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1ExpositoryWritingSunJiyan

Ⅰ.HowToimproveourEnglishreadingskills?Readingcomprehensionpassagesareusuallyoftwotypes:expositionandnarration.Anexpositioniswritingwhichexplainssomething;anarrationiswritingwhichtellsastory.Theyaretobehandleddifferently.Whenyoutakeupareadingcomprehensionpassage,thefirstthingistotellwhetherthepassageisanexpositionoranarration.

3Foranexpositiontypepassage,themethodistoreadthefirstsentenceofeachpara-graphcarefullyandskiptherestoftheparagraph.You’llthenfindsomeofthequestionsfollowingthepassagewhichcanalreadybeanswered.Forquestionsyoudon’thaveenoughinformationtofindtherightanswer,you’lluseasecondmethod.Thisistofindakeywordinthequestionitself,andthenscanthepassagetolocatethekeyword.Readthesentencewherethekeywordis,andthentheanswerisready.

4Foranarrationtypepassage,themethodistoreadthepassagefromthebeginningandsentencebysentence.Whenyougetanideaofwhatthestoryisabout,it’stimetostopreading.Usuallythishappenswhenyou’vereadonethirdofthepassage.Trytoanswerthequestions,andyou’llfindyoucananswersomeofthem.Whenyoucomeacrossaquestionyoudon’thaveenoughinformationtoanswer,gobacktothepassageandresumeyourreadingfromthepointwhereyoustopped.Goonwithyourreadinguntilyouhavetheanswertothequestion.

Followingthesemethods,you’llbeabletofinishansweringthequestionsinmuchlesstimethanisallowed,andthechancesoffindingtherightanswerisgreaterthanyougothroughthewholepassage.ThekeytosuccessinreadingcomprehensiontestsisthusDONOTREADTHEPASSAGESENTENCEBYSENTENCE.It’spossibletoanswerallthequestionscorrectlywithouthavingtoreadmorethanonethirdofthepassage.

Ⅱ.WhatisExpository(Exposition)Writing?61.Anexpositioniswritingwhichexplainssometh