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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 22
READING TEXT
  1. a
  2. Scientist and inventor George Washington Carver was born into slavery
  3. during the American C.ivil War. After the war, he worked diligently to get an
  4. education. He managed to get an advanced degree in Botany, which is the
  5. study of plants. After he finished his college degree, he worked in the South. He
  6. taught people about botany and about how it could be used to improve farming.
  7. Carver learned that there was a problem with cotton farming in the South.
  8. Cotton takes nutrients from the soil. If cotton is planted year after year, the
  9. quality of the soil decreases. Carver knew that plants like peanuts and sweet
  10. potatoes are different from cotton. They add nutrients to the soil rather than take
  11. nutrients from the soil. Carver told farmers that it was a bad idea to grow only
  12. cotton and no other crops each year. He told them that they should also grow
  13. plants like peanuts and sweet potatoes, which improve the quality of the soil.
  14. Many farmers followed the advice that Carver offered them. The result was
  15. that the production on their farms increased. This increased production of
  16. peanuts and sweet potatoes improved the quality of the soil.
  17. However, when production of peanuts and sweet potatoes increased, a new
  18. problem developed. The new problem was that there were too many peanuts and
  19. sweet potatoes. To solve this problem, Carver began working in a laboratory to
  20. find new uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes. He developed hundreds of
  21. products that could be made from peanuts and sweet potatoes. These hundreds
  22. of products included food products, medicines, plastics and fertilizer.
QUESTION 1

Which of the following is NOT stated in paragraph 1 about George Washington Carver?

QUESTION 2

The word diligently in line 2 is closest in meaning to

QUESTION 3

In botany, one might NOT study

QUESTION 4

The word it in line 5 refers to

QUESTION 5

It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that

QUESTION 6

The word them in line 11 refers to

QUESTION 7

The word offered in line 13 could best be replaced by

QUESTION 8

According to paragraph 3, what problem developed from the production of peanuts and sweet potatoes?

QUESTION 9

It is stated in paragraph 3 that Carver was working in a laboratory to find new

QUESTION 10

Which of the following is NOT listed in paragraph 3 as a product that can be made from peanuts and sweet potatoes?