QUIZ 1 READING AND WRITING SKILLS

Text is a group of ideas put together to make a central idea.

• True

• False

Text is a continuous sequence of sounds forming utterances or conversations in spoken language.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

This talks about discourse not a text.

Reading is the process of decoding the written symbols and meaning from them.

• True

• False

To persuade means people can learn information and develop better understanding of topic.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Persuade means trying to convince or influence other people in some ways.

Another purpose of discourse is to entertain, people can entertain through giving interesting and humorous stories.

• True

• False

Text is a connected discourse, which means that all ideas in text must be related in the sense that they would express only one main idea.

• True

• False

The reading process should start by directly analyzing the words.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It must start by word-recognition.

Skimming the text means you look for the specific information of the reading and identify the ideas that develop it.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Skimming is looking for the general idea of the text.

Critical reading involves asking questions about the author’s intention, the text’s structure and purpose and the meanings of individual words and phrases.

• True

• False

One of the benefits of reading is that through reading readers learn how to write a complex sentence.

• True

• False