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READING COMPREHENSION TEST
17 Minutes — 20 Questions
Directions: There are two passages in this test. Each passage
is followed by several questions. After reading a passage,
choose ... doubt that women artists have
been most prominent in photography and that they
have made their greatest contribution in this field. One
reason for this is not difficult to ascertain. As several
5 ... dedication. She was a
complete beginner, but within a very few years she
developed into one of the greatest photographers of her
period and a giant in the history of photography. She
worked ceaselessly...
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Posttest
The posttest consists of a series of reading passages with questions that follow to test your comprehension.
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173-175 refer to the following invitation.
SEACLOUD INVESTMENTS
A ...
correspondence will be
entered into
regarding
judges'
decisions.
4.
As the main
point
of this contest is the beautification
of Tampa, we require that
all
gardens
entered in the competition be ...
interpreter
(C)
interpreiing
(D)
interpretation
168, Who is
the intended
audience
of this
contest?
(A)
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residents
of Tampa
(B)
The
owners
of
gardening
stores
(C)
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members
of...
... animals. In the late 1960's, however, psychologist Gordon Gallup devised a test
of the sense of self: the mirror test. If an animal were able to recognize its reflection in
a mirror as "self", ... another individual
40. The chimpanzee in Gallup's first experiment responded to the mirror test by touching
(A) its own forehead
(B) the researcher's forehead
(C) the red spot on ... be taught self-consciousness.
(C) Chimpanzees are the only nonhuman animals that have a human level of self-consciousness.
(D) Nonhuman animals do not possess self-consciousness.
36. The author...
... (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon
monoxide, however, ahs a natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant
until its level reaches about 15 ppm.
41. What does ... of the concentration level of a substance is only
useful if
(A) the other substances in the area are known
(B) it is in a localized area
(C) the naturally occurring level is also known
(D) ... merchants. Their products,
primarily silver plates and bowls, reflected their exalted status and testified to their
customers' prominence.
Silver stood as one of the surest ways to store...
... Given that two-
thirds of the Earth's surface is water and that marine life lives at all levels of the ocean,
the total three-dimensional living space of the ocean is perhaps 100 times ... as phyla and classes are
given more emphasis than differentiating between species, then the greatest diversity of
life is unquestionably the sea. Nearly every major type of plant and animal has ... better to revise a hypothesis than to reject it.
(C) A scientist's most difficult task is testing hypotheses.
(D) A good scientist needs to be creative.
Question 10-20
By the mid-nineteenth...
... measuring one's language proficiency.
The pre -test and post -test used in this study were in fact two versions of the same test. The
use of the same test before and after the experiment treatment ...
effect of the test familiarity on the students' gains between the two test administrations, some
items of the first version of the pre -test were reordered for the second use (post -test) .
3.2.2. ... pre -test, a post -test and a questionnaire. Here below is the
procedure of the study:
At the beginning of the experiment, a pre -test was given to both groups. The primary goal
of the pre-test...
... three main levels or strands of
comprehension literal, interpretive and critical comprehension.
ã The first level, literal comprehension, is the most obvious. Comprehension at this
level involves ... What Do We Test When We Test Reading
Comprehension?
Akmar Mohamad
As ESL/EFL teachers, we are aware that the primary objective of reading is
comprehension being able to find ... unfortunate if comprehension assessments do not go
beyond this level of comprehension. The purpose of this article is to provide ESL/EFL
teachers with some guidelines when preparing reading assessments.
Teachers...
... Most children learn their first languages easily.
Reading 38
. Read the passage and answer the questions.
One of the main sources for the spreading of news and events throughout the world is ... The language that has the greatest number of speakers is …………….
4. French is widely understood in ………………
5. The United Nation has chosen ………… languages in business.
Reading 32
. Read and complete ... war.
4. "Mother's Day" was first named "Mother's Friendship Day"
Reading 34
Reading 9
My village is about 50 kilometers (1)………………………….the city center. It is a very beautiful...
... 1924
(b) during the 1900s immigrants numbered 1 percent of the total population
Section Three: ReadingComprehension (3)
Questions 1-11
Jazz has been called “the art of expression set to music”, ... Armstrong was discovered by Joe Oliver
in New Orleans. He soon grew up to become one of the greatest and most successful
musicians of all time, and later one of the biggest stars in the world. ... the origins of Jazz and how did it differ from other forms of
music?
(c) What has been the greatest contribution of cornet players to music in the
twentieth century?
(d) Which early Jazz musicians...
... of Concord?
(a) lines 5-9
(b) lines 10-14
(c) lines 15-19
(d) lines 20-25
Section Three: ReadingComprehension (4)
Questions 1-10
Baseball evolved from a number of different ball-and-stick ... was a revolutionary thinker
Questions 21-30
The human criterion for perfect vision is 20/20 for reading the standard lines on a
Snellen eye chart without a hitch. The score is determined by how ... human thought and the external world were unified.
Pragmatism called for ideas and theories to be tested in practice, assessing whether they
produced desirable or undesirable results. Although...
... Practice Exam for the TOEICđ Test
LISTENING TEST
In the Listening test, you will be asked to demonstrate how well you understand spoken English. The
entire Listening test will last approximately ... they’ll work out. So they rely on standard tests. When large
universities or governments mandate a particular test, this gives a boost to the preparation and testing industry.
That having been said, ... Bulgaria writes, “Which test should I take to go to university in the UK?” Well, I need to come back to that
question, and start with the reason for tests. Teachers have always tested to see if their...
... addition, reading
comprehension tests are written to test a range of
skill levels. With proper choice of test material,
it should be possible to challenge systems to
successively higher levels ... see Figure 1.
Reading comprehension tests are interesting
because they constitute "found" test material:
these tests are created in order to evaluate
children's reading skills, ...
exploring readingcomprehension tests as a
research problem and an evaluation method for
language understanding systems. Such tests can
take the form of standardized multiple-choice
diagnostic reading...
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