Question

IX. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer
to each of the questions.
In the past, getting recipes and cooking tips was a complicated process. A person had to go
to the store and buy a cook book, or get recipes from friends. Fortunately, the Internet has
changed all that. Now, if you want to find a recipe for lasagne or Cobb salad, you just search
online. It couldn’t be simpler.
Cooking blogs are a great source of information because they are free and there are so many
of them. They are also nice because they give all different kinds of ideas. The problems with
blogs is that because we don’t know who is writing them, we need to use with caution. When
you are looking at a new blog, you don’t know if the writer knows what he or she is talking
about.
We’d like to introduce two popular cooking blogs. The first is called Smitten Kitchen. This
website is run by a family living in New York City. It focuses on food that doesn’t require
many ingredients. If you want to make food that is simple but wonderful, then this is the site for
you. It offers hundreds and hundreds of recipes, divided into categories. You will be amazed at
how many there are.
Wednesday Chef is another great cooking blog. It is run by a writer who lives in Berlin.
This blog also offers many recipes, along with recommendations for great restaurants in Berlin,
and advice for people who want to start their own blogs. Wednesday Chef has great pictures
of its food, as well as interesting pictures of Berlin. The blog got its name because in the past,
newspapers published their food articles on Wednesdays.
There are a lot of cooking blogs on the Internet, and most of them are pretty good. Go
online and check some of them out. You might be surprised at how much they can help you
improve your cooking.
28. How did Wednesday Chef get its name?
A. The writer posts recipes on Wednesdays.
B. The writer only cooks on Wednesdays.
C. The writer was born on a Wednesday.
D. Newspapers used to publish food articles on Wednesdays.
29. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of cooking blogs?
A. There are many of them.
B. Everyone who writes them is an expert.
C. They are free.
D. They give a lot of different ideas.
30. Who runs the blog Smitten Kitchen?
A. A family in New York. B. A woman in New York.
C. A family in Berlin. D. A woman in Berlin.
31. What does the passage say about Smitten Kitchen?
A. It only gives recipes on Italian food.
B. It focuses on simple recipes.
C. It only offers a few recipes.
D. Most of the food on that blog is hard to make.
32. Why should we be careful when we are looking at new blogs?
A. We don’t know who the writers are.
B. Most new blogs are terrible.
C. The recipes on new blogs are usually hard to make.
D. They charge you some fees to get the recipes.
 

Answer 1

d b a b a

Answer 2

28. D.

29. B.

30. A.

31. B.

32. A.