Annual Exam Study: Intermediate Reading

Students who read adapted prose and can answer from the passage.

Optional track after Year 4. A stretch beyond Year 4C for students reading longer prose.

This reading practice has 36 questions in about 45 minutes, drawn from two original prose passages, plus a few extension questions.

Question groups: Reading comprehension, Passage extension.

Practice the Intermediate Reading level · Timed practice set

Reading grammar

• Subjunctive uses that help reading: purpose, indirect command, indirect question, and cum clauses.
• Deponent verbs, gerunds, and indirect statement with past main verbs.
• Students still are not asked to label constructions by name, except on the advanced reading exam.

Background in context

• Republic and early Empire figures, Italian geography, and stories such as Daphne, Pygmalion, and Baucis and Philemon may appear when a passage calls for them.
• Calendar words such as Kalends, Nones, and Ides, and ceremonies such as weddings and triumphs, can appear the same way.