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Practice Final Exam
ENGL032

Part 1: In this section of the final exam, you will be asked questions about Active Reading Strategies. You will need to know the definitions of each one in order to answer the questions on the final exam. As a way of preparing, test your knowledge of each strategy by defining or describing each one in the space below.

Prediction

Questioning/Wondering

Summarizing

Visualizing

Making Connections

Part 2: Read the following passage in the left column. In the right column, read the thoughts of someone who has already read this passage. Then, in each blank, identify the reading strategy this reader activated while reading the passage “Chicago and Cleveland.”

Chicago and Cleveland (1)
Chicago, at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, is a port city.(2) It is also an important commercial (3) and industrial center of the Midwest. It is well known for its educational, cultural, and recreational centers. Chicago draws thousands to its concert halls, art museums, and sports arenas.(4) Cleveland, on the south shore of Lake Erie, is also a port city and a commercial and industrial center important to its area (5). Like Chicago, it has several important educational, cultural, and recreational centers. It has colleges and universities, and a distinguished (6) symphony orchestra. It has one of the finest art museums of the world, and many recreational centers. The location of the two cities contributed to their growth, but this similarity is not enough to explain the wide social diversity(7) (8).
[Adapted from Smith, Breaking Through, 7th edition, p. 191]

Active Reading Strategies

(1) As I read the title, I ask myself if it’s a passage about how Chicago and Cleveland are alike.

(2) I can imagine ships docking at the ports.

(3) Does “commercial” mean “business”?

(4) I have been to many of the concert

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