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READING COMPREHENSION STORY TRUTH AT ALL COSTS
READING COMPREHENSION STORY TRUTH AT ALL COSTS
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1
Bravery means doing the right thing even if it´s scary while Bravado means act foolish.
True
False
2
According to the text what the word compelling means?
It means enriching.
It means attractive.
It means violent.
It means honest.
3
What did Marie said it was the real difficulty?
To have enough faith in humanity´s care in the printed pages.
To face the cruelty of wars.
To be able to print the truth in the stories.
To face the horrors of war.
4
What was Marie Colvie´s equipment?
A typewriter and a telex machine.
A telescope, a notebook and a satellite phone.
A satellite phone, a telex machine and a lap top.
Satellite phone, video camera and a flack jacket.
5
What type of text is the Truth At All Costs?
It´s a scientific report.
It´s a speech.
It´s a magazine´s article.
It´s a newspaper article.
6
We can conclude from Marie´s speech that being a war correspondent is pride even at high risk.
False
True
7
She expressed in her speech that being a journalist covering combat shoulder responsibilities and difficult choices.
True
False
8
What happende to Joao Silva?
He was maimed as a revenge.
He stepped on mine and lost his both legs at the knee.
He was shot and die.
He died in a bombing.
9
What was the speech purpose?
To honor the people from church.
To honor war victims.
To honor producers who recently died.
To honor journalist and support staff who died in war.
10
How can war correspondents have their stories?
By going to wars and see what´s happening.
By sending junior officers who sent back dispatches.
By enterviewing the government and the army.
By getting information only from people in war.
11
Who was the first correspondent in the modern era?
It was William Howard Russell.
It was Marie Colvie.
It was Linsey Hilsum.
It was Joao Silva.
12
How did Marie say that war correspondents can make a difference? (Choose all that apply)
By exposing the atrocities that befall civilians.
By describing what was happening in wars.
By speaking the truth of wars.
By exposing the horrors of war.
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What was Marie Colvie´s profession?
A broadcaster.
A novelist.
A photographer.
A journalist.
14
Marie expressed in her speech that war correspondents would be able to do their jobs even without a staff.
True
False
15
Marie wanted people to know what our government, and our armed forces, are doing in our name.
True
False
16
What is the meaning of war correspondent?
A writer of only wars
A broadcaster
A journalist reporting from a scene of war.
A female victim of war.
17
How did she lose her left eye?
In a war fighting for her life.
Because of a bomb.
In an ambush in Sri Lankan civil war.
By a granade.
18
According to her speech what´s the meaning of clash?
It means a violent confrontation.
It means to crash.
It means to see a conflict.
It means to speak about the truth.
19
What was Joao Silva´s profession?
He was a journalist.
He was a cameraman.
He was a photographer.
He was Marie´s boss.
20
According to her speech what does covering a war means?
It means to know places around the worls.
It means to write stories for important newspapers and earn money.
It means to become famous.
It means going places torn by chaos, destruction and death.
21
What did she say it was journalist mission?
To use sanitised language in their stories.
To speak the truth only if it´s required.
To let the world know what they really want.
To speak the truth of power.
22
According the her speech how does she describes war scenes?
Such as a cemetery.
With only destruciton.
With burn houses, mutilated bodies and suffering.
With people fighting for their rights and being attacked with bombs.
23
Marie and Joao said that they did not felt terror when patrolling an embed through villages in Afghanistan.
False
True
24
What are some of the dangers that she talked on her speech about being a war correspondent? (Choose all that apply)
To be wounded or maimed.
To die.
To be kidnapped or held hostage.
To starve and not able to sleep.
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Who wrote the speech?
Joao Silva
Paul Conroy
Lindsey Hilsum
Marie Colvie
