Card # 1 Group # Full name modern life

Card # 1 Group #___________ Full name ________________
MODERN LIFE
My grandmother was the daughter of a farmer who lived near a country town.When she was young, she used to complain that life provided her with few opportunities of meeting interesting people and offered her the chance of pursuing her education. But that was fifty years ago. We still live in the same farmhouse. We still relish the peace of the countryside and the quiet of the woods, but our life is very different from that of our grandparents. Why is this? What has made our life so different? The reason is, of course, that discoveries and inventions made since their time have immensely extended the range of our eyes and ears. One might almost claim that these inventions can bring the whole world to us in our homes.

to pursue: to follow; to practice to relish: to delight in

immensely: very, vastly, enormously to extend: to widen, to broaden
range: limit, extent to claim: to state, to assert

Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words defined above
1. They have .... this dream so fiercely that they cannot afford to admit any self-doubt.
2. He was asked to stand for parliament, but declined, having no particular .... for party-politics; he was too large-hearted a man for that.
3. He is .... strong, but also shyly gentle and has great sense of humour.
4. "Lewis," the other one rose to his feet and .... his hand.
5. His films cover a wide ...... of subjects and genres, from the futurist science fiction.

READING COMPREHENSION
1. Obviously the author's grandmother .......
A) was content with her life.
B) frequently met new people.
C) thought herself lucky on the farmhouse.
D) felt cut off from contact with people.
E) regretted living in the town.

2. Unlike his grandmother, the author .......
A) hates the quiet life in the countryside.
B) regrets not living in a city.
C) cannot tolerate meeting new people.
D) wants to live a different life.
E) does not complain about the life in the country.