1) Scorpio Horoscope For This Week: For the past few weeks, you have been in a good financial situation but that will change this week. You will either lose your wallet or buy something not worth the money. However, this week will be perfect for you and your partner as there won’t be any arguments between you. If you’re single, you will fall in love with someone you have known for a long time. Bad luck in love will be over! As for your job, great chances will finally come. Use them all! Don’t let bad luck from previous weeks stop you. Travelling won’t be a bad idea, either. Visit your relatives or just take a ride through the countryside. It’s not important which journey you set off on, you will be safe on the road. According to the article, what will Scorpios have this week? a) They will have bad luck at work. b) They will have good luck in love. c) They will have bad luck on the road. d) They will have good luck with money. 2) Research about breakfast was carried out recently. It showed that 30% of Americans don’t have breakfast because they feel fat and they are hoping they’ll lose weight. Some Americans go jogging instead of having breakfast and then just have yogurt at work. While scientists agree that yogurt is healthy, they say eating only that in the morning is not. ‘For breakfast, it is best to have a little bit of everything: bread to give you energy, fruit for vitamins, yogurt or eggs to be strong. You should eat within an hour of waking up. And it doesn’t matter if you spend that hour exercising,’ says one researcher. It has been proven that fat people who eat breakfast lose weight more easily, even if they have really big breakfasts, or actually because of it. Their bodies don’t suffer from lack of energy, their blood sugar is fine, they do better at work or school and overall they feel happier. ‘Exercise can do that, too. But don’t choose one over the other in the morning,’ researchers say. What is the best title for this article? a) Exercise Instead of Eating Breakfast b) The Perfect Breakfast: Yogurt Only c) The Benefits of Eating Breakfast d) A Big Breakfast Makes Us Fat 3) My Fight With Headaches (blog by Laura McFlurry): I woke up last Saturday morning with a headache. I got up thinking about what to do to stop it – a pill always helps but it’s not good for my stomach. So, Grandma suggested I try drinking herbal tea instead. The tea has always helped her. She made me a cup of it and I drank it. It tasted good but that was all. The pain didn’t disappear. So I asked my mum to give me a massage and she did. I was hopeful that a massage would definitely help stop my headache. To my surprise, it got worse! Trying to avoid taking a pill, I searched the Internet for help and found a series of pictures of head and neck exercises. After doing them properly I was feeling better each minute. I was excited. Although I hadn’t taken the pill, the headache was gone. What helped Laura to stop her headache last Saturday? a) a massage b) certain exercises c) herbal tea d) a pill 4) 106-year-old Cyclist: In 2014, Jens Voight, a 43-year-old professional cyclist, broke the world one-hour cycling record by riding a distance of 51.1 km in an hour. After setting the record, Voight said it was nothing compared to what Robert Marchand, a French cyclist, achieved in the same year. Marchand competes in the category of seniors over 100 years old, and just a few days before Voight rode his amazing 51.1 km, Marchand improved the world one-hour cycling record in his category by riding a distance of 26.9 km. This is almost 3 km further than his world one-hour cycling record from the previous year, which was 24.3 km. After setting the record in 2014, Marchand said that he could have done better. ‘If I rode 30 km, they’d say I’d been doping!’ he laughed. Robert Marchand, now 106, may not be the fastest cyclist, but he is certainly one of the oldest. What was the world one-hour cycling record in the category of seniors over 100 years old in 2014? a) 24.3 km b) 26.9 km c) 30.0 km d) 51.1 km 5) Dorsey Lighthouse: For more than 200 years, Dorsey Lighthouse, a 34-metre-high stone tower, has stood on the west coast of Scotland to guide ships in the Irish Sea. A lighthouse keeper used to live there to take care of the system of lamps which warned sailors of the rough cliffs. Last year, the lighthouse was out of order for some time because of renovation, during which first the roof and then the walls were painted with fresh paint. However, the roof is still green and the walls are still white like before. What’s more, the way of operating the lighthouse changed and the lighthouse keeper had to move out as modern technology was installed to do his job. Because of the modern technology visitors are not allowed inside the lighthouse now. Despite this, guests from a nearby hotel complex often come to the viewing point next to Dorsey Lighthouse to enjoy the amazing view of the Irish Sea. What is true about Dorsey Lighthouse now? a) It serves as a hotel. b) It is open to the public. c) Its keeper doesn’t live in it anymore. d) Its walls aren’t the same colour as before. 6) Mysterious tourists: Coaches full of tourists appeared in Kidlington about three weeks ago. At first, locals had no idea why their village, where the only attraction is a medieval church, had become such a tourist magnet. It’s true that the church appeared in a TV episode of Midsomer Murders but the tourists seemed to ignore it and were interested only in taking pictures of the locals and their semi-detached houses. Thanks to this, many people thought that it was a social study done by students at Oxford University, five miles away. Others suggested that the tourists could just be mistaking Kidlington for Kirtlington, which is nearby. However, the real reason for their sudden appearance in the village was not so mysterious – Kidlington is simply being marketed by Chinese tourist agencies as a traditional English village, which it certainly is. Many of the Chinese tourists live in big cities and love to see flowers in people’s gardens, and Kidlington is certainly a very well-kept area. Why did the Chinese tourists visit Kidlington? a) They visited it by mistake. b) They were part of a social study. c) They wanted to see filming locations there. d) They wanted to see a typical English village. 7) 2015 was the most tragic year in the history of the highest mountain, Mount Everest. Eighteen people were killed there when an earthquake hit the area on April 25. Due to dangerous conditions, all climbers then left the mountain so nobody got to the top of it in 2015. The last time this had happened was in 1974. There was only one expedition on Mount Everest that year. It consisted of six people who were all killed on their way up by a large amount of snow falling down the mountain. In that expedition, there were five local guides who had reached the top many times before and one Frenchman. He wanted to be the first French climber to reach the top of Mount Everest but it took four more years for a Frenchman to get to the top. How many people reached the top of Mount Everest in 1974 according to the text? a) 0 b) 1 c) 5 d) 6

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