English reading passages (for dtm test takers)

132. All of the following statements are TRUE, EXCEPT ...
A) Boys didn’t learn how to read and write in Sparta.
B) Athenian girls could attend schools only in the evenings.
C) The private schools were cheap for all families in Athens.
D) The Athenian boys had chance to study reading and writing.


Read the text and answer the questions according to it.

The bottom of the ocean is a cold and dark place. The Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean

is the deepest place in the world. It is almost 11 kilometres below sea-level. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Dan Walsh were the first people to go down to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. It is impossible for humans to dive so deep under the sea because there is too much pressure. So Piccard and Walsh went to the bottom in a special submarine. The third person to go down to the Marianas Trench was a film director James Cameron in 2012. Nobody else has been there since then. In technical terms, the deep sea begins from 200 metres below sea-level. The pressure is 20 times greater than the pressure on the surface. At 1000 metres below sea-level, it is completely dark. At ten kilometres below the surface, the pressure is 1000 times greater than the pressure on the surface. But somehow, sea creatures manage to live there. Many of them survive by eating bits of food that fall from the surface.


133. What is the passage mainly about?
A) about the deepest part of the ocean
B) about the fish living in ocean water
C) about technical tools used in the submarine
D) about three famous film directors
134. According to the passage, how many people have visited the bottom of the Marianas Trench so far?
A) nobody B) one
C) three D) two
135. According to the passage, where does thedeep sea begin from?
A) from 1000 metres below sea-level
B) from 200 metres below sea-level
C) from 10 kilometres below sea-level
D) from 11 kilometres below sea-level