A. Read the text and choose the best answer.
It was late summer, 26 August 1910. A little girl was bom to a rich Catholic merchants' family of Albanian descent in a small town called Skopje, Macedo¬nia. She was the youngest of the three siblings and was named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Who could imagine at the time that this little girl would one day become the mother of humanity, loving and serving the poorest of the poor. Yes, we are talking about none other than Mother Teresa.
At the age of 12, she heard a voice from within that urged her to spread the love of Christ. She decided that she would be a missionary. At the age of 18 she left her parental home. She then joined an Irish community of nuns called the Sisters of Loreto, which had missions in India.
After a few months of training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin, Mother Teresa came to India. On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948, Mother Teresa taught geography and theology at St. Mary's High School in Kolkata (then Calcutta). However, the widespread poverty in Kolkata had a deep impact on Mother Teresa and in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent and devote herself to caring for the poorest of the poor in the slums of Kolkata.
1. What does ' mother of humanity' mean in the text?
a a good mother
b a kind mother who has many children
c a mother who likes humans
d a mother figure who serves the poor like her own children
2. Why did Mother Teresa want to be a missionary? Because she heard
a the voice of her neighbours discussing it
b a voice in her dream.
c a voice within herself.
d the voice of her parents talking about it
3. Mother Teresa set out to join the missionary of the Sisters of Loretoin the year
a 1927.
b 1928.
c 1929.
d 1930.
4. Mother Teresa took her first vows as a nun at the age of
a 18.
b 19.
c 20.
d 21.
B. Read the text in A again and answer the questions.
1 Where did Mother Teresa's ancestors come from?
2 Where was her father's home?
3 Why did she want to become a missionary?
4 What made her different from other girls at such an early age? What words and expressions are used in the text to describe this difference?
5 What did Mother Teresa do in the first seventeen years in India?
C. Look at the picture and talk about her in pairs Take the help of the questions given below.
1 How old is she? Why do you think so?
2 What is she wearing?
3 How has she worn it?
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