MINI Reading Comprehensions Last week, an eighty year old lady stole a tin of peaches from a supermarket and a policeman arrested her They took her to court and the judge asked her how many peaches there were in the tin She replied that there were six ‘In that case, I sentence you to six days in prison’ said the judge The old lady began to cry Then her husband asked if he could speak The judge agreed ‘She also stole a tin of peas’, he said 1) What did the old lady steal? 2) Who arrested her? 3) When did this incident happen? 4) Where did she steal the peaches from? 5) Why did the old lady cry? 6) Why is this funny? Albert Einstein was a famous scientist He has a famous equation about relativity He used to attend many dinners At the end, he always made a speech His chauffeur looked just like him One night he said, ‘Albert, I have heard your speech so many times Let me make it tonight!’ Einstein agreed The chauffeur made the speech and it was brilliant At the end, it was question time However, one professor asked a question that the stand-in could not answer He immediately said, ‘Sir, that question is so easy that I am going to let my chauffeur answer it!’ And so it was over to the master Answer the questions: 1) Who was Albert Einstein? 2) What did Einstein at the end of the dinners? 3) Who looked just like him? 4) What did the chauffeur ask if he could do? 5) How did it go when the chauffeur spoke? 6) What kind of people attended the dinner? 7) Why did the chauffeur not answer the question? 8) Who answered the question? Mrs Smith took her dog Bunty out for a walk last February She took it to the beach and they walked along the shore Bunty is enormous, but gentle Suddenly, a small dog ran up to Mrs Smith and started jumping up and barking! Bunty put her giant paw on the small dog’s head and pinned it on the ground until finally its owner came up and got it Answer the questions TRUE or FALSE a) This happened last February b) Mrs Smith took Bunty to the park c) Bunty is tiny and ferocious d) A small dog ran up to Mrs Smith e) The small dog wagged its tail and was very friendly f) Bunty chased the small dog away g) The dog’s owner eventually came and got it Look at Lyn’s room and decide TRUE or FALSE a) She is a very tidy person b) There are two T-shirts on the floor c) Her laptop is on the bed d) Her teddy bear is in the bed e) She likes rock music f) There are a lot of books on her bedside table g) There is an open drawer with some clothes hanging out of it h) Her clock, which is big and blue, is on the bedside table i) Her jeans are over the side of the bed j) Her yellow jacket is hanging up on the hook