MARVEL GRADE 11 - READING BOOK

UNIT 1

Passage 1 Passage 2
1. a
1. a 2. c
2. b 3. a
3. Because it is very close to 4. T
the Sun. 5. F – We know about the Golden House. /
4. Because it has craters and We have some information about it.
basins. 6. c
7. b

Passage 2
Passage 3
1. finger-like projection
2. nostrils 1. The potters shaped the clay with their
3. the trunk hands or by carving.
4. b 2. They were made from the feathers of
5. T tropical birds / from bird feathers
6. T 3. T
7. F - There are two projections in 4. a
the African elephant’s trunk, but 5. c
there is only one in the Asian
elephant’s trunk.
UNIT 3
Passage 3 Passage 1

1. to his old village / to his 1. hot-air balloons

grandmother’s house (in the 2. a
village) 3. c
2. beans, potatoes, and fruit 4. F – They are used for several purposes. /
3. F – They are very poor. They have several uses. / They can be
4. T used as toys, decorative objects and
5. b aircraft.
6. c 5. T
7. c 6. T
8. a
9. a

Passage 2
UNIT 2 1. a
2. (tiny) invaders
Passage 1 3. germs
4. plants, animals, and people
1. the panda bear’s coat / the coat / their coat 5. They are found all over the world, in all
2. (the panda bear’s) wrists kinds of places / everywhere
3. c 6. Because they cause disease. / They make
4. b us sick. / They often make plants, animals,
5. black and white and people sick. / They attack the body
6. Because its body is very heavy. and make it ill.
7. T 7. b
8. F – They (Panda bears) are found only in
China. ( in six small areas in China)
Passage 3 Passage 2

1. Tiny one-celled spores 1. c

2. mushrooms 2. b
3. a 3. c
4. Because they are poisonous. / Many of 4. b
them have developed poisons. 5. c
5. They are (more closely) related to animals. 6. to find food / because they can’t find
6. They produce one-celled spores enough food to survive
7. a 7. No, they don’t because it is always warm
enough to find food.
8. a
9. b
UNIT 4
Passage 1
1. (other) trees
Passage 3
2. b
3. a 1. a
4. c 2. a
3. c
4. Because they think that examinations are
very difficult. / They fear that they cannot
Passage 2 answer some questions and fail.
5. They should study their lessons every day.
1. (your) teeth They should attend classes regularly. They
2. c should review their notes.
3. c 6. a
4. Every six months
5. He will look at our teeth and gums to
check for any problems or disease UNIT 6

Passage 1
Passage 3
1. They feed on pollen and honey.
1. an atrium, or courtyard 2. There are thousands of different types of
2. the roof’s wasps in the world.
3. a 3. T
4. b 4. F – It introduces two common types of
5. a wasps / only two types.
6. They were made from mud and brick 5. b
7. In the courtyards
8. To keep out burglars
9. F – They slept on the roofs in good
weather. / when the weather was good.
10. F – Poor people did not have a courtyard. /
Passage 2
Only rich (wealthy) people had courtyards.
11. F – They used rainwater. / They collected 1. Aesop
rainwater in a cistern in the courtyard. 2. Aesop’s tales / the tales which Aesop had
collected and told
3. b
4. c
UNIT 5 5. T
6. F – They rewarded people who had talent.
Passage 1 7. c
8. b
1. T
2. T
3. F – He was better at writing.
4. a
5. a
Passage 3 3. T
4. T
5. b
1. The Arctic and the Antarctic
6. a
2. many places in the Arctic and the Antarctic
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. Yes, there are. Passage 2
7. They are both icy. / They are both extremely 1. A year after he was born / In 1597
cold. / They are both very dry. / They have 2. Because his mother was dead and his
very little rainfall. father was too busy
3. In 1617
4. F – He had a brother and a sister.
5. F – He settled there.
UNIT 7
Passage 3
Passage 1
1. (The sculptor) Phidias
1. the radius 2. It burned.
2. the Moon 3. The statue of Zeus
3. c 4. Zeus’ other hand
4. a 5. A small sword and a small statue (of Nike)
5. Because it reflects light from the sun. 6. a
6. No, it is the same age. / as old as Earth / 7. F – It was made of gold.
No, the Moon and Earth are both about 4.6 8. T
billion years old. 9. b

Passage 2 UNIT 9
1. Ancient Greeks Passage 1
2. Zeus 1. a
3. changing his shape 2. c
4. a 3. F – They were shorter.
5. b 4. T
6. F – He always kept that position. 5. T
7. T
8. c
Passage 2
1. Because they are used in spicy dishes and
Passage 3
sauces.
2. No, they aren’t. Some are heart-shaped and
1. Bartering some are egg-shaped.
2. the invention of coins 3. b
3. c 4. a
4. a 5. b
5. He traded his corn with a shoemaker for 6. a
shoes.
6. in 700 BCE / after the invention of coins
Passage 3

UNIT 8 1.
2.
The samurai
the samurai’s
3. a
4. c
Passage 1 5. The sword
6. Yes, they did.
7. Because they wanted an honourable
1. seeds / seed covers death. / they didn’t want to be captured by
2. (that ) Egyptians were the first to bake the enemy/ they didn’t want to be slaves.
white bread made from wheat / that 8. a
Egyptians made white bread 9. c
 6. Because he wanted to eat ice cream so
much.
UNIT 10
Passage 1
Passage 3
1. a
2. c 1. The Louvre
3. T 2. Paris
4. F –You must add vegetables and grains to 3. It is an ancient Greek statue.
get the full benefits of chicken soup. 4. Since the end of the 18th century
5. Because it contains useful nutrients. 5. b
6. b 6. a
7. b 7. F – There are Roman, Egyptian, Greek
and Oriental works, too.
8. F - It displays works from the ancient times
up to the mid-19th century.
Passage 2 9. c

1. desert plants
2. dew
3. Thick, waxy leaves and stems UNIT 12
4. plants
5. F – Some have shallow roots that spread Passage 1
out.
6. T
7. a 1. tree bark, large leaves and grass
2. sandals
3. a piece of treated skin
4. T
5. F – Animal skin kept the feet warmer than
Passage 3 they did.
6. c
1. a penguin's bill 7. b
2. The bristles on penguins’ tongues
3. penguins
4. b
5. a
6. b
Passage 2

1. He has one brother and one sister

2. He lived in Springfield, Missouri
UNIT 11 3. It is a chain chicken fast food restaurant.
4. T
5. F – He left college and went to California. /
He left college to go to California.
Passage 1 6. F – He acted in the student shows and
sang in school musicals.
7. c
1. T 8. a
2. F – It can be an animal or plant.
3. F – They can survive only for a while / for a
short time.
4. F – It is too small to be seen with a light Passage 3
microscope.
5. c 1. No. She was travelling with her sister and
mother.
2. It hit an iceberg in the Atlantic.
3. F – He was in Detroit.
Passage 2 4. T
5. c
1. Chinese emperors’
2. snow and ice
3. b
4. a
5. Chinese emperors
 4. Because their eyesight becomes
weakened.
5. T
6. F – They shed it in one piece.
UNIT 13 7. a

Passage 1
Passage 3
1. F – It is sometimes made from artificial
ingredients.
2. T 1. b
3. To prevent large ice crystals from forming / 2. a
For a smooth texture 3. b
4. F – It continued long after First Emperor
Qin’s death. / long after he died.
5. T
Passage 2 6. F – Individual states had their own defence
walls.
7. Many workers died / lost their lives during
1. butterflies the construction of / while building the Wall.
2. butterflies’ 8. He wanted to protect his people from the
3. caterpillar’s Mongol invaders.
4. b
5. a
6. T
7. F – You can’t see them easily because UNIT 15
their colours camouflage them.
8. a
Passage 1
Passage 3 1. Between 250,000 and 400,000
2. Because there was an earthquake
1. (that) tea was definitely being drunk in 3. There are jewellery, pottery, spice and
China around 2,000 years ago carpet shops
2. around 2,000 years ago 4. b
3. tea-drinking 5. a
4. c
5. a
6. Shen Nung
7. Tea containers have been found from this
time.
8. He is the writer of a book about tea. / He is Passage 2
the man who wrote about tea in the 700s.
9. c 1. hair / body hair / whale hair
10. a 2. (body)hair
3. 94 feet (29 m) long
4. They both live in water/ the sea . / They
spend their entire lives in water.
UNIT 14 5. Fish breathe air through their gills, but
whales breathe air through blowholes (into
their lungs).
Passage 1 6. It is smooth and shiny.
7. a

1. in Bonn
2. music
3. losing his hearing
4. a
Passage 3
5. b
1. workers
2. labourers / unskilled workers
Passage 2 3. During the flood season
4. No, they didn’t.
1. b 5. T
2. c 6. F – They were unskilled. / They had no
3. It takes 14 days at most skill.
 7. c
8. b

UNIT 16
Passage 1
Passage 2
1. a chain or belt
2. a
3. F – It was always thrown back, away from
the sword arm. 1. bullies
4. T 2. b
5. F – They wore simple dresses ( with long 3. c
sleeves) 4. They feel hurt, scared, sick, lonely,
embarrassed and sad.
5. A bully might use bad words / threaten,
tease, or scare other kids/ say mean
Passage 2 things about them / grab their stuff / make
fun of them / leave them out of the group
1. in Naples 6. a
2. Raffaelle Esposito
3. It is white, green and red
4. They are (white) mozzarella, (green) basil
and (red) tomatoes Passage 3
5. It had the colours of the Italian flag.
6. F – He was the most popular pizza chef of
Naples.
7. T 1. Orcas / killer whales
8. a 2. residents ( resident whales) and transient
whales
3. They are also called Orcas.
4. 40
Passage 3 5. seals, sea lions, and whales
6. T
7. F – They hunt in groups.
1. The Bald Ibis birds 8. a
2. The Bald Ibis birds 9. b
3. They are dark blue-purple
4. It eats insects, lizards, snails, ants, and
other small animals
5. On steep rock cliffs – to protect themselves UNIT 18
and their eggs / for protection
T
F – There are very few now.
Passage 1

UNIT 17 1. masters
2. cats
3. b
4. a
Passage 1 5. b
6. c
1. c
2. b
3. b
4. F – The teacher can usually understand Passage 2
whether it is a true excuse or not.
5. F – Some are funny / interesting / not true /
Students invent some of them when the 1. b
teacher wants an answer. 2. c
3. a
 4. a 2. the Babylonians
5. b 3. clay bricks
4. Ishtar Gate
5. T
6. T
7. F – He was a Babylonian king.
8. b
9. a

Passage 3
UNIT 20
1. airplanes, missiles, and television
2. his / Verne’s stories
3. b
Passage 1
4. c
5. Because he wrote fantasy books. / 1. April Fools Day jokes
because of his fantasy books / because of 2. celebration of / celebrating April Fools Day
books such as Twenty Thousand Leagues 3. T
Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty 4. F – …. to have fun / to entertain them. / The
Days, and The Mysterious Island jokes and tricks should not cause trouble
6. He used realistic and practical details or hurt anyone.
7. No. They were unreal. / imaginary
8. F – That is the story in his first book.
9. T
Passage 2
UNIT 19 1. nutrients (that we eat)
2. seawater’s
3. c
4. It dissolves the nutrients we eat and helps
Passage 1 control our body temperature.
5. Its bacterial count may be too high and it
1. T has too much salt.
2. T
3. The honeybee dies after stinging, but
wasps and other bees don’t. / Wasps and
others bees can sting more than once, but Passage 3
the honeybee stings only once and then
dies. / Wasps and other bees can pull out 1. the paws (of the lynx)
their stinger without injuring themselves, 2. lynxes
but the stinger of a honeybee stays in the 3. c
person’s skin. 4. a
4. Because the stinger of a honeybee stays 5. c
in the person’s skin and gets torn out of the 6. b
honeybee's body when it tries to fly away. 7. Because they avoid humans and hunt at
5. a night. / They are stealthy animals.
8. Yes. Because they have sharp hearing and
eyesight. / Their hearing and eyesight are
very strong.
Passage 2 9. T
10. F – Their thick fur keeps them warm./
They live in the remote northern
1. rods
forests (of North America, Europe, and
2. an addition or subtraction
Asia)
3. b
11. b
4. b
5. in 300 BCE in Babylonia
6. A modern abacus has rings, but the oldest
one had pebbles. UNIT 21
Passage 3 Passage 1
1. ziggurats / towers 1. in western North America
 2. It is 4, 399 metres
3. F – There are more rivers. 1. athletic competitions
4. T 2. the young men
5. T 3. sports events
4. running, jumping, throwing a javelin, and
throwing a discus
5. Because they gave a big importance to
physical athletic competition.
6. For prizes and for the favour of the gods
7. Only men could compete in the Greek
Passage 2 Olympic games.
Passage 3
1. Its wings, tail (tail feathers) and beak
2. By opening and closing its wings 1. Fainting / Freezing
continuously and by fanning its tail feather 2. fainting goats
out 3. b
3. By lifting or opening its wings and by 4. c
wagging its tail 5. Because they are smaller and much easier
4. a to care for than larger goats.
5. b 6. a
6. a

Passage 3 UNIT 23

Passage 1
1. a writing material out of bamboo and other
plants
2. (the art of) papermaking 1. a
3. clay tablets, the skins of goats or sheep, 2. a
wood or silk pages 3. No. Because there can be harmful bacteria
4. by a Chinese man / by Cby Ts’ai Lun in showerheads.
5. T 4. Because the first spurts of water from the
6. T shower are the most dangerous. / contain
7. F – It was used in the Middle East before the most bacteria.
Europe. 5. c
8. b
9. b Passage 2

1. c
UNIT 22 2. a
3. It was two months (old).
4. Because he was stuck in mud at a waterhole
Passage 1 and 100 buffaloes were coming towards
him.
5. F – They were on a safari.
1. people who pilot spacecraft or work in 6. T
space stations
2. Mission specialist astronauts
3. An astronaut is American. / … works for
the USA (for NASA). A cosmonaut is Passage 3
Russian.
4. Every two years 1. attack people
5. They do experiments and launch satellites. 2. shark attacks
They perform space walks. They do 3. b
research. They look after the spacecraft 4. a
and equipment. 5. c
6. F – They are chosen from engineers, 6. T
scientists or physicians. 7. T
7. F – Spacewalks are performed by mission 8. b
specialist astronauts. 9. b

Passage 2 UNIT 24
 3. We don't breathe as deeply as we usually
do. / Our breathing slows down. / We
Passage 1 breathe slowly.
4. By yawning
5. c
1. b
6. a
2. c
7. a
3. b
4. It lasted about 300 years
5. Because of their attacks and killing
6. T
7. F – They went as far as / to Al Andalus in
the south.
Passage 2

1. on Mars Passage 3
2. Mars
3. Mars
1. eruption
4. a
2. a
5. c
3. b
6. a
4. F – There are lighter eruptions now /
Eruptions have slowed down and experts
are expecting a strong eruption again.
5. T
Passage 3 6. F- The authorities are warning people not
to go back to their homes yet.
1. b
2. b
3. Because it avoids getting sick and
spreading illness. / It helps to remove
germs / bacteria/ viruses.
4. We can infect ourselves.
5. T
6. F – We need to wash them frequently.
7. F – Washing your hands frequently can
help stop their transfer. / You can stop their
transfer if you wash your hands frequently.

UNIT 25

Passage 1

1. b
2. b
3. a
4. On February 14
5. They give gifts to each other / to the people
they love.
6. F – Because he did not give up Christianity
/ his religion.
7. T

Passage 2

1. yawn
2. the reason why we / people / people and
animals yawn