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SKILL 6: ANSWER IMPLIED DETAIL QUESTIONS CORRECTLY

 You will sometime be asked to answer a multiple-choice question about a reading passage by drawing a conclusion from a specific detail or details in the passage. Questions in this type contain the words implied, inferred, likely, or probably to let you that the answer to the question is not directly stated. In this type of questions, it is important to understand that you don’t have to “pull the answer out of thin air”. Instead, some information will be given in the passage, and you will draw a conclusion from that information.

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Example:

The passage:
The Hawaiian language is a melodious language in which all words are derived from an alphabet of only twelve letters, the five vowels a, e, i, o, u and the seven consonants h, k, l, m, n, p, w. Each syllable in the language ends in a vowel, and two consonants never appear together, so vowels have a much higher frequency in the Hawaiian language than they do in English.
This musical-sounding language can be heard regularly by visitors to the islands. Most Hawaiian speak English, but it is quite common to hear English that is liberally spiced with words and expressions from the traditional language of the culture. A visitor may be greeted with the expression aloha and may be referred to as a malihini because he is a newcomer to the island. The visitor may attend an outside luau where everyone eats too much and be invited afterwards to dance hula.

The question:
Which of the following is probably NOT a Hawaiian word?
(A) Mahalo
(B) Mahimahi
(C) Meklea
(D) moana

This question asks which word is probably NOT a Hawaiian word. To answer this question, you should refer to the part of the passage where it states that in Hawaiian language two consonants never appear together. From this, you can draw a conclusion that answer C, maklea, is probably not a Hawaiian word because the consonant K and L appear together, so answer C is the best answer to this question.

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