Grade 11 Reading Exercise

It hosts Grade 11 reading materials and exercises covering main question types, provides answers for all questions; students can get reading materials and exercises by topics or types and practices online.

 All Exercises
Africa Boy
Words: 770    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
History of Steam Engine
Words: 844    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
Roman Oil Trade
Words: 910    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
Life Without Mental Images
Words: 911    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
Science Of Sleep
Words: 933    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
Helium's Future
Words: 938    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
Making Time for Science
Words: 939    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
Is Science Dangerous
Words: 975    Suggest to finish in 15 minutes.
Sense of Scent
Words: 1013    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
The Triune Brain
Words: 1069    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
Put Women To Family
Words: 1096    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
E-cigarettes Stop Smoking?
Words: 1125    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
How I was floored by a tick
Words: 1197    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
Light Pollution
Words: 1200    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
City HIV First Emerged
Words: 1259    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
Sponging Dolphins
Words: 1376    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
Lost Objects: The Lion of al-Lat
Words: 1476    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
Atom Bomb
Words: 1767    Suggest to finish in 20 minutes.
 Today's Question
Questions 1-6: Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage? Answer True, False or Not given.
True: if the statement agrees with the information
False: if the statement contradicts the information
Not given: if there is no information on this
1. In general, olfaction and sense of taste are considered equally important.
Answer 1:

2. About 7,000 young people around the world would prefer losing their sense of smell than access to laptops.
Answer 2:

3. Odor reception is an integral function of all mammals.
Answer 3:

4. Superior nasal concha is compared to a lock and odor molecules are like keys that are used to open it.
Answer 4:

5. Cats have two times as many olfactory receptors as humans.
Answer 5:

6. We are able to detect a lot of different scents because of a variety of odor receptors, which translate impact of molecules into a neural code.
Answer 6:
Questions 7-12: Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
7. The part of our brain responsible for identifying the smell is called .

8. The is a region in our brain that serves as a transition station for all sensory information that we receive.

9. Sense of smell is closely related to .

10. are involved in arousing memories caused by specific smells.

11. The experiment proved that the average person can discriminate between at least smells.

12. Sea mammals can smell only odorants that are in water.