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STRATEGY
READING TOEFL
1. Before going to the 1st question,
just check out the beginning of every paragraph. This will make an overall idea
about the organization. Don't use more than 30sec for this.
2. Answer the reference questions first
(Vocabulary/Word reference, Pronoun reference, Highlighted sentence, Sentence
Insertion etc.) - To answer these questions, most of the time, you will not
have to read any other sentence than the indicated one. Therefore, these are
time savers. A little information about the sentence insertion question is
that, read the given sentence very carefully. If it starts with a pronoun, then
identify to what it may refer to. Go to the passage and check the sentences
preceding the insertion boxes. Think whether the pronoun of the given sentence
can refer to the subject (or idea) presented in this sentence. Even if the
given sentence does not start with a pronoun, usually you will be able to
identify where to insert the sentence by reading only 9 sentences (Given
sentence + the sentence before each box + the sentence after each box).
However, generally, you'll need much lesser reading than this.
3. Now go for the inference type
questions (and any other types of questions not indicated in this post). Try to
stick into the paragraph if it is mentioned. If not, the knowledge on overall
organization of the essay (got in step 1) will help here. If that also fails,
check out where the previous and next question came from. It is most likely
that the answer of this question falls in between the answers of the previous
and next question. I named this method as "TOEFL Sandwich". Read the
middle part of the sandwich carefully and answer the question.
4. Now go for the "Except"
type questions. These questions generally take more time because it needs
searching for 4 different information. Going through step 3 will already reduce
a lot of works, i.e. you have read a lot of things already. Now, first, read
each answer choice and then find related information from the passage and
decide whether you need to consider this choice or need to refute it. Using
this approach, I've found these questions answerable in very short time.
5. Now, go for the summary/Classify
type questions. If you forget about the organization of the passage by this
time and if there is about 3~4 mins left (not less than it),repeat step 1. When
answering the summary questions, do not take an answer only because you have
read that in the passage. Take only those answers which represent a
broader idea than others.
EXAMPLE
1.
This
section is designed to measure your ability to read and understand short
passages similar in topic and style to those that student are likely to
encounter in North American Universities and colleges. This section contains
reading passages and questions about the passages.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April
15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero, a
Florentine notary and landlord, but lived on the estate and was treated as a
legitimate son.
In 1483, Leonardo da Vinci drew the
first model of a helicopter. It did look very much like our modern day “copter”
but the idea of what it could do was about the same.
Leonardo was an artist and sculptor.
He was very interested in motion and movement and tried to show it in his art.
In order to show movement, he found it helpful to study the way things moved.
One subject he liked to study was birds and how they flew. He spent many hours
watching the birds and examining the structure of their wings. He noticed how
they cupped air with their wings and how the feathers helped hold the air.
Through these studies, Leonardo began to undertstand how bird were able to fly.
Like many other men, Leonardo began
to dream of the day when people would be able to fly. He designed a machine
that used all the things he had learned about flight, and thus became the first
model of a helicopter.
Poor Leonardo had only one problem,
however. He had no way to give the necessary speed to his invention. You see,
motors had not yet been invented and speed was an important part of the flying
process. It would be another four hundred years before the engine was invented
and another fifty years before it was put to the test in an airplane.
Leonardo’s dream of a helicopter finally came to pass in 1936.
The Italian painter, sculptor,
architect, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo died on May 2,1519, an was buried
in the cloister of San Fiorentino in Amboise.
1.
What is the author’s main point?
a.
The invention of the helicopter
b.
Birds cup air with their wings and use
feather to help hold the air
c.
An overview of one of Leonardo da
Vinci’s many skills
d.
Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 and
died in 1519
Correct answer : A
2.
The word problem in paragraph five could
best be replaced by the word?
a. Dilemma
b. Mistake
c. Danger
d. Pain
Correct answer : A
3.
The word it in paragraph two refers to?
a. Leonardo
da Vinci
b. The
first model helicopter
c. 1483
d. Motion
and movement
Correct answer : B
4.
Which paragraph explains why Leonardo’s
helicopter was not successful in his lifwtime?
a. Paragraph
1
b. Paragraph
2
c. Paragraph
4
d. Paragraph
5
Correct answer : D
5.
The word illegitimate in paragraph one
is closest in meaning to?
a. Against
the law or illegal
b. Not
in correct usage
c. Incorrectly
deduced; illogical
d. Born
out of wedlock
Correct answer : D
2.
Glass fibers are extremely strong;
for their weight; they are stronger than stell. They are made by forcing molten
glass through tiny holes called spinnerets. As many as four hundred spinnerets
are placed together, and thread of glass much thinner than human hairs are
drawn off at great speed-miles of thread per minute. As they speed along, the
threads are coated thinly with a type of
glue and twisted into a yarn. The glass fibers are used with plastics to make
boats and car bodies. They are also woven into heavy cloth for window draperies
and into strong belts for making tires stronger.
A special kind of glass fiber is
causing a revolution in communications. A signal of light can be made to travel
along the fiber for long distances. By changing the qulity of the light, many
messages can be sent at once along one strand of glass. New office buildings
are being “wired” with glass fibers as they are built. The glass fibers will be
used to connect telephones and computers in ways that not long ago were either
impossible or too expensive.
Glas wool traps air in a thick,
light blanket of fibers. This blanket is then put into walls and ceilings to
keep warm air in during the winter and cool air in during the summer.
To make glass wool, molten glass is
fed into a spinning drum with many holes in it. As the glass threads stream out
of the holes, they are fordced downward by a blast of hot air and through a
spray of glues. The threads are then further blown about to mix. Them up as
they fall in a thick mat on a moving belt.
The
glass we see through and drink out of has many, many other uses besides the
ones described here.
1.
The word they in the second sentence of
the first paragraph refers to?
a. Human
hair
b. Weight
c. Glass
fibers
d. Yarn
Correct answer : C
2.
The word it in the fourth paragraph
refers to?
a. Molten
glass
b. Glass
wool
c. Spinning
drum
d. Holes
Correct answer : C
3.
The following sentences would best
complete which paragraph? “this improvement in technology is expected to
continue”.
a. Paragraph
1
b. Paragraph
2
c. Paragraph
3
d. Paragraph
4
Correct answer : B
4.
A signal of what can be made to travel
along fiber for very long distance?
a. Heat
b. Wave
c. Wool
d. Light
Correct answer : D
5.
The word spray in the fourth paragraph
could best be replaced by the word?
a. Shower
b. Blow
c. Spit
d. Force
Correct answer : A
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