A reader uses her prior knowledge, makes semantic cues and syntactic cues then moves to other more specific information. What model of reading the reader here adopts?

The Top-down model of reading begins with the reader's prior knowledge (schema), uses semantic and syntactic cues to predict and make meaning, and then moves to more specific details in the text. This contrasts with the bottom-up model, which starts from letters/words and builds up to meaning. Hence option (2), Top down model, is correct.