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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 2
READING TEXT
  1. t
  2. Taking a snooze in a mud hole may not sound very appealing to you. To a pig,
  3. however, a mud bath means coolness, comfort, and protection from bothersome
  4. insects. After all, a pig can't buy insect repellent or sunscreen the way you can.
  5. A thick coating of mud protects the pig's sensitive skin from bites and from the sun's
  6. burning rays. The mud also helps keep the animal cool. With very few sweat glands,
  7. pigs cannot cool off by sweating. On hot days, they may pant as dogs do. But
  8. stretching out in cool mud is an even better means to escape the heat of a summer
  9. afternoon. Some people think that pigs are dirty animals because of their habit of
  10. bathing in mud. Actually, pigs are very clean animals. Their relatives, wild swine,
  11. seek out clean, fresh water for cooling off. And when barnyard pigs are given a
  12. choice, they prefer bathing in cool water to lying in the mud. Many farmers help
  13. their pigs beat the heat by giving them frequent showers.
QUESTION 1

The main idea of Paragraph 1, lines 1—3, is that

QUESTION 2

It is stated in the text that

QUESTION 3

The word escape in line 7 may best be replaced by

QUESTION 4

According to the text, c

QUESTION 5

We can tell from the text that