Reading Comprehension

Muhammad Ali Alkhuli

Description

This book consists of 14 paragraphs, each containing 16 exercises, covering the sub-skills of comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, spelling and spelling, pronunciation, and free writing

Sujets

• Foreign Language study
• Lettres et linguistique
• Language
• English

Informations

• Publié par: Dar Al-Falah for Publishing and Distribution
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9796500334820
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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R E A D I N G

COMPREHENSION

Dr. Muhammad Ali Alkhuli

Reading Comprehension Dr. Muhammad Ali AlkhuliDar Alfalah, Jordan

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Reading Comprehension Dr. Muhammad Ali AlkhuliDar Alfalah, Jordan

CONTENTS

Contents…………………………………………………... 3 4 Preface……………………………………………………..

Unit 1 : The Scientific Method…………………………… 6 Unit 2 : Advertising and Marketing…………….……….... 19 Unit 3 : No More Smoking……………………………….. 31 Unit 4 : What is Linguistics? ................................................ 45 Unit 5 : Changing Earth…………………………………. 58 Unit 6 : Man and Science…………………………………. 71 Unit 7 : What is Technology? ……………………………. 83 Unit 8 : Mr Phileas Fogg………………………………….. 96 Unit 9 : Industrial and Human Relations………………….. 109 Unit 10: Public and Private Sectors………………………… 120 Unit 11: Graphs and Graphing … ………………………… 132 Unit 12: Urban Explosion ………………………………… 143 Unit 13: Physical Fitness …………………………………... 154 Unit 14: Bees and Colour …………………………………. 166

Text Sources……………………………………………… 178 The Author’s English Books…………………………….. 179

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PREFACE

This book, Reading Comprehension, is designed for a course usually called (Reading Comprehension) , given to university students majoring in English. It has fourteen units, equal to the number of teaching weeks in a 4- month semester.

Each unit consists of three parts, followed by 16 exercises. Exercises 1-3 are on comprehension, Exercises 4-6 on vocabulary, Exercises 7-9 on grammar, Exercise 10 on punctuation, Exercises 11-13 on spelling, Exercises 14-15 on pronunciation, and Exercise 16 on free writing.

This book is designed with these considerations in mind:

1.reading material level is selected to suit university The students in the Arab Word, i.e., a level a little higher than the secondary-stage level.

2.reading passage is divided into three parts so as to The make comprehension easier. The focus will be on only one paragraph or two in each part at a time, instead of all the passage as one piece.

3.The language activities, skills, and exercises are meant to be comprehensive: reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, spelling, pronunciation, and free writing. Thus, most language skills and sub-skills are taken care of.

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4.The fourteen passages are arranged according to their level of difficulty, starting with the easy and ending with the less easy.

5.Answers are to be written on the spaces provided in every exercise.

Author Dr. Muhammad Ali Alkhuli  Amman , Jordan

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Reading Comprehension Dr. Muhammad Ali AlkhuliDar Alfalah, Jordan

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

(1) All people use their senses, and all people think,wonder, and imagine. Of course, the term “all people” includes scientists. How, then, is what scientists do different from what other people do? The main difference is in what scientists do after they observe something. They may try toobserve the same event again to be sure they observed it correctly. They may check with other people to see if others observed the same thing. They may try to explain what they observed. Then they may test their explanation bysetting up an experiment. They may use their explanation topredictwhat will happen in certain situations. So

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science is more than just observing, thinking, and wondering. Science is doing all these things and more. (2) The way scientists do their work is often called the scientific method. Trying to define the scientific method is not easy. It is easier to say what the scientific method is not. For one thing, the scientific method is not a formalprocedure. It is not a detailed plan to explore the world around us. It does not promise that importantdiscoverieswill be made. Instead, the scientific method is a way of thinking about a problem or a question. This way of thinking helps guide scientists. It allows scientists to sort out all the information they get from their senses . Thesorting- out of information helps scientists understand whatever problems or questions they are studying. In the seventeenth century, Francis Baconoutlined four steps for learning. These steps were a way to describe the scientific method. This description included these steps: 1.Observe 2.Measure 3.Explain 4.Verify

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(3) Other people changed the steps . By the nineteenth century the scientific method was commonly described as having these six steps : 1.Ask a question or discover a problem . 2.Collect information . 3.Present an explanation . 4.Predict new information by using the explanation . 5.Test the new information predicted.  6.Accept, reject, or change the explanationon the basisof the  results of the test . Describing the scientific method as a series of steps may be of some help in understanding the scientific method. But remember that the steps are onlyguides. Not every scientist follows these steps in perfect order. There are no rules about the kinds of questions that can be asked, or about how to observe, or about how an explanation is to beworded.

 In other words, the scientific method alone cannot create scientific knowledge any more than amanualon how to paint

pictures can create a work of art. The minds and talents of people are real keys to learning about the world around us.

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The Scientific Method

Observation

Define Problem

Propose Hypothesis

Gather Evidence Test Hypothesis

Reject Hypothesis

Retain Hypothesis

Develop Theory

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