Stories for Reading Comprehension 1.pdf

Stories

for reading

comprehension 1

L A Hill

LONGMAN

INTRODUCTION

This is the first of a series of three books which have been

written to replace my Comprehension and Precis Pieces, and Further

Comprehension and Precis Pieces written with R. D. S. Fielden.

In this series of reading comprehension passages, the vocabu-

lary and structures are carefully graded. The grading follows

that of the Longman Structural Readers. Book 1 of this series

covers Stages 1 and 2 of those readers; Book 2 covers Stages 2

and 3; and Book 3, Stages 4 and 5. Words outside the grading

are given at the end of each book.

In this series, the comprehension questions contain no com-

position element; the students simply have to choose between

alternatives which are supplied to them.

The series also contains grammatical exercises. The instruc-

tions for these sometimes contain words which are outside the

grading. They are therefore more suitable for class than private

use, unless the student has someone who can explain the dif-

ficult words. In a class, the teacher should explain such difficult

words to the students before asking them to do an exercise. In

nearly all the grammatical exercises, the student has to choose

between alternatives which he or she is given.

L. A. Hill

Mr Jones's shop sold food. Mr Jones and a young man worked

there. The young man's name was George.

A man came into the shop on Monday. He was a funny man.

Mr Jones was in the office. It was behind the shop. The funny

man looked at George and said, "I want a small table, please."

George said, "We don't sell tables in this shop. We sell

food."

The man smiled and answered, "A small, brown table." He

took a picture out of his bag and showed it to George. It was

a picture of a small, brown table.

George put his mouth near the man's ear and said, "We do

not have tables in this shop! Food! Not tables!"

The man smiled and answered, "That's good. Thank you."

Then he sat down on a chair and waited.

George was not happy. He went into the office and spoke

to Mr Jones. Then he and Mr Jones came out again.

Mr Jones was angry. He looked at the man and said, "What

do you want?"

The man smiled and answered, "I want a loaf of brown

bread, please. Haven't you got any bread in your shop?"

Mr Jones said, "Yes, we have." He looked at George, and

then he went and got a loaf of brown bread from a big box and

gave it to the man.

UNIT1

Exercise 1

Look at these questions. Find the right answers. Then write the

questions and the answers:

1 Did Mr Jones work in George's shop?