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READING COMPREHENSION
PASSAGE 1
How many young people know how to cook?
Well, there aren't many, according to a
survey in the UK 49% of 18-24 years old
don't know how many minutes it takes to
boil an egg! But is this change in cooking
habits a problem?
Jean-Michel Cohen, a French doctor, thinks
we have quite a lot of health problems today
because not many people cook enough. He
says that when we buy ready-made meals,
takeaway food, we don't really think about
what we are eating. This means we often
eat a lot of food-more than we need. But
when we buy the ingredients, e.g.
vegetables, meat, fish and then fry, bake or
boil them, we think more carefully about
what we're eating. And when we think about
the ingredients, we usually eat healthy
meals and we eat well.
So perhaps the answer to some of the
health problem is not ‘eat less’⎯ it's ‘cook
more’!
Hughes, J. and Wood, K. (2015) Navigate
Coursebook A2 Elementary. Oxford
University Press.
1. Which of the following statements
corresponds to the problem described in
the text?
A) British people usually eat a lot of
takeaway food.
B) Cooking habits in Great Britain are very
varied.
C) Many British young people don't know
how to cook.
D) People often eat more than they need to
live.
E) Cooking habits can be dangerous for
people.
2. The term TAKEAWAY best refers to food.
A) you eat at the restaurant.
B) you buy for your parents.
C) you don't need to buy.
D) you take to eat at home.
E) which makes people fat.
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3. Which of the following ideas is not stated in
the text?
A) Many young people don't know how to
cook.
B) Nowadays, people do not cook too much.
C) Often we aren't aware of what we are
eating.
D) When we cook, we're more aware of what
we eat.
E) Dr. Cohen thinks takeaway food is very
healthy.
4. The passage implies that
A) people aren't very careful when they
decide to cook.
B) buying fresh ingredients makes food
healthier to eat.
C) takeaway food is a reason for people to
gain weight.
D) British people shoudn't fry but cook their
meals.
E) takeaway food is easy to get at any
restaurant.
5. The author suggests that
A) people should eat more takeaway food.
B) people need to be warned of what they
eat.
C) people should teach their children to
cook.
D) people should prepare their own food.
E) some takeaway meals must be
prohibited.
PASSAGE 2
The best way to learn something is to make
mistakes first. Thomas Edison, who
invented the light bulb, told his colleagues:
«Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work,
every failure told me something I was able
to incorporate into the next attempt».
Benjamin Franklin, the US statesman and
scientist once said: «I haven’t failed, I have
had 10 000 ideas that didn’t work».
Both these people understood that failures
and false starts are the condition of
success. In fact, a surprising number of
everyday objects had their beginnings in a
mistake or a misunderstanding. Post-it
notes, packets of crisps and even bread are
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all unexpected inventions. In 2600 B.C., a
tired Egyptian slave invented bread when
the dough rose during his sleep. And crisps
were first cooked by a chef in the US when
a customer complained that his potatoes
were not thin enough.
Successful businesspeople have often
made big, expensive mistakes in their past.
When an employee of IBM made a mistake
that cost the company $ 600 000. Thomas
Watson, the chairman, was asked if he
would fire the man. «Of course not» he
replied. «I have just spent $ 600 000
training him. I’m not going to let another
company benefit from his experience».
Adapted from Clare, A. and Wilson, J.
(2006). Total English Intermediate.
Students’ Book. Pearson Education
Limited.
6. What is the main idea of the text?
A) Mistakes make the learning process
more difficult.
B) Scientists do not like the idea of making
mistakes.
C) Mistakes are important for the learning
process.
D) Companies lose lots of money because
of mistakes.
E) To make mistakes is an unnatural human
sign.
7. SUCCESS is close in meaning to
A) dangerous event.
B) unexpected event.
C) difficult results.
D) satisfactory outcome.
E) unpredicted result.
8. Which of the following is not stated in the
text?
A) Only geniuses never make mistakes.
B) Failures are part of the process to
succeed.
C) Many inventions resulted from mistakes.
D) Mistakes contribute to getting
experience.
E) Successful people have made mistakes
before.
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9. It can be inferred from the text that
A) all mistakes are necessary for inventing
new and useful things.
B) successful people make mistakes every
day of their lives.
C) humans are not perfect, and we can
always make mistakes.
D) the more mistakes you make the more
success you will achieve.
E) both Edison and Franklin made just a few
little mistakes.
10. Which of the following statements would
the author agree with?
A) Mistakes should always be avoided.
B) Failures are part of human experience.
C) Teachers must punish students’
mistakes.
D) Errors are irrelevant for learning
experience.
E) Only inexpert people often make
mistakes.
PASSAGE 3
One of the ways to learn about an enemy’s
plans is from spies. But there are many
dangers in relying on spies. As the British
Double Cross System showed, spies can be
«turned», sending false information
supplied by the enemy. For example, one
major spy network in the Netherlands sent
the British a great deal of information that
was in fact created by the Gestapo, the
German secret police.
There are two ways to use spies in
determining the accuracy of information.
One way is to employ spies who do have
access to important military or political
leaders in the enemy country. This is the
image of the secret agents whom people
have learned about from spy novels and
movies. A second way is to employ a large
number of spies, each sending back small
bits of information. When all the pieces are
put together and analyzed, an accurate
picture unfolds.
Bigelow, B. (2000). World War II: Almanac.
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11. What is the topic of the reading?

A) The false information sent by the
German gestapo
B) The lack of information obtained through
spies
C) The veracity of information obtained
through spies
D) Spies and their sources of information in
the world
E) Ways to use the false spy information
obtained

12. The word TURNED connotes

A) changed.
B) manipulated.
C) discovered.
D) killed.
E) awarded.

13. It is incompatible to affirm that the spy

information
A) is always false or inaccurate.
B) has to be carefully analyzed.
C) can be changed by enemies.
D) can be used in different ways.
E) allows to know the adverse plans.

14. It is possible to infer that people who

receive the spy information have to
be____________.
A) evil
B) military
C) political
D) suspicious
E) confident

15. If in the Second World War Germany had

strictly believed in all the information sent
by its spies
A) it would have been wrong in many of its
actions.
B) it would have won the war in one or two
years.
C) Hitler would not have committed suicide
in Berlin.
D) France would have been able to defeat
Germany.
E) the war would have lasted much longer
in Europe.

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