Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

168 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

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EXERCISE

Reading for interpretation and inferenceMatch each of the following

statements with the appropriate personality type below.

a. I prefer to keep my distance and not get involved.

b. I need a lot of excitement in my life.

c. I have deep feelings that make me diferent from others.

d. I try to do the right thing and avoid mistakes.

e. I want to please others and be loved.

f. I go along with other people’s wishes.

g. I like to take charge and be in control.

h. I try to excel at what I do and look good to others.

i. I expect the worst to happen and mistrust authority.

1. Perfectionist/Reformer


2. Giver/Helper


3. Performer/Achiever


4. Romantic/Individualist


5. Observer/Investigator


6. Loyal Skeptic/Loyalist


7. Epicure/Enthusiast


8. Boss/Challenger


9. Mediator/Peacemaker

Reading strategies

Summarizing: Eliminating relative clauses and appositives

Writing a summary of a reading text is one of the most useful skills you can develop.

Having practiced paraphrasing passages from the reading texts and organizing key

information, you should be able to restate the most important information in your own

words.

A good summary

• restates the main ideas of the reading text in your own words


• includes only the most essential details and omits superluous examples, facts, and statistics


• condenses the original text to approximately one third of its length


• relects the author’s purpose and point of view
  Your summary does not need to follow the order in which the main ideas are presented
  in the reading text, but it is easier and logical to do so. Remember that copying the author’s
  words is plagiarism.
  When writing a summary, you need to condense the original text by eliminating repetition
  and nonessential details. Relative clauses, also called adjective clauses, are used to avoid
  repetition of nouns or pronouns. Because relative clauses beginning with who, which, that,
  whose, and whom contain additional information, they can be either eliminated or condensed
  in summaries.