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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 7
READING TEXT
  1. Some years ago, still at the age of thirty, Tom Cruise had made fifteen films
  2. and earned millions of dollars. It is interesting that Cruise, unlike many other
  3. successful and ambitious actors, found stardom only after a difficult
  4. childhood. Cruise was the third child and the only boy in a family of four
  5. children brought up by parents who worked hard but never stayed long in
  6. one town. His father, an engineer, went round the USA looking for work.
  7. Cruise had been to half a dozen schools in as many years. He had to fit in
  8. quickly at each new school and moving about did not help his education,
  9. but he was good at sports, which could be carried on from one school to
  10. another.
  11. His parents divorced when he was twelve, and his father died some years later
  12. without seeing any of his son's films. His mother took charge of the family, and
  13. all the children had to find a job after school to help the family get by.
  14. Now, Cruise has made so much money that he never has to work again.
  15. However, this is not an option he is likely to consider seriously for many
  16. years to come.
QUESTION 1

We may conclude from Paragraph 1, lines 1-6 that Tom Cruise

QUESTION 2

According to the text Tom Cruise's father

QUESTION 3

Which of the statements is true?

QUESTION 4

Which word is NOT synonymous to stardom in line 3?

QUESTION 5

We may conclude from the text that Tom Cruise