MCQS

CHAPTER: 7

PG 160- 168

1. _______________ is a lifelong skill and a key to success in college and career. (pg 160)
a) Reading
b) Writing
c) Maths
d) Listening
2. Reading is ___________ for success in any career where processing information from
correspondence, email messages, manuals, and graphics is daily occurrence. (pg 160)
a) Mandatory
b) Necessary
c) Essential
3. By practicing _____________ habits in your personal life, you can improve your understanding
of everything from the fine print on contracts and insurance policies to the latest best-selling
novel. (Pg 160)
a) Active reading
b) Passive reading
4. Speed reading is a ____________ issue.
a) Controversial
b) Critical
c) Uncontroversial
5. To read efficiently, vary your reading rate with the______________ and your purpose for
reading. (pg 160)
a) Type of material
b) Format of text
c) Familiar information
6. Knowing that your reading rate for difficult or unfamiliar material is naturally going to be
__________ than your rate for less complex kinds of information can help you plan your study
time. ( pg 160 )
a) Slower
b) Faster
c) Rapid
7. To ___________ adjust your reading rate and schedule your reading time to meet the demands
of any reading task. ( pg 160)
a) Read efficiently
b) Read effectively
c) Read thoroughly
8. Students who are ______________ are involved, self motivated and willing to take intellectual
risks. (pg 161)
 a) Active readers
b) Passive readers
9. _______________ control their interest level and concentration. (pg 162)
a) Active readers
b) Passive readers
10. ____________ are not in control of their reading. (pg 162)
a) Active readers
b) Passive readers
11. A common passive reading experience is to _____________ in the middle of a paragraph,
wondering what you have just read. (pg 162)
a) Wake up
b) Run up
c) Jump up
12. The key to active reading is to _____________ with the text, to engaged your mind with the
author’s. (pg 162)
a) Interact
b) Relate
c) Indulge
13. _______________ is the awareness of yourself in the process of thinking and the actions you
take to control the process. (pg 163)
a) Metacognition
b) Active reading
c) Skimming
14. The connection between the ___________________ is that they are both processes that you
can control by the choices you make and the actions you take. (pg 163)
a) Reading and studying
b) Reading and writing
c) Reading and learning
15. ______________ helps reinforce the information you have learned so that it stays in your
memory. (pg 164)
a) Reviewing
b) Recalling
c) Recording
16. Reciting is especially helpful for those who have an ______________ learning preference but
anyone can benefit from it. (pg 164)
a) Auditory
b) Visual
c) Tactile- kinesthetic
17. _____________ is a quick reading to get a general idea or overall impression of what is covered.
(pg 164)
a) Skimming
b) Scanning
18. Skimming is ________ picture strategy. (pg 164)
a) Big
b) Large
c) Small
19. _______________ use different strategies for different purposes. (pg 164)
a) Active readers
b) Passive readers
20. _____________ is a quick reading to find a specific fact or piece of information. (pg 164)
a) Scanning
b) Skimming
21. ______________ the chapter first will help you to anticipate what is come to when you read the
chapter in depth and begin to think critically about the author’s ideas. ( pg 164)
a. Skimming
b. Scanning
22. The common expressions that native speakers of English take for granted can be ____________
to nonnative speaker. (pg 164)
a) Perplexing
b) Relaxing
c) Puzzling
23. Discussing your reading with other students and friends improve your. (Pg 165)
a) Comprehension
b) Fluency
c) Both a and b.
24. Reading is more than ________ recognition. ( pg 166)
a) Word
b) Text
c) Alphabets.
25. _____________ is about comprehending or understanding, an author’s idea as they develop
from sentence to sentence. (pg 166)
a) Reading
b) Listening
c) Writing.
26. In a text book chapter, the ______________ usually provide strong clues to the chapter’s central
idea. (pg 167)
a) Title
b) Introductory paragraph
c) Both.
27. A paragraph can be anywhere from one to several sentences long and it may contains. ( pg 167)
a. Topic sentence
b. Support sentences
c. Concluding sentence
d. All of these.
28. The ______________ is a direct statement of the author’s main idea. ( pg 167)
a) Topic sentence
b) Support sentence
c) Concluding sentence
29. The ____________ contain major or minor details that develop, or explain the main idea. ( pg
167)
a) Topic sentence
b) Support sentence
c) Concluding sentence
30. The ____________ may restate the main idea, introduce a new but related idea, make an
inference, end the paragraph with another detail, or provide a transition to the next paragraph.
( pg 167)
a) Topic sentence
b) Support sentence
c) Concluding sentence
31. The __________ is the most general sentence in the paragraph. ( pg 168)
a) Topic sentence
b) Concluding sentence
32. The topic sentence express the author’s _____________. ( pg 168)
a) Main idea
b) Supporting details

QUESTION/ ANSWERS
Q6. What is the difference between main idea and a detail?
Ans. The main idea is only a statement of fact or opinion that means little or without evidence to
support it but the details includes facts, reasons and examples. (pg 168)

Q7. What is one of the organizational patterns explained in this chapter that you have used in
your own conversation or writing and have also recognized in your reading ?
Ans. Example is one of the organizational patterns explained in this chapter that I have used in
my own conversation or writing and have also recognized in my reading. (pg 174)

Q8. Why is it important to underline, highlight or annotate information in your textbook?

Ans. Marking your textbooks by underlining, highlighting and annotating improves your
concentration for two reasons. It focuses your attention on the task of reading and it provides
tactile-kinesthetic pathway to brain. ( pg 176)

Q9. What kinds of information you usually underline or mark when reading assigned textbook
chapters?
Ans. I usually mark definition of important terms, examples used, experiments, names, dates,
historical events, principles, rules, characteristics etc. (pg 177)
Q10. What will you do to become a more active reader? List one strategy that you will try.
Ans. I will try to interact with the text by taking notes, marking the text, questioning and
thinking about the author’s ideas. ( pg 162)