PREMIER

11.1

READING
Activity Book
 CONTENTS

Difficulty level 1 2

PASSAGE 1-15................................................................ 4-35

Difficulty level 21

PASSAGE 16-35.............................................................. 36-77

Difficulty level 31

PASSAGE 36-50............................................................ 78-109

ANSWER KEY.................................................................. 110

Difficulty level 1 PASSAGE 1-15
passage
READING ACTIVITY
1 Difficulty level 1

TARGET VOCABULARY

1. gorgeous TAJ MAHAL

2. monument
3. situate The Taj Mahal is a gorgeous monument in India. It is
4. bank situated on the banks of river Yamuna at Agra. It was
5. build built by an emperor named Shah Jahan in memory
6. emperor of his wife Mumtaz Mahal. It is regarded as the finest
7. memory example of Mughal architecture. Its design combines
8. regard elements from Persian, Ottoman and Indian architectural
9. fine styles. Its construction began around 1632 and was
10. example completed around 1653. The Taj Mahal is covered with
11. architecture white marble. In front of the monument, there is a
12. combine charming garden known as the Charbagh. Inside the
13. construction monument, there are two tombs. These tombs are of
14. complete Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is
15. cover considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
16. marble Many tourists come to see this beautiful structure from
17. charming various parts of the world. Most of them visit it in the
18. inside cooler months of October, November and February.
19. tomb
20. consider
21. wonder
22. structure
23. various
24. visit
25. cool

VOCABULARY CHECK
A. Fill in the blanks with a word from the target vocabulary list.

1. The ____________ of the building took more than two years.

2. Clara wants to ____________ the grand vase in the corner of the dining room.
3. This building is a good ____________ of early medieval architecture.
4. All the students looked ____________ in their beautiful night dresses.
5. The Eiffel Tower was ____________ by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, who specialized in building
metal structures.
6. There are many different tourist attractions in Austria that you can ____________.
7. A huge monument was built to the ____________ of those who died in the war.
8. Reliability is a main factor to ____________ when choosing a school for your child.

READING ACTIVITY 6 DİLKO YAYINCILIK

 passage 7

COMPREHENSION CHECK
B. Decide if the following statements are true or false.

1. Olive oil is not good for your health. True False

2. Eating sesame oil can increase bad cholesterol. True False
3. Sesamol is one of the antioxidants in sesame oil. True False
4. Sesame oil is beneficial for the skin. True False
5. Sesame oil can cause the destruction of cells. True False

C. Answer the following questions.

1. What does sesame oil consist of?

__________________________________________________.
2. What is one of the benefits of sesame oil?
__________________________________________________.
3. Which antioxidants does sesame oil contain?
__________________________________________________.
4. What are free radicals?
__________________________________________________.
5. Which vitamins does sesame oil have?
__________________________________________________.

D. Complete the following sentences according to the passage.

1. ________________________________________ in sesame oil helps to reduce bad cholesterol.

2. Sesame oil contains two types of antioxidants, which are ______________________________.
3. _____________________________________________ in sesame oil help skin look healthier.
4. Sesame oil makes your skin _____________________________________________________.
5. Some people think sesame oil can prevent loss of ________________________ from the head.

KEY POINT: -er & -est

With shorter adjectives, we use -er when we compare two things or people.
With shorter adjectives, we use -est when we mention the biggest amount in a group.
“This house is cheaper than the others in this area.”
“This is the cheapest house in this area.”

GRAMMAR CHECK
E. Choose the correct option(s).

1. The new employee looks smarter / the smartest than the previous one.
2. Bigger / The biggest ocean in the world is the Pacific Ocean.
3. Your essay is longer / the longest than mine, so it must be chosen.
4. 9 de Julio Avenue, located in the city of Buenos Aires, is wider / the widest avenue in the world.
5. Higher / The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.

DİLKO YAYINCILIK 19 READING ACTIVITY

Difficulty level 2 PASSAGE 16-36
passage
READING ACTIVITY
21 Difficulty level 2

TARGET VOCABULARY

1. layer OZONE LAYER

2. portion
3. contain The ozone layer is a portion of the Earth’s atmosphere
4. relatively that contains relatively high levels of ozone. Like the
5. exact Earth’s atmosphere itself, it has no exact boundary. It is
6. boundary mainly found in the lower portion of the stratosphere,
7. approximately from approximately 20 to 30 kilometers above Earth.
8. above The Earth’s atmosphere consists of many different layers
9. consist and is made up primarily of nitrogen, with oxygen
10. primarily being the second-most common element. Ozone itself
11. bond is a particular form of oxygen, where three atoms of
12. poisonous the element have bonded together. It is poisonous
13. breathe for humans to breathe it directly. Ozone is particularly
14. particularly vital to humans because it has the unique property of
15. vital absorbing ultraviolet radiation. There are three main
16. unique types of ultraviolet radiation, known as UV-A, UV-B,
17. property and UV-C. When functioning properly, ozone layer
18. absorb completely removes UV-C radiation, which is the most
19. properly
detrimental to humans. It also drastically reduces the
20. remove
amount of UV-B which is the radiation responsible for
21. detrimental
many types of skin cancer and sunburns.
22. drastically
23. reduce
24. amount
25. responsible

VOCABULARY CHECK
A. Fill in the blanks with a word from the target vocabulary list.

1. There are dozens of species of ____________ snakes throughout the world.

2. ____________ few women used to become airline pilots in the 20th century.
3. Overexposure to sunbeams may have a(n) ____________ effect on the skin.
4. The green tea is believed to have healing ____________.
5. Shock absorbers work by ____________ excess kinetic energy resulting from sudden move-
ments.
6. My father has played a(n) ____________ role in setting up the company by far.
7. Tectonic plates are great rocks that form the Earth’s top ____________, called the lithosphere.
8. The advent of the internet has ____________ changed business and commerce.
9. The refrigerator in the hotel room wasn’t working ____________, so we had it changed.
10. There are several ways humans can ____________ carbon dioxide emissions for the benefit of
the planet.

READING ACTIVITY 48 DİLKO YAYINCILIK

 passage 35

COMPREHENSION CHECK
B. Decide if the following statements are true or false.

1. The expansion of the towns became possible when people learned True False
to how to irrigate land.
2. The Akkadians were the first settlers to form a civilization in Mesopotamia. True False
3. After the Akkadians, the Babylonians dominated Mesopotamia. True False
4. The first united empire in Mesopotamia was established by the Akkadians. True False
5. The Babylonians were fierce warriors who were from the northern True False
part of Mesopotamia.

C. Answer the following questions.

1. Who established the first civilization in Mesopotamia?

__________________________________________________.
2. What did the Akkadian Empire achieve in terms of administration?
__________________________________________________.
3. How did the Babylonians contribute to world history?
__________________________________________________.
4. What is the basic source of information about the history of Mesopotamia?
__________________________________________________.
5. Who brought about the fall of the Assyrians and the Babylonians?
__________________________________________________.

D. Complete the following sentences according to the passage.

1. People established large cities when ______________________________________________.

2. After the Akkadian Empire emerged, ______________________________________________.
3. After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, _________________________ established huge empires.
4. The Babylonians were the first people _____________________________________________.
5. The Persians conquered much of the Middle East after ________________________________.

KEY POINT: prepositions: across & along

We use across when we want to mean “from one side to the other”.
We use along when we want to mean “in a line next to something long”.
“The children jumped into the water and swam across the river.”
“It was a beautiful night and my wife and I took a walk along the river.”

GRAMMAR CHECK
E. Choose the correct option(s).

1. More than sixty airlines fly across / along the Atlantic between Europe and America.
2. Michael offered me a walk across / along the beach but I had to turn her down.
3. There must be a nice restaurant somewhere across / along the river
4. There are two bridges across / along the Marmara Strait.
5. We were walking across / along the road when the accident happened.

DİLKO YAYINCILIK 77 READING ACTIVITY

Difficulty level 3 PASSAGE 36-50
passage
READING ACTIVITY
46 Difficulty level 3

TARGET VOCABULARY
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
1. acquisition
2. process Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire
3. acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well
4. perceive as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
5. comprehend Language acquisition is one of the quintessential human
6. quintessential
traits because nonhumans do not communicate by using
language. Language acquisition usually refers to
7. require
first-language acquisition, which studies infants’ acquisition
8. phonology
of their native language. This is distinguished from
9. morphology
second-language acquisition, which deals with the acquisition
10. syntax
of additional languages in both children and adults. The
11. semantics
capacity to successfully use language requires one to
12. extensive acquire a range of tools including phonology, morphology,
13. vocalize syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary. Language
14. represent can be vocalized as in speech, or manual as in sign. The
15. finite human language capacity is represented in the brain. Even
16. infinite though the human language capacity is finite, one can say
17. principle and understand an infinite number of sentences, which is
18. countless based on a syntactic principle called recursion (the process
19. guide of repeating items in a self-similar way). Evidence suggests
20. that is that every individual has some recursive mechanisms that
21. precede allow them to make countless sentences. Furthermore, there
22. gradually are actually two main guiding principles in first-language
23. evolve acquisition, that is, speech perception always precedes
24. distinction speech production and the gradually evolving system by
25. phoneme which a child learns a language is built up one step at a time,
beginning with the distinction between individual phonemes.

VOCABULARY CHECK
A. Fill in the blanks with a word from the target vocabulary list.

1. The quick ____________ of management skills is the basic objective of this course.
2. Though he apologized ____________ times, she never forgave her husband.
3. There was no suspicious action in security cameras ____________ the explosion.
4. A man of ____________, my father is respected by everybody.
5. High interest rates, without ____________, affect both the small businesses and the unemployed.
6. While these languages share ____________ and grammar, they have different vocabularies.
7. He was a genius, ____________, a man who did without effort something that most people could
not do.
8. A child ____________ a number of distinct sounds during his or her first year.
9. Everyone should act accordingly as quality is ____________ to our organization.
10. The ageing ____________ can be slowed down using certain natural products.

READING ACTIVITY 100 DİLKO YAYINCILIK

 passage 50

COMPREHENSION CHECK
B. Decide if the following statements are true or false.

1. Ernest Hemingway fell in love with an old nurse while he was working True False
for the Kansas City Star.
2. Agnes Von Korowsky is the name of Ernest Hemingway’ first wife. True False
3. In Our Time is Ernest Hemingway’s first published literary work. True False
4. The subject of The Sun Also Rises is an injured soldier living in Europe. True False
5. The Old Man and the Sea earned Ernest Hemingway a Pulitzer Prize. True False

C. Answer the following questions.

1. What was Ernest Hemingway’s first job?

__________________________________________________.
2. What was A Farewell to Arms inspired by?
__________________________________________________.
3. Where did Ernest Hemingway work after he returned to North America?
__________________________________________________.
4. What was Ernest Hemingway’s first published literary work?
__________________________________________________.
5. Which of Ernest Hemingway’s work received a Pulitzer Prize?
__________________________________________________.

D. Complete the following sentences according to the passage.

1. The Kansas City Star is where ___________________________________________________.

2. Agnes Von Korowsky was an old nurse whom _______________________________________.
3. _________________________________________________ was Ernest Hemingway’ first wife.
4. ________________________________________ is Ernest Hemingway’s first successful novel.
5. ___________________________ is a memoir about the time Ernest Hemingway spent in Paris.

KEY POINT: prepositions: among & between

We use among with irregular quantities.
We use between with groups whose number or members are clearly specified.
“He lived in a small hut among trees.”
“The treaty was signed between three countries.”

GRAMMAR CHECK
E. Choose the correct option(s).

1. Jack is the only one among / between all the students who had never been abroad.
2. The conversation among / between the three ministers was aired later.
3. The suicide rate among / between youngsters is on the increase.
4. We decided to split the profits among / between three of us.
5. News of the epidemic caused panic among / between the locals.

DİLKO YAYINCILIK 109 READING ACTIVITY

ANSWER KEY