116 r injustice [ind3Astis] n.
Injustice is a lack of fairness or justice.
-+Putting an innocent person in jail is an act ofinjustice. r international [mtarnaejanal] adj.
If something is international, it involves more than one country.
-*■The United Nations is a powerful international organization.
r lawyer Oo-.jax] n.
A lawyer works with the law and represents people in court.
->The lawyer left the courthouse after the judge made her decision.
r mention [menjan] V. To mention something is to talk about it.
-*■The doctors mentioned the problems that the patient was having.
r policy [palesi] n.
A policy is a rule.
-*■He told us that his policy was to put customers first.
r social [soujsl] adj.
If something is social, it is about many people in a community.
-*■People should come together and fix the world’s social problems.
r speech [spi:tj] n.
A speech is something said to a group of people.
-* She gave a speech to the class.
r Staff [stasf] n.
A staff is a group of people working together in a company.
-» My dad has a staffof four people to help him at the office.
r toward [tawo:rd] prep. If you go toward something, you go closer to it.
-*Santa walked toward my house with a special tree.
r wood [wud] n.
Wood is the thing that trees are made of.
-»I put the pieces of wood in a pile.
1. mention
a. to say
Choose the right definition for the given word.
b. to look at c. to not believe d. to be happy
2. social
a. about many countries
c. about many people
3. lawyer
a. to be treated unfairly
c. leader
4. however
a. the last part
c. a rule
5. bother
a. to look for new places
c. to talk about something
b. not dead
d. about a different country
b. a person who works with the law
d. a part of the body
b. part of a tree
d. despite something
b. to make the effort to do something!
d. to not believe
Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the word
bank.
wood toward
WORD BANK
policy speech staff
1. My new desk is made of.
2. Students must start class at 9:00 each morning. This is the school’s.
3. There are over 500 people on the hospital’s__________ .
4. Go__________ the river, but stop before you get in the water!
5. The president gave a __________ last night.
Write a word that is similar in meaning to the
underlined part.
1. He gave a talk to a group of people at the meeting,
spe______
2. Did anyone make the effort to do their homework?
bo________
3. The chair is made of the material trees are made of.
w o____
4. The group of workers helped him with his work,
s________
5. He is not dead; I saw him yesterday.
a ________
Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the word
bank.
WORD BANK
mentioned however policy staff speech
bothered conclusion injustice bones doubt
My teacher’s name is Mrs. Smith. Yesterday, she gave a i______________to our
class. She said there was a new 2______________about the school diet. No one
is allowed to eat cookies anymore! The school’s 3______________decided that
their students didn’t eat healthily. They wanted students to improve their eating
habits. Everyone will have to drink a cup of milk at lunch. She said milk gives our
bodies stronger 4_____________ . She also 5______________that sugar is bad
for us. She said she had no 6_____________ that we would all feel better. We all
thought that it was an 7_____________ . But at the 8______________of class, she
told us one more thing, “It was a joke!” 9_____________ , no one thought that it
was very funny. And no students 10______________to laugh.
Shipwrecked
.Simon Yates was a lawyer. He helped many people. However, he was not a
nice man. His policy was to help only rich people. He didn’t bother about social
injustice. He made a lot of money, but many people didn’t like him. Even people
on his staff didn’t like him. They wanted bad things to happen to him. In fact,
they were glad when he got into trouble.
Simon had a very bad day. He did many things wrong and lost his job. Soon,
he didn’t have any money. His wife, Mrs. Yates, began to have doubts about him.
Simon wanted to start a new life. He planned to leave the country.
He mentioned his plan to the captain of a ship. The captain was exploring
the world. The captain felt bad for Simon and said, “I will take you to foreign
countries.” They left the next day.
Near the conclusion of their international trip, the weather turned bad. A wave
pushed Simon off the boat. But he was alive. He swam toward an island. After a
longtime he got there.
At first he was upset. He was lost and alone. “I’ll never go home again,” he
thought. He had a lot of problems, but he survived. He built a house in a tree. He
lived on a diet offish. He made tools from wood and bones. He made a cup to
drink rainwater.
Slowly he learned to be happy on the island. He swam every day. He had
trouble sometimes, but he always found a way to fix the problem. Life was
simple. He liked it.
Finally, people on a ship saw Simon on the island. They wanted to take him
home. But Simon was happy. He gave them a long speech about life. He said he
wanted to stay. He liked his new, simple life more than his old life.
1. What is this story about?
a. How the captain of a ship explored foreign places
b. How a lawyer stayed alive alone on an island
c. Why a man and a woman went on an international trip
d. Why it is a good policy to worry about social problems
2. Why does Simon not stay on the boat?
a. The staff do not like him.
b. He wants to swim toward an island.
c. A wave pushes him off the ship.
d. He does not like the diet of only fish.
