READING COMPREHENSION INGLESE LEVEL A2

ROSA PARKS  

Rosa Parks was an Afro-American civil rights activist. She was born on February, 4 1913.
She is best known for what she did in her home town of Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, on December 1, 1955.
While she sat in a seat in the middle of the bus, the bus driver told her to move to the back of the bus so a white passenger could take the seat in the front of the bus. During this time, when there were no white seats for white people, black people were told to get up out of their seat.
Parks refused to move.  Like so many others she was tired of being treated as a lower class person because of the color of her skin.
She was arrested. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott lasted 381 days and nearly estimated 17.000 people refused to ride on the city buses.
This caused a change in the law. After that, black people were able to sit wherever they wanted to on the bus. Her refusal to let others treat her differently was an important symbol in the campaign against racial segregation

QUESTIONS

1) Rosa Parks was born on December 1, 1955. True or false?

FALSE: she was born on February 4, 1913

2) Where is the town of  Montgomery located?

Alabama

3) Who told Rosa Parks to move in the back of the bus?

The bus driver

4) Why was Rosa Parks arrested?

Because she refused to leave her seat and move in the back of the bus

5) Why was Rosa Parks treated as a lower class person?

Because of the color of her skin

6) What is the best synonym for "boycott"?
a. approval
b. protest
c. agreement

b. Protest

7)  The boycott lasted more than one year. True or false?

True (It lasted 381 days)

8)  What did people do during this period?

They refused to use city buses

9)  How can Rosa Parks be best described?

• Elegant
• Brave
• Tired
• Shy

Brave

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DOVE COTTAGE 

Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England.
It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking". During this period, William wrote much of the poetry for which he is remembered today, including his "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", "Ode to Duty", "My Heart Leaps Up" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", together with parts of his autobiographical epic, The Prelude.

William Wordsworth married his wife Mary in 1802, and she and her sister joined the Wordsworths at Dove Cottage. The family quickly expanded, with the arrival of three children in four years, and the Wordsworths left Dove Cottage in 1808 to seek larger lodgings. The cottage was then occupied by Thomas de Quincey for a number of years, before being let to a succession of tenants.

The cottage was acquired by the Wordsworth Trust in 1890 and opened to the public as a writer's home museum in 1891.
The house remains largely unchanged from Wordsworth's day.

It receives approximately 70,000 visitors a year.

DOMANDE

1)  Where is Dove Cottage located?

On the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District

2) William Wordsworth and his wife Dorothy lived here from December 1799 to May 1808.
True - False

False: Dorothy was his sister, not his wife

3) Were those years a very productive period for Wordsworth as a poet? Why?

Yes, it was because in those years Wordsworth wrote many of his legendary poems as "Ode to Duty" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud"

4) Who went to live at the Dove Cottage with  the Wordsworth family?

Mary's sister

5) According to the text, William and Mary had four children. True-False

False: they had 3 children in four years

6) For what reason did the Wordsworth leave the cottage in 1808?

They needed a bigger house - They were seeking larger lodges

7) Did Thomas de Quincey live at Dove Cottage?

Yes, he did

8) Who acquired Dove Cottage in 1890?

The Cottage was acquired by the Wordsworth Trust

9) Today the house is very different from Wordsworth's day. True - False

False. The house remains largely unchanged from Wordsworth's day

10) What was the cottage transformed into?

It was transformed into Wordsworth's home museum