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ODTU GV SCHOOLS

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
2023- 2024 ACADEMIC YEAR
SEMESTER 1
GRADE 6
PRACTICE
Name: Class:
PART A: READING I

Read the text and answer the questions below.

YOU’LL FEEL A LOT BETTER IF YOU SMILE :)


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Humans can recognize a smile from a distance of 90 meters. It's one of the oldest and most
basic forms of communication. Smiles and laughs mean the same thing in all cultures. It doesn't
matter if you are in London or Lisbon, New York or New Delhi, we all understand what they mean.
They express joy without words. They are signs of peace and happiness.
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A smile or a laugh can be contagious. Maybe you have noticed that when people around us
smile or laugh, we usually do the same. This type of phenomenon interests gelotologists: specialists
who study the origins and effects of smiles and laughter. They believe that millions of years ago,
before languages started to develop, these gestures helped humans to form relationships.
Nowadays, the same gestures can help us in our stressful lives. Studies show that people live longer
when they spend more time with groups of happy friends.
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But why exactly are smiling and laughing good for our health? Is there a scientific
explanation? Well, according to experts, there is. Studies have shown that laughs and smiles both
cause the brain to release "happy" chemicals into the body. These chemicals reduce stress and help
to strengthen the body's defences. The same chemicals can also reduce pain. Laughing is also good
for your heart and lungs, and twenty seconds of laughter has the same health benefits as three
minutes of exercise.
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Because of these healthy effects, laughter therapy has become more and more popular.
Laughter yoga, for example, was started by an Indian doctor in Mumbai in 1995 and there are now
more than 8,000 groups around the world. At laughter yoga sessions, people meet, play, and laugh.
As a result, they feel happier and healthier. Laughter therapy is also common in hospitals now. The
idea of "clown care" started in New York in 1978, when a doctor named Patch Adams started to
dress as a clown and make sick children laugh. Patients in a hospital are usually worried and often
bored, but hospital clowns can help them to be happier and more positive, and this helps people to
get better faster. Now, it is a system that is used nearly in every country.
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So, if we smile more, we might all be a lot happier and healthier. Strangely, it seems that if
we fake or force a smile, it can have exactly the same effects as a real smile. So, if you're unhappy,
just smile or try to laugh and you should feel better. A smile makes the world a warmer place, and
because smiles and laughter are free, maybe we should be more generous with them.

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1. What do the following words refer to in the text?

a. “they” in paragraph 1 refers to _______________________

b.” they” in paragraph 2 refers to ______________________

2. What is the result of spending more time with happy friends according to the text?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

3. What is the advantage of smiling and laughing scientifically?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

4. Twenty seconds of laughing equals to ______________________________ if we think of health


benefits.

5. Which of the following is TRUE about “clown care”?

a. It was first started by a professional clown.

b. It has only been used in hospitals in New York.

c. Its goal is to motivate ill people to get well in a shorter time.

d. It is a system which allows clowns to entertain people in hospitals.

6. Which of the following can give the same meaning as “strangely” in paragraph 5?

a. fortunately b. surprisingly c. naturally d. familiarly

7. Imagine that you have a friend who is extremely unhappy. What would you suggest doing to make
him happy? Why? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

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PART B: GRAMMAR

1. Fill in the gaps with the correct past simple forms of the verbs in brackets.
Summer Time
Two summers ago, we 1. ___________ (have) a holiday in Scotland. We 2. _______
(drive) there from London, but our car 3. ________ (break) down on the motorway,
and we 4. __________ (spend) the first night in Birmingham. When we 5.
___________ (get) to Edinburgh, we 6. _________ (not can) find a good hotel. There
7. _____________ (not be) any available rooms. We 8. _____________ (not know)
what to do, but in the end we 9. ____________ (find) a bed, and breakfast, and we
10. ____________ (stay) there for the week. We 11. _____________ (see) the castle,
12. ____________ (go) to the Arts Festival, and we 13. _____________ (buy) a lot of
souvenirs. We 14. ____________ (want) to go to Loch Ness, but we 15.
_____________ (not have) much time, and it 16. _____________ (be) quite far away.
The weather 17. ________ (be) good, but it 18. ______________ (start) raining the
day we 19. __________ (leave). We 20. ____ (have) a great time.

2. Read the following sentences and decide if they are CORRECT or WRONG. Put a
tick ( ) if the sentence is correct, put a cross ( X ) if it is wrong and write the
correct sentence.

a) My sister and her husband comes from Greece last year. ( )

b) My cousin phoned me from France yesterday evening. ( )

c) I didn’t like the U2 concert. ( )

d) Did Johan went to school on foot last week? ( )

e) Did they leaved the country last Saturday? ( )

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f) They didn’t had to finish the homework yesterday. ( )

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