Week3

Detail Questions
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CONTENTS
1 Review-General
strategy

2Detail Questions-how to do it?

3 Exercises

4 Homework
1 Let's do some review ！
1. Read the question and determine
key words in the question.
2. Pinpoint key words.
3. Use key words to find sentences in
the passage that are relevant to
the Question.
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Seventeenth - Century European Economic Growth

paragraph 7: Bills of exchange contributed to the development of banks, as

exchangers began to provide loans. Not until the eighteenth century, however, did
such banks as the Bank of Amsterdam and the Bank of England begin to provide
capital for business investment. Their principal function was to

According to paragraph 7, until the eighteenth century, it was the principal function of
which of the following to ?
A.Bills of exchange
B. Exchangers who took loans
1. Read the question and determine key words in
C. Banks the question.
D. Business investment 2. Pinpoint key words.
3. Use key words to find sentences in the
passage that are relevant to the Question.
1. Read the question and determine key words in the question.
2. Pinpoint key words.
3. Use key words to find sentences in the passage that are
relevant to the Question.
You have 5 minutes to complete a reading
question using the techniques mentioned
earlier～

Are you ready ?

 Which option do you want to choose?
The Origins of Theater
… 
Stories (myths) may then grow up around a ritual. Frequently the myths include representatives of those supernatural 
forces that the rites celebrate or hope to influence. Performers may wear costumes and masks to represent the 
mythical characters or supernatural forces in the rituals or in accompanying celebrations. As a people becomes more 
sophisticated, its conceptions of supernatural forces and causal relationships may change. As a result, it may abandon 
or modify some rites. 

According to paragraph 2, what may cause societies to abandon certain rites?
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1. Read the question and determine key words in the question
2. Pinpoint key words
3. Use key words to find sentences in the passage that are relevant to the Question
The Origins of Theater
… 
Stories (myths) may then grow up around a ritual. Frequently the myths include representatives of those supernatural forces 
that the rites celebrate or hope to influence. Performers may wear costumes and masks to represent the mythical characters 
or supernatural forces in the rituals or in accompanying celebrations. As a people becomes more sophisticated, its 
conceptions of supernatural forces and causal relationships may change. As a result, it may abandon or modify some
rites.

According to paragraph 2, what may cause ?  

A. Developing a new understanding of why events occur

B. Finding a more sophisticated way of representing mythical characters  
1. Read the question and determine key
words in the question
2. Pinpoint key words
3. Use key words to find sentences in the
passage that are relevant to the Question
Q: According to paragraph 2, what may cause ?
what ➡️ societies to abandon certain rites ?

Text: As a people becomes more sophisticated, its conceptions of supernatural forces and causal relationships may
change. As a result, it may abandon or modify some rites.

after analyzing...
Developing a new understanding of why events occur ➡️ may abandon or modify some rites.

  
B. Finding a more sophisticated way of representing mythical characters ❌  

As a people becomes more sophisticated, its conceptions of supernatural forces and causal relationships may change. As
a result, it may abandon or modify some rites.
B. Finding a more sophisticated way of representing mythical characters ❌  

As a people becomes more sophisticated, its conceptions of supernatural forces and causal relationships may change. As
a result, it may abandon or modify some rites.

 Finding a more sophisticated way of representing mythical characters

As a people becomes more sophisticated, its conceptions of supernatural forces and causal relationships may change. 
Homework

3--Negative Factual information Questions

Regular Homework
5--Vocabulary Questions
21--Sentence simplification Questions