Cefr practice reading tests complete the text true or false

7. When Aunt Mehetabel started her new quilt, she was driven by 
A) a sudden flash of inspiration of an artist. 
B) an urge to get rid of her monotonous existence. 
C) her wish to win everybody's admiration. 
D) her desire to become a rightful member of the family. 
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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – MULTIPLE CHOICE
Read the text and answer the questions 1-7. 
 
TASK 10 
"Take the Circle, District or Piccadilly Line to South Kensington, then walk up Exhibition Road. It will take you 
between 10 and 15 minutes. The Royal Geographical Society is on the junction between Exhibition Road and 
Kensington Gore." The instructions arc so idiot-proof that at 9 am precisely all seven of us are in our places, like 
expectant schoolchildren. 
A man in a check suit, with a neatly trimmed beard, enters and introduces himself Tristan Gooley. Welcome.' He 
flashes a shy smile. 'Just to put this all into context, I think I can safely say that you are the only people in the world 
studying this particular topic today.’ It is quite an intro. There are a few oohs and ahs from the audience. Tristan 
Gooley, navigator extraordinary, has his audience in the palm of his hand. We are here because we are curious about 
how you get from A to B. And if you are curious about how to get from A to B. who better to ask than Tristan 
Gooley? He is the only man alive who has both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic. You can't argue with that 
son of CV. 
Natural navigation', his new baby, is exactly what that phrase suggests: route-finding that depends on interpreting 
natural signs - the sun, the stars, the direction of the wind, the alignment of the trees • rather than using maps, 
compasses or the ubiquitous satnav. "Of course, 99.9 per cent of the time, you will have other ways of finding 
wherever it is you want to get to. But if you don't..." Gooley pauses theatrically, there is a lot to be said for 
understanding the science of navigation and direction- finding. If people become too dependent on technology, they 
can lose connection with nature, which is a pity.' 
The natural navigator's best friend, inevitably, is the sun. We all know that it rises in the east, sets in the west and, at 
its 2cnith, is due south. But if it is. say. three in the afternoon and you are lost in the desert, how do you get your 
bearings? The answer, says Gooley, is to find a stick. By noting the different places where its shadow falls over a 
short period of time, you will quickly locate the east- west axis. The sun influences things even if you can't see it.' 
he explains. You might not be in the desert, but walking along a forest track in Britain. One side of the track is 
darker in colour than the other. 'Ah-ha!' thinks the natural navigator. 'It is darker because it is damper, which means 
it is getting less sun, because it is shaded by the trees, which means that south is that way.' You can now stride 
confidently southwards - or in whichever direction you wish to head - without fiddling with a map. 
As the day wears on, the detective work forces us to look at the world in new and unexpected ways. Just when we 
think we are getting the hang of it, Gooley sets us a particularly difficult task. A photograph of a house comes up on 
the screen. An orange sun is peeping over the hon/on behind the house. There is a tree in the foreground. “Just study 
the picture for a few minutes,” Gooley says, "and tell me in which direction the photographer is pointing the 
camera.” Tricky. Very tricky. Is the sun rising or setting’’ Is the tree growing straight up or leaning to the right? Is 
that a star twinkling over the chimney
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Arc we in the northern or southern hemisphere? 'South-east,' I say firmly, 
having analysed the data in minute detail. "Not quite." - “Am I close?" - “Not really. The answer is north-west.’' Ah 
well. Only 180 degrees out. 
Still, if I am bottom of the class, I have caught the natural navigation bug. What a fascinating science, both 
mysterious and universal. It is hardly what you would call a practical skill: there are too many man-made aids to 
navigation at our disposal. But it connects us. thrillingly, to the world around us - and to those long-dead ancestors 
who circled the globe with nothing but stars to guide them. It reminds us what it means to be human. 

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