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    The document provides guidance on skills for answering different types of reading comprehension questions. It discusses 10 skills: 1) answering main idea questions, 2) recognizing organization of ideas, 3) answering stated detail questions, 4) finding unstated details, 5) finding pronoun referents, 6) answering implied detailed questions, 7) answering transition questions, 8) finding definitions from structural clues, 9) using context to determine meanings of difficult words, and 10) using context to determine meanings of simple words. For each skill, it provides guidance on identifying the relevant questions and finding the answers in the text.

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    The document provides guidance on skills for answering different types of reading comprehension questions. It discusses 10 skills: 1) answering main idea questions, 2) recognizing organization of ideas, 3) answering stated detail questions, 4) finding unstated details, 5) finding pronoun referents, 6) answering implied detailed questions, 7) answering transition questions, 8) finding definitions from structural clues, 9) using context to determine meanings of difficult words, and 10) using context to determine meanings of simple words. For each skill, it provides guidance on identifying the relevant questions and finding the answers in the text.

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    The document provides guidance on skills for answering different types of reading comprehension questions. It discusses 10 skills: 1) answering main idea questions, 2) recognizing organization of ideas, 3) answering stated detail questions, 4) finding unstated details, 5) finding pronoun referents, 6) answering implied detailed questions, 7) answering transition questions, 8) finding definitions from structural clues, 9) using context to determine meanings of difficult words, and 10) using context to determine meanings of simple words. For each skill, it provides guidance on identifying the relevant questions and finding the answers in the text.

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    TOEFL Reading

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    READING SECTION

    Reading
    A. QUESTION ABOUT THE IDEAS OF THE PASSAGE

    SKILL 1 : ANSWER MAIN IDEA QUESTIONS CORRECTLY


    How to identify the main idea questions

    1. What is the Topic of the passage?


    2. What is the Subject of the passage?
    3. What is the Main idea of the passage?
    4. What is the author’s Main point in the passage?
    5. Which of the following would be The best title?
    6. primarily/ mainly / mostly/ best described, discussed,
    concerned?
    Reading
    A. QUESTION ABOUT THE IDEAS OF THE PASSAGE

    SKILL 1 : ANSWER MAIN IDEA QUESTIONS CORRECTLY


    How to find the answers
     
    1. Read the first line of each paragraph.
    2. Look for a common theme or idea in the first two lines.
    3. Pass your eyes quickly over the rest of the passage to check
    that you really found the topic sentences.
    Page 38
    Reading
    A. QUESTION ABOUT THE IDEAS OF THE PASSAGE
    SKILL 2 : RECOGNIZE THE ORGANIZATION OF IDEAS
     
    How to identify the main idea questions
     
    How is the information in the passage organised?
    How is the information in the second paragraph related to the
    information in the first paragraph?
     
    How to find the answers
     
    Read the first line of each paragraph.
    Look for words that show relationships among the paragraphs.
    choose the answer that best expresses the relationship.
    Excersice Page 40-41
    Reading
    B. DIRECTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS
    SKILL 3 : ANSWER STATED DETAIL QUESTIONS CORRECTLY
     
    How to identify the questions
    According to the passage .................
    It is stated in the passage that ..........
    The passage indicates/ states that ...............
    Which of the following is true ........
     
    How to find the answers
    Choose a key word in the question.
    Skim in the appropriate part of the passage for the key word or idea.
    Read the sentences that contain the key word or idea.
    Excersice Page 42-44
    Reading
    B. DIRECTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS
    SKILL4 : FIND “UNSTATED” DETAILS
    How to identify the questions
    Which of the following is not stated ?
    Which of the following is not mentioned ?
    Which of the following is not discussed ?
    Which of the following is not true ?
    All of the following are true except ?
     
    How to find the answers
    Choose a key word in the question.
    Scan the appropriate place in the passage for the key word or idea.
    Read the sentence that contains the key word carefully.
    Look for answers that are definitely true according to the passage.
    Choose the answer that is not true or not discussed in the passage.
    Excersice Page 45-47
    Reading
    B. DIRECTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS

    SKILL 5 : FIND PRONOUN REFERENTS

    How to identify the questions


    The pronoun “ ......... “ in………refers to which of the following?
     
    How to find the answers
    Locate the pronoun in the passage.
    The noun is generally found before the pronoun.
    Try each of the nouns in the contexts in place of the pronoun.
    Excersice Page 48
    Reading
    C. INDIRECTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS
    SKILL 6 : ANSWER IMPLIED DETAILED QUESTIONS CORRECTLY
     
    How to identify the questions
    It is implied in the passage that .....
    It is inferred / it can be inferred from the passage that .....
    It is most likely that .......
    What probably happened ..........
     
    How to find the answers
    Choose a key word in the question.
    Scan the passage for the key word.
    Carefully read the sentence that contains the key word.
    Look for an answer that could be true according to that sentence.
    Excersice Page 49-51
    Reading
    C. INDIRECTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS
    SKILL 7 : ANSWER TRANSITION QUESTION CORRECTLY
     
    How to identify the questions
    The paragraph preceding the passage probably ...
    What is most likely in the paragraph following the passage?
     
    How to find the answers
    Read the first line for a preceding question.
    Read the last line for a following question.
    Draw a conclusion about what comes before or after.
    Choose the answer that is reflected in the first or last line of the
    passage.
    .
    Reading
    D. VOCABULARY QUESTIONS

    SKILL 7 : FIND DEFINITIONS FROM STRUCTURAL CLUES


    D. VOCABULARY QUESTIONS
    SKILL 8 : DETERMINE MEANINGS FROM WORD PARTS
    D. VOCABULARY QUESTIONS
    SKILL 9 : USE CONTEXT TO DETERMINE MEANINGS OF
    DIFFICULT WORDS
    D. VOCABULARY QUESTIONS
    SKILL 10 : USE CONTEXT TO DETERMINE MEANINGS OF
    SIMPLE WORDS

    Excersice Page 53-55


    E. OVERALL REVIEW QUESTION

    SKILL 11 : DETERMINE WHERE SPECIFIC INFORMATION IS


    FOUND

    How to identify the questions


     
    1. Where in the passage ...?
     
    How to find the answer
     
    1. Choose a key word or an idea in the question.
    2. Skim the appropriate part (s) of the passage looking for the key
    word or the idea.
    3. Choose the answer that contains the key word or idea.
    THANK
    YOU

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