תרגול מבחן אמיר / אמירם - הבנת הנקרא

יש להבדיל בין שאלות המתחילות בביטוי …According to, כלומר שאלות העוסקות בנתונים הקיימים בקטע, לבין שאלות המתחילות בביטוי It can be inferred… / understood, כלומר שאלות הדורשות הסקת מסקנה כלשהי, שאינה נתונה כלשונה בקטע.

סדר השאלות הנקודתיות הוא לפי סדר הופעת הנתונים בקטע, ושאלות כלליות נשאלות בדרך כלל לפני או אחרי השאלות האחרות.
על שאלות העוסקות בנושא המרכזי של הטקסט עדיף שלא לענות מבלי לקרוא לפחות את רובו באופן רציף. שאלות הנוגעות לפסקה מסוימת דורשות קריאה מעמיקה של הפסקה הספציפית, אך גם הבנה של האופן שבו היא נקשרת לפסקאות האחרות בטקסט, ולתפקידה בטקסט כולו. 

לפניכם קטע קריאה לדוגמה, כפי שהוא מופיע במבחן אמיר/ם:

Reading comprehension 1
This part consists of two passages, each followed by several related questions. For each question, choose the most appropriate answer based on the text

The Enclosure Acts were a series of Parliamentary laws in the United Kingdom that allowed landowners to fence open fields and common lands. The majority of the Enclosure Acts were passed between 1750 and 1860. Under these acts, 21% of the land in England was enclosed – nearly 28,000 square kilometers

Until the Enclosure Acts came into force in England in the eighteenth century, horses rarely needed to jump fences: these acts brought fences and boundaries to many formerly open parts of the country as the common fields and forests were divided among the wealthy landowners. As a result, fox hunters needed horses that were able to jump these new obstacles in order to chase foxes

In France, horse-jumping shows began when cross-country races added jumping requirements as the horses raced literally across the country. These races were fun for the participants, but the crowds had a hard time following the horses during their fifty or hundred kilometer races. Soon the French realized that jumping in a stadium was a better spectator sport that made money for everyone

At the Dublin Show in 1868, “high leaps” and “wide leaps” were first used to test horses for hunting in the field. In 1881, the first permanent jumping course was built, and the sport of show jumping began to develop. In 1900, the first Olympic Games jumping competitions were held in France, and in 1907, jumping was introduced as a competitive sport in England. Today, horse jumping competitions are held worldwide. Ironically, fox hunting, the origin of the sport, has now been outlawed in England

- The purpose of the first and second paragraphs is to

(1) give a brief history of land use in England

(2) provide information about why horse jumping began

(3) explain why fences were invented

(4) inform the reader about the size of the land area of England


- According to the second paragraph


(1) parliament decisions changed fox hunters' needs

(2) wealthy landowners did not engage in fox hunting

(3) British fox hunters decided to challenge parliament decisions

(4) wealthy landowners built fences to prevent their horses from escaping


- In line 11, “literally” is used to explain that the races took place

(1) in stories

(2) only in France

(3) over long distances, with many jumps

(4) from one border of France to the other

- Although the Enclosure Acts in England are cited as the origin of horse jumping


(1) the sport only became official as part of the Olympics

(2) only Dublin held horse jumping shows

(3) the sport as a spectator sport was actually developed in France

(4) it is now less popular there than in other countries around the world


.It can be understood from the last sentence that the author is______ fox hunting is now illegal in England


(1) amused by the fact that

(2) depressed by the fact that

(3) in doubt as to why

(4) disappointed that