Part a: pre-reading

1. Circle the best answer according to the text.

1. Stories about unusual events often attract _______________.

a. believers
b. disbelievers
c. both a and b

2. Which of the following does the reading NOT talk about?

a. people catching fire
b. visitors from other planets
c. unusual shapes in wheat and corn fields

3. ____________ fell from the sky onto people in Singapore in the mid-nineteenth century. a. Alligators

b. Fish
c. Frogs

4. What was unusual about the animals that rained down on the Greek city of Naphlion?

a. they were yellow.
b. they were extremely large.
c. they had come from another country.

5. According to the reading, today there are ______________about unexplained phenomena.

a. more stories than ever
b. fewer stories
c. hardly any stories

6. Most of the unusual events documented on websites and in the media ____________

a. have been proven false
b. are difficult for scientists to explain
c. are now being studied by the FBI

7. In the 1990s, stories about ___________ appeared in newspapers around the world

a. crop circles
b. raining fish
c. an unusual earthquake


2. Match the words written bold in the text with the definitions given below and write their forms in the parenthesis.

1. inexplicable ( F ) a. not to pay attention to someone or sth

2. skeptic ( E ) b. good enough

3. amazement ( H ) c. something unusual or strange that you cannot explain

4. seek ( İ ) d. a large number of something than ever before noted

5. bizarre ( C ) e. someone who doubts whether something true or not

6. record ( D ) f. very unusual and strange

7. ignore ( A ) g. to stay in the same place or condition

8. remain ( G ) h. when you feel very surprised

9. satisfactory ( B ) i. to try to find or get something