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    1. Context Selection

    Q: Where are the contexts of testing

    passage comprehension taken from?

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    Collect practical reading items from the

    community.

    Advertisement, want ads, business and socialletters

    Text from other classes at school such asbiology, history, chemistry.

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    2. Question techniques for beginners.

    A) True- false items

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    Ex:Read the passage carefully and decide T ( true), or

    F ( false) for each statement:(0.4mark/ans)

    It is thought that the name Boxing Day

    originated with the English lords and ladies who

    used to give Christmas gifts in boxes to their

    servants on December 26th. This is also a non-

    working day that servants are able to spend withtheir own families but still get paid.

    On the Boxing Day:

    1.People donate money for needy and other charitable

    organization. T/ F

    2. Servants received Christmas gifts from their lords

    and ladies. T/ F

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    - They are rather easy to prepare.

    - For beginning students they are easier thanregular multiple- choice items.

    Problem:

    - Students might simply guess the right

    answer.

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    B) Matching technique

    - Match material in the passage with material

    in the question.

    - Its like copy work. - The question and the answer are lifted right

    from original passage.

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    Ask students simple questions on dialogs.

    Short test passages often concentrates on

    grammar or vocabulary.

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    Among the American Negroes in thesouthern states, work songs played anintegral part in fashioning a folk music

    which was later to become jazz

    1) What played an integral part infashioning folk music?

    A. work songs C. a new environment

    B. Jazz D. Americans

    Read the passage carefully and choose the best

    answers A, B, C or D.

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    2. Question techniques for moreadvanced students

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    A) Standard Multiple- choice

    - The number of passages and the length

    of each depend on your particular test.

    - Multiple- choice questions can be asked

    on very short passages of 35 to 75 words.

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    - Longer passages will run from 100 to 300words.

    - Write roughly three questionsper hundred words, or four at the most.

    - Students can answer about a questiona minute.

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    A variety of types of question

    on reading test

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    The paraphrases.

    Ex: Karate is a science of unarmed self- defense andcounterattack. It is a sort of weapon in an empty hand. In

    many U.S. cities thousands of young people are developing

    their minds as well as their bodies by learning karate.

    1) In this passage we learn that karate..

    A. is being taught to many young Americans.

    B. and training for the mind are both being taught. C. can remove a weapon from someones hand.

    D. is used to start a fight.

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    The synthesis item

    - Require integration of ideas from more

    than one sentence.

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    Read the passage carefully and choose the best

    answers A, B, C or D.

    Ex: There are a number of types of malnutrition.Protein- calorie malnutrition occurs when the diet is

    low in both protein and calories. If the body is

    particularly low in calories, a condition calledmarasmusresults

    1.According to the passage, what is marasmus?

    A.A deficiency of protein B. A shortage of vitamin CC. A deficiency of calories D. An excess of minerals.

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    The inference item

    - Require students to see implications in

    what they read.

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    Ex: Two men, Gerard and Denys, were traveling in a forest.

    They had just been forced to kill a large baby bear in self

    defense. Then Gerard heard a sound behind them. It was a

    strange sound, too, like something heavy, but not hard,rushing over dry leaves. It was a large bear, as big as a

    house, running after them a short distance away. As soon as

    he saw it, Gerard cried out in fear, The baby bears

    mother.1) The mother bear was probably running because it..

    A. was afraid of Gerard and Denys and wanted to escape.

    B. wanted to hurt those who had killed its baby.C. was chasing a horse, a short distance away.

    D. enjoyed running, like horses and other animals do.

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    Problems need to be avoided:

    - should not ask for words or phrases exactly as

    they appear in the passage.

    - should avoid illogical distractors.

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    B) Multiple choice cloze

    Type: The correct underlined words. Ex:

    Is your home safe? Do it/ you/ them/

    each protect your family? Are your safe of/

    for/ with/ from fire or falling? Do you

    guard against watching/ knowing/

    eating/ sending unsafe food or drinking

    poison?....

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    Type: the selected- deletion cloze.

    Andrew Manson began his work as a

    doctor at Drineffy, a coal mining town in

    Wale. Here he became friends with adoctor named Philip Denney. They both

    wanted to stop disease so (1) that people

    could become well. In (2) fact, they evenblew up a sewer (3) one night to help

    improve(4) peoples health.

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    3. Alternate forms of passage-

    comprehension items

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    Type 1: Sentence- level items

    1). simple completion.

    Ex: The two men walked on the moon for hours.They picked up rocks to bring back to earth forstudy. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up

    machines to find out things people wanted to know.Then they climbed back into their moon landingcraft.

    1. The men brought rocks and dirt from the moonbecause.

    people wanted to use them to learn about themoon.

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    2). Sentence explanation

    Karate is a science of unarmed self- defense and

    counterattack. It is a sort of weapon in an empty hand. In

    many U.S. cities thousands of young people are developing

    their minds as well as their bodies by learning karate. I ve

    been taking karate lesson for five year now, says sixteen-year- old Bobby Hamilton of Columbus, Ohio, and its

    great! I find myself doing things that I thought I could never

    do. Paula Jones has just begun taking karate lessons at her

    high school in Philadelphia. She feels that she has moreself- confidence because of the lesson.

    1) In just a sentence, explain what you feel the main point of

    the passage is..

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    Type 2: Editing tests

    - Be a kind of cloze test in reverse. - Must not be put in at fixed intervals.

    - No more than one word is inserted per clause.

    - Never two words are added in succession. - Can evaluate comprehension.

    - check reading speed.

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    Example:

    The boy was called Abe. He lived read in

    a cabin on a small farm. Abe lived with

    his mother and father stories and sister.His clothes were homemade. He didnt

    even own language a pair of good

    shoes..

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    Advantages of passage Comprehension

    - Be the most integrative of reading test.

    - Be objective and easy to score.- Can evaluate students at every level of

    reading development.

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    Limitations of Passage Comprehension

    - Be more time consuming to take than otherkinds of tests.

    - Be utilizing questions that deal with trivialdetails.

    - Use questions on trivial details encourage word-by-word reading.