SAMPLE TEST
2018
Main idea:
Reading as a pleasurable activity

P1: We get great pleasure from reading
P2:The pleasure derived from this activity is common
to all kinds of reading
P4:Reading is one of the greatest enjoyments of life
Question 28. What does the passage mainly discuss?
Different types of books
Different kinds of reading
Reading as an exercise for the brain
Reading as a pleasurable activity

Question 29. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Ordinary people may think that philosophy and science are difficult.
B. Reading about mathematics is mentally entertaining for a mathematician.
C. Philosophers and scientists do not read for pleasure.
D. A more advanced person takes greater pleasure in reading.
Paragraph 1- ordinary man may think that subjects like philosophy or science are very difficult
-The mathematician finds the same pleasure in his mathematics as the school boy in an adventure story
-The more advanced a man is, the greater delight he will find in reading
-philosophers and scientists read these subjects, it is not for pleasure. But this is not true.
Question 33. According to the passage, travel books, biographies and memoirs ______.
are wonderful novels
B. tell stories of well-known places
C. are less popular than novels
D. are more valuable than novels
Next in order of popularity are travel books, biographies and memoirs. These tell us tales of places we have not seen and of great men in whom we are interested
First in order of popularity is novel-reading.
Some of these books are as wonderful as novels and they have an added value that they are true
Paragraph 4:
To book-lovers, nothing is more fascinating than a favorite book.
And, the ordinary educated man who is interested and absorbed in his daily occupation wants to occasionally escape from his drudgery into the wonderland of books for recreation and refreshment
Question 34. According to paragraph 4, which of the following is the most fascinating to book-lovers?
A daily occupation
B. An ordinary educated man
C. The wonderland
D. A favorite book
Question 30. The word “derived” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. differed B. established C. bought D. obtained
The pleasure derived from this activity is common to all kinds of reading
Question 32. The word “immense” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. great B. limited C. personal D. controlled
Paragraph3 :
Such books give us knowledge, and we also find immense pleasure in knowing details of lands we have not seen and of great men we have only heard of.
Question 31. The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.
a new life
our world
an opportunity
a thrill of pleasure
Paragraph 2 :
Novels contain pictures of imaginary people in imaginary situations, and give us an opportunity of escaping into a new world very much like our world and yet different from it. Here we seem to live a new life, and the experience of this new life gives us a thrill of pleasure.