| for tone/attitude look for words in the text, they usually signify what the author is feeling...also look at concluding/intro sentences...and its good to know vocab words for the tone becasue the answer choices could be like "cynical" and "disdain" and stuff and if you dont know those words then theres no way you can get the tone right.
same with what the author means, like how does the author portray someone..."caricature" "dilatory"...if you dont know those words then theres no way to pick the right answer choice
for words in context, read the sentence around it and also it should go along with the passage (try and substitute every word choice in)
if you have time read and read it over again, but i seriously doubt you will even have time to read it twice (unless its short reading passage...) |