‘DEAD COLD’

READING COPREHENSION WORKSHEET

Students name __________________________________________ Date ________________________

1. HERE IS A PROFILE (DESCRIPTION) OF FLICK LAINE. THERE ARE FIVE MISTAKES. FINDTHEM
AND CORRECT THEM.
Flick Laine is a detective in the Denver Police. She’s an old woman in her late twenties. She used to ski and
now she drives a red 1957 Ferrari. Flick’s boss is Denver Chief of Police, Leo Cohn. Her partner, Scott, was
killed six months ago and she feels very happy about it. He was her best relative.
2. PUT THESE JUMBLED SENTENCES IN THE CORRECT ORDER (1-4).

a She’s Janine, a 23-year-old student who wanted to write for a newspaper. _____
b But first she must find out the big story Janine was working on before her death. _____
c Detective Flick Laine has to find the killer. _____
d A dead girl is found in a swimming pool in Pine Crest, USA. _____
3. TRUE OR FALSE?
a Flick keeps thinking about Scott. ______
b Scott died in October. ______
c Eddie Lang was a bad criminal. ______
d Scott and Flick were looking for Lang. ______
e They caught Lang. ______
f Scott died in hospital. ______
4. MATCH THE BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS (CHAPTER 3).
1 The two students both feel _____ a. to save Janine, but she was dead.
2 Flick Laine asks Teresa _____ b. in her notebook every day.
3 Teresa tried _____ c. very sad about Janine’s death.
4 Jeff tells Flick that _____ d. Janine went to Pine Crest every year.
5 Janine wrote _____ e. to tell her what happened.
5. PUT THE ADJECTIVES IN THE BOX INTO THE CORRECT SENTENCES.
big old famous expensive beautiful tall

a. Hillside was where all the _______________ people lived in Pine Crest.
b. Susan Hunter lived in a _______________ house.
c. She had a very _______________ guard with a gun working for her.
d. Susan Hunter was a _______________ movie star.
e. Redridge was an ________________ silver town.
f. Now Redridge has _______________ stores and restaurants.
6. MATCH THE BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS OF THESE SENTENCES (CHAPTER 7).

1 Flick Laine drove thirty miles ______ a. showed Flick around.

2 Tina Nielson ______ b. because the buildings were so big.
3 The Alpine Resort was like ______ c. a small city.
4 The Alpine Resort had all ______ d. to visit Alpine Resorts in Redridge.
5 You couldn’t see the mountains ______ e. the ski runs in Redridge.

7. PUT THESE EVENTS FROM CHAPTER 8 IN THE CORRECT ORDER (1-8).

a Flick gives the man her gun. _____

b Flick hits the gunman in the face. _____
c Flick asks the man lots of questions. _____
d The man pushes Flick into the ski lift. _____
e Flick pushes the gunman out of the ski lift. _____
f The gunman lifts the ski-lift bar. _____
8. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
1. What name does Flick call her car?
a. Chevy
b. Redridge
c. Red Hunter

2. What did the young man in the restaurant do that was strange the night before?
a He left without paying.
b He didn’t eat anything.
c He didn’t drink his coffee.
3. Which of these sentences is true?
a Janine Anderson talked to Susan Hunter just before she died.
b Janine Anderson worked for a group called Save Colorado.
c Janine Anderson found out who in the GLO took the money.

4. Tony Rizzo was a hit man. What does that mean?

a. He likes hitting people.
b. He robs people in the street.
c. He kills people for money.

5. What was Flick’s real name?

a. Teresa
b. Felicity
c. Susan

6. What does it mean if you ‘bribe’ somebody to do something?

a. To give someone money or something else if they do something illegal for you.
b. To pay someone for killing another person.
c. To ask a person their personal information on the Internet in order to steal their money.