Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

38 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

3. “The experience seems to last longer than the actual period in which the person is clinically
   dead... .”
   a. The experience seems to last longer than when the person is in the hospital.
   b. The experience seems to last longer than when the person is considered dead.


4. “It is also estimated that 35 percent of all people who have a close brush with death will
   have an NDE.”
   a. Thirty-ive percent of all people who have almost died have an NDE.
   b. Thirty-ive percent of all people who are sick have had an NDE.


5. “... one is inclined to dismiss NDEs as igments of the imagination or wacky products of
   New Age wishful thinking.”
   a. Some people think NDEs are make-believe.
   b. Some people think NDEs are supernatural.


6. “As for what really happens when or after we die, there is only one way we’ll ever ind out.”
   a. We have to do more research to understand what happens when we die.
   b. We have to die in order to know what happens when we die.

Reading strategies

Organizing information

One useful way to organize information in a reading text is to create a chart with headings

to represent the main ideas. Complete the following chart with the most important details

from the reading text. Summarize the details in note form, not in complete sentences.

Deinition of an NDE

The efects of NDEs

on people’s lives

Common elements

of NDEs