ENAC Lecture de Textes

IntellectualPSY1

10 short texts, 2 questions on each, 4 answers to choose from. Everything you need is in the text, so you answer from what it says, not from what you know. The exam format is 10 texts in 20 minutes.

~21 min

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Overview

You get 2 minutes a text, questions included, so the clock is the real test here. Run your eye over all 10 first and do the short ones before the long ones: they're the quickest points. Read a text's two questions, then the text once, properly. For each answer, look for the sentence it rests on. If you can't point to one, it isn't the answer. The wrong answers hide in the small words, most against all, may against will, suggests against proves, so check those against the line itself. A title has to fit the whole text, not its most striking paragraph. And if two answers still look alike, move on and come back, because a text you never get to scores nothing.

Assessments

Part of the Air France Cadets selection at ENAC (PSY1) battery as “Lecture de textes”.

Ten short passages, two questions each with four options, twenty questions in twenty minutes on one clock, and you can move between the passages. The texts are French and every answer lives strictly inside them; an option can be true outside the text and still be wrong, and some texts ask for the title that fits the whole passage best.

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Four answers, one the text says

The right answer is in the text, usually in other words. Each of the others fails in a way you can check against the text:

The text says the opposite. Or it says the thing about something else.
It goes further than the text. All where the text says most, will where it says may, proves where it says suggests.
The text never says it, however true it is.
It fits part of the text. A title has to fit the whole of it.

One text, two questions

Pick an answer for each question, then hit Check. You can switch answers until then.

Text 1

Sunlight looks white, but it mixes every colour of the rainbow. Some of it strikes the molecules of nitrogen and oxygen that make up most of the air and is sent off in new directions. The molecules are much smaller than the wavelength of light, and for obstacles that tiny the scattering grows sharply as the wavelength shortens, so blue light is scattered several times more strongly than red. Scattered blue light therefore reaches our eyes from every part of the sky, and the whole dome looks blue.

Violet light is scattered even more, yet the sky does not look violet. Sunlight carries less of it to begin with, and the human eye is less sensitive to it. At sunrise and sunset the light crosses a far thicker layer of air, and by then most of the blue has been scattered out of the beam, leaving the reds and oranges. Clouds behave differently: their water droplets are far larger than the molecules of the air and scatter all colours about equally, so they look white.

1.Which title suits the text best?

2.According to the text, why does the sky not look violet?

Game Phases

Short Texts First

Look over the ten and start with the short ones. They're the quickest points.

Find the Sentence

Every right answer rests on a line of the text. Find that line before you pick.

Mind the Small Words

Most or all, may or will, suggests or proves. That's where the wrong answers hide.

Keep Moving

Two minutes a text. Stuck between two answers? Leave it and come back once the rest is done.

More Practice

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6 exercises

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All red foods are fruit

No apple is savory

Some fruits are not sweet

No logical answer can be determined from the statements

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The Riverside Transport Museum charges 12 pounds for an adult ticket and 6 pounds for a child, while children under five enter free. The museum is open Wednesday to Sunday and closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Photography is permitted throughout the galleries.

The museum has a café for visitors.

1True

2False

3Cannot Say

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Which word is closest in meaning toConceal

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The cabin crew asked the passengers their seatbelts.

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ENAC Word Boxes

Six empty boxes sit round the screen, and words appear one at a time in the middle. Each box takes one field of words, like fruit or weather, but nothing tells you which. Click the box each word belongs in. The first word of a field can go in any empty box, and a wrong box sends the word back for later. Each field's own name shows up after its four other words. The exam format is 5 boards of 30 words, with 2.5 seconds a word.

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