READING COMPREHENSION

LETTERS TO JULIET     

Sophie is a young American journalist, who works for the famous newspaper "New Yorker", looking for a scoop to emerge and obtain confidence by her director.  One day she decides to start a journey to Italy with her boyfriend Victor  as a sort of anticipated "honeymoon". They go to Verona  for a romantic trip , which turns into an opportunity for him  to discover the gastronomic traditions of a rich and fascinating country and for her to find a story that will be the occasion to make the big "jump".

 So while Sophie was wandering through the streets of Verona, she visits  Juliet’s house, where every day tourists from all over the world pin their sentimental hopes, in the form of letters affixed to the wall. Here she meets one of Juliet’s secretary.  It is duty of the “secretaries of Juliet”, a group of volunteers who every evening collect dozens of love letters left by love and broken-hearted tourists under the famous balcony, collecting these letters and respond to each of them dispensing some advice and comfort.

 Sophie decides to help this group and a day she  finds, behind a stone , a love letter of an old woman, Claire, hidden for 50 years. She writes her answer to this letter and after some days appears in the office Charlie, Claire’s nephew and together they decide to looking for Claire's first teenage love, Lorenzo, who she has never forgotten.  First Charlie doesn't seem to like Sophie because he's afraid that his grandmother may suffer discovering Lorenzo is dead or doesn't recognize her. 

Then, during their trips, Charlie and Sophie  start to develop some feelings for each other, but since Sophie is already engaged, nothing happens between them. After numerous failures, they finally find the real Lorenzo Bartolini.  Claire decides to stay with Lorenzo and they restart their  relationship. Sophie returns to her boyfriend in Verona, and Charlie tries to reach her, but it is too late, and Sophie returns to New York City with Victor. Here, Sophie realizes that they don't have a healthy relationship and she decides to break up with him. She then receives an invitation to Claire and Lorenzo's wedding in Livorno, where she also rejoins Charlie and they can finally be together.

 

 A.      True or false  

1.     Sophie is a young journalist.                        

2.     Sophie works for the New York Times

3.     Her boyfriend Victor is a chef

4.     They go to Verona for job.

Sophie writes a scoop about Juliet

 

 

B.     Answer the following questions 

1.     Where is Sophie from?

2.     What is Sophie’s job?

3.     Where does she go with her boyfriend?

4.     What is Victor’s job?

5.     Who are the secretaries of Juliet?

6.     What do they do?

7.     What does Sophie find behind a stone of the wall?

8.     Who does Sophie answer to?

9.     When was written the letter?

10.  What do Sophie and Claire decide to do?

11.  Why Charlie seem doesn’t like Sophie?

12.  Do they find Lorenzo Bartolini?