7th Form Reading Comprehension Test (II Semester)

Read the text. Are the sentences True or False?

1 The Orient Express stopped running in 1977.       [True, False]

2 The route of the Orient Express always ended in Vienna.       [True, False]

3 The writer first went to the USA in 2013.       [True, False]

4 It takes more than a day to travel The Coast Starlight route.       [True, False]

5 The Coast Starlight goes to Canada.       [True, False]

6 This was the writer’s first experience of an American night train.       [True, False]

7 The dining car becomes a viewing car between meals.       [True, False]

8 The writer got off the train in Tacoma by mistake.       [True, False]

9 The Puget Sound is a river.       [True, False]

10 The writer hasn’t travelled from Seattle to Los Angeles yet.       [True, False]

Read the extract from a novel. Choose the correct answer.

In the morning, the writer

Read the extract from a novel. Choose the correct answer.

Which sentence is true?

Read the extract from a novel. Choose the correct answers.

1 The writer says that the landscape was                [different., attractive., uninteresting., unchanging.]

2 The writer was surprised when he found out                                        [he was in same house as everyone else., he and Josie had to share a room., how nice the room was., who Gavin was working with.]

3 In the last paragraph, the writer says that Kostas                                     [works very hard., finds it hard to make decisions., treats men and women differently., doesn’t want Josie to work for him.]