阅读理解
Students will need to use all of their skills in order to understand the reading selections in Reader's
Choice.
_1_ These selections provide practice on employing different reading skills to get the message of the
writer. They also give students practice in four basic reading skills:skimming, scanning, reading for
thorough comprehension, and critical reading.
Skimming involves reading quickly through a text to get an overall idea of its contents. This kind of
rapid reading is suitable when you are trying to decide if careful reading is desirable or __2__
Like skimming, scanning is also quick reading. However, in this case the search is more concentrated.
__3__ When you read to find a particular date or number, you are scanning.
Reading for thorough comprehension is carefully reading in order to understand the total meaning of
the passage. At this level of comprehension the reader is able to summarize the author's ideas _4_.
Critical reading demands that a reader makes judgments about what he or she reads. This kind of
reading requires posting and answering questions such as "_5_", "Do I share the author's point of view?"
and "Am I convinced by the author's arguments and evidence?
A. Does my own experience support that of the author?
B. Reader's Choice is one of the most popular magazines in the world.
C. but has not yet made a critical evaluation of those ideas.
D. The book contains many types of selections on a wide variety of topics.
E. To scan is to read quickly in order to find out specific information.
F. Do I know about the author?
G. when there is no time to read something carefully.
