Reading Test 8th grade

Read the extracts from a newspaper and match them with the sections in a newspaper.

Read the text below. For statements choose T if the statement is true according to the text, and F if it is false.

7.The British don’t like reading newspapers.     
8. You can find serious news in the ‘quality’ papers.    
9. The Daily express is larger in size than The Guardian.    
10. The ‘popular’ papers have a lot of photographs.    
11. The Times has more political news than The Daily Mirror.    
12. There is a great variety of articles on different topics.    

British Newspapers
The British are great newspaper readers. Newspapers are often thought of as either ‘qualities’ or ‘populars’ which depends on differences in style and content. The ‘qualities’ are newspapers which are generally thought to give serious accounts of the news and reports on business matters, industry, culture and society. They are large-sized.

The ‘quality’ papers, like The Times, The Guardian and others, are directed at readers who want full information on a wide range of public matters and are prepared to spend a considerable amount of time reading it. They appreciate serious news presented seriously.
‘Qualities’ ‘Populars’
The Times Daily Express
Financial Times Daily Mail
The Daily Telegraph Daily Mirror
The Guardian The Sun
‘Popular’ newspapers appeal to people wanting news of a more entertaining
character, presented with lots of illustrations. They offer little amount of political news and explain political issues in easily understandable language.
Some newspapers come out only on Sundays. Many newspapers are printed in colour, and a number of papers produce colour magazines as part of the Saturday and Sunday paper. They provide reading material about fashion, clothes, cooking, diet, the house and home, motoring and holidays. They publish sections with articles on travel, food and wine, and other leisure topics.

Read  two paragraphs about a young swimmer.

Find phrases in the text that have a similar meaning to one of the multiple-choice answers below. Then choose the best answer (A, B, C or D).

Jamie has __ .


Aiming for gold
Jamie is fourteen years old. He is a champion swimmer in his age
and his coach believes that one day he could win an Olympic medal.
This is Jamie’s dream.
It’s not going to be easy to make that dream come true, however,
and Jamie already has a tough weekly routine. He puts in two solid
hours of training before school and in the evenings, he is back in the
pool or the weights room. Then there are weekend sessions as well when
he also has his homework.