Circle the most accurate response to each item.
Activating prior knowledge is considered important to comprehension because
a. your first impression is usually the most accurate.
b. it is natural to learn by connecting new information to what you already know.
c. it usually interferes with the message of the author.
d. all of the above
Ques. 2Circle the most accurate response to each item.
According to your textbook, prior knowledge means
a. what you already know about the subject of a passage.
b. the knowledge you gain after thinking about what you've read.
c. correct information.
d. using imagination to interact with text.
Ques. 3Circle the most accurate response to each item.
Which of the following will most likely not help you figure out the author's purpose?
a. The author's source material
b. The genre of the reading
c. The title
d. The section of the publication in which the selection appears
Ques. 4Circle the most accurate response to each item.
An author most often has one of these three purposes for writing:
a. to inspire, to express, or to negotiate.
b. to inform, to persuade, or to express.
c. to analyze, to express, or to warn.
d. to summarize, to amuse, or to provoke a response.
Ques. 5Circle the most accurate response to each item.
What does the reading strategy called surveying help you with?
a. It helps you gain an overview or an impression of what a selection is about.
b. It helps you predict, before reading, what the passage says.
c. It helps you decide whether or not to read the selection.
d. all of the above
Ques. 6Circle the most accurate response to each item.
Which of the following is not an example of an interactivity strategy?
a. Relaxing before you read
b. Forming a mental picture from words
c. Pointing at the words as you read
d. Relating new information to what you already know
Ques. 7Circle the most accurate response to each item.
According to your textbook, interactivity means
a. information in one class that affects another.
b. inability to concentrate.
c. the ability of two or more people to work with and affect one another.
d. activities that happen one right after the other.
Ques. 8Using the list of four words, circle the answer that best completes each sentence.
Sometimes brilliant new ideas take time to _____. The chairperson of a committee may bring
up a problem two or three times at meetings before a solution begins to emerge.
a. hackneyed
b. transgress
c. extramarital
d. gestate
Ques. 9Using the list of four words, circle the answer that best completes each sentence.
The salespeople at the local computer store used to be so friendly. I could always count on
speaking to a knowledgeable person who really loved working with computers. After the
management changed, however, the new salespeople seemed to become less interested in my
computer and more interested in my wallet. Sometimes when I ask a question, all I get are
_____ efforts to get me to buy more stuff.
a. intrafamily
b. gestated
c. hackneyed
d. communal
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