Reading Comprehension

OUR BODY

In some ways our body is like a machine. A machine such as a car engine, needs energy
to do its work. The engine burns fuel, usually petrol. The fuel is combined with oxygen from the
air. Energy is released.
There are many likenesses between a machine and human body. But, it is the differences
that make us better than a machine. For example, our body can change food into living material
and it can grow. Machine can not do these things. They can not feel or see and they can not
think and learn as human beings do. The human body can repair worn-out parts. It can even
produce new human beings. There is something very special about the human body. It is alive,
but machine are not.
The human body has many kinds of organs. For example, it has the skeleton to hold the
body erect. It has muscles to move the body. Our body has the brain to think with. It has the
nervous system can control the muscles through our senses. Our senses are windows on the
build about us. We learn everything through our sense. Information comes to us through our
eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, and some other senses. These other senses are muscle sense
and the sense of balance. These senses tell us what is going on inside our body.

Questions

1. In what way our body like a machine?

2. What are the differences between a machine and our body?
3. What does the skeleton do?
4. What can move the body?
5. Is blood important? Why?
6. What controls our muscles through our senses?
7. Mention the sense that we have!
8. Is the structure of our body better than a machine? Why?
9. What are things that a machine can not do?
10. What organs do the human body have? Mention!

Vocabulary

Fill in the blank sentences with a suitable word listed below:

Alive Muscles Engines Brain Human Blood

Senses Skeleton Nervous Repair Tell Needs
 1. …………. Enable cars to move
2. Ask the technician to …….. the television set
3. The ……….can hold the body erect
4. …………….carries food to all parts of the body
5. …………….beings have …….to think with but plants don’t
6. The nervous systems controls our body through our…………
7. The human body has…………to move it
8. My grandfather is still……………
9. Our body…………….energy
10. The muscles senses……………….us what is going on inside our body.

After You Read

Write ‘T’ on the lines before the statements that are true according to the reading
comprehension above. Write ‘F’ on the lines before the statements that are false.

1. ………… A machine can repair worn-out parts of human body.

2. ………… Blood doesn’t carry food to all parts of the body.
3. …………. To do its work, the machine uses fuel
4. …………. Our body can grow without fuel
5. …………. Human body needs energy like fuel, gas, to its work.
6. …………. Through our eyes, we can see and feel something surrounding us.
7. …………. We can ghet information through our senses.
8. …………. Skeleton produce blood to our body.