Grade 12 Reading Exercise
The webpage hosts Grade 12 reading materials and exercises covering the main question types, providing answers for all questions. Students can access reading materials and exercises by topic, type, and practice online.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
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Penguins' Anti-ice Trick
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Britain TV Industry
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Australian Aborigines
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Truth About ART
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Life Without Death
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Mysterious Dark Matter
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Crime-Fighting Technology
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Risks Of Artificial Intelligence
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Reveal How To Think
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Gender Price Gap
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In Praise of Amateurs
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Toddlers Bond With Robot
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Cognitive Dissonance
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What A Waste
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Romantic Kiss
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Start-Ups Stay Private
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Gene Editing
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Today's Question
Questions 1-8: The Reading Passage has eight paragraphs, A–H. Choose the most suitable headings for these paragraphs from the list of ten headings below. Write the appropriate number in boxes. There are more paragraph headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.
1. Passage A | 1 | Leon Festinger: On being stood up by the aliens |
| 2 | Dishonest politicians? Never! |
| 3 | Mind manipulation: the true reason of strange behavior |
| 4 | You can't handle the truth! |
| 5 | The catastrophe of 21st December |
| 6 | Grow up - make cognitive dissonance work for you |
| 7 | How many dollars would you take to tell a lie? |
| 8 | Revealing mysteries: Darwin was right. |
| 9 | Cognitive dissonance: who are you kidding? |
| 10 | The high cost of commitment exposes us to cognitive dissonance |
2. Passage B
3. Passage C
4. Passage D
5. Passage E
6. Passage F
7. Passage G
8. Passage H
Questions 9-15: Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.
9. After the spaceship didn’t show up on the fateful day, the members of the flying saucer doomsday cult| A) | didn’t want to admit the uncomfortable truth and still believed that the world would self-destruct. |
| B) | were embarrassed and humiliated because of their failure. |
| C) | wanted media attention to say that they saved the planet. |
10. The main reason why people fight cognitive dissonance is
| A) | a desire to reduce the inner tension. |
| B) | people’s unwillingness to accept their mistakes. |
| C) | wish to avoid the awkward feeling of lying for not a good reason. |
11. During the experiment, people who were telling lies were more likely to claim that they believed in the lie if
| A) | they were paid less. |
| B) | they were paid more. |
| C) | they felt uncomfortable because of lying |
12. Commitment to the choices someone has made, and the ongoing need to justify that commitment, despite the conflicting evidence can be explained by the fact that
| A) | it causes uncomfortable emotional tension. |
| B) | commitments require heavy emotional investment. |
| C) | our brain always justifies our choices. |
13. The big part of genuine maturity is the ability of
| A) | sensible reasoning. |
| B) | disregarding cognitive dissonance. |
| C) | being honest with yourself. |
14. According to the text, which of the situations below is NOT an example of cognitive dissonance?
| A) | A man learns that his favored politician is dishonest, but continues to vote for him. |
| B) | A woman doesn’t want to do vacuuming but convinces herself that otherwise, her carpet will remain filthy and finally does it. |
| C) | A woman has been dating her boyfriend for five years. Everyone tells her that it’s an abusive relationship because he often beats and humiliates her, but she doesn’t want to leave her romantic partner. |
15. Charles Darwin quote from the beginning of the text implies that
| A) | cognitive dissonance helps us to change and therefore makes us a more enduring species |
| B) | people often accept almost any form of relief, rather than admitting being at fault, to survive. |
| C) | fighting the discomfort caused by cognitive dissonance is a survival mechanism developed during evolution. |