Students will need to use all of their skills in order to understand the reading selections in Reader's Choice. 小题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小题2:
Like skimming, scanning is also quick reading. However, in this case the search is more concentrated .小题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.小题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 “小题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 he 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.
小题1:D
小题2:G
小题3:E
小题4:C
小题5:A
题目分析：在本文中作者介绍了阅读需要的四种能力，即略读（skimming）、快读（scanning）、深入理解（reading for thorough comprehension）和批判性阅读（critical reading）。根据不同的阅读目的，人们采用不同的阅读方式，比如要想了解作者的思想观点和文章大意，人们一般要采用深入理解的阅读方式。
小题1:D根据下文These selections provide practice on employing different reading skills to get the message of the writer这些.阅读部分选材能给学生提供了提高阅读能力的机会，由此推断上文应该与reading selections有关，纵观选项D项内容可以承接上下文，所以D选项正确。
小题2:G根据前句This kind of rapid reading is suitable when you are trying to decide if careful reading is desirable or可知此空内容是关于何时应该使用skimming这项阅读技巧，而C选项内容恰好能承接上文，所以正确答案选G。
小题3:E根据上文可知此段介绍scanning这种阅读能力，而E选项内容给出了scanning这种阅读能力的定义，由此判断E选项内容符合语境，所以答案选E。
小题4:C本段介绍thorough comprehension，这是对文章的深层次理解，在这个阶段读者要能总结文章大意，不需要对作者的观点做出评论，而C选项中….. those ideas 和上文…..the author's ideas.恰好呼应,能够起到承上启下的作用,由此可知答案选C。
小题5:A根据上文answering questions such as可知此处是列举问题，再根据Critical reading demands that a reader makes judgments about what he or she reads可以判断此处列举的问题应该是对阅读内容作出评判，所以A为正确选项。.