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Section 1
Reading
Read the text and for each question, choose the correct answer A, B or C.
Nellie Bly: Journalist, Writer, World Traveller
You’ve all read Around the World in Eighty Days written by Jules Verne, haven’t you? No? Well, it’s an adventure story about a man named Phileas Fogg who takes a trip around the world in – you can guess, can’t you? Yes, in 80 days! In 1888, a journalist named Nellie Bly decided she could beat that. She thought she could get around the world faster than Phileas Fogg. She tried to persuade the editor of her newspaper to let her go. At first he said no because Nellie was a woman. But then he started thinking about all the copies of the New York World that would be sold if Nellie’s stories from around the world appeared in it every day. On November 14th 1889, Nellie’s trip began.
She left New Jersey in the USA and over the next 72 days she travelled 24,899 miles. She travelled by boat, train and often on foot. She visited countries which included England, France, Italy, Hong Kong and Japan. On January 25th 1890, Nellie’s unbelievable trip ended when she arrived back in New Jersey at 3.51 in the afternoon. The readers who bought the New York World daily to be informed about Nellie’s trip were very excited that she was back. Many still couldn’t believe that a woman was capable of making such a long trip! Nellie was now famous which greatly helped her career as a writer and a journalist. In 1919, she went to Europe where she wrote stories about what was happening there. These stories were some of her best and were printed back in the USA in the New York World and the New York Evening Journal.
1 Around the World in Eighty Days is …
A a magazine.
B a newspaper.
C a book.
2 Nellie Bly …
A got her editor to do something.
B travelled with Phileas Fogg.
C went round the world in 80 days.
3 The article informs us that …
A Nellie’s trip took 351 days.
B Nellie got back after 72 days.
C Nellie only went to five countries.
4 Some of the New York World readers …
A were unsure about Nellie’s career.
B were written about by Nellie.
C got the paper every day.
5 The main thing that the article talks about is …
A the history of travel.
B editors of newspapers.
C a good journalist.
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Section 2
Vocabulary
Read the advert and decide which answer (a, b or c) best fits each gap.
A career working in (0) a media sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Being a(n) (1) _____ in charge of a daily newspaper would be the (2) _____ job, wouldn’t it? Or what about being a famous (3) _____ who writes stories for a popular music magazine? Think about how great it would be if your stories were (4) _____ and millions of (5) _____ worldwide got to see them! Getting jobs like these is not (6) _____ and at Ryerson School for Journalists we are (7) _____ we can help you! Here at Ryerson we’ve got some of the most (8) _____ people in the world of writing and journalism waiting to talk to you! If you want to be (9) _____ about when classes start or how much they cost, please
(10) _____ on the link below. You’ll be happy you did!
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