1、阅读技巧,有关资料显示，在美国，没有经过特殊训练的大学生阅读中等难度文章的阅读速度是每分钟240-250个单词，理解准确率大约为70%。然而经过一周共计12小时的训练后，每分钟阅读速度可达500个单词，理解准确率接近100%。,拥有快速阅读能力，优势不言自明。为了帮助你掌握快速阅读的技巧，编辑、整理了一批资料供大家参考。你可以先研究一下如何克服快速阅读的障碍和进行快速阅读的技巧。然后，大量阅读选编的英美原版材料。这些文章大多在100-450个单词长度范围内，难度中等，内容涉及各种专业和主题。每篇文章后都附有问题及答案。请以最快的速度阅读，然后回答问题。,阅读技巧一 Think of the p
2、assage as a whole,When you practice reading with passages shorter than book length, do not try to take in each word separately, one after the other. It is much more difficult to grasp the broad theme of the passage this way, and you will also get the stuck on individual words which may not be absolu
3、tely essential to a general understanding of the passage. It is a good idea to skim through the passage very quickly first to get the general idea of each paragraph. Titles, paragraph headings and emphasized word can be a great help in getting this skeleton outline of the passage. It is surprising h
4、ow many people do not read titles, introductions or paragraph headings. Can you, without looking back, remember the title of this passage and the heading of this paragraph?,阅读技巧二 Obstacles to faster effective reading,Perhaps you have seen very young children or very old people-learning to read. They
5、 move the index finger along the line of print, pointing to each word, sometimes even to individual letters, saying the word or letters to themselves in a low voice. This is called “vocalizing.“ Sometimes the learner makes no sound though his lips may move to form the words, sometimes there is not e
6、ven any perceptible movement of the mouth at all, but the learner is still activating his throat muscles slightly to say the words to himself. He is still vocalizing.,However slight the extent of vocalizing may be， it will still be impossible for such a reader to reach a speed of more than about 280
7、 w.p.m The appreciation of written words must be entirely visual and we must read more than one word at a time.,Look at you, the second word of this passage. Even if you look straight at the o of that word, without moving your eyes at all， you can clearly see perhaps and have on either side. So you
8、can read three words at once. When you are reading well, your eyes will be one or two groups ahead of the one your mind is taking in.,Practice on something easy and interesting Many students, who try to increase their effective reading speed, become discouraged when they find that if they try to rac
9、e through a passage faster, they fail to take in what they have read. At the end, they have been so busy reading faster that they cannot remember what the passage was about. The problem here is that the material they are practicing on is either too difficult for them in vocabulary or content, or not
10、 sufficiently interesting. Read things you like reading. There is bound to be some area that interests you and in which you can find books of about your level of ability or just below.,If you want a quick check on how easy a book is , read through three or four pages at random. If there are , on ave
11、rage, more than five or six words on each page that are completely new to you , then the book (though you may preserve with it for interests sake) is not suitable for reading-speed improvement. You cannot achieve a permanent improvement in your reading speed if most of the time you are practicing re
12、ading slowly.,阅读技巧三 Hints for reading practice (part 1),Set aside time each day Most of us can find 15minutes or half an hour each day for some specific regular activity. It may be a free period or a regular wait, say in the queue for a bus or meal-even while eating breakfast. One famous surgeon alw
13、ays made it a rule to spend at least 15 minutes on general reading before he went to sleep each night. Whether he went to bed at 10 P.M. or 2.30 a.m. made no difference. Even if you cannot keep to this kind discipline, it is a good idea to make sure you always have a general interest book in your po
14、cket. Dont forget it should be a book which entertains you and the English must not be too difficult for you.,Check your progress through pacing Nearly all speed reading courses have a pacing reading element-some timing device which lets the students know how many word a minute he is reading. You ca
15、n do this simply by looking at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes and noting down the page number you have reached. Check the average number of words per page for the particular book you are reading. How do you know when 5 minutes have passed on your watch if you are busy reading the book? Well, this
16、is difficult at first. A friend can help by timing you over a set period, or you can read within hearing distance of a public clock which strikes the quarter hours. Pace yourself every three or four days, always with the same kind of easy, general interest book. You should soon notice your habitual
17、w.p.m. rate creeping up.,Check comprehension Obviously there is little point in increasing your w. p.m. rate if you do not understand what you are reading. When your are consciously trying to increase your reading speed, stop after every chapter (if you are reading a novel) or every section or group
18、 of ten or twelve pages (if it is a textbook) and ask yourself a few questions about what you have been reading. If you find you have lost the thread of the story, or you cannot remember clearly the details of what was said, re-read the section or chapter.,Lightning speed exercise Try this from time
19、 to time. Take four or five pages of the general interest book you happen to be reading at the time. Read them as fast as you possibly can. Do not bother about whether you understand or not. Now go back and read them at what you feel to be your normal w.p.m. rate at which you can comfortably underst
20、and. After a lightning speed reading through (probably around 600 w.p.m.) you will usually find that your normal speed has increased-perhaps by as much as 50-100 w.p.m. This is the technique athletes use when they habitually run further in training than they will have to on the day of the big race.,
21、阅读技巧四 Hints for reading practice (part 2),Dictionaries slow you down! If you have chosen the right , fairly easy, sort of book for your general reading practice, you will not need to use a dictionary for such an exercise. If you really must know the dictionary meaning of all the words you meet (a do
22、ubtful necessity) jot down on a piece of paper to look up later. Actually, the meanings of many words will be clear from the sentences around them-what we call the context. Here is an example. Don you know the word souwester? It has two meanings in English as the following sentences indicate: a) In
23、spite of the fact that the fisherman were wearing souwesters, the storm was so heavy they were wet through. b) An east or north-east wind brings cold, dry weather to England, but a souwester usually brings rain.,You should have guessed very easily that in sentence a) the word souwester refers to som
24、e kind of waterproof clothing, presumably quite thick and heavy since it is worn by fishermen in storms. In sentence b) it is clearly a kind of wind, coming from a south-westerly direction. Incidentally, you would have had the greatest difficulty in finding this word in most dictionaries since it of
25、ten appears a long way down among the secondary meanings of south. If you did not know that sou meant south in the first place you could only have found the word by the merest chance.,Pay attention to paragraph structure Most paragraphs have a topic sentence which expresses the central idea. The rem
26、aining sentence expand or support that idea. It has been estimated that between 60 and 90% of all expository paragraphs in English have the topic sentence first. Always pay special attention to the first sentence of a paragraph; it is most likely to give you the main idea.,Sometimes , though , the f
27、irst sentence in the paragraph does not have the feel of main idea sentence. It does not seem to give us enough new information to justify a paragraph. The next most likely place to look for the topic sentence is the last sentence of the paragraph.,Remember that the opening and closing paragraphs of a passage or chapter are particularly important . The opening paragraph suggests the general direction and content of the piece, while the closing paragraph often summarizes the very essence of what has been said.,The End,
