Peterson's Master TOEFL Reading Skills is designed to be user-friendly. To this end, it includes features to make your preparation much more efficient. The reading review chapter begins with a bulleted overview, listing the topics to be covered in the chapter. | 12 PART I TOEFL Reading Basics E It can be inferred from the passage that A Gershwin became a famous jazz pianist in Russia. B Gershwin admired the music of Franz Shubert. C Gershwin disliked music by Kern and Berlin. D Gershwin never became a well-known musician. Q The correct answer is B . Choices A C and D are not true. Gershwin compared the music of Jerome Kern who was his friend to that of Franz Shubert s. Questions with Black Squares During the reading section of the computer-based test you will have to answer questions with black squares. On the left side of the screen you will see the reading passage with the following black-square mark located throughout the text On the right side of the screen you will read a sentence followed by the question Where in the passage would the sentence best fit in the passage Click on the square to add the sentence in the passage. When you point to the square and click the mouse the sentence in the question will appear in the passage. This is a very difficult kind of question to answer and you should not answer it until you have answered all other kinds of questions To answer this kind of question carefully read the sentence and determine the most important words usually found at the end of the sentence. Then scan the passage for the squares. Look at the sentences before the square and particularly after the square. You will find that in the sentence to be inserted the words at the end contain information that introduces ideas in the beginning of the next sentence that is in the passage. The American composer George Gershwin was born in 1898 in Brooklyn New York the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He began his musical education at age 11 when his family bought a second-hand piano. The piano was not bought for him but for his older brother Ira. However George surprised everyone when he 5 played a popular song which he had taught himself by following the keys on a neighbor s player piano and his parents decided that George .
