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| The best title for the passage would be? | You are asked to concentrate on main idea of the whole passage,and not paragraphs. |
| Which of the following statements is not supported by the passage? | You are asked to decide which idea is not found in the text. |
| The tone of the passage is? | You are asked to decide if the author expressed any emotions in the writing, e.g.writing can be factual, informational, explanatory, or humorous. |
| What is the main idea of the passage? | You are asked to identify what the whole passage is mainly about. Study the topic sentence. |
| Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage? | You are asked to identify information that is not in the text. |
| The writer's main purpose is to make the reader...? | You are asked to decide why the author wrote this passage e.g. he/she might try to give info/facts, or maybe ridicule something,inform the reader, or give an opinion. |
| The paragraph preceding the passage probably discusses...? | If there was a paragraph added before the text, what would it be about? |
| This passage would probably be given to a student studying...? | You are asked to decide which university course might have this reading assigned to it.Think of the topic of the passage and the organization of details. |
| It is implied in the passage that...? | You are asked to 'read between lines' beyond what it's actually stated in the text. |
| The word "....." in line 11 is closest in meaning to which of the following? | You are asked to find a synonym for a particular word in the text. |
