welcome to prestel where are we going energy-efficient buildings what s wrong with the weather automation automation is creating conflict among workers ash from a volcano it may remain aloft advertising are you really a non-smoker school inspectors pain typhoons what does the chip mean to you the ocean floor motorways consumer pressure law of conservation of matter everything must go somewhere the paleolithic age trends nuclear power a safe solution how to stop computer abuse the mind and the body index of titles 301 304 306 308 310 312 314 317 318 320 321 324 326 328 330 333 335 337 340 342 344 347 349 352 356 358 x

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foreword this book is a collection of the reading sections of the exam papers prepared in the department of basic english in the last ten years it is intended to provide students with supplementary material for efl reading practice and exam preparation as it is believed that the reading material in the main textbooks is not always sufficient for this purpose in their english-medium academic mainstream reading will be of utmost importance for our students therefore we believe that they should be encouraged to read as much as possible outside class and we hope that this book will equip both the students and the teachers with enough means to emphasize reading comprehension and vocabulary development the material in this book has been graded according to text difficulty and the level of the exercises so that it will serve the needs of our students from the beginner level to intermediate in the first semester there are 204 passages in the book which will enable each student to read extensively at his own level and to move on to the more advanced texts for challenge in selecting the passages an attempt has been made to include a variety of topics and text types so as to promote reading for pleasure as well finally the material has been edited to maintain a reasonable level of consistency in the exercise types throughout the book although it is prepared with the students of the department of basic english in mind we believe that this book will help any enthusiastic student of english as a foreign language if the book proves to be beneficial we will consider ourselves useful bülent kandller aysun velÎolu ankara 1995 xi

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acknowledgements the greatest contribution to the compilation of this book has of course come from our testers we owe many thanks to gülsima baykal hale bnay fügen gÜlsen demet koksal sibel tÜzel kÖymen asuman sayiner zuhal sayman gaye tolungÜÇ serap yÜcel we must express our gratitude to ebnem avciolu naz dino and afife tünay who prepared reading comprehension which has certainly been a bestseller over the years for 29 of the passages in this book we hope that we will be forgiven for not having been able to mention here the names of all the testers who produced the original forms of the material in reading comprehension to whom we are especially grateful the successful completion of the book owes much to the support of many of our colleagues we would like to express our sincere gratitude to hale bnay demet koksal gülsima baykal serper tÜmer erday bÎlsoy anita akka tahir onur and especially ayfer toppare for their invaluable cooperation in the proofreading of this material we would also like to thank ayen yilmazer ayen karaba pinar akman and ardan yardim for putting in time and effort to help us revise this book our thanks are extended to abdullah can of the metu printing office for preparing the cover of the book finally we thank naz dÎno head of the department of basic english who helped and encouraged us throughout the project b.k a.v xiii

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3 longleat house longleat house is 140 kilometres west of london between the cities of salisbury and bath the house is the home of lord bath is about 400 years old visitors can walk through and look at the beautiful rooms and they can see the antique furniture in the rooms there is also a safari park at longleat house visitors can drive through the park and see many animals there longleat house is open every day from 10 o clock in the morning to 6 o clock in the evening the safari park is open only in the summer 5 1 where is longleat house 2 who owns the house 3 what can visitors see inside the house 4 what can visitors do in safari park 5 when is longleat house open 6 when is the safari park open 7 line 2 if means 8 line 4 they means 2

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4 new york university new york university is in greenwich village students can get almost everything they need near the university campus there is a post office on 9 th street there is a bank on 5h avenue and there are two on 8^h street the restaurants and coffee shops in greenwhich village are very popular 1 where is new york university 2 what s there on 9th street 3 how many banks are there near the university 5 university of london the university of london is in bloomsbury it was founded in 1836 there are many other famous buildings in bloomsbury the british museum which is near the university is one of these buildings there are also many restaurants and coffee shops where you can buy things to eat the restaurants are not always very cheap but the coffee shops are excellent for the price 1 where is the university of london 2 which building is near the university 3 where can you eat in bloomsbury 3

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jim jim chapman a famous cameraman is the new assistant director of video sound a large film company it has fifty-two offices all over the world mr chapman is the first american to work at the company s paris office in its thirty-year history mr chapman is not married he s got a sister mary she lives with her friend paul in london she goes to the faculty of arts at the university of london there are also the faculties of science engineering medicine and music there 1 what is video sound 2 in which city does mr chapman work 3 who does mary live with 4 what does mary do 5 how many faculties are there in the university 4

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