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- Exam: PET-O
- Course: READING
- Part 4, Exam 8
Instructions
You are given a piece of text.
For questions 1 – 5, choose the correct answer by clicking on the buttons given.
When you click the CHECK button, If your answer is correct, it will show in green, if not it will show in red. An explanation for incorrect answers can be seen by clicking the SEE CORRECT ANSWERS button
The pass mark for this exam is 70% and you need to do this exam in 10 minutes or under.
Orbis International
Q. 1) Orbis International is an international non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide. Its programs focus on the prevention of blindness and the treatment of blinding eye diseases in developing countries, and since 1982, it has treated more than 23.3 million people in 92 countries.
Q. 2) Orbis is well known for its eye hospital on board a jet aircraft, which volunteer pilots fly with an international medical team of eye doctors to developing countries around the world, to teach urgently needed sight-saving skills. Local patients receive free treatment during this training.
On one such flight, a young English girl called Helen Morris was invited to fly with the team to Mongolia, where they learned of the case of
Eukhtuul, a young Mongolian girl, whose eyes had been damaged when she was attacked on her way back from school.Q. 3) This made her think how her life would change if she lost her sight.
The Orbis team agreed to operate on Eukhtuul and Q. 5) Helen was allowed to watch, together with some Mongolian medical students. She prayed the operation would be successful, and the next day she was given the good news that Q. 4) Eukhtuul's sight would return back to normal in six months. As a consequence Eukhtuul decided she wanted to study medicine and her whole future changed, thanks to a simple operation.
Questions
- 1 - What is the writer's main aim in writing the text?
- Possible answers:
- (A) To describe a dangerous trip.
- (B) To talk about a humanitarian organisation.
- (C) To warn against playing with sticks.
- Correct answer: (B) To describe the work of a humanitarian organisation.
- Why?
- 2 - What can a reader learn about in this text?
- Possible answers:
- (A) The life of schoolchildren in Mongolia.
- (B) The international work of some eye doctors.
- (C) The best way of studying medicine.
- Correct answer: (B) The international work of some eye doctors.
- Why?
- 3 - After meeting Eukhtuul, Helen felt
- Possible answers:
- (A) proud of the doctor's skill.
- (B) grateful for her own sight.
- (C) surprised by Eukhtuul's courage.
- Correct answer: (B) grateful for her own sight.
- Why?
- 4 - What is the result of Eukhtuul's operation?
- Possible answers:
- (A) After some time she will see normally.
- (B) She can already see perfectly again.
- (C) She can see better than before.
- Correct answer: (A) After some time she will see as well as before.
- Why?
- 5 - Samantha was given permission to observe the operation
- Possible answers:
- (A) with some medical students from Mongolia.
- (B) because she was a medical student.
- (C) since she was able to help the doctors.
- Correct answer: (A) with some medical students from Mongolia.
- Why?