2016-04-29 Pre TOEFL: reading question types

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.projectbread.org/walk - Walk to raise money for hungry people in Boston and MA.
(Sunday morning, May 1st. 16 km. Park Street at 8:30am.)
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p. 60 - Take 15 minutes to answer the questions about the reading on 58-59
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Homework: p. 61
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p. 60 part A
1 b
2 a
3 c
4 b
5 a
p. 61 part A
a cultural
b derived
c appeal
d surrounded
e established
part B
1 supposedly
2 permitted
3 cave
4 preservation
5 policies
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gist = main idea (especially if it’s simplified, without minor details)
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Handout: types of reading passages and reading questions

p. 37 - Types of passage organization - make sure you understand these


p. 38 - types of questions
1 factual information - “according to the paragraph, which of the following is true” (find specific and explicit information)
2 negative factual information - “all of the following are true EXCEPT”
3 inference - (find information that is suggested but not explicitly stated) “the author implies that…” or “which of the following can be inferred” or “which of these is probably true”
4 rhetorical purpose - “why does the author…” “The author says ___ in order to…” “The author uses ____ as an example of…” (asks about why the author did something)
5 vocabulary - “In line 25, the word ____ is closest in meaning to…” (asks about the meaning of a specific word or phrase in the passage)
6 reference - “the word ____ refers to” (questions about what different pronouns or “which” or “this” refer to in the passage)
7 sentence simplification - “Which of the following is closest in meaning to the last sentence in paragraph 3?” (choose a sentence with the same meaning as one in the passage)
8 insert text - (choose where in a paragraph a given sentence fits)
9 prose summary - select the main or most important ideas of the passage (distinguished from minor details)
10 fill in a table - categorize different information into two or more categories based on the reading (especially with compare/contrast)
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On p. 193-195 of the second handout (from Sample Test 5), identity each question type
15 inference
16 vocabulary
17 factual information or inference (depending on whether it’s stated explicitly in the passage)
18 vocabulary
19 sentence simplification
20 rhetorical purpose
21 vocabulary
22 factual information
23 factual information
24 vocabulary
25 inference
26 insert text
27 prose summary
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Homework: Read the passage and answer the questions