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CELPIP Practice Reading: Reading for Information ID: #60151 Easy RC15

Read the following passage.

A. Paint is made from a colored pigment which is usually a powder. The powder is made from different chemicals. Some of the pigments come straight from natural things like clay. The pigment must be made wet by mixing it with something that will make it stick onto the surface and not come off easily. The wet stuff is called the "medium" or "vehicle". Some paints are just mixed with water. Other paints are mixed with oils or chemicals of different sorts. Most painters buy paint that is already mixed. House-painters use paint already mixed in large cans. Artists buy paint in tubes. Some artists buy dry pigment and mix it for themselves.

B. The paint is usually put onto the surface with a paint brush. Paint brushes are used by painters of all sorts. House painters also use rollers and spray-guns to put on paint. A modern invention is paint in a pressurized can which can be sprayed on. Some modern artists also use spray paint. In factories there are machines which spray paint onto objects. Cars are usually painted in this way.

C. Creating durable, beautiful paints out of natural ingredients is not a new phenomenon. For millenia, people have been using the materials around them to create paints to color their worlds. Examples of natural paints can be found in the earliest cave drawings. They can be found in the world's most prestigious museums. And they can be found in the average home.

D. Paint generally has three main ingredients or parts. The first part is the pigment, which is responsible for the color of the paint. The second part is the solvent. The solvent keeps the paint in liquid form and evaporates off as the paint dries. Solvent can also be used during the painting process to clean paint spills and correct mistakes. The third part of paint is the binder, which, as its name suggests, binds the paint together. This is the main body of paint. A fourth, optional component of paint is a filler. Fillers can be used to manipulate the texture and consistency of paint, and to reinforce the binder.

E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.

Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.

 - 1. Paint pigment is mixed with a medium such as water, oils, or other chemicals so it will stick.

 - 2. Paint generally has main parts including pigment, solvent, and binder.

 - 3. People have used surrounding materials to make paints for millennia.

 - 4. Examples of natural paints can be found in the earliest cave drawings.

 - 5. Natural paints are always more expensive than manufactured paints.

 - 6. House painters may apply paint with rollers and spray-guns as well as brushes.

 - 7. An optional fourth component can change the look and feel of the paint.

 - 8. Artistic painters often start from dry pigment powder that must be wetted.

 - 9. Manufactured paints are disappearing and being fully replaced by natural paints.

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