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TRANSITION QUESTION
Transition Question is :
 The question to identify the topic of the preceeding paragraph or the
following paragraph.

The common questions :

 Preceeding Question

1. The paragraph preceeding the passage will probably talk/discuss

about...
2. The paragraph which precedes this one most likely discusses...

 Following Question
1. The paragraph following the passage will probably talk/discuss
about...
2. The paragraph which follows this one most likely discusses...
 THE TIPS TO ANSWER TRANSITION QUESTION
 Preceeding Question
- Read the first sentence of the paragraph.
- Find out the key word in the first sentence.
- Make the conclusion
- Choose the answer that describes the key
word. ( Note : It can be use the key word
or different word that has the same
meaning with the key word.

 Following Question
- Read the last sentence of the paragraph.
- Find out the key word in the first sentence.
- Make the conclusion.
- Choose the answer that describes the key
word. ( Note : It can be use the key word or
different word that has the same meaning
with the key word.
 EXAMPLE

European sociaty in the 18th century was a broad pyramid, with

the few of the nobility at the top and the masses of the peasantry
at the bottom. In western Europe there was an increasing split
between the wealthy nobility, who spent much of their time
practicing exquisite etiquette at court, and those lower nobles who
stayed in the countryside, hinting and running their estates with little
concern for either social niceties or abstract ideas. Only a few at the
social peak lived the life portrayed in 20th century historical novels’
amid bright chandeliers, powdered wigs, and beautiful women but it
was in this milieu that the century earned its reputation for
licentiousness and decadence. Every monarch has his mistresses,
and the ways of versailles were mimicked across Europe, most
absurdly in the courts of the tiny German principalities.
1. The paragraph which precedes this one most likely discusses...
A. European lower nobles
B. Wealthy people in Germany
C. Family disputes in Europe
D. Social class in Europe Sociaty
E. Social problems

2. The topic of the following paragraph would likely discuss..

A. Description on courts of German principilities.
B. How European sociaty developed in the 18th century.
C. The life of European in 20th century.
D. Wealth distribution across Europe.
E. Social peak of European sociaty.