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1. Critical reading means that a reader applies
1. Critical reading involves presenting a
certain processes, models, questions, and
reasoned argument that evaluates and
theories that result in enhanced clarity and
analyses what you have read. While in

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comprehension same for reading for
reading for pleasure only seeks enjoyment
pleasure it applies same set of skill such as
on what you read it does not require
processes, models, theories and question to
increase the imagination of a reader and YES Does Critical NO comprehensive analysis to determine what
Reading or you understand about the story
fully understand the context of the material
2. Critical Reading is a process what you are
2. Critical reading requires you to Evaluative learning about without letting your
evaluate the arguments in the text. You Reading can be a personal bias or opinion detract from the
need to distinguish fact from opinion, and
look at arguments given for and against the form of Reading arguments. Unfortunately pleasure reading
for Pleasure? may lead to a bias perception. It does not
various claim same for Reading for
Pleasure such as reading stories, novels CONCLUSION hold proper argument when we are reading
for pleasure
and bibliographies for the sake enjoyment
3. Critical Reading is a deeper and more
also requires to extricate fact from opinion,
complex engagement with a text while
truth and fallacy and other perspective
pleasure reading is defined by enjoying a
views.
plot, identifying the main character or (in
3. Critical reading and critical thinking are
the case of non-fiction) learning some cool
therefore the very foundations of true
facts. 
learning and personal development. At the
same time reading for pleasure can also be
a formed or learning. Learning to seek

Reading is an active process of constructing meanings of words. Reading with a purpose helps
the reader to direct information towards a goal and focuses their attention. Critical or Evaluative
Reading and Pleasure Reading uses the same set of reading skills, such as comprehension, vocabulary,
analysis and evaluation. It is true that critical reading seems to be more objective while pleasure
reading is subjective but the point of doing this two-purpose reading at the same time is attainable, I
conclude that critical or evaluative reading can be a form of pleasure reading. These purpose reading
can be parallelly done. Doing a critical and evaluative reading can lead us also to our enjoyment such
as like pleasure reading. Pleasure reading main purpose is to serve as entertainment but again we can
also do critical reading during this process. As we read stories and novel we can practice annotation,
analysis and make arguments with our self which reflect a critical reading skill. These conclude that
Critical or Evaluative Reading can be a form of Pleasure reading.
 SCANNING AND SKIMMING ACTIVITY
Read the paragraph below; then skim and scan the advertisement and answer the following questions:
App’ is a computer industry word that is short for ‘application’. It indicates the practical application of computer software that is
designed to perform a specific task. A range of convenient apps is now available on mobile phones and other mobile devices around the world.

1 How many Android smartphones exist across the globe?

2 Which program has over 450 000 apps available?
3 How much is the one-time registration fee for Android
apps?
4 In terms of commercial developers using the App Store,
what percentage are Android-based and what percentage
are Apple-based?
5 Pick out one piece of information that indicates the
competition between Android and Apple.
6 What percentage of 35–44-year-olds played Angry Birds
in the last 30 days?
7 How much would you need to pay for the Tiny Village
app?
8 According to the advert, how many people use Facebook
for Android? How many monthly users does that
represent?
9 According to the advert, what is the total number of
people who access Facebook from their mobile phones?
10 How many full-time employees does Instagram have?
11 How much money was Instagram bought for?
12 Which company has placed this advert? What does it do?
13 Which is the email address you would use to get in touch
with the advertiser?
Source: www.startapp.com/android-apps- infographic/android-apps-
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READING FOR MAIN POINTS TO GENERAL

READING FOR SELECTED POINTS
CRITICAL AND EVALUATIVE READING

The following questions are each based on a short passage. Read the passage and then select the one best answer to the questions below the
passage. Use the information provided by or suggested in the passage. Use the information provided by or suggested in the passage.

Questions 1 and 2 refer to the following:

"You should spend your honeymoon in Cancun. We went there for ours and the weather was beautiful—I had a gorgeous tan!"

1. The speaker assumes that the listener wants to

A. come back from a honeymoon with a gorgeous tan.
B. spend a honeymoon where the weather is beautiful.
C. spend time in the sun.
D. have a better tan.
E. have an expensive honeymoon.

2. Which of the following does the speaker fail to take into account?
A. Honeymoons should be spent in Cancun.
B. Cancun has beautiful weather.
C. Cancun's weather is excellent for tanning.
D. Honeymooning in Cancun leads to gorgeous tans.
E. Couples may not be very interested in getting tanned while honeymooning in Cancun.

Questions 3 and 4 refer to the following:

"Knitting is a waste of time. I took a knitting course at the community center and the instructor was a narrow- minded, picky old
maid."
 3. What assumption is made by the speaker?
A. A craft can be judged based on the personality of the instructor.
B. The teacher could have tried harder to be flexible.
C. All craft courses are a waste of time.
D. Quilting is an interesting craft which the instructor taught badly.
E. Knitting is an interesting craft which the instructor taught badly.

4. The speaker's reasoning is an example of

A. repetitive use of words.
B. arguing by making threats.
C. reasoning from explicitly stated assumptions.
D. attacking the personal character of an opponent.
E. over-generalizing from one specific case.

Question 5 refers to the following:

The new wife said, "If you don't plan this party my way, I won't plan a party with you again."

5. The new wife

A. lives near her mother's house.
B. is afraid of her husband.
C. avoids a quarrel by leaving.
D. wants to plan a very expensive party.
E. is usually not hard to get along with.

Question 6 refers to the following:

The governor said, "You must support my bill to provide educational reform in the public schools. Voting against such a bill can only
mean that you don't care about the quality of the education received by your children."

6. The governor
A. has been elected two terms.
B. is not dealing with the possible cost of the proposal.
C. has very few schools in his state that provide low-quality education.
 D. does not often make statements that he cannot support.
E. has many state officials backing his proposal.

Question 7 refers to the following:

Father: "No, we can't go to the ski lodge this winter." Son: "Why?"
Father: "Well, I have several things to buy with that money." Son: "How many is several—three, four, seven?"

7. In this dialogue the son is trying

A. to get his father to go to the ski lodge.
B. to ensure going to the ski next winter.
C. to save his father's money.
D. to be as mean as possible.
E. to make his father be more specific.

Question 8 refers to the following:

A television commercial says, "Buy a Krups—the superior coffee maker."

8. The writer of this commercial

A. tells a possible customer much about the quality of the coffee maker.
B. knows exactly how the listener will interpret "superior".
C. wants the listener to be impressed with the word "superior".
D. has chosen to emphasize specific details rather than vagueness.

Questions 9,10, and 11 refer to the following:

"Supporters of the Kinley Bill are college students, farmers, and small businessmen. Vote for the bright future— yes on Kinley."

9. The argument involves which one of the following fallacies?

A. The argument is based on circular reasoning.
B. The argument is loaded with emotional words.
C. The argument treats the subject humorously.
D. The argument is disguised by ambiguous words.
 E. The argument is logically correct.

10. Which of the following words would most likely be the purpose of the Kinley Bill?
A. lowering interest rates on loans.
B. lowering property taxes on real estate.
C. legalizing drug trafficking.
D. abolishing the state income tax.
E. providing government assistance to hard-working Americans.
11. In this argument it is assumed that
A. teachers and grocers are opposed to the Kinley Bill.
B. these groups are important to the well-being of the nation.
C. the Kinley Bill is certain to be voted down.
D. the people support the Kinley Bill.
E. the people don't know what is in their own interests.

Questions 12 through 15 refer to the following:

In our small town, Papa's soda shop was the most popular place for high school students to meet. Unlike his brother, our military-
minded, sullen principal, Papa was always relaxed, kind, interested, always ready to add extra whipped cream and cherries to our
sodas. He was tolerant of the noisy, boisterous students who came to his shop after school. Everyone I knew in town, except our
principal, loved Papa.

12. The passage implies reasons for

A. Papa's generosity.
B. ordering whipped cream and cherries on sodas.
C. the existence of a meeting place for students.
D. the high volume of noise.
E. the popularity of the soda shop.

13. In the passage, the writer

A. contrasts the personality of the two men.
B. suggests that Papa was hypocritical.
C. explains why two brothers were different.
D. implies why people like sodas.
 E. compares Papa's place to others in the town.

14. The writer's observations are apparently not based on

A. first hand experience.
B. reports from neighborhood friends.
C. gossip.
D. scholarly research.
E. opinions of the writer's principal.

15. If the writer's principal and Papa simultaneously spotted a hundred-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk, what would be the most logical result?
A. They would fight each other for it.
B. Papa would let the principal keep it.
C. Neither one would want it.
D. The principal would take and give twenty of the one hundred to Papa.
E. Papa would quickly claim and laugh at the principal's misfortune.

1. B 11. B
2. E 12. E
3. A 13. A
4. E 14. D
5.. C 15. B
6. B
7. E
8. C
9. B
10. A