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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 15
READING TEXT
  1. You spend about one-third of your life sleeping. Sleep not only takes up a
  2. large part of your life but also is an essential part of your health. During the
  3. sleep your body gets a chance to rest. Your heart rate and breathing rate slow
  4. down. Your body temperature and blood pressure drop. Many of your muscles
  5. relax. Since many of your body's activities slow down, your body uses less
  6. energy while you sleep. a
  7. Some parts of your body remain quite active while you sleep. Body cells
  8. grow and repair themselves more rapidly during the sleep. Lack of sleep
  9. during the teenage years interferes with these processes and might interfere
  10. with proper growth.
  11. Most people feel tired and cross if they don't get enough sleep. Lack of
  12. sleep can affect a person's ability to think clearly or perform physical tasks
  13. safely. Sleep studies indicate that after several days without sleep, people
  14. become forgetful and confused. They have difficulty following directions.
  15. Sometimes they begin to see and hear things that do not exist. These changes in
  16. behavior disappear when people sleep regularly again.
  17. People differ in the amount of sleep they need. Babies sleep 16 or 18
  18. hours a day. Very young children usually sleep about 12 hours every day.
  19. Most teenagers need 9—10 hours of sleep each night. You might need less
  20. sleep as you grow older. Many adults need only 7—8 hours of sleep
  21. a night to feel well rested.
QUESTION 1

According to Paragraph 1, lines 1—6, during the sleep

QUESTION 2

According to the text, during the sleep

QUESTION 3

Getting enough sleep, people

QUESTION 4

The word essential in line 2 is synonymous to

QUESTION 5

According to the text, c