1. Reading Comprehension
2. Essay
For example:
READING COMPREHENSION
Read the text below and decide whether the statements that follow (63-69) are, according to the
text, TRUE, FALSE or NOT STATED (i.e. the text gives no information about the statement).
Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet in the following way:
A = TRUE B = FALSE C = NOT STATED
Cutty Sark, the world famous sailing ship that in the heyday of the wool trade regularly
recorded the fastest time for the voyage from Australia to Britain, is rotting away and may
have to be sold abroad.
The London landmark, which exchanged the seven seas for a concrete dry dock in
Greenwich on the banks of the River Thames more than 50 years ago, has been given
just four years before the rot and rust becomes so bad that the ship disintegrates.
"We need to raise a minimum of eight million pounds ($12.6 million) for the
preservation work or we will have to put her up for sale," says the Cutty Sark Trust chief
executive, Richard Doughty. According to him, the ship is virtually unique. She is part of a
World Heritage site and classed as a Grade I listed building. It would be a shame to lose
her, but if the money cannot be raised, she may have to be sold.
The ship was launched in 1869 on Scotland's River Clyde to make the run to China
for the tea trade but switched to fetching wool from Australia to feed England's mills. She
was sold in 1895 to a Portuguese company when the wool trade was much less profitable,
and spent the next three decades running cargoes between Oporto, Rio de Janeiro, New
Orleans and Lisbon. Acquired by an English sailing fanatic in the 1920s, she was
bequeathed to the nation in 1938 and finally put out to grass in Greenwich in 1951.
The trust, formed to preserve the elegant sailing ship, will be putting in a bid for
funds to the Heritage Lottery Fund, which uses money from the National Lottery to support
local, regional and national projects to preserve Britain's historical buildings and
landmarks.
63. Cutty Sark used to be the quickest cargo ship.
64. Cutty Sark made its last journey half a century ago.
65. A foreign investor is willing to pay 8 million pounds for the ship.
66. Cutty Sark stopped transporting wool in the 19th century because a Portuguese
company bought her.
67. The previous owner of the ship sold her to the state.
68. The Cutty Sark Trust is hoping to win the lottery to restore the ship.
69. Cutty Sark is put on display on the river Thames.
(It's just a sample, not original EK-Test of course!)
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READING COMPREHENSION
On reading the following passage carefully, decide, according to the text, whether
statement (A) or (
is true, or both of them are equally true (C) or neither of them is true (D).
According to the federal government, harvesting tuna fish in the Pacific Ocean using a large net does not significantly affect nearby dolphin populations, but animal and environmental groups refuse to accept the findings.
A study by the National Marine Fisheries Service found that using mile-long nets to
capture tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean will not threaten the dolphin species.
The findings mean tuna from countries such as Mexico can be exported to the United States and labeled as r16;Dolphin Safer17; if no dolphins were injured or killed when the fish were removed.
In the past, countries that used dolphins to target tuna could not post the r16;Dolphin
Safer17; label on products shipped to the United States.
Dolphins are often a good indicator of tuna habitats and are used by fishermen to
determine where to place their nets. Earlier methods of using fishing nets killed hundreds of thousands of dolphins, but deaths have dropped to 2,000 per year according to the government r11; still too many for environmental groups.
The new rule requires that tuna associated with the death of one or more dolphins
must be separated from that considered r16;dolphin safer17;. "The whole point of the 'Dolphin Safe' label is to give consumers a choice of tuna that wasn't caught by netting dolphins," said William Snape, Vice President with the Defenders of Wildlife.
70.
(A) The study shows that dolphins are not in danger.
(
Environmental groups believe that tuna fishing threatens dolphins.
(C) both A and B are true
(D) neither A nor B is true
71.
(A) Tuna fish can only be caught by killing other fishes.
(
r16;Dolphin Safer17; means that no dolphins are captured by fishing nets.
(C) both A and B are true
(D) neither A nor B is true
72.
(A) Tuna cannot be sold in the USA without the r16;Dolphin Safer17; label.
(
Mexico can sell tuna in the USA labeled as r16;Dolphin Safer17;.
(C) both A and B are true
(D) neither A nor B is true
73.
(A) Dolphins and tuna fish often live side by side.
(
Fishermen look out for dolphins to locate tuna.
(C) both A and B are true
(D) neither A nor B is true
74.
(A) Tuna fishing methods have become safer.
(
The death rate of dolphins has hardly changed.
(C) both A and B are true
(D) neither A nor B is true
75.
(A) The US government does not do anything to save dolphinsr17; lives.
(
American shoppers cannot do anything to save dolphinsr17; lives.
(C) both A and B are true
(D) neither A nor B is true
(It's just a sample, not original EK-Test!)