200 שאלות תרגול בקשר בין פסקאות באנגלית מתוך פרק האנגלית של הבחינה הפסיכומטרית. לכל שאלה פתרון מלא ומוסבר, ואפשר לתרגל לפי רמת קושי.
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איך פותרים קשר בין פסקאות באנגלית
הכלללא קוראים את הקטע ואז את השאלות. קוראים את השאלות קודם, ואז קוראים את הקטע כשאתם כבר יודעים מה אתם מחפשים - זה ההבדל בין לסיים בזמן ללא לסיים.
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:
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.
How is the second paragraph related to the first?
אIt gives an opinion that disagrees with the first.
בIt repeats the first paragraph in different words.
גIt describes a kind of weather that is quite unrelated to the first one.
דIt shows how that difference produces winds.
הפתרון
פסקה 1: היבשה מתחממת מהר יותר מהמים. פסקה 2: איך ההבדל הזה יוצר את משב הים ואת משב היבשה.
שאלה 2
Read the passage:
The Secret of the Violins
The violins made by Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy, about three hundred years ago are among the most valuable musical instruments in the world, and some have sold for millions of dollars. For generations, musicians and instrument makers have tried to explain their supposedly unmatched sound. Theories have pointed to the special varnish Stradivari used, to chemical treatments of the wood, and even to a period of unusually cold weather that may have made trees grow slowly and produce denser wood.
In recent years, however, researchers have tested a more basic assumption: that the old instruments really do sound better. In several blind experiments, experienced violinists played old Italian violins and high-quality new ones while wearing goggles that prevented them from seeing which was which. Many were unable to identify the old instruments reliably, and a number actually preferred the new ones. Listeners in concert halls showed a similar pattern.
None of this proves that the famous violins are ordinary. They are beautifully made, and a player's confidence in an instrument may itself affect a performance. What the tests do suggest is that part of their reputation may come from their history and price rather than from their sound alone. Before searching for a secret, it is worth making sure there is something to explain.
What is the relationship between the first two paragraphs?
אThe first offers explanations for a belief; the second questions the belief.
בThe second provides evidence that supports one of the theories in the first.
גThe second describes how the violins mentioned in the first were made.
דThe second repeats the theories of the first in greater detail.
הפתרון
פסקה 1: הסברים לצליל "supposedly unmatched". פסקה 2 בודקת אם הצליל בכלל טוב יותר - "a more basic assumption".
שאלה 3
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.
How does the second paragraph relate to the first?
אIt offers a solution to the design problem described in the first.
בIt contradicts the judges' enthusiastic opinion of the design described in the first.
גIt shows the results of building before the design was solved.
דIt gives an example of the success described in the first.
הפתרון
פסקה 1: הבנייה החלה לפני שנפתרו הבעיות. פסקה 2: "The delays proved ruinous" - חריגת עלויות והתפטרות. הפתרון (הכדור) כבר הוצג בפסקה 1.
שאלה 4
Read the passage:
When Volcanoes Cool the Planet
In April 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia produced the most powerful eruption in recorded history. The immediate devastation was local, but its most far-reaching consequences came the following year, thousands of kilometres away. In 1816, much of Europe and eastern North America endured a summer of frost, snow and incessant rain; harvests failed, food prices soared, and hunger and unrest followed. It came to be remembered as the Year Without a Summer.
The culprit was not the ash, most of which fell out of the atmosphere within weeks, but sulphur dioxide. Injected into the stratosphere, above the weather that would otherwise wash it out, the gas formed a fine haze of sulphate droplets that reflected part of the incoming sunlight back into space. Such a veil can persist for a year or more, lowering temperatures across the globe. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, far smaller than Tambora, nonetheless cooled the planet measurably for about two years.
It might seem to follow that volcanoes offset global warming, but the comparison is misleading. Their cooling is transient, whereas carbon dioxide from human activity accumulates over centuries; human emissions now exceed those of all the world's volcanoes many times over. Some scientists have proposed imitating eruptions by deliberately releasing sulphate particles, yet the idea remains highly controversial, partly because it would mask warming rather than remove its cause.
How does the second paragraph relate to the first?
אIt challenges the account of 1816 given in the first.
בIt explains what caused the events in the first.
גIt describes an eruption more powerful than the one in the first.
דIt proposes a way to prevent the kind of disaster described in the first.
הפתרון
פסקה 1: הקיץ הקר של 1816. פסקה 2: הגורם - טיפות סולפט שמחזירות אור שמש. פינטובו "far smaller" מטמבורה.