FTU-Reading Comprehension

Why does the hospital need funding?

•  It needs to pay for extra research into diseases.

• It has to hire more medical personnel.

• It would like to refurbish a section of the building.

• It requires the purchase of new medical equipment.

How can guests obtain a complimentary item?

• By paying for at least four guests

• By presenting an invitation from a previous event

• By making reservations for an event online

• By volunteering to help at the hospital

What is the main idea of the passage?

• The best schools teach a wide variety of subjects.

• Education and schooling are quite different experiences.

• Students benefit from schools, which require long hours and homework.

• The more years students go to school, the better their education is.

What does the writer probably mean by using the expression “children interrupt their education to go to school” (in line 1)?

• Going to several different schools is educationally beneficial.

• School vacations interrupt the continuity of the school year.

• School prevents people from discovering new things.

• All of life is education.

The word “bounds” in line 5 is closest in meaning to __________.

• rules   

• experiences

• limits

• exceptions

What does the writer probably mean by saying “education quite often produces surprises” (in line 10) ?

• Educators often surprise students.

• Success of informal learning is predictable.

• Informal learning often brings about unexpected result.

• It is surprising that we know little about other religions.

The word “integral” in line 14 is closest in meaning to __________.

• separate

• profitable

• pleasant

• essential

The word “they” in line 20 refers to __________.

• seats   

• slices of reality

• boundaries

• similar textbooks

The phrase “for example” in line 22 introduces a sentence that gives examples of __________.

• similar textbooks       

• the results of schooling

• the working of a government

• the limits of classroom subjects

From the passage, we can infer that a high school teacher_____.

• is likely to teach programmed subjects

• is free to choose anything to teach

• is not allowed to teach political issues

• has to teach social issues to all classes