The Reading Section tests your comprehension of written English and your ability to identify correct language use. There are three parts to this section.

In order to do well on the Reading Section, you must be able to: 

• understand vocabulary pertaining to business and everyday activities. 

• identify correct grammatical forms. 

• identify correct word usage. 

Part 5: You will choose the best words or phrases to complete sentences. 

Part 6: You will read passages with incomplete sentences and choose the best words or phrases to complete these sentences. 

Part 7: You will read passages of varying types and lengths and answer comprehension questions about them. You will also read double and triple passages and answer questions about both.

Question Types 

Parts 5 and 6: Choose the correct grammatical form, word form, or vocabulary word to complete each sentence. 

Part 7: Answer main idea, detail, audience, and inference questions about a variety of reading passages. 

TIMING The Reading Section of the TOEIC test lasts approximately 75 minutes. Because the content is printed in your test booklet, you can go back and check or adjust your answers as long as it's within the time allowed. 

In Part 5 of the Reading Test, you will read sentences and complete them. There is a total of 30 items in this part of the test. For each sentence, you will choose among four answer options to complete the sentence.

Part 5 sentences may deal with themes such as:

Office issues – financial issues- transportation-entretaiment

Part 6 of the Reading Test consists of four reading passages. Three sentences in each passage are incomplete. For each of these incomplete sentences, you will choose among four answer options.

The reading passages include a variety of types like those you might see in common business or everyday contexts. They may be of the following types: 

E-meils – memos – notice – letters – articles – instructions.

The incomplete sentences in Part 6 are similar to the incomplete sentences in Part 5. The difference is that they are presented within the context of a passage, or text.

In Part 7 of the Reading Test, you will read passages of varying types and lengths and answer comprehension questions about them.

The passages may be of the following types:

E-mails – letters – agendas – noticers – articles – reports – reports.

 Part 5 is a test of your reading comprehension.  It requires you to epply your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary to a reading context.  

Targeted Skills In order to correctly answer Part 5 questions, you must be able to determine what part of speech is missing.  

All Part 5 items consist of a sentence with a blank and four choices for fling the blank.  Items focus on the following types of issuos 

 Vocabulary: 

• Words that seem similar but are different 

-Word form

• Noun, pronbun, verb, adjective, and adverb use Completion Types 

• Phrasal verbs 

• Infinitive and ganund uses

 -Grammar: 

• Missing subject • Missing verb 

• Missing object or complement 

Things to Watch For Distracters, or Incorrect answer options, may indude the foliowing 

• Words with simlar sounds but different mearings (prescriction vn stecrptior) 

• Words with simlar meanings but different usage (alow va. Len 

• Words with similar meanings and similar usage (  some goes any

Directions: Each sentence is migssing a word or phrase.  Four possibie answer options are shown Choose the best answer option and mark the corenponding leter on your anower sheet. 

1. Although Mr. Jones.  .               been working  here for very long, he is completely famillar with all our office procedures.

 (A) isn't  (B) wasn't  (C) hasn't 

2. Trees have been planted all along the local sidewalks  as part of an etfort to make the neighborhood                      .      

(A) beauty (B) beautify (C) beautiful beautification

To finish incomplete text is based on the types of texts and grammar used in a toeic, and it exists so that you know what to do when a practice is presented.

In order to correctly answer word-form completions, you will need to be able to recognize the part of speech of the missing word or phrase. Then you will know what to look for when you read through the answer options and will be able to eliminate incorrect answers more easily. Study the chart for some hints on determining the missing part of speech. 

One way to change the part of speech for a word is by adding a different suffix to the root. Learn the common endings used to create each word form in order to quickly identify the part of speech of each answer option.

Combination Completions

Combination completions test your knowledge of vocabulary and word forms. You can identify a combination completion because the answer options will include features of both vocabulary completions and word-form completions.

The answer options for the example above include two different parts of speech: two nouns (retrieval and relief) and two adjectives (retrieved and relieved). You must pick the correct part of speech to go in the blank. Additionally, once you choose the correct part of speech, you have to choose between two words that have different meanings—in this case, retrieved and relieved.

Grammar completions test your knowledge of a number of grammatical concepts, including the following.

• Parts of speech

• Sentence parts (subject, object, complement, etc.) 

• Gerunds 

• Infinitives 

• Participles 

• Verb tense and voice 

TIP 1 Remember what parts of speech can be the subject of a sentence. In English, the subject of a sentence can be a noun, pronoun, gerund, or an infinitive.

Personal pronouns replace proper or common nouns in a sentence. If a personal pronoun is used as a substitute for a noun that is the subject of a sentence, be sure to use the following forms.

A gerund is a noun form that is created by adding -ing to a verb. Talking, reading, and filing are all gerunds. See the following examples of sentences with gerunds as subjects.

 

Targeted skills: 

In order  to correctly  answer part 6 question, you must be able to identify appropriate a usage of English grammar and vocabulary,

Completion Types :Part 6 items consist of incomplete sentences winaading you as a letter, article, or notice. Completion items in Part 6 os on the same types of vocabulary, word foms, nd grammar tams as PatSof he Reading Test. In addion Part6questions may have the folowing foou Words in Context: Choose the corect word among four words that within a sentence grammatically You must examine the context in which the word will be placed to choose the incorrect answer.

 Distracters, or incorect anewer optione, wil ofen be the same as in Part 5-words that are similar but different, incorect phrasal verts ncomect word forms, and incorect grammar forms. For some questions al answer options will be grammatically corect, but the distracters w not fit within the context of the sentence.

Part 7 is a test of your reading comprehension. It requires you to read and comprehend main idea and detail information in a variety of passage types.

Targeted Skills:

 understand the main idea of a reading passage,

identify details in a reading passage,

make inferences based on details,

skim to get the general idea of a reading passage,

scan for specific information,

identify correct definitions of vocabulary words

Question Types

Main Idea: What is this article mainly about?

Detail: What time does the last train leave?

Inference: What will probably happen next week?

Vocabulary: The word "spectacle” in line 7 is closest in meaning to

Types of passages

 Advertaismennotices

 articles 

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Single Passages for single Passages  First skim the questions and put in mind the key words – who/where/what …or nouns, adjectives, or phrasal verbs.

Skimming Methods (eye-movement) Middle section skimming Ruler skimming Zigzag skimming Absorb the major ideas of the article Eliminate the areas of the article that are not applicable
How to Skim Read When you read, you don’t need to read and understand every word. In fact, to answer questions in the TOEIC reading sections, you often do not have to understand all the words. You just have to find the answers. You don’t have to understand the answer.

 

·   Scanning: Looking for specific pieces of information in a text.

· Skimming:Read fast to get the main idea or topic sentences of a text.

·  Comparing and contrasting:Finding similarities and differences within a text 

 ·  Drawing conclusions:Taking up the information of the text and bringing up personal experiences or other to achieve a new way of seeing the issue. 

·  Making inferences:Be capable to determine information based on little evidence 

 

·    Sequencing a story: Take the actions of the story and put them in the correct order. 

 

·   Identifying main ideas:Determine the main communication of the author 

 

·   Distinguishing facts from opinions : Allocate general truths and what and author might think about the topic. 

·   Finding supporting sentences :Determining the sentences that support a topic sentence

·   Identifying parts of the text :Checking the different parts as the topic sentence, supporting details and conclusive sentences.