C1 Advanced Reading Comprehension Activity- Reading Test 6

Free C1 Reading Comprehension Activity- Advanced English Reading Test 6 Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer!

Students should be allowed to study without worrying about grades. Fortunately, most educators are becoming aware of the fact that students have different interests and abilities. However, the regimentation resulting from grades still exists. Grades often stifle creativity. Competing for better grades causes many students to turn down opportunities to pursue music, dramatics and sports. Grades impose an arbitrary standard of success on everyone. I do not demand as some extremists do, that grades be abolished immediately. However, I do believe that less emphasis should be placed on grades. I hope that someday grades will become optional at Village High School. (Martin S.)

Let’s face the facts about grades. Grades perform three basic functions. First, grades motivate students to work at their highest level of competence. Second, they act as a reward for hardworking students and as a reprimand to students who do not work hard. Finally, grades are used as an effective standard by which to measure student achievement. Good grades help students to get jobs and to get into university. I’ve spoken with a number of students who have jobs, and most of them say that they were hired primarily on the basis of their grades. My grades helped me land a part-time job and will help me get into university next year. I think grades are extremely important at Village High School. (Helen)

1. Which of the following is NOT an opinion expressed by Martin S.?

 Competition may discourage students from pursuing subjects such as drama and art.

 Students should be able to learn without worrying about grades

 Grades impose arbitrary standards of success

 Grades should be abolished.

2. Which of the following states a fact about grades at Village High School?

 They are currently in use

 They foster unnecessary competition

 They are not useful

 They stifle creativity

3. Martin thinks it is important for ……………… .

 students to compete more for grades

 students to be reprimanded for not working hard

 students to participate in music, dramatics, and sports

 students to get good jobs

4. Helen writes from the viewpoint of someone who ……………… .

 believes in the benefits of good grades

 doesn’t work too hard at his studies

 wants business to hire more students

 is concerned about students’ creativity

5. Helen expresses that grades …………………….. .

 are not an efficient way of measurement

 have nothing to do with part time employment

 motivate students to work harder

 perform more than three functions

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