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This book contains a wide range of activities aimed at improving your English and developing the language and skills which you will need to pass the examination.

This book contains a wide range of activities aimed at improving your English and developing the language and skills which you will need to pass the examination. | READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY READING COMPREHENSION SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY 3rd Edition ® NEW YORK Copyright © 2005 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Reading comprehension success in 20 minutes a day.—3rd ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-494-9 (paper) 1. Reading comprehension—Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title. II. Title: Reading comprehension success in twenty minutes a day. LB1050.45.C45 2005 428.4—dc22 2005047184 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Third Edition For information on LearningExpress, other LearningExpress products, or bulk sales, please write to us at: LearningExpress 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com Contents INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book ix PRETEST 1 BUILDING A STRONG FOUNDATION LESSON 1 Getting the Essential Information 19 How to be an active reader, picking up clues in what you read LESSON 2 Finding the Main Idea 27 Looking beyond the facts, considering the author’s motive LESSON 3 Defining Vocabulary in Context 33 Dealing with unfamiliar words without a dictionary LESSON 4 The Difference between Fact and Opinion 39 Distinguishing between what an author knows and what an author believes to be true LESSON 5 Putting It All Together 45 Practice in combining the skills you’ve learned in Lessons 1–4 v –CONTENTS– STRUCTURE LESSON 6 Start from the Beginning: Chronological Order 53 Working through passages that start at the beginning and finish at the end of a sequence of events LESSON 7 Order of Importance 61 Using the order in the writing to determine what is most important to the author LESSON 8 Similarities and Differences: Compare and Contrast 67 Using comparisons to determine the author’s attitude LESSON 9 Why Do Things Happen? A Look at Cause and Effect 73 The relationship between .