TOEFL Reading - General Strategies

There are 50 questions on the TOEFL Reading Comprehension section. How much time do you have to finish it?

• 45 minutes

• 55 minutes

• 75 minutes

• 90 minutes

Which is the best advice for taking the TOEFL Reading Comprehension test?

• Read everything, you have plenty of time.

• Be familiar with the directions before you take the test.

• Don't read all of the answers.

• Don't read any of the passages.

What is the best advice for the TOEFL Reading Comprehension test?

• Drink coffee before the test.

• Study as much science and history as possible before the test.

• Answer every question.

• There are no vocabulary questions on the test.

Which is not a type of Reading Comprehension question?

• incorrect verb tenses

• main idea questions

• directly answered detail questions

• implied detail questions

Which is not a form of TOEFL Vocabulary question?

• Guess the meaning from context.

• Find meaning from known word parts.

• Using structural clues.

• Look in a dictionary.

What is an implied detail?

• A detail that is given in the topic sentence?

• Information that is inferred from other information.

• The main idea of a passage.

• Information in the passage that supports the main idea.

What is a bad way to learn vocabulary?

• Playing English-language video games.

• Watching English-language movies.

• Reading different kinds of English materials.

• Studying words English a little bit each day.

What should you do if a reading passage is on a subject you know little about?

• Skip the question and move on to easier questions.

• Trust that the information needed to answer the questions are in the passage and do your best to answer.

• Read the entire passage slowly and carefully.

• Ask the test monitor to explain the topic to you.

Which should you do first?

• Read all the answers.

• Read the passage carefully.

• Read the first sentence of each paragraph.

• Read the question.

Which part of the TOEFL exam will you have to skim?

• The questions.

• The instructions.

• The reading passages.

• The answers.