READING COMPREHENSION

The Success Yesterday afternoon Elisa White was telling me about her experiences as a young woman. Elisa is now the head of a large business company, but when she was young she used to work in a small shop.Her job was to mend clothes and at that time she used to work for fourteen hours a day. She saved money for years and in 1938 she bought a small work-shop of her own. During the war Elisa used to make uniforms for soldiers. At that time she had two assistants. By the end of the war, the small work-shop became a large factory. It employed sixty-eight people. Elisa smiled when she remembered her hard early years and the long road to success. She was still smiling when the door was opened and her husband came in. He wanted her to sew one of his shirts’ buttons. Match the words with their meanings. 1.Experiencea. To give somebody a job. 2.Business companyb. A small round piece of metal, plastic, etc. on your clothes. 3.Mendc. Something that happened to you and influenced you. 4.Saved. To keep money instead of spending it. 5.Employe. To repair a hole in a piece of clothing. 6.Sewf. A commercial organization. 7.Buttong. To make clothes.

1.What was Elisa White telling the writer about? ………………………………………………………… 2. What did she do in that small shop? ………………………………………………………… 3. What did she do during the war? ……………………………………………………… Why did she employ sixty-eight people? ………………………………………………………… 5. When did she smile happily? …………………………………………………………

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Terry: Listen to this, Ruth. Burak invites me to Turkey next month in his letter. Ruth: Where will you stay? It’s very cold in İstanbul in January. Terry: They live in İzmir, not in İstanbul. And İzmir isn’t very cold in this season. It will be rainy but it isn’t very important. Ruth: How will you get there? Terry: I will fly to İzmir. Burak and his mother will meet me at the airport and then we will drive to their place near the coast. Ruth: Near the coast? Do they not live in the city centre? Terry: No, they live in a town called Urla, quite near the city. Ruth: Will you spend all your holiday there? Terry: Not exactly. Only for a week. We will go fishing and we will visit Çeşme for a day and we will sightsee the city. Perhaps I will have some new friends over there and the following week I will come back home. Ruth: That sounds great. One week in İzmir. By the way, I will finish my project in this period. That means, we can have another holiday when you are back.

True or False? 1.Burak lives in Çeşme. 2.Terry will go to Turkey in winter. 3.Urla is quite near to city. 4.Terry has a lot of friends in İzmir. 5.Terry will spend three weeks with Burak.

1.Where will Terry go next month? 2.Does Burak live in İstanbul or İzmir? 3.How will Terry get to İzmir? 4.How many weeks will Terry spend in Turkey? 5.What will Terry do during his holiday? 6.What will Ruth do while Terry is on holiday?