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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 33
READING TEXT
  1. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is perhaps not a name that is universally
  2. recognized, but Dodgson did achieve enormous success under the pseudonym
  3. Lewis Carroll. He created this pseudonym from the Latinization, Carolus
  4. Ludovicus, of his real given names. It was under the name Lewis Carroll that
  5. Dodgson published the children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  6. (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking Glass (187a2). Though Dodgson
  7. achieved this success in children's literature, he was not an author of children's
  8. books by training or profession. His education and chosen field of pursuit were
  9. far removed from the field of children's literature. and were instead focused on
  10. theoretical mathematics. c
  11. Dodgson graduated with honours from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1854 and
  12. then embarked on a career in the world of academia. He worked as a lecturer
  13. in mathematics at Oxford and, later in his career, published a number of
  14. theoretical works on mathematics under his own name rather than under the
  15. pseudonym that he used for his children's stories. He produced a number of
  16. texts for students, such as A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry
  17. (1860), Formulae of Plane Trigonometry (1861), which was notable for the
  18. creativity of the symbols that he used to express trigonometric functions such
  19. as sine and cosine, and A Guide for the Mathematical Student (1866). In a
  20. number of more esoteric works, he championed the principles of Euclid; in
  21. Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1879), he presented his ideas on the superiority
  22. of Euclid over rival mathematicians in a highly imaginative fashion, by devising
  23. a courtroom trial of anti-Euclid mathematicians that he named “Euclid-
  24. wreakers” and ultimately finding the defendants guilty as charged. Curiosa
  25. Mathematica (1888-1893) made a further defense of Euclid's work, focusing
  26. on Euclid's definition of parallel lines. These academic works never had the
  27. universal impact of Dodgson's works for children using the name Lewis Carroll,
  28. but they demonstrate a solid body of well-regarded academic material.
QUESTION 1

The topic of this text is

QUESTION 2

According to the text, Dodgson

QUESTION 3

Which of the following is true according to thetext?

QUESTION 4

It is NOT stated in the passage that Dodgson

QUESTION 5

What is stated in the text about the work Formulae of Plane Trigonometry?

QUESTION 6

All of the following are stated in the text about the work Euclid and His Modern Rivals EXCEPT that

QUESTION 7

The word notable in line 17 could best be replaced by

QUESTION 8

According to the text, which of the following works was about Euclid?

QUESTION 9

The pronoun they in line 28 refers to

QUESTION 10

What is stated in the text about Dodgson's academic works?