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READING CHAPTER 2 TESTS *
Unit 1: Travel
Selling India's Rainy Season
VOCAB: abundant, convince, facility, lush, palace, sanctuary, shun, vast
(add up, genuine, navigate, personalize, potential, route, spare, treasure)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 2: Fashion
Reality TV: Good or Bad for Fashion?
VOCAB: cautious, collaborate, episode, glamorous, hesitate, mislead, momentary, pursue
(compile, convention, data, forecast, intuition, optimistic, stick, survey)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 3: Disappearing Animals
Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth?
VOCAB: conduct, era, fitting, frail, inject, opposition, revive, worthwhile
(critically, culprit, exploit, imminent, indefinitely, intentional, markedly, overwhelm)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 4: Big Money
Lottery Winners: Rich... but Happy?
VOCAB: affluent, ban, debt, extravagant, sensible, tricky, unforeseen, wisely
(dense, fulfil, in reality, inflation, investment, necessity, property, salary)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 5: Celebrations Around the World
Travel Diary: Yanshuel Fireworks Festival
VOCAB: collide, drive away, explosion, in return, legend, nevertheless, stuff, worship
(afford, appropriate, customary, engrave, eternal, fabric, integrate, vice versa)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 6: It's a Mystery!
Is 'Spontaneous Human Combustion' Possible?
VOCAB: external, function, scenario, spontaneous, supposedly, thorough, ventilate, victim
(altitude, baffle, fictional, inaccessible, remote, speculate, summit, terrain)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 7: Health and Fitness
Barefoot Running
VOCAB: absorb, ache, adapt, balance, clear-cut, gain, persistent, rush
(alternate, fad, be fed up with, go overboard, be loaded with, portion, struggle, veteran)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 8: Space & Flight
Pioneers of Flight
VOCAB: behind schedule, devise, far-fetched, innovation, primitive, principle, steer, witness
(confine, distribute, duration, expedition, exposed, intense, mission, sacrifice)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 9: The Changing Family
Changing Roles: The Rise of Stay-at-Home Dads
VOCAB: absent, hang out, intention, presence, priority, sole, thereby, transition
(advocate, circumstance, content, dilemma, negotiate, self-esteem, sibling, stigma)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 10: The Future of Education
Plagiarism and the Internet
VOCAB: akin to, automatically, cheat, cite, clarity, draft, offense, well-meaning
(distract, entail, erratic, pace, perspective, prestigious, reliable, supplement)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 11: The Mystery of Memory
Words to Remember
VOCAB: accelerate, feasible, guarantee, landmark, recollect, tremendous, visualize, vivid
(classify, complication, consciously, no matter, reflection, reverse, strikingly, trace)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
Unit 12: Comics
Graphic Novels Come to Live
VOCAB: convey, deviate, intricate, mainstream, pull off, retain, sequel, unrelenting
(compelling, conflict, embrace, emerge, endure, invincible, patriotic, subsequently)
There will be 5 comprehension questions from the second reading and a writing topic.
* These tests focus only on comprehension of only the second reading of each unit, but
include vocabulary from BOTH readings of each unit.
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