Reading Tests: Reading passages

Read a short passage, then answer the questions without a dictionary. Check your answers and find the lines that give the answer. Then look up new words. Read a little every day, and choose texts that are not too hard.

First, read the words around it. They often help you guess the meaning. If the word is not needed for the question, keep reading. After the test, look it up and write it in a notebook with an example sentence.

Read the question first, then find the part of the passage about it. Do not choose an answer only because a word matches the text. Remove answers that are clearly wrong, then choose the one that best fits the passage.