IEO Reading Comprehension 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the difference between 'fact' and 'opinion' in a reading passage?
- Facts are opinions stated confidently; opinions are unproven facts
- Facts can be proven true; opinions reflect personal views or beliefs (Correct answer)
- Facts are always interesting; opinions are always boring
- Facts are written in past tense; opinions are in present tense
Correct answer: Facts can be proven true; opinions reflect personal views or beliefs
A fact is a statement that can be verified as true or false, while an opinion is a personal belief or judgment.
Question 2: When an author uses 'flashback' in a narrative, they are:
- Describing a bright light
- Moving the story forward in time
- Interrupting the story to show an earlier event (Correct answer)
- Summarizing the plot
Correct answer: Interrupting the story to show an earlier event
A flashback is a narrative device that takes the story back in time to reveal earlier events that inform the present.
Question 3: What does it mean to 'paraphrase' a passage?
- To copy it word for word
- To restate it in your own words while keeping the meaning (Correct answer)
- To shorten it to one sentence only
- To disagree with its main idea
Correct answer: To restate it in your own words while keeping the meaning
Paraphrasing means restating the ideas of a passage in different words while preserving the original meaning.
Question 4: The word 'setting' in a story refers to:
- The problem the main character faces
- The time, place, and environment of the story (Correct answer)
- The lesson or moral of the story
- The narrator's feelings
Correct answer: The time, place, and environment of the story
The setting is the time, place, and social environment in which the story takes place.
Question 5: What is an 'author's purpose' when reading a passage?
- The title of the passage
- The reason the author wrote the passage (Correct answer)
- The number of paragraphs in the passage
- The main character of the story
Correct answer: The reason the author wrote the passage
An author's purpose is the reason they wrote the text — to inform, entertain, or persuade.
Question 6: Which of the following is an example of figurative language?
- The dog barked twice.
- She ran to the store quickly.
- His heart was a block of ice. (Correct answer)
- The book has 200 pages.
Correct answer: His heart was a block of ice.
'His heart was a block of ice' is a metaphor, a type of figurative language comparing two unlike things.
IEO Reading Comprehension 3
What is the difference between 'fact' and 'opinion' in a reading passage?