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READING TEST 2.3
Objectives:
- True/ False/ Not Given Questions
- Sentences completing
- Short-answer questions.
READING 1
Sylvia Earle, underwater hero.
She has spent her working life studying the world’s oceans.
Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist who was born in the USA in 1935.
She became interested in the world’s oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on
the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering what it must be like under the surface.
When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive, it was this dive that inspired
her to become an underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under
water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest
dive ever, reaching a record-breaking depth of 381 metres.
In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first allfemale team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater house. The
research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and
especially to coral reefs. Her team also studied the problem of over-fishing. Fishing methods
meant that people were catching too many fish, Earle warned, and many species were in danger
of becoming extinct.
Since then she has written several books and magazine articles in which she suggests ways of
reducing the damage that is being done to the world’s oceans. One way, she believes, is to rely
on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done out at sea. Although
she no longer eats seafood herself, she realizes that the importance it plays in our diets. It would
be wrong to tell people they should stop eating fish from the sea, she says. However, they need
to reduce the impact they are having on the ocean’s supplies.
Decide if these statements are TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN according to the
information in the passage.
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1. …… Sylvia Earle lives in the USA.
2. …… At the age of 18, she hadn’t made any dive.
3. …… The experience of a close death by drowning caused her to become an underwater
explorer.
4. …… Nobody in the world has dived a further depth than Sylvia Earle.
5. …… The team made a fortnight stay in a laboratory to studied the underwater house.
6. …… Until 1970, nobody had lived underwater before.
7. …… Sylvia Earle was worried about the amount of fish that were being caught.
8. …… Although people were catching too many fishes, marine life suffered from no
extinct dangers as the ocean were huge with a great many kinds of fishes.
9. …… Her books offer some solutions to marine problems.
10.…… She thinks people should avoid eating seafood.
READING 2.
Is it better to go abroad to study?
Student- friendly places
The British Council has named the universities that are most welcoming to overseas students.
As you would expect, English-speaking countries such as Australia, the UK, and the US have
made the top 10, but the number one may be a surprise: Germany. Two Far Eastern countries,
i.e. China and Malaysia, made it to the top 5, ranking higher than the US, Japan, Russia,
Nigeria and Brazil.
The benefits of studying abroad
Russell Howe, a Scot who is currently studying a Business degree at Stellinga International
College in the Netherlands, previously also studied in India (which came 11 th on the list).
“People often ask me why I needed to travel, because British universities have a good
reputation elsewhere in the world. But this is not something I needed to do, but something I
really wanted to do. I have learnt different ways of looking at things, but I also found out how
much we all have in common, wherever we are from. All of this will be useful in my future
career.”
Russell is not the only international student in his department Business and administrative
courses are the most popular with international students, followed by engineering and
technology, social studies, creative arts and design, medicine-related topics and law. Manal, a
student at the Faculty of Art and Design at Stellinga, says she has similar reasons to Russell,
but there is more: “I wanted to broaden my understanding of the world. I have enhanced my
language skills: I am more fluent in English and have also taken a level 1 Dutch evening class.
One of my modules is about European art, and I believe that I am benefiting more from
studying this in Europe than anywhere else. I have managed to visit other countries in my
holidays, and really feel that this whole experience is developing my global perspective. I also
hope that I have made lasting friendship and contacts”
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Enabling student access
What is it that makes these countries student-friendly? Well, all of them make it easy for
international students to apply, and provide ongoing support once they are there. They also
offer good quality degrees, which are valued highly in other countries too. The fact that
Germany came out as winner is probably due to the country’s efforts towards
internationalization. One aspect of this is that the country welcomes foreign students by
charging them the same fees as home students, meaning that in some universities, overseas
students study for free. Many classes are conducted in English, and so are most leaflets,
making it easier for international students to keep informed and take part in student life.
Apart from the financial reasons already mentioned, this type of educational
internationalization can help with the quality of research in these universities, through e.g.
networking, teamwork and the sharing of skills. For students, it is a valuable addition to their
skills and experience at the time when jobs are not easy to find.
Using no more than two words to complete these sentences with information from the
passage.
11. Australia, the UK, the US were in top 10 but Germany might come as a
…………………… when it was regarded as most welcoming to overseas students.
12. Russell Howe said the reason why he wanted to study abroad was that British
universities had a …………………. in every part of the world.
13. The most popular courses among overseas students are ………………….
14. Manal’d like to study abroad as she thinks it can help ………………….her knowledge
about the world.
15. Manel believes that traveling to many different countries offer her
………………….friendship and relations.
16. What make countries student-friendly are their easy-to-apply system,
…………………..., and good quality degrees.
17. Germany won the race is probably because of their great effort towards
………………….
18. Germany charges overseas students the same fees as the ………………….
19. Many classes and ………………….are conducted in English with an aim to making it
easy for international students.
20. Germanic educational system also brings about positive effects to improve the
………………….of university research.
Giving short answer to these questions, no more than two words.
Which country ranked the first in the top countries most welcoming to overseas students?
21.………………….
Which two countries were the Far Eastern countries in top 5?
22. ………………….and 23. ………………….
In which country is Russell Howe studying his Business Degree?
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24. ………………….
Beside English, which language is Manal studying? 25. ………………….
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