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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 23
READING TEXT
  1. t
  2. Both our ears work in thae same way. Even if you only had one ear that worked
  3. properly, you would still hear sounds and understand them. But with two ears we
  4. can tell which direction a sound is coming from. Ears act as direction finders
  5. because sound arrives at one ear before it reaches the other ear. Your brain measures
  6. the differences and automatically works out the direction of the sound. Even very
  7. young babies turn to look in the direction a noise is coming from. As we grow up,
  8. we get better at working out where a noise is coming from and how far away the
  9. thing making the noise is. This skill is called “directional hearing' and it was very
  10. important to our ancestors. They had to track animals to hunt for food. They also
  11. had to know which way to run when large animals were tracking them.
  12. Wild animals need this skill today, and many of them have better directional
  13. hearing than people. Bats, for instance, use echo-location to find their way in the
  14. dark. But directional hearing is very important for us too. If you hear someone
  15. shouting for help, you will know definitely which way to run to get to them.
  16. Our ears work best at listening to sounds like music or people talking, but
  17. animals have ears suited to different needs. Some animals can hear notes much
  18. higher than any sound your ears can hear, and others have ears that work best for
  19. listening to very deep notes. Some animals can hear faint noises, while others are
  20. completely deaf.
  21. Snakes do not have ears at all and people used to think they were deaf. But they
  22. can hear sounds through a bone that lies under the skin of their face. The bone
  23. vibrates when the air or the ground vibrates. Most insects are deaf but grass—
  24. hoppers can hear through their legs. They call to one another by making chirping
  25. sounds with their legs. Dogs' hearing is superior to ours; they can hear notes that
  26. are higher than those we hear. If you blow a special dog whistle that makes a very
  27. high note, you will not be able to hear it, but any dogs nearby will hear the note
  28. and might come running. You may have noticed the way dogs twitch their ears to
  29. and fro: they do this to find out where a sound is coming from.
QUESTION 1

According to Paragraph 1, lines 1—10,

QUESTION 2

The word skill in line 8 may best be replaced by

QUESTION 3

According to the text,

QUESTION 4

According to Paragraph 3, lines 15—19,

QUESTION 5

The word track in line 9 may best be replaced by

QUESTION 6

We can tell from the text that

QUESTION 7

Which of the following words from the text means “entirely”?

QUESTION 8

The word definitely in line 14 is synonymous to

QUESTION 9

According to the text, .

QUESTION 10

Which of the statements is true?