The document provides information on mapping tenses in English and examples of verbs in their simple present, simple past, and past participle forms. It also gives biographical details about Thomas Edison in 11 sentences, noting where he lived, his education, career achievements, and cause of death. Strategies are outlined for answering reading comprehension questions, including being familiar with directions, looking over questions before reading, and time management.
The document provides information on mapping tenses in English and examples of verbs in their simple present, simple past, and past participle forms. It also gives biographical details about Thomas Edison in 11 sentences, noting where he lived, his education, career achievements, and cause of death. Strategies are outlined for answering reading comprehension questions, including being familiar with directions, looking over questions before reading, and time management.
The document provides information on mapping tenses in English and examples of verbs in their simple present, simple past, and past participle forms. It also gives biographical details about Thomas Edison in 11 sentences, noting where he lived, his education, career achievements, and cause of death. Strategies are outlined for answering reading comprehension questions, including being familiar with directions, looking over questions before reading, and time management.
MAPING OF TENSES PRESENT PAST Simple Present Simple Past S + VERB -1 + O S + VERB 2 + O Present Continuous Past Continuous S + (IS,AM,ARE) + VERB-ING + O S + (WAS,WERE) + VERB-NG + O
Present Perfect Past Perfect
s + (have/has) + Verb 3 + O S + had + verb 3 + O Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous S + have/has + been + verb-ing S + had + been + verb-ing + O +O FUTURE FUTURE Simple Future Past Future S + WILL + VERB 1+ O S + WOULD + VERB 1+O Simple Future Continuous Past Future Continuous S + will + be + Verb-ing + O S + would + be + verb-ing + O Simple Future Perfect Past Future Perfect S + will + have + Verb3 + O S + would + have + Verb3 + O Simple Future Perfect Past Future Perfect Continuous Continuous S + will + have +been + S + would + have + been + verb-ing + O verb-ing + O No Simple Present/ Simple Past/ Perfect Verb 1 Verb 2 Verb 3 1 Help - - 2 Wash - - 3 Need - - 4 Want - - 5 Invite - - 6 Take - - 7 Drink - - 8 Buy - - 9 Get - - 10 say - - 11 Cut - - 13 Sit - - No Simple Present/ Simple Past/ Perfect Verb 1 Verb 2 Verb 3 1 - Lived - 2 - Moved - 3 - Got * - 4 - Became * - 5 - Attended - 6 - Taught * - 7 - Saved - 8 Operated - No Simple Present/ Simple Past/ Perfect Verb 1 Verb 2 Verb 3 9 - Made * - 10 - Started - 11 - Died - 12 - Turned off - 13 - Said * - 14 Take* Took - 15 Buy* Bought - 16 Forget* Forgot - 17 Crash Crashed - 18 Clean Cleaned - 19 Do* Did - 20 Sell* Sold - 1 He lived from 1847 until 1931. 2 His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. 3 He got very sick. 4 He became deaf. 5 He attended school for only three months. 6 His mother taught him reading, writing and arithmetic. 7 Edison saved a boy from being run over a train. 8 Edison made improvement to telegraph. 9 Edison started the first research in New Jersey. 10 Edison died in 1931. 11 Although he did not enough formal education and was deaf, he became a famous inventor. Part A (incomplete sentence) 1. Pepsin … an enzyme used in digestion A. that B. is C. of D. being
2. The art of storytelling … almost as old as humanity
A. that B. is C. it is D. being Part B (would not be considered correct) 3. To grow well, a tree must be well-suited to the area where A B C is it planted D 4. Personal taxes for American rose sharply since 1945 A B C D 5. Peach trees grow good in a variety of soil types, but do A B C best in sandy loam. D The Passage : 1. Science and Technology (40%) 2. North American history, government, geography, and culture (20%) 3. Art (15%) 4. Social Science (10%) 5. Biography (15%) The main types of questions: 1. Main idea/main topics/main purpose (10%) 2. Factual questions (24%) 3. Negative questions (9%) 4. Scanning questions (4%) 5. Inference questions (12%) 6. Vocabulary-in-context questions (26%) 7. Reference questions (10%) Strategies for this section: 1. Be familiar with the direction. 2. For each passage, begin by briefly looking over the questions. 3. Read each passage at a comfortable speed. 4. Answer the questions, referring to the passage when necessary. 5. Eliminate answer that are clearly wrong or do not answer the questions 6. Mark difficult or time-consuming answer. 7. Don’t spend more time than about 10 minutes on any one reading. 8. When only a few minute remain, don’t start guessing blindly. 9. When there are only a few seconds left, fill in all remaining blanks with your guess .