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Strategies to answer the questions

know the best title for the
SHERLOCK HOLMES would be To
proud of Dorothy Perry of Detroit, passage, mark the important
even though she tracked down a key words. Check the words in

remarkably dim robber. Losing her bold.

handbag in a mugging, Ms. Perry Thus, the best title of the
remembered that her purse held passage is: A good detective
concert tickets as well as £40. She

turned up at the show a few days later

with a cop on her arm – and sure
enough, the mugger was sitting in

her seat.
Taken from Daily Mail

3. Reference: Linking sentences and ideas
It is important for readers to recognize various devices used to create

contextual cohesion and more particularly the use of reference and link-words.

Reference covers all the devices that permit lexical relationship within a text (e.g.
reference to an element previously mentioned – anaphora – or to one to be
mentioned – cataphora, use of synonymy, hyponymy, comparison,

nominalization, etc). It is important for readers to realize that a text is not made

up of independent sentences or clauses, but that it is a web of related ideas that
are announced, introduced and taken up again later throughout the passage with
the help of references.

One common way of linking structurally-independent sentences in order to

get a meaningful text is to use words such as this, that, it, etc. which refer to
something already mentioned (anaphora) or to something which is going to be

mentioned (cataphora). Failure to understand such anaphoric links will probably
lead to a serious misunderstanding of the text.

In the following passage, all the italicized words refer to something
mentioned before, or after. Read carefully and complete the table.
The idea of evolution, which (1) is gradual change, was not a new one

(2). The Greeks had thought of it (3), so had Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather
of Charles, and also the Frenchman, Lamarck. It (4) is one thing to have an

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