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Head of Department School Principal

Adel Sayed Abdullah Al Rashidi

Prepared by:

Mohammed Khayr Zayd

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Unit 7: Happiness

Word Meaning Word Meaning

immune (adj.) depression (n.)

spiritual (adj.) quality / qualities (n.)

material (adj.) confusion (n.)

vendor (n.) anxiety (n.)

massive (adj.) regret (n.) (v.)

Vocabulary

A) – Choose the correct answer from a, b, c and d:

1. If the drought continues, deaths will occur on a .............................scale.

a) spiritual b) massive c) material d) splendid

2. Recently, she's been working as a street ........................ , selling fruit and vegetables.

a) anxiety b) quality c) regret d) vendor

3. According to some, the spiritual life is more important than ...................... possessions.

a) spiritual b) massive c) material d) splendid

4. Islam was inspired by the teachings of the ............................ leader Mohammed.

a) spiritual b) ethnic c) material d) toxic

5. Most people who've had chickenpox once are ..................... to it for the rest of their lives.

a) spiritual b) massive c) material d) immune

6. Children normally feel a lot of ..........................about their first day at school.

a) anxiety b) confusion c) vendor d) quality

B) – Fill in the spaces with words from the list:

depression – quality – confusion – regret

7. To avoid ......................... , the teams wore different colours.

8. Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are all symptoms of ..........................

9. The manager expressed deep ......................... for the number of staff reductions.

10. My ...................... of life has improved tremendously since I moved to the country.

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Reading Comprehension

Read the following passage, and then answer the questions that follow:

We know that editors have organized newspapers well for readers with the most important

stories on page one with big headlines and stories of lesser importance somewhere in the back

of the newspapers. That isn't the way that we read them though.

I come to work on a train most mornings, with a lot of other people, all of whom are

reading newspapers. We have about an hour, but an editor would be discouraged to see how

we go about reading the paper. We don't follow his directions at all. We all look at the headlines

quickly- we don't read the front-page stories unless we have time to come back to them later.

We go directly to the articles that interest us most. Of course, there are a few people who do it

right. They are often the most successful-looking people on the train. They read the important

stories first and then go on to the other one.

Other newspaper readers on the train buy a good newspaper, take out their glasses and

pencils, and turn immediately to the crossword puzzle. It takes them an hour to finish the

puzzle, and I don't think that many of them ever look at anything else in the paper.

The way we read a newspaper is what gives papers their edge over TV. Unlike TV, with

newspapers, the reader is in charge. We can read our newspaper frontward or backward. We

can skip what bores us and read the parts that we like. We can study the advertisement that

interests us and ignore what doesn't.

A) - Choose the best answer from a, b, c and d:

1. The best title of the passage is: ......................................

a. What People Do on Trains

b. Why Newspapers Are Important

c. How People Read Newspapers

d. How People Solve Crossword Puzzles

2. The underlined word "ignore" in the last paragraph means: .................................

a. neglect b. seek c. achieve d. lead

3. The underlined pronoun "them" in the 1st paragraph refers to: ................................

a. editors b. stories c. headlines d. newspapers

4. According to the 3rd paragraph, the writer thinks that many of those who do crossword

puzzles:

a. always read everything else that there in a newspaper.

b. rarely read anything else that there in a newspaper.

c. are not that smart because they take too long doing puzzles.

d. should read a newspaper backward, not frontward.

5. According to the last paragraph, all the following statements are TRUE EXCEPT:

a. Readers can read the parts they like in newspapers.

b. Readers can skip advertisements that interest them.

c. Readers can skip the parts that bore them in newspapers.