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INTERNALTIONALENGLISHLANGUAGETESTINGSYSTEM


ACADEMICREADING
TEST1



TIMEALLOWED:1hour
NUMBEROFQUESTIONS:40

INSTRUCTIONS
WRITEALLYOURANSWERSONTHEANSWERSHEET
Thetestisin3sections:

ReadingPassage1
ReadingPassage2
ReadingPassage3Questions1–13
Questions14–26
Questions27–40
Remembertoanswerallthequestions.Ifyouarehavingtroublewithaquestion,skipitandreturntoitlater.READINGPASSAGE1
Youshouldspendabout20minutesonQuestions1–13whicharebasedonReadingPassage1below.
IMPROVINGREADINGSPEED
Itissafetosaythatalmostanyonecandoublehisspeedofreadingwhilemaintainingequalorevenhighercomprehension.Inotherwords,anyonecanimprovethespeedwithwhichhegetswhathewantsfromhisreading.

Theaveragecollegestudentreadsbetween250and350wordsperminuteonfictionandnon-technicalmaterials.A"good"readingspeedisaround500to700wordsperminute,butsomepeoplecanreadathousandwordsperminuteorevenfasteronthesematerials.Whatmakesthedifference?Therearethreemainfactorsinvolvedinimprovingreadingspeed:(1)thedesiretoimprove,(2)thewillingnesstotrynewtechniquesand(3)themotivationtopractice.

Learningtoreadrapidlyandwellpresupposesthatyouhavethenecessaryvocabularyandcomprehensionskills.Whenyouhaveadvancedonthereadingcomprehensionmaterialstoalevelatwhichyoucanunderstandcollege-levelmaterials,youwillbereadytobeginspeedreadingpracticeinearnest.

Understandingtheroleofspeedinthereadingprocessisessential.Researchhasshownacloserelationbetweenspeedandunderstanding.Forexample,incheckingprogresschartsofthousandsofindividualstakingreadingtraining,ithasbeenfoundinmostcasesthatanincreaseinratehasbeenparalleledbyanincreaseincomprehension,andthatwhereratehasgonedown,comprehensionhasalsodecreased.Mostadultsareabletoincreasetheirrateofreadingconsiderablyandratherquicklywithoutloweringcomprehension.

Someofthefactswhichreducereadingrate:
limitedperceptualspani.e.,word-by-wordreading;
slowperceptualreactiontime,i.e.,slownessofrecognitionandresponsetothematerial;
vocalization,includingtheneedtovocalizeinordertoachievecomprehension;
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