1. The headmaster took the students' version of the theft with a pinch of salt. This means that the headmaster

believed the students' version ignored the students' version doubted the students' version accepted the students' version

2. Read this short passage. Esi walked into the exam hall with a big smile and a pencil case full of sharpened pencils. She sat down and waited quietly. Which is the most reasonable inference about Esi?

She has forgotten her pencils She is well prepared and confident She is late for the exam She is angry with the teacher

3. Which of these sentences is an opinion?

The school has 300 pupils. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level. Accra is the capital city of Ghana. The new library is the most wonderful building in the country.

4. Read this sentence. The new road built last year is a disaster and the engineers are useless. Which words show the writer's opinion rather than fact?

the engineers the new road built last year a disaster and useless

5. Read this sentence. After the long speech half the audience was yawning and checking their watches. What does this suggest?

The speech was very short The audience was angry The audience was bored The audience was excited

6. You want to quickly get the general main idea of a long article before reading it closely. Which reading technique should you use?

Scanning Skimming Memorising Copying

7. You need to find the date of a meeting in a notice. Which reading technique is best?

Scanning Predicting Summarising Skimming

8. Read this passage. Ama has been practising the drums every evening and the school cultural day is next week. Which is the most reasonable prediction?

She will perform at the cultural day She will sell her drums tomorrow She will forget about the cultural day She will stop going to school

9. In a story a boy always looks at the floor and changes the subject whenever the teacher asks about homework. What pattern does this suggest?

He loves talking about homework He is very proud of his homework He has no teacher He may be afraid or guilty about his homework

10. A story shows a girl who shared her food with a hungry friend and later received help when she needed it. Which is the best generalization for real life?

Never share your food Hungry people must wait Friends always have food Kindness often comes back to us

11. An advertisement says: Taste the happiness! Buy yours today! What is the main purpose of this text?

To persuade To inform To confuse To entertain

12. In which type of text are the most important facts placed in the first paragraph?

A drama script A storybook A news article A poem

13. Which sentence is written in formal language?

The meeting is off so forget it. No way the meeting is happening now. We are gonna push the meeting back a bit. The committee has resolved to postpone the meeting.

14. Complex comprehension questions often require you to do what?

Combine what the text says with logic to find answers not directly stated Guess without reading Copy words from the text only Ignore the text completely

15. Which word would make a reader feel sadness in a text about a flood destroying a village?

delightful heartbreaking routine amusing

16. Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word: If you want to be believed you must be objective.

positive active subjective emotive

17. In the 5 Ws and 1 H strategy which question helps you find the outcome of an event?

How Who Where When

18. About how long should a summary be compared with the original text?

The same length Exactly one word About one quarter of the length Twice as long

19. Why should you not copy whole sentences from the original text when writing a summary?

Copying is always encouraged Copying whole sentences is plagiarism and a summary should be in your own words The original has no good sentences Copying makes the summary shorter

20. Which of these should be left out of an objective summary?

The main facts Personal opinions and decorative adjectives The outcome The who and where