Whether they’re project documents, trade journals, blogs, business books or ebooks, most of us read regularly as part of our jobs, and to develop our skills and knowledge.
But do you ever read what should be a useful document, yet fail to gain any helpful information from it? Or, re-read something several times to get a full understanding of the content? If so, look at the following strategies (策略) that will help you read more effectively.
●Think About What You Want to Know
Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you’re reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after you’ve read it? Once you know your purpose, you can examine the resource (资源) to see whether it’s going to help you.
Ask yourself whether the resource meets your needs, and try to work out if it will give you the right amount of knowledge. If you think that the resource isn’t consummate, don’t waste time reading it.
●Know How Deeply to Study the Material
Where you only need the shallowest knowledge of a subject, you can skim material. Here you read only chapter headings, introductions, and summaries.
If you need a moderate (中等的) level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. This is when you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You can then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts.
Only when you need full knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text in detail (细节). Here it’s best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject. This gives you an understanding of its structure, into which you can then fit the detail gained from a full reading of the material.
【小题1】Why should we know our purpose before reading?A．Because we can develop our skills and knowledge.B．Because we can get a full understanding of the content.C．Because we can avoid re-reading something several times.D．Because we can check it out whether the material will be helpful.【小题2】What does the underlined word “consummate” in the 5th paragraph mean?A．Legal.B．Natural.C．Perfect.D．Formal.【小题3】 According to the depth to study the material, how many reading strategies are mentioned? A．2.B．3.C．4.D．5.【小题4】The best title for this passage should be .A．Reading StrategiesB．Think About What You Want to KnowC．Know How Deeply to Study the MaterialD．How to Develop our Skills and KnowledgeD
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(答案→)D
解析：
【小题1】D 细节题。根据第三段最后一句Once you know your purpose, you can examine the resource (资源) to see whether it’s going to help you.说明带着目的去阅读才我们才知道这段材料对我们是否有用，故D正确。
【小题2】C 推理题。根据If you think that the resource isn’t consummate, don’t waste time reading it. 说明如果你认为这个资源没有用，你就不要浪费时间了。故该词应该指对你很有用，很完美，故C正确。
【小题3】B 细节题。文章最后三段给出了三个方法：skim，scan，和studying the text in detail说明共三种方法，故B正确。
【小题4】A 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了我在阅读的时候可以采用的多种阅读方法和阅读的策略。故A正确。