A2 Reading and Context Flow

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A new café opened near the school. Students go there after class because it is quiet and not expensive.

Question: Why do students like the café?

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Ana usually prepares her bag before she sleeps. This helps her leave home on time in the morning.

Question: Why does Ana prepare her bag at night?

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Maya missed the bus, so she walked to the library. She arrived ten minutes late but still joined the study group.

Question: Where did Maya go?

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Sera wanted to buy a new jacket, but the shop was closed. She decided to return the next morning.

Question: Why did Sera return the next morning?

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A small library opened near the park. Many children go there after school to read and borrow books.

Question: Why do children go to the library?

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Lena joined an online course because she wanted to improve her listening skills. She studied for twenty minutes every evening and repeated the difficult parts.

Why did Lena join the course?

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Tom missed the bus, so he walked to school. He arrived a little late, but his teacher was not angry.

Question: Why did Tom walk to school?

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The new app tracks vocabulary practice and shows learners which words they often forget. It does not simply give a score. Instead, it recommends short revision sessions based on weak areas.

Question: What makes the app useful?

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Lena missed the early bus, so she walked to school. She arrived ten minutes late but explained the reason to her teacher.

Question: Why was Lena late?

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Lena studies English after dinner. She writes five new words in her notebook and reads one short story. This habit helps her remember vocabulary.

Question: What helps Lena remember vocabulary?

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Arda joined an online course because he wanted to improve his speaking. He practiced for twenty minutes every evening.

Question: Why did Arda join the course?

Choose the best connector to complete the paragraph:

The weather was very cold. ___, we stayed at home and drank tea.

Choose the sentence that best completes the paragraph:
The weather was very cold. ___. For this reason, we stayed at home and drank tea.

Choose the sentence that best completes the paragraph.

Choose the sentence that best completes the paragraph.

Choose the best word for the blank in the paragraph.

Choose the best word for the blank in the paragraph.

Choose the sentence that best completes the paragraph:
Seda studied every evening for two weeks. ___. She felt more confident before the exam.

Choose the best word for the blank in the paragraph.

What helped Elif improve her learning routine?

Read the short story and answer the question.

Mert joined a small recycling program project with two friends. At first, they forgot to write down who would do each task. After missing one deadline, they made a shared task list and finished the next stage on time.

What helped the group finish the next stage on time?

What did Ayşe do?

Why did Ali take an umbrella?

What did Ayşe do?

Read the short story and answer the question.

Maya opened her saved test results after dinner. She noticed that her vocabulary score was high, but her writing questions were weaker. Instead of feeling discouraged, she wrote three short sentences using the grammar structures she had missed. The next day, she solved a similar test and improved her score.

What is the best lesson from the story?

Choose the best meaning of the word “invite”.

Choose the best meaning of the word “suddenly”.

Choose the best meaning of “choose”.

Context set: 0045-297.

Choose the best meaning of “habit”.

Choose the best meaning of “advice”.

Choose the natural English collocation.

Choose the word that completes the common collocation:
reach a ___

Choose the natural English collocation.

Choose the natural English collocation.

Choose the correct option: This bag is ___ than that one.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence:
We will start the lesson ___ everyone arrives.

Choose the correct option: I have lived here ___ three years.

Choose the correct option: Did you ___ the message?

Choose the correct option: This bag is ___ than that one.

Choose the correct option: If it rains, we ___ at home.

Choose the best Turkish translation of the sentence:
“They are going to repair the old bike tomorrow.”

Choose the best Turkish translation of the sentence: “We arrived at the station on time.”

Select the best Turkish translation of the sentence: “We visited our cousin last weekend.”

Choose the best Turkish translation of the sentence:
“We visited the museum yesterday.”

Choose the best Turkish translation of the sentence:
“She borrowed my dictionary yesterday.”

Choose the best option to complete the dialogue.

Customer Experience Analyst:
- Review scores rose after the lobby renovation.
Hotel Manager:
- The hotel also changed from a budget to a premium breakfast package.
Customer Experience Analyst:
- ----
Hotel Manager:
- Yes, the text of the reviews may separate the effects.

Complete the dialogue.

Reporter: Several cafes have stopped giving plastic straws automatically.
Environmental officer: They now provide them only when customers ask.
Reporter: ----
Environmental officer: First, we should compare monthly waste figures from participating cafes.

Choose the best option to complete the dialogue.

Interviewer:
- Our team has been discussing how to improve public transport.
Applicant:
- Yes, and that is why the next step should be carefully planned.
Interviewer:
- ----
Applicant:
- That would be sensible, because otherwise we might repeat the same mistake.

Complete the dialogue.

Interviewer: Your work on the new excavation method seems to have produced a rather nuanced result.
Researcher: It has. The study revealed settlement patterns without disturbing fragile layers, which suggests that non-invasive tools can protect evidence while expanding interpretation.
Interviewer: ----
Researcher: Precisely; preservation and discovery are no longer competing aims.

Graduate Student:
- Many readers may think the result on coral restoration is straightforward.
Professor:
- It is more complicated. Although transplanted corals survived better when matched to local temperatures, the data also show that genetic diversity alone did not guarantee resilience.
Graduate Student:
- ----
Professor:
- Precisely. Site-specific adaptation must be considered.

Tom:
- What time is the train?
Alice:
- ----
Tom:
- Great. I won't be late.

Journalist:
- I have been examining the epidemiology briefing. One point is that screening raised detection without reducing late-stage cases.
Scientist:
- That point is crucial because it prevents an overly simple conclusion.
Journalist:
- ----
Scientist:
- Whether the screening programme is identifying clinically meaningful cases.

Choose the best option to complete the dialogue.

Choose the best option to complete the dialogue.

Principal:
- We have to decide what to do next about the school cafeteria.
Nutritionist:
- Since healthy meals are available but students often choose the same familiar options, we should avoid changing everything at once.
Principal:
- ----
Nutritionist:
- I think so. It would let us test the idea while keeping the risk manageable.

Choose the best option to complete the dialogue:

Interviewer:
- Participants remembered emotional words more easily than neutral ones.
Cognitive psychologist:
- However, that advantage disappeared when they were distracted during learning.
Interviewer:
- ----
Cognitive psychologist:
- That is a reasonable interpretation of the results.

Patient:
- I need to see the doctor about my cough. ----
Secretary:
- Let me check. Yes, there is one at 3 p.m.

Context: Dialogue practice item 178.