The document discusses strategies for different types of reading comprehension questions on the TOEFL test. It outlines three main types of questions: 1) Main idea questions which ask about the primary point of the passage and can often be found in the topic sentence. 2) Stated detail questions which ask about specific information directly stated in the passage. 3) Unstated detail questions where three answer options are supported in the passage and one is not stated or is false based on the passage information. Exercises are provided to help practice each skill and key things to remember are highlighted.

1. READING
STRATEGIES
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2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
General Strategies
2. Stated Detailed
Question
STRATEGIES FOR THE READTNG
COMPREHENSTON QUESTTONS 1. Main Idea Questions
3.Unstated Detailed
Question

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Two types of questions about the reading
passages:
l. Reading Comprehension questions ask
you to answer questions about the
information given in the reading
passages (main idea questions, directly
answered detail) questions, and implied
detail questions.
2. Vocabulary questions ask you to identify
the meanings of vocabulary words in
the reading passages.
General
Strategies

4. STRATEGIES FOR THE READTNG COMPREHENSTON QUESTTONS

5. SKILL 1
MAIN IDEA
QUESTION

6. • Almost every reading passage on
the TOEFL test will have a
question about the main idea of
a passage.
• Main Idea = to identify the topic,
subject, title, primary idea, or
main idea.
• These questions are all really
asking what primary point the
author is trying to get across in
the passage.
• Since TOEFL passages are
generally written in a traditional
organized manner, the topic
sentence is most probably' found
at the beginning of a
paragraph.

8. Things to remember!

9. Exercise skill 1

10. Exercise skill 1

11. SKILL 2
STATED DETAIL
QUESTION

12. • A stated detail question asks
about one piece of information
in the passage rather than the
passage as a whole.
• The answers to these questions
are generally given in order in
the passage, and the correct
answer is often a restatement of
what is given in the passage.
• This means that the correct
answer often expresses the same
idea as what is written in the
passage, but the words are not
exactly the same.

13. Things
to
remember!

14. Exercise Skill 2

15. UNSTATED
DETAILED
QUESTION
Skill #3

16. • Unstated detailed question = Find an
answer that is not stated or not
mentioned or not true in the passage.
• This type of question really means that
three of the answers are stated,
intentioned, or true in the passage,
while one answer is not.
• You should note that there are two
kinds of answers to this type of
question: ( 1) there are three true
answers and one answer that is not
discussed in the passage, or (2) there
are three true answers and one that is
false according to the passage.

17. Things to remember!

18. Exercise 3

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