Effective Test-Taking Strategies for Success

PPT Reader s Bank Level 5 Unit 07

19 / p.66 Reader s Bank Level 5 What is the best way to do well on multiple-choice tests? Here are some tips! A. ___________________________________________________ Read the questions over and over again because they often contain important information. Underline the key information in the questions. B. ___________________________________________________ If you are sure that some answers are incorrect, eliminate them and focus on the remaining answers. This will save time and give you a better chance of selecting the correct answer. C. ___________________________________________________ If the answers contain words like all, never, always or none, they are likely to be wrong, so avoid the ones with these absolute words.

20 / p.68 Reader s Bank Level 5 In Africa, there lives an amazing bird called a *honeyguide. Can you guess what this bird loves? Honey! The bird cannot get honey by itself, but it knows how to _________________________. When the bird discovers a bee nest full of honey, it f lies around until it finds a human. Then, the bird sings to get the human s attention. Once the human sees the bird, it starts its amazing guide service. The honeyguide flies from tree to tree and leads the human back to the bee nest. When they get there, the human makes a fire under the nest. This makes the bees leave. The human takes out the honey, but never forgets to give some to the bird. Africans believe that if they don t return this favor, something bad will happen.

21 _1 / p.70 Reader s Bank Level 5 Help! A scary star is falling. Soon, it will hit Earth and destroy many people and animals. This is not a scene from a science fiction movie. It could happen in the future. The scary star is actually a huge rock called an asteroid. Asteroids move around the sun just like Earth, but they re much smaller than Earth. There are millions of asteroids of various sizes. A little asteroid is as small as a bus, but a big one can be as large as Korea.

21 _2 / p.70 Reader s Bank Level 5 One night in 2004, a fast-moving asteroid, 99942 Apophis, was observed for the first time. Scientists say that this huge asteroid could hit Earth in 2036! They believe that the asteroid attack could cause serious damage to Earth because it could be more powerful than 60,000 nuclear bombs. Scientists say the possibility of the asteroid hitting Earth is very low (1 in 45,000), but they are still worried. Why? The asteroid might hit another object on its way to Earth, and this might change its course closer to the Earth. Let s all hope this won t happen.