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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was born on December 17th 1770 in Bonn, but he (1)....moved.............................. to Vienna, Austria in 1792, and lived there until his death in 1827. Beethoven showed his (2)......innate............. talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven. Beethoven is regarded to as (3)...one........... of the "three Bs" (along with Bach and Brahms). His best-known (4)...products............ include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quarters. He also (5)....has........... chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa solemis), and songs. He was also a key figure in the transition from the 18th century musicial classicism to 19th century romanticism.
Read the passage and choose the best answers:
Louis Braille was born in France in 1809 . His father had a small business . He made shoes and other things from leather . Louis liked to help his father in the store even when he was very small . One day when Louis was 3 years old , he was cutting some leather , suddenly the knife slipped and hit him in the eyes . He soon became completely blind .
When he was ten years old , he entered the National Institute for the blind in Paris . One day his class went to visit a speacial exhibit by a captain in the army . One thing in the exhibit was very interesting for Louis . It showed messages in code . Armies send messages in secret codes so no - one else can read them . The captain wrote this code in raised letters on very thick paper .
Louis thought a lot about this code . Then he decided to write in the same way so the blind could " read " with their fingers . It is very difficult to feel the differences between raised letters . Instead of letters , Louis used a " cell " of six dots . He arranged the dots with two dots across and three down . So blind people can read and write even write music by Braille .
1 . It is difficult to feel the differences between ................................
A . arrangements of dots
B . coded messages
C . raised letters
D . a system of raised dots
2 . Louis Braille's father made things from .............................
A . codes
B . exhibit
C. leather
D . wood
3 . Which of these sentences is probably not true ?
A . Braille invented a system of reading for blind people .
B . Braille system is used for everyone .
C . Braille visited an exhibit of codes
D . Braille was an intelligent boy .
4 . When Louis was ten years old , he began to study ......................................
A . at a local school
B . at a special school for the blind .
C . in the army
D . at a university .
Read the passage carefully, and do the tasks that follow.
Elie Wiesel - A Messenger to Mankind
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. When he was fifteen years old, he and his family were forced by the Nazis to come to Auschwitz. Only he and his two older sisters survived.
After the Second World War, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the famous French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his book, Night, which has been translated into more than thirty languages. As a devoted supporter of human rights, Elie Wiesel has defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine and genocide in Africa, of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia. He is President of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization he and his wife created to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice.
Teaching has always been central to Elie Wiesel’s work. He has been teaching at many famous universities all over the world. He is the author of more than sixty books of fiction and non-fiction, including “A Beggar in Jerusalem”, “The Fifth Son”, “All Rivers Run to the Sea”, “And the Sea is Never Full”, etc.
For his literary and human rights activities, he has received numerous awards and in 1986 he won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
1: Find the words or expressions in the text which have the following meanings.
1. concentration camps in which a large number of people are ________death camps__________
systematically put to death
2. the killing of a whole group of people genocide
3. lack of interest in someone or something indifference
4. refusal to accept ideas, behaviour... that are different from
your own intolerance
5. the situation being unfair injustice
2: Read the passage, and answer the questions below.
6. Why did Elie Wiesel become a writer although his first job was a journalist?
Because during an interview with the famous French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps and as a result, he became a writer.
7. What did he do to support human rights?
Elie Wiesel defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine and genocide in Africa, of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.
8. What is the aim of “The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity”
Its aim is to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice.
9. What is the core of his work?
The core of his work is teaching.
10. When did he win the Nobel Prize for Peace?
In 1986.
II. Complete the sentences with"used to" or "be used to"
1. Jane(work)............USED TO WORK........ for the telephone company, but now she has a job at the post office
2. Did work doesn't brother me. I(work).....................AM USED TO WORKING........... hard. I've worked hard all my life
3. Dick(have)...................USED TO HAVE.......... mustache. but he doesn't any more. He shaved it off because his wife didn't like it. I (see, not)........AM NOT USED TO SEEING............... him without his mustache. He still looks strange to me
4. When I was a child, I (think)...............USED TO THINK....................anyone over 40 was old. Of course, now that I'm middle- aged, I agree with those who say"Life begins at 40"
5. It(take)............................USED TO TAKE................ weeks or months to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to American , but now it takes only a matter of hours
6. Even though Jason is only 12, he(fly)......................USED TO FLY........... on airplane. His father is pilot and has taken Johnson with him in a plane many times
7. Michale(take)................IS USED TO TAKING....................... care of himself. He left home when he was 15 and has been on his own ever since
8. When I was growing up, my mother often sent me to the neighborhood store to get something for her. And each time I went there, Mr. Ditmar, the owner,(give).............USED TO GIVE......... me a piece of candy
