Reading skills- TOEFL

Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage?

• American history is often depicted in poetry.

• Longfellow described American history eventhough people really didnot enjoy it.

• the popularity of Longfellow's poems results from his stress on the values of people.

• Longfellow wrote long narrative poems that were not always popular with the critics.

The best title of the passage is

• Longfellow's Popular Appeal

• Historical Narrative Poems

• The lyric, Dramatic, and Narrative Poems of Longfellow

• Longfellow and the critics

How is the information in the passage organized?

• Two unusual characterisctics of the Great Salt lake are discussed

• Constrasting theories about the Great Salt Lake's salt levels are presented

• the process by which the Great Salt lake gets its salt in outlined.

• The reasons for the variations in the Great Salt Lake's size are given.

The third paragraph contains information on

• how the size of the lake affects weather conditions

• the effects of contrasting weather conditions on the size of the lake

• the effects of changes in the size of the lake

• the causes of the varied weather conditions in the area of th lanke

the topic of this passage could be best described as

• the Piltdown man

• Chales Dawson's discovery

• Eoanthropus dawsoni

• A definition and an example of a hoax

the second paragraph includes

• an illustration to support the ideas in the first paragraph

• a counterargument to the ideas in the first paragraph

• an analogy to the ideas in the first paragraph

• a detailed definition of a hoax

the pronoun "they" in tline 3 refers to

• the business days

• these statistics

• stocks and bonds

• four different types

The pronoun "it" in line 8 refers to

• the industrial average

• an investor

• the state of the stock market

• an investment