False statements: pick out ONE detail from the named paragraph

Reading comprehension. Read the text, then answer the question.

1. It started with one table and a pot of couscous. In May 2023, Leila Mansour, a retired nurse, carried her kitchen table into Rue des Oliviers and invited her neighbours to dinner. Only four people came that first Friday, and one of them left before dessert.

2. A year later, the long table stretches along half the street. Families take turns to cook, and those who cannot cook bring bread, fruit or chairs. Not everyone is convinced: two residents have complained about the noise, and a shopkeeper refuses to take part. Most neighbours, however, say they now know the names of people they had passed on the stairs for years.

3. The dinners have also changed daily life. When an elderly neighbour fell ill in January, three families organised her shopping for a month. "We never used to knock on each other's doors," says Leila. "Now some of us never lock them."

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For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE. (3 marks)

a. Many neighbours came to the first dinner. (paragraph 1)

b. All the residents of the street support the dinners. (paragraph 2)

c. None of the neighbours helped the woman who fell ill. (paragraph 3)

Reading comprehension. Read the text, then answer the question.

1. When Dr Amel Jaziri left Sousse for a hospital in Hamburg in 2019, her friends assumed she was chasing a bigger salary. She says they were wrong. "It was not the money," she insists. "I left because our radiology department had one scanner for the whole region, and it broke down every month."

2. In Germany she worked long hours, learnt the language in eighteen months and was offered a permanent contract. She never signed it. Her mother's illness brought her home for a few weeks in 2022, and during that visit she met three former colleagues who were planning to open a diagnostic centre in their home town.

3. The centre opened last spring. Forty doctors from the Tunisian diaspora each lent part of their savings, and a local bank agreed to a loan only after the first twenty had signed. Today the centre carries out more than sixty scans a day, and patients no longer drive three hours to the capital for an appointment.

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For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE. (3 marks)

a. Amel left Tunisia because doctors were badly paid. (paragraph 1)

b. Amel came back home because her contract in Germany had ended. (paragraph 2)

c. The diagnostic centre was paid for by the Ministry of Health. (paragraph 3)

Reading comprehension. Read the text, then answer the question.

1. When the council of Northfield announced that the town centre would be closed to cars every Sunday, most shopkeepers signed a petition against the plan. They were sure that customers would stay away if they could not park outside the door.

2. Eighteen months later, the figures tell a different story. Against all predictions, Sunday takings in the car-free streets have risen by twelve per cent, and three empty shops have reopened as cafés. Rana Patel, who sells shoes on the high street and was one of the loudest critics, now admits that Sunday is her best day of the week.

3. Residents were asked in March whether the scheme should continue. Two out of three voted not only to keep it but to extend it to Saturday afternoons. The council will decide in the autumn.

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For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE. (3 marks)

a. As expected, the shopkeepers supported the plan from the start. (paragraph 1)

b. As everyone had predicted, Sunday takings went up once cars were banned. (paragraph 2)

c. Surprisingly, most residents want the scheme to stop. (paragraph 3)

Reading comprehension. Read the text, then answer the question.

1. Omar Ben Salem was sixteen when his younger brother needed an emergency operation and the hospital in Gabès ran short of blood. The operation went well, but Omar never forgot the nurse who told him that the blood bank sometimes had enough for only two days.

2. That summer he set up a group called Two Days on social media and asked his friends to give blood together, once every four months. Forty people came to the first collection. Within a year, the group had members in nine towns, and the regional blood centre started to plan its mobile collections around their dates.

3. Omar is now at university in Sfax and still organises a collection every season. He refuses to take credit for it. "I only sent the first message," he says. "The people who roll up their sleeves are the heroes."

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For each of the following false statements, pick out one full sentence from the text showing that it is false. (2 marks)

a. Omar's first collection attracted very few people. (paragraph 2)

b. Omar stopped organising collections when he went to university. (paragraph 3)

Reading comprehension (Sport paper format). Read the text, then answer the question.

1. At the age of nine, Walid Hamdi lost his left leg below the knee in a road accident near Kairouan. For two years he refused to leave the house, and his parents feared he would never play outside again.

2. Everything changed when a physiotherapist at the rehabilitation centre fitted him with his first running blade. Walid took three steps, fell, and asked to try again. Within a month he was racing the other patients along the corridor.

3. He did not start in a club. For almost a year, his only coach was his older sister, a sports instructor, who timed him on the dirt road behind their house with an old stopwatch. Only when a regional coach saw a video of one of those sessions was Walid invited to train with the national para-athletics squad.

4. Last summer, at twenty, he won a silver medal in the 100 metres at the African Para Championships. He now visits hospitals to show young amputees his blade. "It is not a leg," he tells them. "It is a spring."

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The following statement is false. Correct it with ONE detail from paragraph 3. (1 mark)

Walid was trained by a club coach from the very beginning. ……………