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Posttest
The posttest consists of a series of readingpassageswith questions that follow to test your comprehension.
– POSTTEST–
153
Grunge Music and American Popular Culture
The ... associated
with grunge?
a. Nirvana
b. Mudhoney
c. Pearl Jam
d. Backstreet Boys
– POSTTEST–
154
... alone,
interviewing with Mr. Robeson
b. singing in a group, interviewing with Mr.
Robeson, singing alone
c. singing alone, singing in a group,
interviewing with Mr. Robeson
d. interviewing with Mr. Robeson, ... read
4. build their vocabulary by reading
5. become better readers with each book
Detectives (Item B)
1. have a dangerous job
2. get better at solving crimes with each case
3. require lots of ... skill.
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Answers
Exercise 1
Here’s the paragraph with the transitions in place.
Your answers may vary slightly:
It was just one of those days....
... your feelings with
someone else
Social strategies
1. Asking questions
a. Asking for clarification or
verification
b. Asking for correction
2. Cooperating with others
a. cooperating with peers
b. ... is an essential part of language, as Wilkins emphasized this with his
saying: "without grammar, very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be
conveyed” (cited in Hoang ... Strategies
- 31 -
- 46 -
answers of selecting from among existing answers . This makes questionnaire data
particularly suited for quantitative, statistical analysis. With questionnaires, the...
... hear
a. on
a. hardly
a. horrible
a. use
a. for
a. for
b. homes
b. Some
b. with
b. heard
b. at
b. hard
b. cold
b. used
b. with
b. with
c. house
c. Any
c. by
c. to hear
c. in
c. easy
c. difficult
c. ... free in the USA. ………….
Reading 5
Television is one of man’s most (1) means of communication.
It brings events and sounds (2) around the world into millions of homes .A person with a television set ... they reach the seaside?
5. What did they enjoy making?
Reading 17
. Read the following passage carefully and fill in the blanks with suitable prepositons.
THE OPENING CEREMONY OF SEA GAMES
The...
... binary data with a maximum size of 4 GB. This
data type maps to a Byte array.
Clob
Oracle data type containing character data based on the default character set
of the server with a maximum ... MessageBoxIcon.Information);
}
}
Discussion
[ Team LiB ]
Recipe 9.12 Reading and Writing Binary Data with Oracle
Problem
You need to read and write binary data from and to an Oracle ... Unicode. Each
character is therefore two bytes long.
See Recipe 9.12
for a general discussion about reading and writing BLOB data from and
to a data source.
[ Team LiB ]
using System.Data;...
...
passage.
TOEFL STUDY GUIDE
PART 4
Reading Comprehension Tips
Test Design Features Tips 60 - 62
Length: 70 - 90 minutes
Number of questions:
m 44 - 60 questions:
n 4 - 5 passages ... answer all the questions
within a set sequentially rather than skip around. You can to
go back to answers they are unsure of if they have time to
do so.
Reading Comprehension TIP 61
This ... large bits of text and
understands the relationship between
that text.
Reading Comprehension TIP 60
The readingcomprehension section has both easy and
...
... 1924
(b) during the 1900s immigrants numbered 1 percent of the total population
Section Three: ReadingComprehension (3)
Questions 1-11
Jazz has been called “the art of expression set to music”, ... suburb, with giant oaks, sprawling lawns, and no fences, Wright built some
sixty rambling homes by the year 1900. He became the leader of a style known as the
“Prairie” school - houses with low-pitched ... times, enjoyed a quiet medical renaissance. The problem may
have more to do with the weak stomachs of those using them than with good science. The
modern heydey of maggot therapy began during World...
... standard
(b) need
(c) expectation
(d) rule
23. The phrase “without a hitch” in line 2 is closest in meaning to
(a) unaided
(b) without glasses
(c) with little hesitation
(d) easily
24. According to the ... “instrumentalism” without the
pioneering work of Charles Peirce and William James
(d) Josiah Royce was a revolutionary thinker
Questions 21-30
The human criterion for perfect vision is 20/20 for reading ...
is endowed with two foveae – areas of the eye, consisting mostly of cones, that provide
visual distinctions. One foveae permits the bird, while in the air, to scan the water below
with one eye...
... theme in the next parts.
2.2. Characteristics of readingpassages and reading tasks in the textbook
2.2.1. Characteristics of readingpassages
A reading passage in the new English textbook “Tieng ... most difficulty when teaching reading
comprehension with the textbook?" are aimed at investigating difficulties the teachers are
coping with in teaching reading comprehension.
1. ... School
- readingcomprehension in the new English textbook “Tieng Anh10”.
4. Methods of the study
With the aim of finding out the difficulties in teaching readingcomprehensionwith the new...
... of Terminology 5
2.2.1. What is reading? 5
2.2.2. ReadingComprehension 6
2.3. The difficulties of the second language readingcomprehension process 7
2.3.1. Reading skill problem 7
2.3. 2. ... perspectives about difficult reading texts 21
3.7.5. Students’ activities in the reading lessons 22
3.7.5.1. Pre -reading activities 22
3.7.5.2. While -reading activities 24
3.7.5.3. Post -reading activities ... “scanning” for their reading comprehension. They only read again and
again in order to give the answers to the teachers’ questions or reading tasks.
The least difficult of all was the reading tasks....
... weak readingcomprehension is to promote our reading
habbit and skills through understanding main benefits of reading completely.
2.1.4 Types of reading and Reading rates:
Scanning type of reading: ... of reading has the
reading speed at between 800 to 1,000 wpm.
Light type of reading: Reading for leisure tends to be light reading. This
refers to reading at a pace which feels comfortable, reading ... 2000)
Reading is asking questions of printed text. And readingwith
comprehension becomes a matter of getting your questions answered”. (Frank
Smith in Reading without nonsense, 1997)
“Reading...
... paper describes initial work on
Deep Read,
an automated readingcomprehension system that
accepts arbitrary text input (a story) and answers
questions about it. We have acquired a corpus of ...
exploring readingcomprehension tests as a
research problem and an evaluation method for
language understanding systems. Such tests can
take the form of standardized multiple-choice
diagnostic reading ... see Figure 1.
Reading comprehension tests are interesting
because they constitute "found" test material:
these tests are created in order to evaluate
children's reading skills,...
... P
ART I
TOEFL READING BASICS
CHAPTER 1 All About TOEFL Reading
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Tip
Tips ... educational
advancement.
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Before You Begin ix
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Top 10 Strategies
to Raise Your Score
1. As with other sections of the TOEFL, be familiar with the directions ... The reading section is one of the
longer sections of the test. Your practice and hard work will help you.
10. Relax the night before the exam.
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