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READING COMPREHENSION
Choose and write down the right answer (s).
This document is :
an extract from a novel
This document deals with :
a newspaper article
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Gun ownership Gun violence awareness
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Gun crime statistics
an extract from a diary
Gun shootings in the USA
Pick out information about :
Mr. Allen
( his age / his job / where he lives lives / what happened happened to him him )
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Veronica Moser Moser Sullivan ( her age / what happened to her )
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Mr Allen’s years at school
( where where he went to school school / what he had had in hs school bag / what for / how he got got it )
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What happened happened later in his school school ……………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………… … .……
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a- His gun had been bought legally.
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………………………………………………………………………………..………………… b- Not many students carried guns when he was in High School .
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………………………………………………………………………………..………………… c- He used to carry a gun to protect himself from his bullies.
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………………………………………………………………………………..………………… d- Mr Allen is still a gun supporter .
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Explain why Mr Allen says ,
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My mother saved my life
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(l.10)
(20 words)
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Mr.Allen said he remained plagued by guilt
(l.13) (l.13),
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briefly explain explain how he felt at the time. …………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………
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Give the following information : type of document , source.
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Violence and gun-bearing in America America .
Gang-related crime .
Mass shootings in America .
The need for gun control control and gun laws in the USA. Complete the table with some of the elements related to the 2 mass shootings mentioned in the
document. Put a X in the box if the information information is not not given. Mass shooting
N°1
N°2
Year
Time
Place
About the victims
Number of victims
Information about the gunman
Gunman’s equipment
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? Answer the question and justify by quoting the text .
A massacre happened at a movie theater theater in the USA.
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………………………………………………………………………………..………………… b- The killer was an uneducated man who lived locally.
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a character from Batman. RIGHT
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It was declared declared a national tragedy. RIGHT
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The guns used in the killing killing were bought illegally. illegally.
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………………………………………………………………………………..………………… g- This latest massacre happened happened near the scene of a 1999 gun massacre RIGHT .
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What topic is is common to the two documents? documents?
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" I could have saved lives! "
Several years ago, Mr. Allen, 46, an emergency room technician, was held up at gunpoint in Brooklyn in the middle of the day by three teenagers. (...) But it took seeing a portrait of Veronica Moser-Sullivan,6, the youngest victim of the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, CO, (...) eating an ice-cream cone with a child's joyful abandon to galvanize him into action. He showed the little girl's picture, which he carried with him.(...) Mr. Allen admitted that he had not always been against guns. For years, Mr. Allen said, he carried a gun every day. To high school. The gun, which he had bought on the street for $150, went to class, along with his pencils and notebooks, at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn - his bully deterrent, he said. He was hardly the only one who had a firearm, he said. Those were the days before metal detectors at high school doors, he added, and he carried the weapon until his mother found it in his sock drawer. She gave him the dressing down of a lifetime, he said. The gun was gone ."My mother saved my life." In 1992, after Mr. Allen graduated, a 15-year-old, Khalil Sumpter , fatally shot Tyrone Sinkler , 16, and Ian Moore, 17, in the second-floor hallway of his high school. (...) Mr. Allen said he remained plagued by guilt that he never told the authorities about what some of his peers had carried in their knapsacks. "I felt I could have saved those lives, if they had known we all had guns at school," he said. Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times, January 21st, 2013
12 killed in Batman shooting in U.S. – 21st July, 2012 From http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com/1207/120721-gun_control.html
A gunman killed 12 people and wounded 59 at a Colorado cinema early Friday morning. Police apprehended the killer and identified him as James Eagan Holmes, 24, a former neuroscience PhD student. He armed himself with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol and fired at random at moviegoers attending the midnight premiere of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises”. Holmes had dyed his hair red, just like Batman’s nemesis the Joker, and wore full body
armour and a gas mask. Many initially thought he was part of a stunt for the movie screening. Cinemas in New York got police protection after the shooting to prevent copycat killings. The premiere in Paris was immediately cancelled. U.S. President Barack Obama has led the mourning after the massacre, ordering flags to be lowered to half-mast. He said: "There are going to be other days for politics. This, I think, is a day for prayer and reflection." The shooting has once again reignited the debate on gun control in America. All the weapons used in the killings were bought legally in a local gun store. The shooting brings back memories of the 1999 Columbine High School murders, just 25km from the cinema, in which 13 people lost their lives. Tragedies like this are becoming all too common but do little to get tighter gun controls enforced. Gun ownership is a right in the USA. There are an estimated 192 million firearms in the country.