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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 11
READING TEXT
  1. Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of all time, was born on March 6,
  2. 1475 in Caprese, where his father, Lodovico Buonarroti worked as a judge for
  3. six months. Lodovico was not a rich man, but he insisted that he was from an
  4. aristocratic family and h.e was very proud of it. Michelangelo grew up in
  5. Settingano, a little mountain town just outside Florence. One of the first sights
  6. Michelangelo became familiar with was the beautiful Cathedral in Florence,
  7. which rose above the city.
  8. At school, Michelangelo was not an outstanding pupil; he didn't like school
  9. at all. The only thing he wanted to do was to paint, which his elders called “a
  10. waste of time'. He used to work in the workshops of the various painters and
  11. sculptors in the city. One can imagine a boy, for whom art was the most
  12. important thing in his whole life, looking at the wonderful pictures and statues
  13. which filled the beautiful churches of Florence. His best friend at school was
  14. Francesco Granacci, who, although six years older than Michelangelo, was
  15. interested in the boy and helped him with his wish to draw and paint.
  16. Michelangelo's choice of profession did not please his father. Only the most
  17. successful artists in Florence were able to make money.
QUESTION 1

Michelangelo spent his childhood

QUESTION 2

According to the text,

QUESTION 3

Which of the statements is true?

QUESTION 4

The sentence “Michelangelo's choice of profession did not please his father' means that Michelangelo's father was

QUESTION 5

We learn from the text that