A question that requires you to use words and clues around a specific excerpt or word.
What is a words or phrase in context question?
100
A strategy of reading a passage out loud and asking yourself questions while reading.
What is the think aloud strategy?
100
Although he was a friendly man, Bob continually _______ my sister.
a. called
b. surprised
c. avoided
d. complimented
e. rewarded
What is c.Avoided?
200
Information that is inferred is NOT directly stated. Instead, you're asked to figure out what a section of the passage seems to imply or suggest.
What is a Implied information question?
200
What is the topic?
What do I already know about this topic?
What do I want to know about this topic?
What does the author want me to know about this topic?
What is the four questions to ask yourself while using the think aloud reading strategy?
200
Those who prefer Shakespeare's plays to his poems sometimes argue that many of the poems are ______compositions.
a. distinctive
b. courtly
c. lucid
d. dramatic
e. mediocre
What is e.Mediocre?
300
You're asked to collect information that is directly stated in the passage.
What is a Stated information question?
300
Reading passages that are now 100 words instead of 800.
What is the length of the shorter reading passages in the new critical reading section?
300
When _______ an unpopular viewpoint, one must expect that many will not listen and that any number will listen and sneer.
a. demonstrating
b. propagating
c. disclaiming
d. denying
e. crucifying
What is b.Propogating
400
The terms "tone" and "attitude" refer to emotions and feelings. The author's treatment of the subject reflects his or her attitude toward what he or she is writing about. Think "tone of voice" and connotations of words.
What is a Attitude/tone/mood question?
400
You should develop good word relations when traveling to foreign countries.
What is a good traveling idea to better enjoy your vacation.
400
Hume was the most ______ of the eighteenth-century philosophers: while others looked to God as the source of truth, he proposed that truth was a variable.
a. ornery
b. ignorant
c. skeptical
d. learned
e. optimistic
What is c.Skeptical?
500
When you're asked for the big picture or what the point of the passage is.
What is the main idea?
500
The quote: "I have found that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. " is from this famous writer...
Who is Mark Twain
500
Recognizing once again that competition is the life blood of a capitalist society, the federal government has lifted restrictions placed on banks so that they are on a(n) _________ with thrift institutions.
a. par
b. basis
c. era
d. edge
e. capacity