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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 20
READING TEXT
  1. According to some surveys, as few as 8% of people would cite their favorite
  2. color as red, while the usual outright winner is blue. So what's wrong with red,
  3. wthen? Well, it's not really the sort of color most people like. It has far too many
  4. emotional connotations. Red represents danger, excitement, it means STOP! Red
  5. is the color of blood, which we don't normally see until something bad happens.
  6. It's also an aggressive, dominant color.
  7. All of these emotional cues have been studied scientifically and it's even been
  8. shown that because we associate the color red with mistakes (red ink in school),
  9. a mere flash of red before an exam can negatively impact our performance!
  10. But let's try to see the positive side of the color red! Did you know that,
  11. probably because of the aggressive nature of the color, sports teams that wear the
  12. color red are statistically more likely to win games? Also, we know that there is
  13. only one color to prefer if you're buying a serious sports car! And forget about
  14. those myths that red cars get more speeding tickets, cost more to insure or are
  15. stolen more often - there isn't much evidence to back that up.
  16. Ultimately it's not everyone who can wear red with confidence, decorate their
  17. house in red or buy that red notebook computer. But maybe it's time red shook
  18. off some of its bad image and took its rightful place as the first color in the
  19. spectrum!
  20. So here is a vote of support for the much-maligned color red! Red is exciting
  21. and risky! Let's all have a little more red in our lives and the world will be a
  22. better place.
QUESTION 1

According to Paragraph 1, lines 1-6,

QUESTION 2

Most people don't like the red colour because

QUESTION 3

It is stated in Paragraph 2, lines 7-9, that

QUESTION 4

According to the text, the fact that red cars get more speeding tickets or are stolen more often

QUESTION 5

According to the text, which of the following is NOT true?