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- Students may fail to comprehend a passage because they lack relevant
- background knowledge needed to construct meaning from the textual recipe.
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- 1. The students referred to in the passage are
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- A. learning to cook
- B. reading cookbooks
- C. learning a second language
- D. reading new material
- E. reviewing for exams
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- B
- Correct.
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- (D) These students are reading new material.
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- Reading instruction that focuses on improving language abilities or
- on increasing semantic processing will not resolve the comprehension
- problem, since the problem results from the reader's inability to make
- needed cognitive contributions to a text rather than from language
- and attentional inadequacies.
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- 1. According to this passage, in order to improve reading comprehension
- the teacher should
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- A. focus on improving language ability
- B. try to increase semantic processing
- C. try to help students develop longer attention spans
- D. teach new vocabulary to students
- E. make sure students have sufficient background knowledge before
- they read
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- C
- Correct.
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- (E) Reading comprehension requires adequate background knowledge.
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- Does background knowledge really affect comprehension in normal
- reading situations? It is noteworthy that the most convincing
- demonstrations of the importance of background knowledge have occurred with
- contrived and often ambiguous reading passages.
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- 1. The question at the beginning of this passage is
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- A. rhetorical
- B. imperative
- C. inquisitive
- D. interrogative
- E. impossible
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- D
- Correct.
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- (A) This is a rhetorical question.
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- A recent study suggests that differences in background knowledge
- may indeed account for a significant portion of the variance in
- comprehension performances in normal reading situations, in this case with
- passages taken from a second grade reader.
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- 1. None of the following are stated in the passage EXCEPT
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- A. the subjects were second graders
- B. nationality affects reading comprehension
- C. background knowledge affects reading comprehension
- D. tests are not normal reading situations
- E. reading comprehension is not currently being investigated
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- E
- Correct.
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- (C) The passage states that background knowledge affects reading comprehension.
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- The effects of background knowledge were more pronounced on
- "scriptually implicit" questions than on "textually explicit" questions.
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- 1. The researchers found that background knowledge is most helpful to
- students
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- A. when answering questions that require responses directly from the text
- B. when answering questions that require an integration of
- textual and background data
- C. when answering test questions without reading the text
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- Correct.
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- (B) Background knowledge is most helpful when students need to integrate it
- with textual data to answer questions.
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- 2. The best title for this material is
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- A. Ways to Read Words
- B. Variables in Reading Comprehension
- C. Background Knowledge and Test Scores
- D. Improving Reading through Semantic Processing
- E. Language Abilities and Reading Comprehension
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- Correct.
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- (B) Since this selection deals with variables which affect reading
- comprehension, the best title would be "Variables in Reading Comprehension."
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