Reading Literacy (Грамотность чтения)
Reading Literacy gives you one or two texts on a single theme - popular science, an argument, a short literary extract - and asks what the text says, what it implies, and how it is built. Nothing outside the passage is credited: your general knowledge of the topic is not evidence.
Question types
- Main idea: must cover the whole text, not its strongest paragraph
- Factual detail: scan for the key word, then read the entire sentence around it
- Inference: implied but anchored - the answer must have a sentence behind it
- Purpose and tone: why the author wrote it and for whom
- Vocabulary in context: the meaning the word carries here, not its first dictionary sense
- Two-text items: what both authors accept, and where they diverge
Worked example
Text A reports that shops on a pedestrianised street had a 15% rise in takings. Text B reports slower deliveries and worse kerbside access for residents with limited mobility, but cleaner air. Which statement do both texts support? (a) The change helped business - only Text A. (b) The change altered daily life in the centre - both texts describe changed routines. (c) The change was a mistake - an inference from B, not from A. (d) Residents were not consulted - neither text mentions consultation. Answer: (b). Each wrong option is either supported by one text only or by neither.
Traps
- Choosing an option that is true in the world but absent from the passage
- Extreme wording: always, never, all, proved
- Confusing the author's own view with a view the author reports and then rejects
- Answering from the first paragraph when the question says 'the text'