In this part of the test, you will be given a few different types of reading passages. Each section is followed by questions about the meaning of the passage. Choose the one item a, b, c, or d which gives the answer to the question.

This was the first time Mary was going to fly. It wasn't going to be a long flight; in fact she would be in the air just under an hour. She got to the airport an hour before the plane was expected to take off. She was very excited and also a little nervous. But before long, it was announced that her flight was going to be delayed for two hours. Suddenly she felt very disappointed and didn't know what to do while she waswaiting.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's world was a world of music from the moment he was born. His father, who was a fine musician, was teaching his daughter to play the piano. Little Wolfgang used to listen to his sister as she practiced. He quickly learned the pieces she played. One day he said he wanted to play, too. But he was only three years old the, and his father thought that his hands were too small. However, that evening, alone and in the dark, he played the pieces his sister had been practicing and he played them much better than her.

Elizabeth parked the car and then went into the busy station to meet Jane who was going to spend the weekend with her. Elizabeth's friends often came for the weekend, but there was something a little different about Jane's visit. She and Jane hadn't seen each other for 15 years. While at the university, they had shared a flat together for two years but then each married and Jane and her husband had lived abroad a great deal. Elizabeth began to ask herself: 'Will we even be able to recognize each other after all these years?' Right then she saw Jane walking towards her and smiling straight at her with the old, unforgettable smile quite unchanged.