Unit 4: Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension and Reasoning

A reading comprehension test section provides a reading passage, followed by a number of multuple- choice questions about the passage. You do not need to know anything about the topic. All the information you need to answer the questions is contained within the passage itself. The most common question types are those that ask you to :

1.describe the main idea of the passage

2.identify a specific fact or detail in the passage

3.draw an inference or conclusion based on the information given in the passage

4.define a vocabulary word that appears in the passage