Practice Read The Passage Thoroughly (first Read) (1.7.2) - Reading Comprehension

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Question 1.
What is skimming?
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Think about how you quickly glance at a summary.
Question 2.
Name one benefit of active reading.
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Consider why highlighting might help you.
3Question 3.
What is the purpose of skimming?
- To find specific details
- To get a general idea
- To analyze deeply
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What does 'quickly' imply you are doing?
4Question 4.
Active reading involves passive engagement with the text.
- True
- False
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Are you just reading if you are taking notes?
Question 5.
You have a text with various subsections. How would you approach skimming it to write a summary?
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What parts of a text signal important information?
Question 6.
You need to answer a multiple-choice question about a text but lost the page. How would you use scanning to quickly find the relevant detail?
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Which words from the question are likely in the passage?

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