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Reading

Choose a text number. Its questions will appear on its own page.

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How to solve: ReadingA text with several questions: main idea, details, word meaning and inference.

What it tests

Careful reading: finding the main idea, locating details, understanding a word from its context and drawing conclusions the text supports.

In the exam: part I, 10 tasks.

Step by step

  1. Read the questions first, so you know what to look for.
  2. Skim the whole text once for its topic and the author's purpose.
  3. For each question find the exact place in the text (line numbers help) and read the sentence before and after it.
  4. Choose the option that says the same thing in other words — not the one that copies the most words.
  5. For “main idea” questions pick the option that covers the whole text, not one paragraph.

Watch out for

  • An option that is true in real life but not stated in the text.
  • An option that repeats words from the text but changes the meaning (“always” instead of “often”, wrong date or person).
  • A detail that is correct but too narrow for a “main idea” question.

Example

Text: “It took 800 men seven years to build the bridge.” — The bridge was built in: a) one year b) seven years c) 800 days

b) The text says “seven years”; 800 is the number of men, not days.

Text 10
READING TEXT
  1. Harvest Festival in Britain is a celebration of the food grown on the land.
  2. Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both
  3. worldwide and very ancient. InBritain people celebrate this day by singing,
  4. praying and decorating churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival
  5. known as 'Harvest Festival', usually during the month of September. Harvest
  6. Festival reminds Christians of all the good things God gives them. Thismakes
  7. them want to share with others who are not so fortunate. In schools and in
  8. churches,people bring food from home to a Harvest Festival Service.
  9. After the service, the food that has been put on display is usually made into
  10. parcels andgiven to people in need. But in early times Harvest Festival used to
  11. be celebrated at thebeginning of the Harvest season on 1 August and was called
  12. Lammas, meaning 'loaf Mass'.
  13. Farmers made loaves of bread from the new wheat crop and gave them to their
  14. local church.
  15. They were used as the Communion bread during a special mass thanking God
  16. for the harvest.
  17. The custom ended when Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church.
  18. Communitieswould appoint a strong and respected man of the village as their
  19. 'Lord of the Harvest'. Hewould be responsible for managing the harvest wages
  20. and organizing the fieldworkers.
  21. The end of the harvest was celebrated with a big meal called a Harvest
  22. Supper. The 'Lordof the Harvest' sat at the head o.f the table. A goose stuffed
  23. with apples was eaten along with variety of vegetables. Goose Fairs were and
  24. still are held in English towns at this time of year.
QUESTION 1

According to the text t

QUESTION 2

Which word is NOT synonymous to fortunate in line 7

QUESTION 3

The word manage in line 19 means

QUESTION 4

Which of the statements is NOT true?

QUESTION 5

The text is mainly about