1. Escuela de Educación Continua
Repaso para la Prueba de Evaluación
y Admisión Universitaria
(College Board)
INGLÉS
Reading Comprehension
Analogies
Preparado por
Prof. Carmen Cembalest, Enero 1994
Revisado por
Prof. Thelvenitsie Hernández, Junio 2006

2. Este manual es propiedad del Campus Virtual de la Escuela de
Educación Continua de la Universidad Metropolitana. El mismo
no puede ser reproducido parcial ni totalmente sin la autorización
expresa del Decano Asociado del Campus Virtual de la Escuela
de Educación Continua de la Universidad Metropolitana.
Escuela de Educación Continua de UMET, enero 2012

3. Reading Comprehension:
The explanation and exercises that follow are geared to test your ability to read
and understand a passage. When you read a paragraph or an essay, you must
follow certain guidelines that will help you understand and analyze the ideas
brought up by the writer.
a. Context Clues – These are words (that you know the meaning of) around the
words you are reading, that help you determine the meaning of the new word.
b. Synonyms – Words with the same or nearly the same meaning.
c. Antonyms – Words with opposite
d. Cognates – Words that are spelled alike or almost alike, sound alike and have
the same meaning in English and Spanish. False cognate, then, are words that
sound alike, but do not have the same meaning.
e. Inference – You draw conclusions or deduct from the information given.
f. Transitional devices – Establish a bridge between two ideas. They also help the
reader to find out the kinds of developmental paragraphs in an essay.
g. Prefixes and suffixes –
 A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a base word or word
root. Ex. discover (prefix)
 A suffix is a word part added to the end of a base word or word root. Ex.
speechless (suffix)
h. Analogies – expresses an agreement of likeness between things in some
circumstances. This relationship is between the meaning and or the usage of
English words, and is usually offered as a sentence written in an abbreviated
form.

4. Practice Exercise XVI
Analogies: Choose the correct answer.
1. ear: listen
a. eye: see
b. nose: odor
c. drum: noise
d. mouth: chew
e. lungs: air
2. these: those
a. up: put
b. play: plan
c. quick: wit
d. here: there
e. woman: masculine
3. wink: eye
a. swallow: food
b. tap: toe
c. flirt: giggle
d. hit: slap
e. smell: nose
4. sell: purchase
a. pay: charge
b. eager: anxious
c. gift: earn
d. sale: sold
e. give: receive
5. touch: feel
a. listen: hear
b. feel: hurt
c. see: hear
d. go: went
e. read: understand
6. cry: cried
a. buy: bought
b. lied: lie
c. do: do
d. want: went
e. hit: hits

5. 7. hot: cold
a. soft: frozen
b. warmth: ice
c. good: bad
d. thermometer: barometer
e. sweat: shake
8. fly: flew
a. go: gone
b. try: tried
c. sit: sitting
d. beg: beg
e. came: come
9. swim: stream
a. horse: barrier
b. walk: back
c. race: track
d. fish: school
e. candy: egg
10. finger: ring
a. neck: necklace
b. bandage: wound
c. bracelet: wrist
d. glove: hand
e. lip: sing
11. telephone: communicate
a. fish: eat
b. sand: sit
c. pen: ink
d. gas: asphyxiate
e. mobile: run
12. study: erudition
a. book: learning
b. learn: reading
c. will: end
d. run: exhaustion
e. decrease: gone

6. Practice Exercise XVII
Sentence Completion: In the following sentences the blank space indicates that a word or words
have been omitted. Select the letter that best completes the meaning of the sentence.
1. Under the laws of most states, a woman has a _________________ right in the property
of her husband.
a. equal
b. dower
c. prior
d. parturient
e. confiscatory
2. The ________________ arts are those which pertain to writing and drawing.
a. theatrical
b. seven
c. graphic
d. elocutionary
e. mechanical
3. A ________________ of the broken vase was on display at the museum.
a. fragment
b. title
c. religious
d. reproduction
e. holocaust
4. A _______________ sound resembles a hiss.
a. shrives
b. succinct
c. voluptuous
d. sibilant
e. blooper
5. The bishop made a tour of his ________________ visiting all the clergymen under his
jurisdiction.
a. parish
b. diocese
c. hostelry
d. house
e. country