READING (21) BUILDING SKILLS CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST

 

CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST BUILDING SKILLS READING (21)

 

PRACTICE WITH UNDERSTANDING DETAILS AND RECOGNIZING PARAPHRASES Understanding details Some of the questions in the Reading section of the TOEFL test will require you to understand details within a reading passage. Several details may be mentioned within a passage. To answer these questions successfully, you must be able to recognize them. Detail questions are frequently introduced in the following ways: The remaining part of the question will tell you what to look for, as shown in the example below:   Recognizing paraphrases Improving your ability to recognize details from a passage that are stated in a different way in the questions and answer choices will help you succeed on the TOEFL test. 1 Identifying restated information from a passage Some test questions will require you to choose a sentence that has the same meaning as a highlighted sentence in the reading passage. The answer choices use words similar to those in the highlighted statement, but the incorrect choices do not have the same meaning. Incorrect choices can also leave out pertinent details in the highlighted sentence. Read the excerpt below. An example of this type of multiple-choice question follows. 2 Identifying information not stated in a passage Some questions will ask you to identify information that has not been stated explicitly in the reading passage. These multiple-choice questions are frequently introduced in the following ways: