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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 3
READING TEXT
  1. The teddy bear is a child's toy, a nice soft stuffed animal suitable for cuddling. It
  2. is, however, a toy with an interesting history behind it. m
  3. Theodore Roosevelt, or Teddy as he was commonly called, was the president of the
  4. United States from 1901 to 1909.He was an unusually active man with varied
  5. pastimes, one of which was hunting. One day the president was invited to take part
  6. in a bear hunt; and as much as Teddy was President, his hosts wanted to ensure
  7. that he caught a bear. A bear was captured, clanked over the head to knock it out,
  8. and tied to a tree; however, Teddy, who really wanted to hunt a bear, refused to
  9. shoot the bear and, in fact, demanded that the bear be extricated from the ropes;
  10. that is, he demanded that the bear be set free.
  11. The incident attracted a lot of attention among journalists. First a cartoon-drawn
  12. by Clifford K. Berryman to make fun of this situation - appeared in the Washington
  13. Post, and the cartoon was widely distributed and reprinted throughout the country.
  14. Then toy manufacturers began producing a toy bear which they called “teddy bear”.
  15. The teddy bear became the most widely recognized symbol of Roosevelt's
  16. presidency.
QUESTION 1

According two line 1 of the text, what is a teddy bear?

QUESTION 2

The word pastimes in line 5 could best be replaced by

QUESTION 3

The word extricated in paragraph 2 is close in meaning to

QUESTION 4

The word cartoon in line 11 could best be described as

QUESTION 5

The text most likely discusses