Academic Reading Test 4

Questions 1-4
Complete the summary below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.

Story of Emil and the Detectives

The story concerns a boy called Emil who has to deliver money to 1 in Berlin. He lives with his mother, who is a hairdresser and not well-off. On the journey, he meets someone who he thinks is strange, and while Emil is 2 , the money disappears. When he gets to Berlin, he meets some 3 and they help him to find the person who took the money. He does not want to report this theft because he is worried about some damage that he did to a 4 and thinks he will get into trouble for that. and thinks he will get into trouble for that.

Questions 5-7
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letters in boxes 5-7 on your answer sheet.

5 What point does the writer make about Emil and the Detectives in the fourth paragraph?

A. It says something important about adult behaviour.

B. It has a different outcome from most detective fiction.

C. The children are different from most real children.

D. The children are like the adults in other detective fiction.

6 The writer says that children particularly like fiction which

A. describes children being in control of events.

B. presents situations they are personally familiar with.

C. is read to them by adults in an enthusiastic way.

D. includes a large number of surprising events.

7 The writer says that a feature of the book that was new at the time was

A. its focus on children's opposition to adults.

B. its use of a city as the main setting for much of the action.

C. its portrayal of a child growing up in difficult circumstances.

D. its inclusion of more than one child detective.

Questions 8-1 3
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading passage 1?
In boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet (page 163), write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

8 The book is unusual because it has more than one narrator.

TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

9 Some readers found it hard to understand the slang used by some characters.

TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

10 Local dialect is a positive feature of some of the characters.

TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

11 The film of the book had features that were unusual at the time.

TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

12 Kastner based the whole story on real events in his life.

TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

13 Kastner wrote the story and then sent it to a publisher.

TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN