TEAS Reading
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Primary Source | show 🗑
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| Facts | show 🗑
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| show | Beliefs based on personal judgements, rather than on indisputable facts.
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| Biases | show 🗑
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| show | Oversimplified opinions, that do not account for individual differences, about an entire group of people or things.
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| show | A reading style in which the reader carefully analyzes the text, judging its credibility and the author's intentions, rather than simply accepting the material as fact, is generally preferable to passive reading. Decide how much trust to place in material
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| Purpose | show 🗑
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| show | Text tells a story, or relates to a chain of events.
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| show | Passage introduces or explains a subject, gives groundwork information that is necessary for understanding later ideas, or analyzes information objectively.
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| show | Writing passes along precise information p, usually about a specific topic, and usually in a formal or semi-formal style.
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| show | Writing that tries to get the reader to agree with the author
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| Topic | show 🗑
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| show | "Specific" message. It is the reason the text was written.
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| Supporting details | show 🗑
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| show | Subjects that a written work frequently touches upon. Themes are simply ideas or concepts that the book comes back to again and again.
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| show | Express the main point of a paragraph, or of a larger text structure (such as an essay or a book chapter). Usually, a paragraph starts with a topic sentence. Then it goes on to back up that sentence with supporting ideas, or to explore the topic in detail
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| show | Generally appear at (or near) the end if the paragraph, chapter, section, or document. Sometimes they sum up the point of the earlier text, driving the message home so that the reader does not forget it or miss it. Draws a conclusion.
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| Logical conclusions | show 🗑
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| Inferences | show 🗑
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| test structure | show 🗑
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| Sequence | show 🗑
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| Problem-Solution | show 🗑
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| Comparison-Contrast | show 🗑
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| Cause-Effect | show 🗑
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| Description | show 🗑
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| show | Text surrounding a word, phrase, or passage.
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| table of contents | show 🗑
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| index | show 🗑
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| show | circle graph: divided into sectors representing the frequency of an event; sectors total 100%
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| show | Any standard instrument of measurement that has marking at established intervals.
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| scale reading | show 🗑
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| show | Small portion of a map devoted to explaining the symbols and notations used in the main portion of the map
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| show | Symbol that indicates the cardinal directions (north, south, and west) as they relate to the map
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| distance scale | show 🗑
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| show | Titles that preface a section of text; advertise the subject of the text below, making it easier to skim or search for a particular topic; give the text structure
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| subheadings | show 🗑
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| show | Way of organizing text to better present thoughts or ideas; includes sequence, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, description, and cause-effect
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