Title VSTEP-Reading test 5.docx ✅

Code 5 - Page 1 of READING PAPER 5 Time permitted: 60 minutes Number of questions: 40 _______________________________________________________________________ Directions:In this section you will read FOUR different passages. Each one is followed by 10 questions about it. For questions 1-40, you are to choose the best answer A, B, C or D, to each question. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage. You have 60 minutes to answer all the questions, including the time to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. PASSAGE 1 – Questions 1-10 Eddy is warm, charming and friendly. He laughs a lot. He seems at first like an average kindly grandfather. But 15 years ago, a virus attacked his brain and destroyed the part where memories are made. He can remember his childhood and being a sailor in the Navy, but cannot remember anything since 1960. As far as he knows, petrol is cheap and the moon landing never happened. Since his illness, the only people he knows are the ones in the room with him. On a typical morning, he will get up and have breakfast, then go back to bed to listen to the radio. Often he will forget that he has eaten, so will get up and have breakfast again and return to bed. Sometimes he’ll have breakfast a third time. Without a memory, he is trapped in the present, between a past he can’t remember and a future he can’t imagine. He lives a quiet life and doesn’t even know that he has a memory problem. ‘He’s happy all the time,’ says his daughter Carol, who lives nearby. “I guess it’s because he doesn’t have any stress in his life.”