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Guessing is a useful strategy.

Read the sentence below from a passage about computer crimes.

Computers have been used for mist kinds of crimes, including fraud, theft,larceny, embezzlement, burglary, sabotage, espionage, murder and forgery,since the first cases were reported in 1958.

You come to the word ‘fraud’ and realize that you don’t know this word. You immediately move on to the next word and see that this word is also unfamiliar. You may stay calm and move on again.
There are many words that you don’t know but you still move on. Later, you find two of these two things:

There are no questions relating to this sentence. Therefore, you don’t need to understand this sentence to answer the questions.
There is a question relating to this sentence. So, you go back to the sentence and focus on the word you know.
For example, imagine you all the following words in the sentence:

Computers have been used for mist kinds of crimes, including ----, ----, ----, ----, -- --, ----, ----, murder and ----, since the first cases were reported in 1958.

You can see that the sentence is presenting examples of kinds of computer crime. By using your general knowledge and paying attention to the general idea of the sentence, you can guess that the unknown words are types of crime such as stealing money or stealing information. That is enough for you to be able to answer the
question.

Tip: Guessing is an important strategy. If there are words that you don’t know, don’t stop and don’t panic. Keep moving forward. Look at the questions after the passage. If there are questions that relate to the words that you don’t understand, look at the nearby words and sentences and then guess the meaning of the unknown words

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