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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
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
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B
(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
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
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C
(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
A. rhetorical
B. imperative
C. inquisitive
D. interrogative
E. impossible
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D
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D
(A) This is a rhetorical question.
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D
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
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
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E
(C) The passage states that background knowledge affects reading comprehension.
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E
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
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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(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
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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F
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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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