Reading Comprehension Flashcards
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A passage begins with 'Despite numerous setbacks, the research team persevered.' What does this suggest about the passage's topic?
Answer: The passage will discuss challenges overcome through persistence
The phrase 'despite setbacks, persevered' sets up a narrative about overcoming obstacles, signaling the passage's direction.
What reading technique involves quickly looking through a text to locate specific information?
Answer: Scanning
Scanning involves moving quickly through text to find a specific word, date, or fact without reading everything.
When a passage presents a fact followed by its consequence, which organizational pattern is being used?
Answer: Cause and effect
Presenting a fact and its resulting consequence is the defining structure of cause-and-effect organization.
Which word is most likely to signal a conclusion in a passage?
Answer: Therefore
'Therefore' is a logical connector that signals a conclusion drawn from preceding information.
An author writes: 'The policy was, to put it mildly, a disaster.' What literary device is being used?
Answer: Understatement
Calling a disaster 'mildly' problematic is deliberate understatement to emphasize how bad the policy actually was.
Which of the following best defines 'vocabulary in context'?
Answer: Determining the meaning of a word based on how it is used in a sentence
Vocabulary in context means using surrounding text clues to determine a word's meaning as it is used in that specific passage.
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