Reading
Part 1 - Signs & Notices
For questions 1-5, choose the answer which best captures the meaning of the sign.
Please keep your voice low in the reading area. Phone calls must be taken outside the library.
What does this sign suggest?
Keep your voice low in the reading area, and phone calls must be taken inside the library.
You must leave the library if you want to talk to your friends.
You should speak quietly here, and you have to make calls outside.
Quiet zone: laptops are allowed, but please use headphones. No speaker sound is permitted.
What does the text say?
Quiet zone: laptops are allowed, and speaker sound is permitted if you use headphones.
You should turn off your laptop to keep the area quiet.
You can use a laptop here, but you must listen through headphones, not speakers.
Please do not move chairs or tables. Noise can disturb other library users.
What does this notice suggest?
You must leave the furniture where it is because it may bother other people.
Please do not move chairs or tables, so you can disturb other library users.
You are not allowed to sit at the tables unless you ask a librarian first.
Study rooms are for quiet work only. Group discussions should take place in the café area.
What does this sign suggest?
You must book the café area before you can discuss anything.
Study rooms are for quiet work only, so group discussions should take place in the study rooms.
You should work silently in study rooms, and talk in groups somewhere else.
Mobile phones must be on silent. If you need to answer, please step into the hallway.
What does the text say?
You have to keep your phone silent, and you should go outside the room to take a call.
You are not allowed to bring a mobile phone into the library at all.
Mobile phones must be on silent, so you need to answer your phone in the hallway.
Instructions
For questions 1-5, choose the answer which best captures the meaning of the sign.
Exercise Details
Author
James Ford
@james-ford
User Prompt
"Create signs about not disturbing people in a public library."
Created on:
Feb 23, 2026
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