“…The items were constructed based on ten reading passages with the topics ranging from education, literature, social sciences, and others. The questions for each passage, as shown in Table 1, aim at assessing reading skills, including skills in skimming for main idea, scanning for stated detailed information, deducing meaning of unfamiliar words, pronoun resolution, making inference, understanding unstated information, and scanning to locate specific information (Alderson, 2000;Shirvan, 2016). 4,6,9,15,16,19,27,28,32,39,47,50,55,57,62,65,66,6 8,74,77, 80,84,85,86,89 ,96,97,100 Deducing the meaning and the use of unfamiliar lexical item 32…”