Master key reading strategies, text types, and question formats for TOEFL iBT Reading success with practical application techniques.
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Complete the Words task
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The TOEFL iBT Reading section contains academic passages with multiple-choice and other passage-based comprehension questions. It does not include a “Complete the Words” task.
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intact first sentence
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In Complete the Words tasks, the opening sentence is left complete to provide context. Test-takers must use this anchor to predict and complete the partially deleted words that follow in the paragraph.
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Read in Daily Life task
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This is not a TOEFL iBT Reading task; TOEFL Reading uses academic passages only. In the current format, the section has 2 passages with 10 questions each (20 total) and 35 minutes to complete.
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nonlinear text formats
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Practical document layouts that are not continuous prose, such as schedules, forms, invoices, and notices. These appear in Read in Daily Life tasks and require different reading strategies than traditional paragraph-based texts.
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telegraphic language
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The early stage of language acquisition, usually around age 2, in which children use short, simple utterances made mostly of content words. Function words such as articles, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs are often omitted, as in "Want milk."
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