The following statements express justifications for the inclusion of Activity 2 in an EFL reading class.

I - It can be considered a challenging and, possibly, motivating reading comprehension task since it helps students arrive at a general understanding of a piece of text and a detailed understanding of its sentences and linguistic elements.

II - By guessing the missing words in the blanks during the pre-reading phase, the students will be able to identify the writer’s intent and become more proficient readers.

III - By using their imagination and comparing their guesses with their peers and the original version, the students are learning to resort to their own previous knowledge and confirm or reject expectations in reading a text.

IV - Dynamic activities in which students get involved with the text without actually ‘reading’ it at first can be one way of motivating them to search for the meanings implied in the original version of the passage.

The correct statements are

It can be said that Activity 1 can be described by all of the explanations below EXCEPT

The fragment “It is new, ever-changing, expensive, difficult to master, complex to manage, wide-ranging in its potential, disruptive of existing systems.” (lines 52-54) is illustrative of several language processes that contribute to reading comprehension.

All of the following language features are found in the fragment and could be highlighted by the teacher to help students grasp the form and meaning of this passage, but for

“In this view,” (line 42) refers to an educational perspective in which the

In the sentence “…students are IT (information technology) experts well ahead of their teachers, especially the senior ones.” (lines 22-24), the word ‘ones’ is used in the same way as ‘one’ in

The fragment in which the word with the ING suffix functions as a noun is

The match between the discourse marker in boldtype and its communicative intention is expressed in

The relation between the pairs of words below is that of verb-noun, EXCEPT in

In Text III, each paragraph can be identified with a specific purpose. The appropriate description of the paragraph’s intent is found in

In terms of reference,