Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading comprehention 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | INTRODUCTION Mythology Mythology by Edith Hamilton The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz Poetry The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry Second Edition edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O Clair Science Fiction 1984 by George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 or The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin This Perfect Day by Ira Levin Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein Science Medicine Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of all Time by Dava Sobel Mortal Lessons by Richard Selzer Short Stories Any short story by Ernest Hemingway or O. Henry Girls at War by Chinua Achebe Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Ten Top Stories edited by David A. Sohn War All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Hiroshima by John Hersey The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane x SECTION 1 Vocabulary Understanding the words used to construct sentences is the best way to begin practicing for a reading comprehension test. Using a dictionary is of course the best way to define a word. But if you re in a testing situation and you are not allowed to use one rely on the context clues in the sentence. The term context clues means that other words in the sentence give away or give clues to the definition. For example sometimes you will find synonyms words that mean the same thing or antonyms words that mean the opposite or details that lead you to identify the vocabulary word in question. Once in a while you will find a group of words set off by commas called an appositive which gives you a very clear definition of the word. 1 VOCABULARY The .
