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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 19
READING TEXT
  1. Plastic bags are one of the handiest household items used throughout the
  2. world and they are easy to produce. The only problem with plastic bags is
  3. that they are non-biodegradable. In 2003, it was estimated that between
  4. 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. Of
  5. these, less than 1% are recycled due to the high costs involved in recycling.
  6. Plastic bags usually end up in the world's oceans as marine litter. Dumped
  7. into lakes, rivers, drains and sewage pipes, they have found their way as far
  8. north as the island of Spitzbergen in the Arctic Circle and as far south as the
  9. Falkland Islands in South America. Not only does .plastic kill marine life, it also
  10. poisons the oceans as the toxic chemicals in it leach out into the environment.
  11. A. Steiner, the executive director of the UN environmental program,
  12. made an urgent appeal: “Single use plastic bags which choke marine life,
  13. should be banned or phased out rapidly everywhere. There is simply zero
  14. justification for manufacturing them anymore, anywhere.”
  15. The response of manufacturers of plastic bags to this appeal was the
  16. recycling of plastic bags into resin so that more plastic bags could be made.
  17. It is estimated that recycling plastic bags can reduce the bag litter by as
  18. much as 136 million kilograms per year.
QUESTION 1

According to Paragraph 1, lines 1-6

QUESTION 2

Which of the following best explains the meaning of the sentence in lines 9-10? Not only does plastic kill marine life, it also poisons the oceans as the toxic chemicals in it leach out into the environment.

QUESTION 3

A. Steiner's appeal called for

QUESTION 4

As a result of A. Steiner's appeal

QUESTION 5

The text is mainly about c