When it comes to the reading section of TOEFL iBT
test, you probably will see two or three types of sentence restatement
questions which present a statement from the given passage, and then will ask
you to choose which sentence that best restates or summarizes the information
in the original sentence. Perhaps, the correct choice will not look like the
original sentence since it will use different grammar and vocabulary, as well
as substituting synonyms for words under the original sentence.
Practically, there will be special directions given
for these types of sentence restatement questions which simply tell you to
select the choice that has the essential information from the original
sentence. Additionally, those particular directions will also tell you that the
incorrect choices omit or eliminate important information or change the meaning
of the original sentence.
Hence, to help you finding the correct choices, it is
recommended that you must identify the sentence that summarizes or simplifies
the information from the passage given. In other words, a choice that gets rid
of details and examples from the original sentence might appear to be the
correct answer as long as it does not leave out the significant information
contained. The following section below is the sample of a passage from one of
the preview reading tests that you may take a look at in order for you to have
a better idea about sentence restatement questions.
As you can see from the above sample, the first choice
expresses part of an idea that invasive species leave their native environment
behind, but it does not include an important idea from the original sentence
which is ‘Invasive species have an
advantage over the native species because they have left the dangers found in
their home environments behind’. While the second choice is the correct one
because it provides the main idea of the original sentence and it does not give
the examples mentioned in the original sentence: predators, parasites, and
competitors.
Perhaps, there might be some little differences in
grammar and vocabulary between this second choice of answer and the original
sentence. However, this choice is the one that best restates and summarizes
the original sentence given in the first place: ‘Native species are at a disadvantage compared to invasive species
because they face environmental dangers from invasive species have left behind’.
Overall, when attempting to answer the types of
sentence restatement questions, you must bear in mind that the right choice has
the same meaning as the
original sentence, but the key is it may
simplify and summarize the original sentence.
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