reading passage

Practice Assignment (Answers in bold Blue)
Points possible: 20 Date: 06 November 2013

Read the passage, and then answer the questions below. Each question is worth 5 points.

Taste of Success
Actions speak louder than words. That is what English chef Jamie Oliver believes. Talking about how to make fine food was not enough. He wanted to open a restaurant. Saying that all young people can succeed was not enough, either. He wanted to give them a way to do it.

Oliver named his restaurant Fifteen for the 15 young people from the streets who would work there. The restaurant became a kind of school. The chef taught his "students" all about fine food. He took them on field trips to buy fresh food. Then he showed how to cook it and how to serve it.

The young chefs-in-training had not had easy lives. Some were without families or homes. Others fought drug problems. Many of them had lost hope. Oliver wanted to change that. His goals were to inspire the young people with food and to give them the skills they needed to succeed.

That was 2002. Today, Fifteen is a huge success. It is no longer one restaurant but four. New crews of chefs-in-training continue to be inspired. And while not all of them go on to become chefs, at Fifteen they all have a taste of success.
Multiple-Choice Questions (1 point each)

1. What is this passage mostly about?
a. The skills a person needs to be a chef
b. The kind of food served at a restaurant
c. A group of students who opened a restaurant
d. A chef who is helping young people to succeed

2. Which paragraph is mostly about the skills that the young chefs learn?
a. Paragraph 1
b. Paragraph 2
c. Paragraph 3
d. Paragraph 4

3. Why did Oliver name his restaurant Fifteen?
a. It was his 15th restaurant.
b. His chefs are 15 years old.
c. Fifteen young people work there.
d. He was 15 when he became a chef.

4. Which of these is one of Oliver's goals?
a. To inspire young people with food
b. To get young people back in school
c. To turn young people into famous chefs
d. To show young people how to make money

5. According to the passage, which of these is true about the young people who go to work at Fifteen?
a. They do not like cooking.
b. They do not have any skills.
c. They have not had easy lives.
d. They have not tasted fine food.

Short-Answer Questions (3 points each)

1. Why is "Taste of Success" a good title for the passage? Use three bits of information from the passage to support your answer.
Taste of success is a good title for the passage because Oliver shows young people that have not had easy lives what it is like to be successful. That would be the success part of the title. Taste comes from Oliver teaching the people to cook the food. Putting it all together Oliver teaches young people to be successful and chefs through food.

2. Below are two headings. Circle the one you think would be the best heading for paragraph 4. Explain your answer below.

"Happy Results"

"Fifteen Plus Three"
Fifteen plus three is a good heading for the fourth paragraph because the heading happy results is kind of bland and boring. Fifteen plus three is a good heading because the name of the restaurant is fifteen and it says in the paragraph that he added three more restaurants afterwards.
3. What kinds of things are important to Jamie Oliver? Give three examples from the passage in your answer.
There are three especially vital to Jamie Oliver. One of them is he wants to change how the chefs in training live, for those fighting drug problems and those without a house or home. Another thing especially important to Oliver was to inspire the young people with food and to give them the skills they needed to succeed. And lastly it is important to Oliver to teach the young chefs in training about fine food.

4. How does the writer show that the young chefs-in-training had not had easy lives?
The writer explained how some were fighting drug problems or without families or homes.

Support your answer with two pieces of information from the passage.
5. How would you describe this passage to someone who has not read it? Write three sentences that help to tell someone what the passage is mainly about.
The passage taste of success is about a young chef who started a small restaurant and let those who did not have easy lives such as drug problems or no families be chefs-in-training. Even though not all of them went on to become chefs, Oliver’s goals were to inspire the young people with food and to give them the skills they needed to succeed. All of that was in 2002, but now it has added three more restaurants to its just one.