Strategies For Reading Toefl

Strategies For Reading Toefl

Strategies for doing your best on the Internet Based Reading Comprehension section are:
How to prepare for the Reading section
Keep following tips in mind:

1. Read Newspapers, magazines. Read whatever you can, whenever you can.
2. Practice skimming -reading some leaving some so as to get the gist of the writing without reading all or major portion of the reading assignment.
3. Pay particular attention to new vocabulary words, including the use of prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
4. Practice determining the meaning of a vocabulary word from its context.

Example :

1.    The author states that the stone age was so named because
A. It was very durable like stone
B. The tools and weapons were made of stone
C. There was little vegetation
D. The people lived in stone caves

2.     In line 17, “nomadic” is closest in meaning to
A. Sedentary
B. Wandering
C. Primitive
D. Inquisitive

3.    With what subject in the passage mainly concerned?
A. The Neolithic Age
B. The Paleolithic Age
C. The stone Age
D. The Ice Age

4.     Which of the following best describes the Mesolithic age?
A. People were inventive
B. People stayed indoors all the time
C. People were warriors
D. People were crude

5.     In line 17, the word “eras” is closest in meaning to
A. Families
B. Periods
C. Herds
D. Tools

Answer:

1.      Question asks you to analyze why this period is called the Stone Age period. We Look for the phrase the stone tools and weapons. This phrase means weapons and stone tools (made of stone). So the correct answer is the tools and weapons were made of stone (answer B).

2.      We see the word signifies differences between the Mesolithic period and the Neolithic period. In the Mesolhitic people still often use dogs while hunting we saw in the Neolithic period covered animal related pets (farm). So, the correct answer is less wandering Neolithic period.

3.      Quite clear that the subject of discussion related stone age as an outline.

4.      From the text above we can see that the Mesolithic period was the most flourishing period of time compared to the other two. The choice him the appropriate answer is the answer A (people were inventive.)

5.      Text from the beginning of the periods discussed. So eras closest meaning to the periods.

Sources:
http://www.tcyonline.com/toefl/str_read.php
http://pusattoefl.blogspot.com/2013/08/soal-reading-toefl-dan-pembahasan.html #. U52RXHZKXws