Cefr practice reading tests complete the text true or false

7. The writer’s attitude towards natural navigation is that 
A) it would take a long time to be good at it. 
B) it is a valuable skill in the modem world. 
C) it is only likely to appeal to a certain kind of person. 
D) it is exciting but not very useful. 
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Read the text and answer the questions 1-7. 
 
TASK 11 
Kimbolton School 
 
I went to school in a large village called Kimbolton in the county of Cambridgeshire. In recent years I have been 
reminded of my time there by, strangely enough, the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.
The first and most obvious reason is that Kimbolton is a castle school; just as Hogwarts is the castle school for 
Harry and his friends. Hogwarts is of course filled with ghosts, such as Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington — better 
known as Nearly Headless Nick: But Kimbolton also has a reputation for being haunted and in fact lays claim to a 
very famous ghost. This is Katherine of Aragon — the first wife of Henry VIII. She was sent there in April 1534 
after refusing to accept the legality of Henry’s divorce proceedings. When I arrived there as a first year in 
September 1971, I was told that her ghost was often seen — but only from the knees upwards. This, I was told, was 
because she walked on the original rather than the later modern floors. 
I 
am ashamed to confess that at times we set 
up “ ghostly” tricks to scare our friends. These usually involved almost invisible fishing lines being used to 
“mysteriously” open and close cupboards or move chairs.
There are other comparisons to be made however. In Harry Potter’s Hogwarts School there are four “houses” ; 
Gryfinndor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and the dark house, Slytherin. The four houses being named after famous 
headmasters of Hogwarts’ past. At Kimbolton we also had four houses named for the same reason.
They were called Ingram’s, Bailey’s, Dawson’s and Gibbard’ s. As I recall there were no sinister connotations with 
any house although probably the Slytherin equivalent was Gibbard’ s. At the time Gibbard’s was the house for “day 
boys” who lived at home and travelled to school each day. The other houses were for the “borders” that lived in the 
castle. The dayboys were nicknamed “day bugs” and the residents were called “border bugs” . I was a day bug. 
There were common rooms and detentions which I suppose all schools still have. But few schools, like Kimbolton, 
have narrow, long corridors lined with portraits whose eyes seem to follow you round! Mind you — none of our 
paintings spoke to us as they sometimes do at Hogwarts! Kimbolton also has a fantastic staircase in the castle and 
huge murals by the Italian Rococo painter Pellegrini. 
Apart from the castle, ghosts and houses there were other comparisons to Hogwarts. The teachers (who were called 
masters) also wore black gowns and addressed us only by our surnames. We pupils had to wear suits and ties to 
school and actually were not allowed to take our jackets off unless the day was exceptionally hot. 
But there were some fairly important differences too. Firstly Kimbolton, at the time I was there, was a school only 
for boys. It has changed since, but then we had no Hermione Grangers to fight against evil with. We played football 
and cricket rather than Quidditch and took ‘O’ Levels rather than OWLS. That is “Ordinary” Level exams rather 
than “Ordinary Wizarding Levels” . But still, looking back on it all,