200 שאלות תרגול בטון הכותב באנגלית מתוך פרק האנגלית של הבחינה הפסיכומטרית. לכל שאלה פתרון מלא ומוסבר, ואפשר לתרגל לפי רמת קושי.
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1עברו על השאלות ראשונות, בלי האפשרויות. שתי דקות שם חוסכות יותר משהן עולות.
2קראו את הקטע ברצף אחד. אל תעצרו על מילה לא מוכרת - ההקשר יסביר אותה, ואם לא, כנראה לא צריך אותה.
3סמנו בראש איפה כל פסקה נמצאת: על מה היא, ומה תפקידה בטיעון.
4לכל שאלה חזרו לשורה שעונה עליה. תשובה שאתם לא יכולים להצביע על המקום שלה בטקסט היא ניחוש.
המלכודתאפשרות שנכונה בעולם אבל לא נאמרה בקטע. המבחן שואל מה כתוב, לא מה נכון - וידע כללי הוא מה שמפיל כאן, במיוחד כשהנושא מוכר לכם. אם אי אפשר להצביע על השורה, זו לא התשובה.
שאלות לדוגמה
ארבע מתוך 200, עם הפתרון המלא.
שאלה 1
Read the passage:
From Film to Pixels
Until the end of the twentieth century, taking a photograph was a deliberate act. A roll of film typically held twenty-four or thirty-six pictures, each of which cost money to develop and print, and photographers often had to wait days before discovering whether a shot had worked. Consequently, people tended to think carefully before pressing the button, saving their film for birthdays, holidays and other special occasions.
Digital cameras, and later smartphones, removed these limits almost entirely. A single phone can now store thousands of images, each of which can be viewed instantly and deleted at no cost. The benefits are obvious: photography has become accessible to almost everyone, and beginners can learn by trial and error far more quickly than before.
Yet something may have been lost along the way. When pictures cost nothing, it is easy to take dozens of nearly identical shots and never look at any of them again. Some photographers argue that the old limits forced them to pay closer attention to light and composition. Nobody seriously suggests returning to film for everyday use, but it may be worth borrowing one of its habits: taking fewer pictures, and taking them with more care.
The author's attitude towards digital photography is best described as -
אentirely enthusiastic and uncritical
בappreciative, with some reservations
גstrongly hostile and dismissive
דindifferent and uninterested
הפתרון
מכיר ביתרונות ("The benefits are obvious") אך מסתייג ("something may have been lost").
שאלה 2
Read the passage:
A Masterpiece at Any Price?
When the Danish architect Jørn Utzon won the competition for a new opera house in Sydney in 1957, his entry was little more than a set of sketches: a cluster of white, sail-like shells above the harbour. The judges were captivated, but nobody yet knew how the shells could actually be built. Construction began before the design problems had been solved, and it took years of experimentation before a workable solution was found, based on deriving the curve of every shell from the surface of a single sphere.
The delays proved ruinous. Costs rose from an original estimate of about seven million dollars to more than a hundred million, and after a bitter dispute with a new state government over fees and design changes, Utzon resigned in 1966 and left Australia. The interiors were completed by other architects, and he never returned to see the finished building, which opened in 1973.
Judged by the standards of project management, the Opera House was a fiasco. Yet few now regard it as a mistake. It is among the most recognizable buildings of the twentieth century and was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007, while Utzon himself received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2003. Whether such a triumph could justify such an overrun remains debatable, but it would be hard to argue that Sydney regrets the bargain.
The tone of the last paragraph is best described as -
אharshly critical of the building's cost
בmocking and sarcastic
גbalanced but ultimately admiring
דindifferent and detached
הפתרון
הכותב מודה בכישלון הניהולי ובכך ש"remains debatable", אך מסיים בהערכה למבנה - מאוזן ובסופו של דבר מעריך.
שאלה 3
Read the passage:
Losing the Night Sky
For most of human history, anyone could look up on a clear night and see thousands of stars and the pale band of the Milky Way. Today, many people have never seen it. The reason is light pollution: the glow from street lamps, advertisements, car parks and buildings that spreads into the sky and hides the stars. In the centre of a large city, a person may see only a few dozen of the brightest stars.
Light pollution is not only a problem for people who enjoy the stars. It also confuses animals. Many birds that travel at night can lose their way around brightly lit buildings. Newly hatched sea turtles normally find the sea by moving towards the brighter horizon over the water, but near a lit road they may crawl towards the lights instead.
The good news is that this kind of pollution is one of the easiest to fix. Unlike smoke in the air or plastic in the ocean, it disappears the moment a light is switched off. Lamps that point downwards instead of up into the sky, lights that turn off when nobody needs them, and softer, less bright bulbs can all make a real difference. Some towns have already made these changes, and their residents can once again enjoy a sky full of stars.
The overall tone of the passage is best described as -
אconcerned but hopeful
בangry and hopeless
גamused and light-hearted
דneutral and uninterested
הפתרון
הכותב מודאג מהנזק (לאנשים ולבעלי חיים) אך מסיים ב-"The good news" ובדוגמה לעיירות שהצליחו.
שאלה 4
Read the passage:
A Breeze from the Sea
On a hot summer day at the beach, you may notice a cool wind blowing from the sea in the afternoon. This wind, called a sea breeze, is caused by a simple difference between land and water. The sun shines on both, but land heats up much faster than water does. By midday the sand and the ground are hot, while the sea is still fairly cool.
The warm air above the land rises, and cooler air from above the sea moves in to take its place. This moving air is the sea breeze. At night, the opposite happens. Land also cools down faster than water, so after sunset the ground becomes cooler than the sea. Now the air over the warmer sea rises, and a gentle wind blows from the land out to the sea. This is called a land breeze, and it is usually weaker than the sea breeze.
Perhaps the nicest thing about these winds is that you do not need any special equipment to study them. Anyone who spends a whole day by the sea can feel the wind change direction and watch science at work without opening a single book.
The author's tone in the last paragraph is -
אworried
בhighly critical
גsad
דenthusiastic
הפתרון
"Perhaps the nicest thing" - הכותב מתלהב מכך שאפשר לראות מדע בחוף.