Read the text below.

What is Reading?

I. Reading is a conscious and unconscious thinking process.

II. The reader applies many strategies to reconstruct the meaning that the author is assumed to have intended.

III. The reader should not do this by comparing information in the text to his or her background knowledge and prior experience, he should read due to the teacher’s guidance.

(By Beatrice S. Mikulecky, Ed.D.)

Identify the correct alternative according to the context