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Reading Test <strong>Hints</strong><br />
Paragraph (v)<br />
Australia and New Zealand have roughly the same percentage of Asian students in their<br />
language classrooms, but not all students of English who choose these countries are from<br />
Asia. The emerging global consciousness of the late twentieth century has meant that<br />
students from as far as Sweden and Brazil are choosing to combine a taste <strong>for</strong> exotic travel<br />
with the study of English 'down under' and in 'the land of the long white cloud'. But even<br />
the Asian economic downturn in the 1990s has not significantly altered the demographic<br />
composition of the majority of English language classrooms within the region.<br />
Question 8 asks <strong>for</strong> the heading of Paragraph (v). The topic of the paragraph deals with<br />
the nationality profile of overseas students attending English classes in Australia and New<br />
Zealand. There<strong>for</strong>e, the two most likely headings that will match with this paragraph are,<br />
"A" - (Heterogeneity in the language classroom) and "D" - (Additional student sources).<br />
If you do not consider both likely choices, you might not choose answer "D", which is the<br />
correct answer.<br />
Matching Task Method - Type 1 only<br />
Step 5. Leave the most difficult match to last. Sometimes, one of the matching items is more<br />
difficult than the others. In a matching task Type 1, you can leave the most difficult match<br />
to last because the unmatched item left over at the end will be the answer (provided, of<br />
course, your other answers are correct). Do not waste too much time searching <strong>for</strong> the<br />
answer to a difficult matching question in a matching task Type 1 - it is wiser to solve the<br />
easiest matches first.<br />
Step 6. Check your answers carefully because if you make an error with one match in a matching<br />
task Type 1, you will cause an error to occur with another match.<br />
With both matching task Types 1 and 2, when the task asks you to match a heading with a single<br />
paragraph, you must be sure of the main topic of the paragraph be<strong>for</strong>e you make your match.<br />
Similarly, when you are asked to match a heading with a particular part of the passage (which might<br />
contain more than one paragraph), you must be sure that every paragraph within that portion of the<br />
passage relates in some way to the topic idea of the heading you are considering.<br />
• Look at Section (v) in Reading Passage 1 of Reading Test Four:<br />
Section (v)<br />
Monorail systems are not new, but they have so far been built as adjuncts to existing city<br />
road systems. They usually provide a limited service, which is often costly and fails to<br />
address the major concern of traffic choking the city.<br />
The Beam-Operated Traffic System, on the other hand, provides a complete solution to city<br />
transportation. Included in its scope is provision <strong>for</strong> the movement of pedestrians at any<br />
point and to any point within the system. A city relieved of roads carrying fast moving cars<br />
and trucks can be given over to pedestrians and cyclists who can walk or pedal as far as they<br />
wish be<strong>for</strong>e hailing a quickly approaching beam-operated car. Cyclists could use fold-up<br />
bicycles <strong>for</strong> this purpose.<br />
It is not immediately clear from the first paragraph whether the main topic of the section is<br />
answer e) "The monorail system" or h) "The complete answer to the traffic problem". By<br />
reading carefully, it can be seen that only answer h) relates to both paragraphs in the section.<br />
Matched headings need to refer to all parts of the indicated portion of the passage<br />
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