English Language and Literature Department

Reading Skills (EnLa2042) Test I (15%)

NAME:___________________________________________ ID№____________________

I. Choose the best answer for the following questions from the given alternatives (7.5 points)
1. Which of the following is not the reason for reading
A. Reading for survival D. All
B. Reading for learning E. None
C. Reading for pleasure
2. Which of the following is not required for readers to bring in any act of reading
A. General knowledge D. All
B. Vocabulary knowledge E. None
C. How texts are organized.
3. Which stage of reading process help readers form expectations about the print based on what
they already know and what they find in the text
A. Attend and Search stage D. Anticipate stage
B. Check stage E. Confirm stage
C. Self-correct stage
4. Which of the following characteristics is not true about emergent reader?
A. Integrates sources of information efficiently.
B. Anticipates the story line by using the pictures
C. Establishes one-to-one matching, directionality, and return sweep
D. Identifies some letters, letter sounds, and high frequent words
5. Which of the following characteristics is not true about inference?
A. An inference is an educated guess about the text.
B. An inference is reading between the lines.
C. An inference is directly stated in the text she/he is reading.
D. An inference is evidence-based guesses.

I. Match the strategies of reading given under column “A” with their respective purposes
given under column “B” (4.5 points)
A B
6. Semantic Strategies A. Learners associate spoken sounds with printed
letters
7. Syntactic Strategies B. Learners comparers what they are reading to
what they already know
8. Graph phonic Strategies C. Learners study sentence structures and identify
unfamiliar words

II. Write for the following TRUE if the statement is correct and wite FALSE if the
statement is incorrect (4.5 points)
9. When you are inferring, your goal is to read the author's mind, not invent your own message.
10. Reference, as the act of the listener/reader using a linguistic form to enable a speaker/writer
to identify something, depends on the listener's intentions and on the listener’s beliefs.
11. Reading comprehension is affected by the quality of the reading material.