👩‍🏫 For Teachers:

Set a 15-minute timer for silent reading and answering questions. After each answer, read the evidence note together to check the response.

👨‍🎓 For Learners:

First, read paragraphs A to D carefully to understand the main ideas without worrying about difficult words. Next, complete questions 1 to 8 in order and check the evidence notes to confirm your understanding.

Reading Passage

Short Magazine Article • 4 Paragraphs

A

The story of Mural Arts Philadelphia began in 1984, when Mayor Wilson Goode started the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. Instead of only removing graffiti, the program gave young people jobs, training and workshops, and graffiti writers learned to make art for the community. Mural Arts says that the program helped to make more than 1,000 outdoor murals by the mid-1990s.

B

Mural Arts calls itself the nation's largest public art program, and it says that it has worked for over 40 years. Every year it works on 50 to 100 public art projects. It says that 15,000 residents and visitors tour its outdoor art gallery each year, and that an average mural needs 30 gallons of paint.

C

Mural Arts says that its largest mural is called How Philly Moves. It covers nearly 85,000 square feet on the parking garages at Philadelphia International Airport, and it shows dancing figures. The photographer Jacques-Jean Tiziou made it with the Mural Arts Program, and the artists finished it in 2011.

D

Tiziou took photographs of 174 people in motion, and the final design shows 26 of them. The airport says that some of them were professional dancers and some were not, and that they danced in many styles, from tap to freestyle.

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____ A. It uses exactly 30 gallons of paint for every single project. ____ B. It welcomes 15,000 residents and visitors to its outdoor gallery each year. ____ C. It completes more than 100 public art projects every month. ____ D. It has been operating for less than twenty years.

____ A. They were required to be professional dancers with formal training. ____ B. They represent a wide variety of community members and dancing styles. ____ C. Every single person who was photographed appeared in the final mural. ____ D. They were limited to performing traditional tap routines only.

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