reading-comprehension-s01-q01
The notice attaches the early closing to Friday 12 June; scanning for the day named alongside the closing time settles it directly.
This is untimed educational practice for one cognitive skill. It is not a clinical, diagnostic, employment, or professionally recognized assessment, and it does not produce an IQ score or credential.
The notice attaches the early closing to Friday 12 June; scanning for the day named alongside the closing time settles it directly.
Match the destination to its bay: the first sentence pairs the Leeds coach with bay 6, while bay 2 belongs to the York service.
The second sentence states the booking method outright. Appointments are made by telephone.
Several numbers appear, so anchor on the one attached to baking: the passage says bake for 25 minutes; the other figures are the muffin count, the temperature, and the cooling time.
The word 'however' signals that deliveries follow a different rule from visitors: they go to the goods entrance on Weaver Lane.
Saturday falls at the weekend, and the notice gives weekends the 8:00 am opening time.
Start from the adult price of £12, then apply the £2 member discount stated in the second sentence to reach £10.
Each waste type has its own schedule; the passage ties general waste to every Wednesday.
The policy permits hand-held cameras in permanent galleries, while flash and tripods are banned everywhere, so only the hand-held option is allowed.
The notice redirects Airedale trains to platform 1 while platform 4 is resurfaced; nothing says any service is cancelled.
Follow the sequence in order: after plugging the router back in, the next instruction is to wait for the green light before reconnecting anything.
The instructions restrict section C with the word 'only': it applies solely to applicants renewing an existing licence.
The phrase 'after that' marks the change of routine: once true leaves appear, watering drops to twice a week, while fortnightly refers to feeding.
The limit is given as its own sentence: no more than six tablets in 24 hours; the other numbers describe the dose size, the spacing, and the number of days.
'Then tighten all bolts fully' comes after fitting the cross-brace, so full tightening is the final step.
The final sentence allows email 'only if the portal is down': that condition is the sole exception.
The instruction names the nearest staircase and explicitly rules out the lifts; the courtyard is where you assemble, not how you leave.
The May step is hardening the plants off outdoors for a week; planting out comes after that.
Both claims need a receipt, a signature, and 30-day submission; crossing the £50 threshold adds one requirement, the budget holder's approval.
After first use, the trigger for charging is the one-bar indicator; overnight charging is warned against, not required.
Each sentence adds evidence of growth (size, food-bank supply, school sessions), so the controlling idea is the project's expansion into a community-wide effort.
The word 'yet' pivots the paragraph against the opening assumption: its point is to correct the myth that bats are blind.
The notice announces a charge, tells residents how to sign up, and warns of the consequence: classic informing, not persuading or apologising.
The examples establish the harm, but the final sentence carries the emphasis: this problem is unusually cheap and quick to fix.
A good title covers both halves of the paragraph, the mending and the social purpose, rather than a single detail.
The concluding sentence weighs both findings: fewer errors, but slower rounds: a mixed result, accurately restated.
The letter recounts past impact only to set up the appeal in the final sentence; the ask for a gift reveals its purpose.
The final sentence states the thesis explicitly: the argument rests on evidence about learning, 'practical, not nostalgic'.
The passage's own summary is its last sentence: no single sideline pays, but the combination keeps the shop viable.
The contrast built through the paragraph, loud meeting voices versus fairly sampled surveys, points to broader, fairer consultation as the takeaway.
The colon introduces the clue: all nine members voted the same way, which is what a unanimous decision means.
Tape and putty contrasted with a proper fix signal repairs that are improvised and temporary.
The numbers fall from forty to a dozen, so the word must describe a gradual decline.
Half the class reading the instructions one way and half another shows the wording allowed more than one interpretation.
Admitting her own mistakes first shows openness. The account was honest and direct.
The sentence contrasts what the system 'was meant to' do with what actually happened, so the phrase means in real use.
Doubting a claim because the sample was tiny is questioning it. The stance the word names.
Negotiations cannot be physically fragile; here the word describes a situation needing careful, sensitive handling.
The second clause defines the first: no approval, no project. The funding depends on it.
Allies drifting away 'until' none remain shows support draining gradually, the image the tide metaphor carries.
Trading since 1962 and still being run in 2019 spans well over fifty years, so the passage guarantees the statement.
The passage times the crossing but never compares the ferry with any other route, so no ranking can be settled.
The rules cap entries at forty lines, which directly contradicts 'any length'.
'Only flour milled within thirty miles' is precisely the claim restated, so it must be true.
Planting was part of an air-quality plan, but the passage reports no measurement of the outcome. Intention is not effect.
Telescopes 'are provided', which contradicts any requirement to bring your own.
Callum operates machinery, and every apprentice completes the induction before touching any, so he must have completed it.
The passage says the rise 'coincided with' the new routes; coincidence in timing does not establish that the routes caused it.
Grants are for repairs only, so spending on new furniture would breach the stated condition.
The passage mentions shortlisting but gives no figures for applicants or shortlisted candidates, so the comparison cannot be judged.
'This forced a rethink': the thing with force is the event just described, the gathering of five thousand signatures against the plan.
She telephoned on Thursday and the parts came 'the following morning', which is Friday.
'Whereas' assigns the fare freeze to Okafor, leaving the rise-to-fund-stock argument with Lindqvist.
Place the events on a line: bridge opens, ferry ceases two years later, slipway converted last summer. The middle event is the ferry stopping.
Running beyond a design life is something turbines do, not engineers or directors, so sense fixes the pronoun's referent.
'Chill the mixture' immediately follows stirring the butter and sugar into the flour; rolling out comes after chilling.
The passage lists the stages in order with 'drafted', 'revised', and 'finally signed off', giving Iqbal, then Chen, then Novak.
The pronoun continues the sentence's subject: sales rose, then sales halved after the recall.
'By the time' and 'had already' place the sealing before the inspectors' arrival, and the spotting before the call, so the spotting comes first of all.
The passage credits the third design with meeting 'the budget and the space requirements', despite being slower to build.
Two remote days are automatic; the third is an additional day, which the policy says needs written approval from a head of department.
Twenty-four hours falls inside the 48-hour window, where the policy allows exchanges but rules out refunds.
The permit's own sentence lists where it is valid, zones B and C, and expressly excludes zone A.
Renewal is blocked by the exception: the item is reserved, so the original due date stands.
The policy reimburses first class only when standard was unavailable at booking; comfort is not a qualifying reason.
Work through the conditions: a failed element is a manufacturing fault, 14 months is inside two years, use was normal, and the receipt covers proof of purchase.
Payment for photography four years ago falls within the five-year exclusion, so the amateur condition is not met.
The policy permits one small pet with written consent; multiple pets, exotic animals, and consent-free arrangements all breach a stated term.
Forty minutes exceeds the 30-minute threshold, which moves Rosa into the must-apply-for-the-next-sitting rule.
The discounts cannot combine, so compare them: the code saves £8 against the loyalty discount's £6, and the till applies the larger saving.
Regulars are unaffected while visitors crowd the counter and queues lengthen, the reasonable conclusion is that ordering now takes unfamiliar customers longer.
Record sales despite the smallest harvest are explained by the stated stock 'pressed from previous years', so older cider must have been sold.
Checking the board, sighing, and queueing for a third coffee together point to a long, unplanned wait, a delay.
Jammed keys within days and the locksmith's return support a problem with the new locks; anything more specific goes beyond the passage.
Half the room abstaining shows that not speaking against the proposal did not translate into voting for it.
Decaf drinkers who expected caffeine still reported alertness, which shows expectation shaped the reports.
Modest sales, then four reprints in six months straight after the adaptation aired, the demand plainly followed the broadcast.
Part-baked wholesaler loaves arriving by van sit awkwardly beside 'baked fresh on site daily', so the slogan may overstate the case, though nothing proves the bread is poor.
With the programme unchanged, the only altered variable mentioned is the day, making the move to Fridays the likely cause.
Commuters kept travelling while leisure crossings halved after the same price rise, so price mattered more to the leisure passengers.
The last sentence supplies a rival account of the same statistic, fewer riders rather than safer roads, instead of endorsing, conceding, or reporting anything.
The phrase 'in the authors' view' marks a judgement about cause; the cost, the eleven-month delay, and the existence of survey work are all reported as matters of record.
If the club was filled with pupils who were already ahead, the score gap existed before any breakfast was served and the causal claim loses its footing.
The argument moves from a coincidence in timing straight to a cure; unless the charges were what actually emptied the street, removing them need not bring anyone back.
Genuine praise for the look sits beside a pointed doubt about the windowless offices, so the verdict splits between appearance and daily use.
The figures record only what respondents said, so the safe reading is the comparison itself; claims about the wider population or about what will actually happen run past the data.
A self-selected group drawn from one magazine's readership is not a fair cross-section of the country, so the poll cannot support a claim about the nation as a whole.
A third factor sits behind both counts: sunshine brings out the vans and burns the skin, so neither figure need be influencing the other at all.
A rise in calls answered quickly means little without the total: if the volume of calls doubled, going from 900 to 1,500 could still leave a larger share of callers waiting.
A single three-month pilot on one ward supports a cautious 'worth testing further' and nothing more; the team themselves ask only for a larger trial, not a national rollout.
Income, age and location all clear the thresholds, but the repeat-applicant clause bites: a group awarded in the previous round may come back only with a different project.
Apply the tiers first, three hours at £30 plus one at £22 gives £112, then take the charity's quarter off to reach £84; the deposit is refundable and sits outside the hire charge.
The open-claim clause explicitly overrides the shorter retention periods, so the nine-year-old contract stays; the records officer's authorisation governs how destruction happens, not whether it is due.
Six weeks from 1 March ends in mid-April, four weeks of drawings then run into the second week of May, and the submission may follow immediately, so May is the earliest month possible.
The dispute is about what is being counted, material collected against material reprocessed, so the safe conclusion is that the two figures do not measure the same quantity. Nothing here proves dishonesty, and the campaign group's number is a claim rather than an agreed fact.
The loading exception would ordinarily cover the van, but the fuelling clause reaches vehicles of any kind and overrides it, which makes the twenty-minute allowance irrelevant while the trawler refuels.
The summary reports a small association that weakened under adjustment and flags self-reporting as a limitation, which is neither a proven preventive effect, nor a null result, nor grounds for discarding the work.
The clause builds a ladder and then places a signed variation above every rung of it, so the variation displaces both the specification and the drawings.
The passage ties efficiency to flow temperature and says small radiators need a high one to give out the same heat; large radiators avoid that, and a lower flow temperature keeps the coefficient of performance up.
She passes every eligibility test (a pre-1990 build, an F rating, and a private tenancy with the owner's written consent), but the second extract narrows an already cavity-insulated property to loft measures.