I. Multiple choice. Each question in this section consists of an incomplete statement and four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are to complete each statement by choosing the most appropriate one from the given choices.
1. ____ means getting the students familiarized with the cultural and social background knowledge relevant to the reading text .
A. Reading aloud B. Setting the scene C. Skimming D. Scanning
2. The purpose of pre-reading is ____.

3. Students' reading comprehension must start from the following except ____.
A. developing students' ability in reading phrases and sentences
B. learning new words
C. making comments
D. answering questions
4. The improvement of reading comprehension of junior students is mainly based on ____.

5. ____ belongs to pre-reading activities?

II. Blank filling. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
1. The presentation activities can connect with the content of the text to be read based on the top-down approach.
2. The teacher should help students to develop their and speed by
reading
3. The process of reading deals with , while comprehension, the end product, deals with
4. The skill of predicting is to help students form of what they are going to study before they read the text itself.
5. Students can be told that the attention should be paid on the of the reading, not on every printed on the page.

III. Match the words/statements in Column A with the definitions/ techniques in Column B.

IV. Answer the following questions briefly.
1. How do you use means of grammatical analysis to understand sentences?
2. Why is it important to grasp the nature of reading?
3. Name five of presentation activities that you often use when you teach reading.

V. Answer the following questions.
1. What do you think of the statement that Reading is an interactive process?
2. In the three stages: before reading, while reading, after reading, how can the teacher conduct a reading class?

Suggested Answers:
I. 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. B
II.
1. students' background knowledge,.
2. Comprehension, silent
3. language form, language content.
4. a mental picture.
5. Content, word.
III. 1. D 2. E 3. B 4. A 5. C
IV.
1. a. Determine the type of sentences. b. Understand the relations between two ideas. c. Recognize transitional words.
2. If students fail to understand the nature of reading, they will adopt inappropriate and ineffective reading strategies; if teachers fail to do so, they will be unable to help the students to develop effective reading skills.
3. Predicting, questioning, acting, mapping, reviewing, discussing, introducing, listening, writing, talking.
V.
1. Reading is an interactive process. That is to say, the brain receives visual information and at the same time, interprets or reconstructs the meaning. This process does not only involve the printed page but also the reader's knowledge of the language in general, the knowledge of the world, and the knowledge of the text types. During the process of reading, all these factors interact with each other.

2. Before reading, the teacher should prepare the students for the tasks and familiarize the topics, it can be done through predicting, setting the scene, skimming, and scanning.
During reading, the teacher can choose the following activities that best suit the students and the materials, transferring information, understanding references, making inferences.
After reading, the teacher should design tasks which are closely related to the text and appropriate to the students' level such as discussion questions, reproducing the text, role play, gap-filling and writing.

Comprehensive Test 2 for Unit 7

I. Multiple choice. Each question in this section consists of an incomplete statement and four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are to complete each statement by choosing the most appropriate one from the given choices.
1. ____ does not belong to the visual aids.
A. Pictures B. Deduction C. Tables D. Maps
2. The following are pre-reading activities except ____.
A. setting the scene B. skimming C. role play D. scanning
3. Which skills are students expected to develop to achieve the purpose of reading
A. getting the general picture, finding specific information
B. predictive skills inferring opinion attitude
C. guessing meaning from context, recognizing function and patterns
D. All the above
4. The students can fill in table at the stage of ____.

5. Questions for a scanning activity are often about ____.

II. Blank filling. Fill in the blanks with proper words which can complete the following statements.
1. By reviewing, students can check and consolidate what they have already learned and then can easily make an access to the . of situation.
2. Reading comprehension means extracting the required from the text as efficiently as possible. is the basis of reading. Reading understand is a waste of time. Without , one can't get as much information as possible from a written text.
3. In actual reading, student's eyes move from one line to the next line below, this is
reading, which is opposite to reading.
4. Ask students to that show the content or organization of the article to be read.
5. The purpose of pre-reading is to while-reading activities. This stage of reading is called , or presentation.

III. Matching. Match the words/statements in Column A with the definitions/ techniques in Column B.

IV. Answer the following questions briefly:
1. How do you activate a reading class?
2. What does reading comprehension mean?
3. How many levels are there in the degree of reading comprehension?

V. Answer the following questions:
1. What are the language skills developed through reading comprehension?
2. How can you improve reading speed?

Suggested Answers:
I. 1. B 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. A
II.
1. context
2. information, understanding, without, speed,
3. vertical, horizontal
4. group the words in categories.
5. facilitate, Lead-in,
.
III. 1. C. 2. E 3. A 4. B 5. D

IV.
1.
1) Work out reading assignment
2) Design reading comprehension questions
3) Design reading games

2. Reading comprehension means extracting the required information from the text as efficiently as possible.

3. The degree of reading comprehension can be classified into 3 levels: literal comprehension (on the line), inferential comprehension (between the line) and critical comprehension (beyond the line).

V.
1.
1) Students will be reading for comprehension.
2) They will have to think of words/phrases, which calls for both their passive and active vocabulary stocks.
3) They will also have to practice their spelling.
4) They will absolutely use their grammar knowledge since they will need to know the parts of speech to guess the words.
5) They will practice speaking and listening while they are discussing in pairs and will have the opportunity to learn to express the idea in other ways.

2. Reading through the recognition and understanding of words will improve the reading comprehension of the whole text and the reading rate is sure to increase. a. Tell students not to say the words. Try to help students get rid of the mouth movement and require silent reading. b. Guide students to read line by line with eyes movement instead of reading with a finger pointing at word. c. Help students avoid moving back constantly to what has been read. d. Tell students to avoid the head movement.

Comprehensive Test 3 for Unit 7

1. Multiple choice. Each question in this section consists of an incomplete statement and four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are to complete each statement by choosing the most appropriate one from the given choices.
1. After reading we can do some activities except ___.
A. filling the table B. drawing an outline C. predicting D. making inferences
2. The teacher can help students with such aspects as ____.

3. ____ contains main ideas.

4. The teacher can activate a reading class in these means except ____.

5. The teacher should help students develop their comprehension and speed by ____.

II. Blank filling. Fill in the blanks with proper words which can complete the following statements.
1. To complete the communicative purposes, the writer may turn to his knowledge about
for help, and choose the language he thinks appropriate for ________
and put his ideas into code for his readers to . So reading can also be
regarded as a process of and .
2. Most of the transition devices make use of aid so that information in text form is .
3. "because, since, as " introduce an adverbial clause of . "if, unless" introduce an adverbial clause of . We call these words .
4. The development of ability has to be based on ability.
5. Readers must prepare themselves to process that the writer uses to know exactly what is being written.

III. Matching. Match the words/statements in Column A with the definitions/ techniques in Column B.

IV. Answer the following questions briefly:
1. Why do students fail in reading comprehension?
2. What are the authentic reading materials which can used in your teaching?
3. What is DISSECT Strategy ?

V. Answer the following questions:
1. How can the teacher help students understand words, sentences, the relationship between sentences, make students organize ideas and arouse students' interests?
2. What are the requirements of reading assignment?

Suggested Answers:
I. 1.C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A
II.
1. language, his purpose, decode, encoding, decoding
2. visual, visualized.
3. cause, condition, connectors.
4. silent reading, reading aloud
5. the forms of language
III. 1. B. 2. E 3. A 4. C 5. D
IV.
1. There are five reasons for lack of reading comprehension: 1) Failure to understand a word 2) Failure to understand a sentence 3) Failure to understand how sentences relate to one another 4) Failure to understand how the information fits together in a meaningful way (organization) 5) Lack of interest or concentration

2. newspapers, notes, Radio/TV guides, short stories, postcards, E-mails, instructions, letters, magazines, weather forecast, greeting cards, addresses and so on

3. DISSECT stands for discover the word's context, isolate the prefix, separate the suffix, say the stem or root word, examine the stem or root word, check with someone, and try the dictionary. It is a word identification strategy.
It emphasizes the systematic analysis of a word using context and word element clues.

V.
1. The teacher needs to help students to recognize the language; to understand the stated information; to understand conceptual meaning; understand the functions of sentences; to deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words; understanding relations between and within sentences; to understanding references; to recognize indicators in sentences; to recognize the organization or the structure of the text; to make inferences

2.
a) The reading assignment takes from five to ten minutes, which should be adequate to read about a page of text, or less.
b) The teacher should base his lesson on standard textbook material, and should avoid presenting his class material that is not found in the provided school book.
c) Photostat material should not be used in most cases.
d) The reading from the textbook is always recited aloud with the students following in their textbooks.