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Succeed in A2 Key Reading

PART 2 Questions 7-13

For each question, choose the correct answer.

Greg Susie Alex
7. Who says their hobby makes them money? A B C

8. Who plans to stop their hobby soon? A B C

9. Who has just started doing their hobby? A B C
10. Who does their hobby with someone in their family? A B C

11. Who pays a lot of money to do their hobby? A B C

12. Who says their hobby makes them healthier? A B C
13. Who says their hobby helps them with school work? A B C

Reading Part 2 Exam Tips
● You will be given three things. It might be three places, books, people, films etc.
You must read the text carefully and not just look at the words on their own.
Read about each person/thing one at a time and match them to the questions.
● Read all the questions to find the information you need to look for in the texts.
● Read the texts quickly and try to find the right information for each question.
● When you find the answer, read the piece of text carefully again and check
that it does answer the question.
● Before you choose the answer, check that it doesn’t answer another question.
If it does, you must choose which one is the closest answer.

Our Hobbies
Greg
I think a lot of people would say that my hobby is quite unusual these days. I collect stamps
from all over the world. My hobby started many years ago when my uncle worked in many
different countries. He sent letters and postcards to us with beautiful stamps on them. Also,
my grandfather collects stamps and he helps me to make my collection bigger. I learn a lot
about different countries because of my stamp collection and it has made me really good
at geography. Actually, I am top of my geography class.
Susie
I only started gardening as a hobby a few months ago. I was watching a TV
programme about a family that grow all their own fruit and vegetables and
I thought it was a really good idea. I didn’t know it but I am really good at
growing things. This month we have lots of salad vegetables and strawber-
ries. Actually, we have too much food so I sell some of it to our neighbours.
I am saving the money to buy some beautiful flowers for our garden.
Sometimes gardening is really hard work but that’s a good thing because
it means that I don’t need to go to the gym.
Alex
My hobby is snowboarding. I started snowboarding when I was very young. We were on
holiday in Switzerland but I didn’t like skiing with the rest of my family. I tried snowboard-
ing instead and loved it. The big problem is that there isn’t much snow where I live so I
have to travel a lot and that is very expensive. My parents said I need to save my own
money if I want to go snowboarding often, so I think I am going to find a new hobby very
soon. But I am a bit sad about that.

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