8/18/2019 Reading comprehension: Hunter Patch Adams

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READING COMPREHENSION

Read the text. Then write TRUE (T) or FASE (F). I! !a"#e$ %orre%t the #tate&ent.

When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he

spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a hospital for people with

mental health problems.

When he left the hospital, Adams deided to beome a dotor, so he

went to medial shool in the state of !irginia, in the ".#. $here he often

did things di%erently from the dotors and other students. &or e'ample,

he didn(t li)e the dotors( white oats, so he wore shirts with *owers on

them when he visited his patients. Healso tried to ma)e them laugh. $he dotors at the medial shool didn(t li)e Adams beause he

was too di%erent.

+ut Adams believed that people in a hospital need more than mediine. He saw that patients

were lonely and unhappy. He tried to help them, not ust as patients but as people, too. He spent

a lot of time with hildren in the hospital. He often put on a red nose to

loo) li)e a lown and to ma)e the hildren laugh.

When he -nished medial shool and beame a dotor, Adams and

some other dotors began an organiation alled the /esundheit nstitute.ne of their goals is to build a lini and teahing entre. t will be a plae

with a di%erent way of wor)ing with si) people.

Hunter Adams beame famous during the 1920s, and in 1992,

"niversal 3itures made a suessful movie about Adam(s life

alled Patch Adams. 4obin Williams played Adams. Williams said,

5Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a dotor

who(s a friend. enoyed playing him

a) Hunter Adams went to !irginia beause he wanted to be a dotor

 

') Adams wore shirts with *owers on them beause it made the patients laugh.

  

%) Adams thought that many people the in hospital weren(t happy and need to be in ompany

   

d) Adams started the /esundheit nstitute on his own.

  

e) "niversal 3itures made a movie about Hunter Adams beause he built a suessful hospital

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