Part One Developing Reading Skills 1
Skimming 1
What is skimming? 1
Topics and Functions of Sentences 1
Organization of a Paragraph 7
Information Matching 13
Skimming a passage 14
Scanning 16
What is scanning? 16
Special Prints or Numbers 16
Words expressing relationships 19
Normal Words 20
To decide in which part of the text to scan for a target 22
Understanding What Writers Are Doing 26
What are tested means what are scanned for 26
What writers are doing 28
Description＆Explanation 28
Argumentation 35
Part Two Tactics for Different Tasks 43
MATCHING HEADINGS WITH PARAGRAPHS 43
Tigs 43
TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN＆YES/NO/NOT/GIVEN 71
SUMMARY COMPLETION 89
SENTENCE COMPLETION 101
FLOW CHART 112
MATCHING OF DETAILS 116
MULTIPLE-CHOICE 124
Part three Practice Tests 130
Academic Test 130
Academic Reading Test 1 130
Academic Reading Test 2 144
Academic Reading Test 3 158
Academic Reading Test 4 172
General Training Test 186
Test 1 186
Test 2 198