Reading - Cloze and Multiple Choice

Reading

Read the text below, ignoring the blanks first and choose the best option (a, b, c or d) to answer the questions. Then, re-read the text again and fill in the blanks with ONLY one word in each space.

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1. What is 'Children's Express'?
a. It is an organization to sponsor poor children.
b. It is an organization that encourages readers to help children.
c. It is an organization that encourages children to cover journalistic stories.
d. It is an organization that interviews children.

2. Which option is not true about the text?
a. The articles appear in newspapers from different countries.
b. The stories from the interviews are written by a team of teenagers.
c. The children interview people they are interested in.
d. The articles are produced in more than one language.

Children's Express is a unique organization that started twelve years ago with the slogan 'BY CHILDREN FOR EVERYBODY'. The idea behind the articles, which are 3) in over thirty papers across 4) USA as 5) as in New Zealand and Australia, is to encourage readers 6) look at important issues from the 7) of view of children and young people.

In their New York office the 200 young reporters can choose 8) story they want to work on, depending 9) what they are 10) in. On any story, a team of three or four, usually under thirteen and sometimes as young 11) eight, work with an assistant editor. Interviews 12) done using recording devices and are then typed out by adult workers. The 13) interesting articles are then selected 14) a teenage assistant editor and an adult Children's Express editor.

Children's Express teams have interviewed local politicians and presidential candidates. They have covered stories on Chernobyl and Kampuchea and have investigated difficult social problems 15) as violence 16) the family. They also 17) articles in Spanish for the large 18) of Spanish American readers. Recently they have announced that they're 19) to produce a weekly TV news programme, starting 20) year. Ten-year-old Laurel is to 21) one of the presenters of the programme because she is not embarrassed about asking important people difficult questions. To Laurel, working on a TV 22) is just 'fun'!