TOEFL® Tip: Read with Better Understanding

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TOEFL® Tip: Read with Better Understanding

  • Choose some unfamiliar words in the passage and guess the meaning from the context (surrounding sentences). Then, look up the words to determine their meaning.
  • Underline all pronouns (e.g., he, him, they, them, etc.) and identify the nouns to which they refer in the passage.
  • Practice making inferences and drawing conclusions based on what is implied in the passage as a whole.

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