Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Submitted by Peemmawat Sattavacharavech (Peem) 1001

Part 1: LISTENING
https://youtu.be/atcrgTH_ul4

1. What elements are included in a hydrocarbon atom?

A. Hydrogen and carbon
B. Hydrogen and oxygen
C. Helium and carbon
D. Oxygen and helium

2. What is an element?
a. A compound that can be broken down
b. Pure substance that cannot be broken down
c. Simple compounds that is broken down
d. When protons and neutrons are together.

3. How many elements are there?

a. 115
b. 118
c. 134
d. 181

4. What is the most abundant element on earth(among oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, helium)?
a. oxygen and hydrogen
b. carbon and hydrogen
c. helium and hydrogen
d. carbon and oxygen

5. What is an atom?
a. the smallest particle of an element
b. protons and neutrons only
c. substance such as helium and nitrogen
d. small elements that form other compounds
Part 2 : Reading Comprehension

LINE 1. In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the
seventh row of the periodic table. As is traditional in chemistry, the naming rights go to
the discoverers: Scientists at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, named element 113, and a
Russian-U.S. collaboration named the others.
LINE 6. Element names have to follow certain rules — that means no Element
McElementface. In line with convention, the proposed names for the four elements are
derived from scientists’ names and geographical locations of research institutes. After a
five-month public review period and approval by IUPAC, the names will become official.
LINE 10. Element 113 is dubbed “nihonium" and will sport the chemical symbol Nh.
Its name comes from the Japanese word “Nihon,” or “Land of the Rising Sun,” a name
for Japan. Element 115 will receive the moniker “moscovium,” shortened to Mc, after the
Moscow region, home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, where the
element was discovered in collaboration with researchers at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
LINE 16 Tennessee also gets a periodic table shout-out. The proposed name for
element 117 is “tennessine,” after the home state of Oak Ridge, Vanderbilt University
and the University of Tennessee. It will bear the symbol Ts. Element 118 will be named
oganesson, or Og, after Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian, who contributed to the
discovery of several superheavy elements.

(Source:jhttps://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/four-newest-elements-
periodic-table-get-names)
SUMMARY
In December 2015; the IUPAC considered four elements, numbered 113, 115, 117, and
118, as an element on the periodic table, so these elements should be named by the regulation:
the location of the research facility or name of the contributor of the discovery. Element 113 is
named Nihonium (Nh), after the name Japan, or Nihon, while element 115 is dubbed
Moscovium (Mc), after Moscow. Moreover, element 117 received the name, Tennessine (Ts),
derived from Tennessee, a US state. However, element 118 is named after a scientist not a
location; its name is Oganesson (Og).

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

a. Where the elements are discovered.
b. When the elements are discovered.
c. How the elements are discovered.
d. Newly discovered elements and their names.
2. Who gets to name element number 113?
a. Japan
b. IUPAC
c. RIKEN
d. USA
3. What is the element symbol for Nihonium?
a. Ni
b. Nh
c. Nn
d. Nm
4. What does element symbol Mc stand for?
a. Mosconium
b. Moscowese
c. Moscovium
d. Moscovum
5. The word “moniker” in line 13 is closest in meaning to. . .
a. Money
b. Name
c. Honor
d. Tradition
6. The word “dubbed” in line 11 is closest in meaning to. . .
a. Named
b. Given
c. Considered
d. Thought
7. The word “its” in line 11 refers to...
a. Nihon’s
b. Elements 141’s
c. Elements 114’s
d. Nihonium’s
8. Which of the following isn’t named after the location its found?
a. Nihonium (Nh)
b. Moscovium (Mc)
c. Tennessine (Ts)
d. Oganesson (Og)

9. According to the passage, the last element discovered was …

a. Nihonium (Nh)
b. Moscovium (Mc)
c. Tennessine (Ts)
d. Oganesson (Og)

10. It can be inferred from the passage that Germanium could be named after its. . .
a. Scientist name
b. Scientist’s nationality
c. Location discovered
d. The country that uses the element the most.
Part 3: STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSIONS

1. There are 4 new elements discovered, 3 of them are name after its location discovered, while
A B C
the fourth one is named after the scientist who discovered it.
D

2. Element 113 was named Nihoniam, after the Japanese term “nihon” which means land of the
A B C
rising sun.
D

3. After a five-month public review period and approve by IUPAC, the name of the
A B
elements discovered will become official.
C D

4. Elements can’t just be named anything, it may follow a certain rule.

A B C D

5. The first column of the periodic table contain elements that are very reactive to water
A B
due to its chemical compositions.
C D
ANSWER KEY

Part 1
1. A
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. A

Part 2
1. D
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. D
9. D
10. C

Part 3
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. A