Exercise 1. Read The Following Passage and Mark The Letter A, B, C, or D On Your Answer Sheet To Indicate The Correct Answer To Each of The Questions
Exercise 1. Read The Following Passage and Mark The Letter A, B, C, or D On Your Answer Sheet To Indicate The Correct Answer To Each of The Questions
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer
sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
We get great pleasure from reading. The more advanced a man is, the greater delight
he will find in reading. The ordinary man may think that subjects like philosophy or science
are very difficult and that if philosophers(n) nhà triết học and scientists read these subjects, it
is not for pleasure.
But this is not true. The mathematician finds the same pleasure in his mathematics as
the school boy in an adventure story. For both, it is a play of the imagination, a mental
recreation and exercise. The pleasure derived from this activity is common to all kinds of
reading. But different types of books give us different types of pleasure. First in order of
popularity is novel-reading. Novels contain pictures of imaginary people in imaginary
situations, and give us an opportunity of escaping into a new world very much like our world
and yet different from it. Here we seem to live a new life, and the experience of this new life
gives us a thrill of pleasure. Next in order of popularity are travel books, biographies and
memoirs. These tell us tales of places we have not seen and of great men in whom we are
interested.
Some of these books are as wonderful as novels, and they have an added value that they are
true. Such books give us knowledge, and we also find immense pleasure in knowing details
of lands we have not seen and of great men we have only heard of. Reading is one of the
greatest enjoyments of life. To book-lovers, nothing is more fascinating than a favorite book.
And, the ordinary educated man who is interested and absorbed in his daily occupation wants
to occasionally escape from his drudgery into the wonderland of books for recreation and
refreshment.
(Source: http://www.importantindia.com)
Question 1: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Different types of books B. Different kinds of reading
C. Reading as an exercise for the brain D. Reading as a pleasurable activity
Children with learning disabilities do not plan and judge the quality of their studying.
Their studying may be disorganized. Students with learning problems face challenges with
personal organization as well. They often have difficulty keeping track of materials and
assignments, following directions, and completing work on time. Unlike good studiers who
employ a variety of study skills in a flexible yet purposeful manner, low-achieving students
use a restricted range of study skills. They cannot explain why good study strategies are
important for learning; and they tend to use the same, often ineffective study approach for all
learning tasks, ignoring task content, structure or difficulty.
(Source: Adapted from Study Skills: Managing Your Learning — NUI Galway)
Question 8: What is the topic of the passage?
A. Successful and low-academic achieving students
B. Successful learners and their learning strategies
C. Study skills for high school students
D. Effective and ineffective ways of learning
Question 9: The word “prior” in the first paragraph is closest meaning to______?
A. Important B. earlier C. forward D. good
Question 10: According to the passage, what can be learnt about passive students?
A. They depend on other people to organize their learning
B. They are slow in their studying
C. They monitor their understanding
D. They know the purpose of studying
Question 11: Which of the followings is NOT an evidence of monitoring studying?
A. Being aware of the purpose of studying B. Monitoring their understanding of
content
C. Fixing up mistakes in understanding D. Looking at their backs
Question 12: According to the passage, to learn new information, low-achieving students do
NOT______.
A. just understand it B. relate it to what they have known
C. simply remember it D. read it
Question 13: In compared with low-achieving students, successful students use______.
A. aimless study techniques B. various study skills
C. restricted strategies D. inflexible study ways
Question 14: The underlined pronoun “They” in the last sentence refers to______.
A. study strategies B. study skills
C. low-achieving students D. good studiers