Rabu, 29 April 2015

Toefl Strategy for Structure Written Expression and Reading Comprehension

Direction :
Question 1-5 are incomplete sentence. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked a, b, c, and d. choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
1.      The police were greatly outnumbered by rioters,……… ran into hundreds.
a.      Whose figures
b.      Those figures
c.       That its figures
d.      Its figures that
2.      An overly detailed ………….. of the characters and setting of a novel can sometimes distract from the narrative quality of a short story.
a.       Describe
b.      Descriptive
c.       Describing
d.      Description
3.      The plumber said that  he could come around and fix the leaking tap………
a.       As much as possible
b.      Asnpossible as he could
c.       As fast as he could possibly
d.      As soon as possible
4.      The Grand Canyon is said to have …………..
a.       Beautiful scenery that is much
b.      Many beautiful landscape
c.       Many beautiful sceneries
d.      Much beautiful sceneries
5.       In The collefe professors decided ………. Tennis on weekends.
a.       To begin
b.      To commence
c.       To take up
d.      To start up
The strategy of this test is:
1.      First look at the underlined word or groups of words. You want to see if you can spot which of the four answer choices in not correct.
2.      If you have been unable to find the error by looking only at the four underlined expressions, then read the complete sentence. Often an underlined expression is incorrect because of something in another part of the sentence.
3.      Never leave any answers blank. Be sure to answer each question even if you are unsure of the correct respons.
Directions
Question 1-10 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentences are marked a, b, c  and d. indentify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentences to be correct.
1.      When my brother wanted to buy the cheap second hand car that was advertised in the
                                              A                                                                    B
newspaper, my father said it was better form him to save his money for another two year
                                                                                                            C
to buy a new one
             D
2.      The owner of the new art gallery is having a difficult time accepting the criticize made by
                                                                            A                                 B                    
the local newspaper journalist who said that the collection in his art gallery is full oftrash.
                                                  C                               D
3.      Sue Allen, the author of “Now or Never”, is being sued by a Canadian man who accuse
                                                                                   A                                             B      C
her of doing an act of plagiarism.
                                 D
4.      The little girl hit by a car in front of the school yesterday afternoon would have died if the
                                  A                          B                                                            C
doctor had not decide to operated her immediately.
                                D
5.      Although she already had heard the news about her best friends engagement, she still
                           A                                                                     B                                 C
could not believe the fact that her best friend is getting married very soon.
                                                                                               D
6.      Most of the bank clients have already withdrawn their money before it was finally
                                                                 A                                         B                        
liquidated few months ago.
      C               D
7.      There were rumors that concern the Michaelson Familiy, saying that the reason why they
                               A                                                                     B
left the town sudden was because they could not pay their debt.
            C                                                         D
8.      We would rather he says the truth about what he did in the market the other day, so thar
                          A                                                                     B                                            
we could help him raise more money.
     C                                 D

9.      There was a rapid increase in profit ever since Jane Sancton was chosed as the sales
                                     A                               B                                          C
manager of the shoe factory.
                        D
10.  My sister and her friends are having a hard time trying to create a good choreography for
                                                                  A                          B                                                        
their cheerleading squad performance two week since now.
                        C                                             D
The strategy for this part is:
1.       First study the sentence. Your purpose is to determine what is needed to complete the sentence correctly.
2.      Then study each answer based on how well it completes the sentences. Eliminate answers that do not complete the sentence correctly.
3.      Don’t try to eliminate incorrect answers by looking only at the answers. The incorrect answers are generally correct by themselves. The incorrect answers are generally incortect only ehen used to complete the sentence.
4.      Never leave any answers blank. Be sure to answer each question if you are unsure of the correct response.
5.      Do not spend too much time on the structure questions. Be sure to leave adequate time for the written expression question.
Direction:
In this section you will read a number of passages. Each one is followed by approxiamately 5 question about it.
Question 1-5
Printmaking is the generic term for a number of processes, of which woodcut and engraving are two prime examples. Prints are made by pressing a sheet of paper (or other material) against an image-bearing surface to which ink has been applied. When the paper is removed, the image adheres to it, but in reverse.
The woodcut had been used in China from the fifth century A.D for applying patterns to textiles. The process was not introduced into Europe until the fourteenth century, first to textile decoratiaon and then for printing on paper. Woodcuts are created by a relief process, first the artist takes a block of wood, which has been sawed parallel to the grain, covers it with a white ground, and then draws the image in ink. The background is carved away, leaving the design area slightly raised. The woodblock is inked, and the ink adheres to the raised image. It is then transferred to damp paper either by hand or with a printing press.
Engraving, which grew out of the goldsmith’s art, originated in Germany and northern Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. It is an intaglio process ( from Italian intagliare, “to curve”). The image is incised into a highly polished metal plate, usually copper, with a cutting instrument, or burin. The artist inks the plate and wipes it clean so that some ink remains in the incised grooves. An impression is made on damp paper in a printing press, with sufficient pressure being applied so that the paper picks up the ink.
Both woodcut and engraving have distinctive characteristic. Engraving lends itself to subtle modeling and shading through the use of fine lines. Hatching and cross-hatching determine the degree of light and shade in a print. Woodcuts tend to be more linear, with sharper contrasts between lightand dark. Printmaking is well suited to the production of multiple images. A set of multiples is called an edition. Both methods can yield several hundred good-quality prints before the original block or plate begins to show signs of wear. Mass production of print in the sixteenth century made images available, at a lower cost, to a much broader public than before.
1.      What does the passage mainly discuss?
a.       The origin of textile decoration
b.      The characteristic of good quality prints
c.       Two types of printmaking
d.      Types of paper used in printmaking
2.      The word ”prime” in line 2 is closet in meaning to……
a.      Principal
b.      Complex
c.       General
d.      Recent
3.      The author’s purpose in paragraph 2 is to describe…….
a.       The woodcuts found in China in the fifth century
b.      The use of woodcuts in the textile industry
c.       The process involved in creating a woodcut
d.      The introduction of woodcuts to europe
4.      The word “incised” in line 15 is closet meaning to……
a.       Burned
b.      Cut
c.       Framed
d.      Baked
5.      Which of the following terms is definied in the passage?
a.       Patterns
b.      Grain
c.       Burin
d.      Grooves

The reading section may have 3-5 passages each of around 700 words. Time allowed for attempting 12-14 question on each passage will be 20 minutes. so total time allowed for the reading section will be 60-100 minutes depending upon the number of reading passages. students are allowed to take notes and use the same for making an aswer, but they are not allowed to carry the same outside the test venue and have to surrender them before leaving. technical terms, if any may be highlighted in the text which may be clicked on for finding the meaning there of in the glossary. strategies for doing this section is:
1. Read newspaper, magazine. 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.

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