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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 24
READING TEXT
  1. Slang words are very informal words. They may be new, or existing words used
  2. in a new sense and context. As time goes by, some are used more widely and are
  3. no longer thought of as slang. Clever and naughty, for instance, were both formerly
  4. slang words that are now accepted as standard. Many slang words die out after a
  5. few years or sooner. The regular introduction of new words to replace them helps
  6. keep the language alive. A lot of slang words are restricated to a particular social
  7. group. Use of slang suggests an easy, informal relationship between people and
  8. helps reinforce social identity.
  9. In the 18th century the word slang described th.e language of criminals, but since
  10. then every group in society has developed its own slang terms. The groups that use
  11. most slang are still those closest to the edge of society: criminals, prisoners and
  12. drug users. Young people also develop slang expressions to distance themselves
  13. from older people. The street language of young people changes rapidly. Street
  14. slang includes words relating to young people's attitudes.
  15. Young people today may describe something “exciting' as cool, massive, wicked,
  16. or (especially in American English) bad or phat. If something is “old-fashioned' or
  17. “undesirable', it is naff. .Anything bad is rank or minging. A geek, prat, anorak,
  18. nerd or dweeb is somebody who seems rather stupid. “Going out' and “having a
  19. good time' is chilling.
  20. As people get older they sometimes keep on using the same slang words and in
  21. this way slang may indicate a person's age.
QUESTION 1

According to Paragraph 1, lines 1—8, slang words

QUESTION 2

The word formerly in line 3 is synonymous to

QUESTION 3

The author states that the use of slang

QUESTION 4

The word include in line 14 is NOT synonymous to

QUESTION 5

Examples of modern slang are illustrated in

QUESTION 6

According to Paragraph. 2, lines 9—14,

QUESTION 7

The street language of young people

QUESTION 8

According to the text, slang is the language of

QUESTION 9

The word indicate in line 21 means

QUESTION 10

The author thinks that