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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 15
READING TEXT
  1. Philadelphia is a city known for many things. It is where the Declaration of
  2. Independence was signed in 1776, and it was also the first capital of the United
  3. States. But one fact about Philadelphia is not so well-known: it is home to
  4. nearly 3,000 murals painted on the sides of homes and buildings around the city.
  5. In fact, it is said that Philadelphia has more murals than any other city in the
  6. world, with the exception of Rome. How did this comae to be? More than 20
  7. years ago, a New Jersey artist named Jane Golden started a program pairing
  8. troubled youth with artists to paint murals on a few buildings around the city.
  9. From this small project, something magical happened. The young people
  10. involved helped to create magnificent pieces of art, but there were other,
  11. perhaps more important benefits. The young people learned to collaborate and
  12. get along with many different kinds of people during the various steps required
  13. to paint and design a mural. They learned to be responsible, because they
  14. needed to follow a schedule to make sure the murals were completed. They also
  15. learned to take pride in their community. It is hard for any resident to see the
  16. spectacular designs and not feel proud to be a part of Philadelphia.
  17. Take a walk around some of the poorest neighborhoods in Philadelphia,
  18. neighborhoods full of broken windows and littered front steps, and you will
  19. find beautiful works of art onthe sides and fronts of buildings. Of course the
  20. murals are not just in poor neighborhoods, but more affluent ones as well.
  21. Special buses take tourists to different parts of the city to see the various murals,
  22. which range from huge portraits of historical heroes, to cityscapes, to scenes
  23. depicting the diverse ethnic groups that call Philadelphia home.
  24. As a result of its success, the mural program created by Jane Golden has
  25. now become the nation's largest public art program and a model for other cities
  26. throughout the country seeking to help troubled youth.
QUESTION 1

The main focus of the text is

QUESTION 2

The phrase it is said in line 5 suggests that the author is

QUESTION 3

The phrase with the exception of Rome means that

QUESTION 4

Which is the best definition of the word acffluent in line 20?

QUESTION 5

Based on information in the text, the author most likely believes that