ANKARA UNIVERSITY DF PRIVATE MIDDLE SCHOOL

6th GRADE WEEKEND WORKSHEET 2.11

30th April 2021

READING

Low-cost Laptops to Help Improve Education for World’s Poor

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Can you imagine a day when every student has a laptop computer? Nicholas
plan on
to give Negroponte could! He hoped to make that happen with the One Laptop per Child
(OLPC) program. The non-profit organization he founded aimed to provide laptops to
the kids
elementary students in poor countries. He said : ‘If everything goes according to plan, by
the 2007 up to 7 million children in Thailand, Nigeria, Brazil, and Argentina will have their own
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computelaptops.’ After that, the organization hoped to bring the program to China, Egypt, and
rs Mexico.

After that The program started small. Beginning from October and until November [2006],
500 children in Thailand received computers. Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
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recently promised that every elementary student in his country would receive a free
developingcomputer instead of books. "Textbooks could be expensive, but the new laptops would
the cut those costs. The computers were designed to connect to the Internet. Books will be
computers found and can be read on computers," Thaksin said.

Nicknamed ‘the green machine’, each

computer would initially cost about $140, but OLPC’s
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goal was to reduce the cost to $100. The machine
was designed by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s Media Laboratory to meet the needs of
developing countries. For instance, the laptops were
designed to run on electricity produced by hand
cranks. That is still important because some people in poor areas lack electric power.

The laptops don’t appeal to developing nations only, however. Therefore, a

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number of U.S. educators are also interested in the machines. They see the laptops as
useful tools for children whose families cannot afford computers. Do you think a hand-
cranked laptop will open new windows on the world for kids in poor countries in
21st century?

Source: https://www.readworks.org/article/Green-Machines

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For questions 1-6, read the article. Then answer the questions.

1. Providing laptops at a lower cost was important because____________

A) companies would sell more computers.

B) people could have more than one computer in their home.
C) more people were given access to information.
D) it created more jobs.

2. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand seems to have all the following
personality traits except____________.

A) foresight
B) interest in reading
C) hopelessness
D) generosity

3. Why did Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra plan to provide laptops instead
of textbooks?

A) Laptops could be more expensive than textbooks.

B) Information can only be found in textbooks.
C) Everyone could afford to buy textbooks.
D) Books can be found in laptops.

4. One country that has not been mentioned as a site for the OLPC program is

____________.

A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) the US
D) France

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5. Which bold word in the text means ‘using the money somebody earns to provide a
service to help people’?

A) non-profit
B) elementary
C) poor
D) own

6. What does “He” in line 4 refer to?

A) OLPC program
B) Nicholas Negroponte
C) The green Machine
D) Thaksin Shinawatra

7. What does “his” in line 10 refer to?

A) Thaksin’s
B) Nicholas Negroponte’s
C) Thaksin
D) Nicholas Negroponte

USE OF ENGLISH

For questions 8-10, read the letters and choose the best answers to complete Daphne’s
answer.

Hi Daphne,

I want to own a new Play Station 5

game console, but my parents don’t let
me. They say that I will play with it for
hours and won’t study for my lessons. In
addition, they think it is too expensive. It’s
not worth buying a game instead of a
great number of books.

Please give me some advice.

Dido
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Hi Dido,

First of all, put yourself in your parents’ place. I 8) ____________ about why
they don’t let me own it. Perhaps, they can’t afford to buy. If I were you,
I 9) ____________ some money to buy it yourself. You 10) ____________
your old game console and add it to your pocket money. It will take
time but I think your parents will see that you are sensible about financial
issues. About your lessons? Oh, dear I don’t know, either. What would I
do if I had it? Study? Don’t think so 😊.

Daphne

8. A) will think B) could think

C) would think D) can think

9. A) could save B) would save

C) couldn’t save C) wouldn’t save

10. A) could sell B) couldn’t sell

C) wouldn’t sell D) would sell