ENGLISH READING TEST NUMBER 1

ENGLISH READING TEST NUMBER 1
To do well at school, college or university you usually need to do well in exams.
“All students hate exams” may be a generalization, but it is fairly true one. Certainly,
all of the students I’ve known disliked doing exams, None of them thought that the
exam system was fair; to do well in a exam you simply had to be able to predict the
questions which would be asked, This was the case as regards tow students in my
class at college. Botyh of them were exceptionally bright, but in the final year “exam”
neither of them got an a grade. In fact, they both got Cs. The exam had tested us on
questions which had come up the previous year. They had both assumed that the same
questions wouldn’t come up again, and hadn’t prepared for them.
1) Students need to do well in exams __________.
a. In order to do well at school.
b. Because they need to do well at school.
c. So that to do well at school.
d. Therefore they have to do well at school.
2) The stastement “ All students hate exams” is _________.
a. extremely true b. completely true
c. quite true d. very true
3) Which of the following sentences is not true?
a. All of the students the writer has known thought that the exam system was
unfair.
b. To do well in an exam you simly had the ability to predict the questions
which would be asked.
c. None of the students the writer has known disliked doing exams.
d. “ All students hate exams” is fairly true generalization.
4) Why did the two students in the writer’s class get C grades in the final exam?
a. Because the exam was very difficult.
b. Because they didn’t prepare for the questions that had come up the previous
year.
c. Because they were dull students.
d. Because the questions weren’t in their lesson.

5) The writer’s main purpose of writing the passage is to
_________________________.
a. describe the importance of exams.
b. discuss how exams effect on the students.
c. explain the equality in examinations.
d. criticize the exam system.