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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 21
READING TEXT
  1. The name Studebaker is well known today because of the actions of five
  2. Studebaker brothers. The five brothers were responsible for one of the oldest
  3. vehicle manufacturing companies in the United States.
  4. These brothers were born in the first half of the nineteenth century. In
  5. 1852, two of the Studebaker brothers opened a wagon-building shop. Their
  6. entire resources were some tools for building wagons and 68 dollars. They
  7. managed to build three wagons in their first year of operations, and they sold
  8. two of the three wagons. Their business continued to increase steadily. By the
  9. time of the Civil War in the 1860s, they had a government contract to build
  10. wagons for the war effort. c
  11. After the war, the brothers added a carriage division. The carriages
  12. created by the Studebaker Company became famous. At the end of the
  13. nineteenth century, the Studebaker Company was the largest and best-known
  14. manufacturer of horse-drawn wagons and carriages in the world.
  15. In 1897, the company started experimenting with vehicles that ran under
  16. their own power. The company began making electric automobiles first and later
  17. worked on gasoline automobiles. By 1920, the company had stopped making
  18. wagons and carriages and was producing only cars. The Studebaker Company
  19. stayed in business until 1966, when it stopped producing automobiles.
QUESTION 1

Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the Studebaker brothers?

QUESTION 2

The word entire in line 6 is closest in meaning to

QUESTION 3

When the Studebaker brothers started their first company, they had

QUESTION 4

The word they in line 7 refers to

QUESTION 5

The author mentions the Civil War in paragraph 2, because

QUESTION 6

It can be inferred from the text that, right after the Civil War, the Studebaker brothers

QUESTION 7

According to the text, the Studebaker brothers

QUESTION 8

The word stayed in line 19 is closest in meaning to

QUESTION 9

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as something the Studebaker brothers produced?

QUESTION 10

The word producing in line 19 is closest in meaning to