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Identifying Main Ideas

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Find the Topic :

There are several different kinds of classes on college and university campus. Professors usually teach large formal lectures. Students have to listen and take notes. Then teaching assistants lead discussion groups. In graduate seminars, small groups of students discuss their ideas with their instructor and classmate.

a)

Univercity Campus

b)

Kinds of Classes

c)

Student Discuss

d)

Instructor and Classmate

2.

Find The Main Idea :

There are several different kinds of classes on college and university campus. Professors usually teach large formal lectures. Students have to listen and take notes. Then teaching assistants lead discussion groups. In graduate seminars, small groups of students discuss their ideas with their instructor and classmate.

a)

In graduate seminars, small groups of students discuss their ideas with their instructor and classmate.

b)

Professors usually teach large formal lectures.

c)

Students have to listen and take notes. Then teaching assistants lead discussion groups.

d)

There are several different kinds of classes on college and university campus.

3.

Find the letter of the choice for the best appiled grouping

a)

Sunflower

b)

Rose

c)

Flower

d)

Lily

4.

Find the letter of the choice for the best appiled grouping

a)

Dollar

b)

Money

c)

Bath

d)

Pound

5.

Find the letter of the choice for the best appiled grouping.

a)

Tiger

b)

Animal

c)

Horse

d)

Rabbit

6.

Find the best represents the topic of the paragraph :

Left handed people suffer more from stress than their right-handed peers, according to a study of 1,100 adults by University of Michigan researches. As a result they smoke and drink more. Fifty-five percent of the leftie smoke, whereas fewer than half of the rightie smoked

a)

Left handed and right handed people

b)

Handed people

c)

Drinking

d)

Smoked

7.

Find the topic :

How much do you remember of what you learned over the past academic year? How many of your high school classmates could you call by name right now? How many times a week do you forget appointments, chores, and other details of everyday life? Before you groan in self-disgust, take heart at how normal you are. We all forget all kinds of things all the time.

a)

Forgetting

b)

Remember

c)

Appointments

d)

Details of everyday life

8.

Find the topic sentence :

How much do you remember of what you learned over the past academic year? How many of your high school classmates could you call by name right now? How many times a week do you forget appointments, chores, and other details of everyday life? Before you groan in self-disgust, take heart at how normal you are. We all forget all kinds of things all the time.

a)

How much do you remember of what you learned over the past academic year?

b)

How many times a week do you forget appointments, chores, and other details of everyday life?

c)

We all forget all kinds of things all the time.

d)

How many of your high school classmates could you call by name right now?

9.

Find location of Topic sentence :

1.Women have been skilled in the use of beauty aids. Cleoptara painted her eyebrows and lashes black just as women do today. She painted her upper lids blue-black and the lower ones green. Cleopatra was alo familiar with cold cream, the oldest cosmetic knwn to history.

a)

Topic Sentence First

b)

Topic Sentence Last

c)

Topic Sentence in the Middle

d)

Topic Sentence First and Last

10.

Find location of Topic sentence :

Fantasy and science fiction are fun to read. The writer so often do just the opposite of what the reader expects. They can make elevators giggle, coffeepots talk, basketballs have mind of their own, and people get coated with palstic. They do their things purposely to make their stories more entertaining.

a)

Topic Sentence First

b)

Topic Sentence Last

c)

Topic Sentence in the Middle

d)

Topic Sentence First and Last