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Reading 1Exercise A. Read the text and decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F). Correct the false ones.507619067437000Children in Victorian TimesQueen Victoria was the Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901. She ruled for more than 60 years. She had nine children.Families were very important to Victorians. They had usually five or six children sometimes more children. However, life was not the same for all children during the Victorian times. Rich people had a good and easy life. Parents of rich children were bankers, merchants or worked for the queen. They lived in beautiful, comfortable houses. Their parents organized a lot of parties. Parents had servants to do jobs at home. The children had nannies and governesses. Parents sometimes sent their sons to school, e.g. famous Eton school. Girls didn’t go to school but learnt to be good wives and mothers. Poor people had a very hard life. Many poor children had an unhappy childhood. They had poor luxuries, ate poor food and they were often were hungry. They never went to school. They were treated like adults and began work as soon as they could walk. They worked from the age of four or five to feed themselves and their families. They worked long hours for six days a week. They did not earn much money and they were in bad conditions. Their masters were often very cruel. A lot of children had health problems and accidents. Their jobs weren’t easy and were often dangerous, too. 4623435337566000Kinds of JobsChimney sweepMany children worked as chimney sweeps because they were small and thin. They climbed inside chimneys to clean them. The work was dangerous and painful. Street children or orphans (children who had no parents) usually did this job.Factory workerA lot of children also worked in cotton factories. They worked long hours, sometimes 16 hours a day! They started at 5 in the morning and finished at 9 at night. They went into machines to clean them or fix the cotton threads when they broke. They did this when the machines worked. They had many accidents then. They lost their fingers and sometimes died.Street childrenThousands of poor children lived and worked on the streets. The streets were very dirty. They sold matches, flowers, wood, muffins, and cleaned shoes or swept streets to make way for ladies and gentlemen. Many of them were orphans. Some children stole or picked pockets to buy food and slept in the streets.Coal MinesMany children worked in coalmines for 12 hours a day. Some children opened and closed air doors for better ventilation. Other children pushed coal trucks. People who helped Victorian childrenLord Shaftesbury, Sir Robert Peel and Dr Barnardo wanted to protect working children by laws. They also started free schools for poor children. By the end of Victorian times, all children went to school until the age of 12.______ Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain for sixty years.______ Children of rich families had to go to school in Victorian times.______ The condition of poor families was harder than the rich ones.______ Poor children worked for long hours at very early ages and earned good money.______ Many orphans worked as chimney sweeps and lived on streets.______ Sometimes children died trying to fix the machines in cotton factories.______ In late 1800s, all children went to school thanks to Queen Victoria.Reading 2Exercise A. Read the text and choose the best option.An Alpha World City-139709017000P1 S?o Paulo is the largest city in South America and the third most populous of the world, with more than 10 million inhabitants. It is the economical capital of Brazil and a very busy place. It is also the richest in culture, parks and museums.P2 S?o Paulo is centered around the Pra?a da Sé, where there is a stone mark symbolizing the “point zero” of the city. The most interesting neighborhoods and places to visit include Jardins, Itaim and The Ibirapuera Park. The main tourist attractions in the city include the different neighborhoods with their special Italian, Japanese or Arabic influence. They have their own characteristic atmosphere and it is a lot of fun to walk around. P3 Brazilians say that Paulistanos (S?o Paulo locals) live to work and eat, which is certainly true. Food in S?o Paulo is the best in the country. You can find it from a variety of restaurants from the simplest delivery place to the fine expensive ones.P4 S?o Paulo is also very much a party town. You can get stuck in the traffic in the middle of the night when party animals return from their hunt. Traffic in S?o Paulo is complicated, especially in main routes all along the weekdays and gets worse at rush hours (from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.). However, traffic is good with some impediments in places where there are bars, shopping centers or other public attractions at the weekends. The locals usually prefer the public transportation, as it’s quite convenient. For example, the subway system is cheap and efficient. Now, it’s getting larger and longer. However, it is not as comprehensive as the trains in Europe or North America but it covers the most important areas.Sao Paulo is _____ of the world.one of the most crowded citiesthe largest citythe most popular cityone of the most expensive cities There is a stone mark _____ in Pra?a da Sé. showing how to go to Jardins and Itaimsymbolizing the interesting points showing the center of the citysymbolizing tourist attractionsThe most famous touristic places in the city _____.are famous for restaurantsinclude unfriendly atmosphereare at walking distance have foreign impactsThere is a traffic jam especially _____.from 8 to 10 a.m. onlyat rush hoursat the weekendin the eveningsThe public transport in Sao Paulo _____.is the best in America isn’t used a lot because of its pricecovers all of the citydoesn’t cost much What does “It” in Paragraph 1 refer to?Sao Paulo BrazilNorth AmericaThe worldWhat does “They” in Paragraph 2 refer to?TouristsJardins, Itaim and The Ibirapuera ParkNeighborhoodsThe Italians ................
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