tailieunhanh - The sat critical reading section 4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the sat critical reading section 4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | THE SAT CRITICAL READING SECTION Part 2 Reading Is Critical There are approximately 40 long-passage critical reading questions on the SAT. Each Critical Reading section contains at least one long passage followed by questions about the passage. Passages are excerpted from writings in the fields of literature humanities and social and natural sciences. There is no poetry. Each passage is between 400 and 850 words in length and there will be between 5 and 13 questions after each one. In one critical reading section of the exam there will be a set of two long passages. These two passages will complement each other in some way. Most often they will present either supporting or opposing points of view. Some of the questions about these passages will require that you be able to analyze similarities and differences between the two passages. Many of the reading comprehension questions are vocabulary-related. You can think of them as a variation on sentence completion questions asking you to determine the meaning of a word or phrase in context. Sometimes the test-makers ask about fairly common words that have multiple uses and ask you to choose the correct meaning or shade of meaning. Most often the answer will be a more obscure meaning of the commonly used word. Other reading comprehension questions test your ability to understand what you read. SAT passages are usually complex densely packed with ideas and many are somewhat overwhelming at first glance. You will be asked to extract information that may be stated explicitly or implied. In other words a passage may contain arguments with underlying assumptions which you will be asked to uncover. You will be asked about the logical flow of the texts and about their consistency or lack thereof. You may also have to answer questions about the tone of the passages as well as their overall theme or meaning. Fortunately the skills you are learning for the sentence completion questions will also serve you well for the reading .