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1 阅读的基本方法技巧 O>P792)
从考试角度考虑,阅读理解的关键要抓两点:一是准确无误,二是答题迅速。因此阅读需要解决的一个根本问题就是如何在有限的时间内高效率地完成阅读题。换言之,怎样才能做的又好又快——这就少不了快速阅读的方法技巧。常见的快读方法有计时阅读(Timed Reading)、略读(Skimming)、寻读(Scanning)、意群阅读(Sense Group Reading) 等。我们在此向大家一一介绍这些方法技巧。 Gn}G$uk61
1) 计时阅读 tYE\tbCO'
计时阅读是提高阅读速度最有效的方法之一。其具体的方法是:先记下起读时间(starting time),阅读完毕记,读完时间(finishing time),即可计算出本次阅读速度。 ySyA!Z
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In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion, companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another. Such business-to-business sales make sense because businesspeople typically know what product they're looking for. #SNwSx&
Nonetheless, many companies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability. "Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier,' says senior analyst Blane Erwin of Forrester Research. Some companies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the company's private Intranet. ,^]yU?eU
Another major shift in the model for Internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing. Until recently, Internet marketing activities have focused on strategies to "pull customers into sites. In the past year, however, software companies have developed tools that allow companies to "push" information directly out to consumers, transmitting marketing messages directly to targeted customers. Most notably, the PointCast Network uses a screen saver to deliver a continually updated stream of news and advertisements to subscribers' computer monitors. Subscribers can customize the information they want to receive and proceed directly to a company's Web site. Companies such as Virtual Vineyards are already starting to use similar technologies to push messages to customers about special sales, product offerings, or other events. But push technology has earned the contempt of many Web users. Online culture thinks highly of the notion that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request. Once commercial promotion begins to fill the screen uninvited, the distinction between the Web and television fades. That’s a prospect that horrifies Net purists. EJF*_<f9O
But it is hardly inevitable that companies on the Web will need lo resort to push strategies to make money. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, Amazon, corn, and other pioneers show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers. And the cost of computing power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise selling up shop in silicon. People looking back 5 or 10 years from now may well wonder why so few companies took the online plunge. v;=F $3
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[D] there should be no online commercial information without requests. f@:.bp8VB8
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[D] illustrate the transition from the pull to push strategy. 5e>
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全文正文为395个词,5个问题239个词,总共634词。按每分钟60个词的速度,限时在10分钟内完成阅读,再加上5分钟选择答案的时间,总共15分钟完成此题。 -F&4<\=+
要是限时不能完成怎么办?不要延长时间。无论如何,需要养成快速阅读的习惯。可考虑适当降低阅读材料的难度,从四级阅读题开始训练,以后逐渐加大阅读的难度。这样坚持一段时间,速度也就随之上去了。 V(-=@UW
由于快速阅读时精力高度集中,因此阅读时间不宜太长,一次两三篇就行了。因为时间一长容易产生疲劳,精力分散,起不到强化训练的作用。每次练习后应及时总结,发现问题随手记下。这样长期坚持下去,必能收到明显的效果。 +W{ELdup%q
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2) 略读法 :E$<!q
略读又称浏览或掠读,就是迅速地阅读,以求抓住文章的梗概。略读的目的是为获得大意或者总体印象而进行阅读。略读作为一种快速阅读技巧对我们来说并不陌生。这就像我们看报纸时,几版、十几版的页面不可能一字不漏地往下看,只能用最快的速度找出主题,略掉一些无关紧要的细节或与主题不甚相干的部分,知道其中的大概内容即可。这种方法要求我们不要把眼睛盯在具体的每个单词上,而是要看篇章中的主题句或者是从篇章的结构着手,利用自己的推理能力,对文章的信息进行分析,从而归纳总结出主题。善于略读的人会有选择地阅读,跳过一些无关的句子、段落甚至是整页的内容,掠读自己感兴趣的东西。训练有素的略读者(skimmer)的阅读速度可以达到每分钟1000个词以上。略读的关键在于一个“略”字,注意力应该集中在大意,而不是细节上。试以下文为例: h5vvizruy
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me here and there. OPYl#3I
I have sought love, first because it brings ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what at last I have found. WH@CH4WM
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. hcQky/c\#b
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberated in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. Q
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第一段:Three passions,. . . , have governed my life: (l)the longing for love, (2)the search for knowledge, (3) unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind; @U~i<kt
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第三段:With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to (l) understand …; (2) to know why the stars shine…. And I have tried to apprehend …. &mG1V
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这样一来,大大减轻了阅读的负担,一篇近300词的文章,阅读其中的100个词就能概括全部的内容。略读归纳起来也就两句话:去粗取精,不失要点。 FCk4[qOp7
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3) 寻读法 R]s\s[B
所谓“寻读”,就是通过目光扫视,以最快的速度从一篇文章中披沙拣金,迅速寻找出你所期望得到的某一具体情况、数据等。以日常生活为例。假如你要买一台价格适中、性能良好的计算机,你可浏览有关计算机广告。各种广告林林总总,品牌不同、功能各异、价格不等。你便可先从价格上考虑,通过寻读,找出几个你准备买的型号,然后从性能、信誉上进行比较,最选中你想买的那一台。同理,寻读法也常见于阅读考试的细节题中。这种方法的特点是有的放矢,为我所用。譬如根据提问查找某一人名、地名,某一件事发生的年月或其他类似的情况。阅读理解的细节题要是寻读技巧利用得当,往往会省时省事,答案迅速而准确。 Nb[zm|.
4) 意群阅读法 #Tr>[ZC
所谓“意群”也即是有意义的语法结构(英语称作sense groups),通常为词组、短语。顾名思义,“意群阅读法”也就是按词组、短语在文中的组合意义整体阅读,而不是单个的词汇阅读。我们知道,词是语句的基本组成单位,意群是语句的基本构成单元。单个词并无多大意义,只有组合起来,在上下文关系中形成特殊的意群,才能获得特殊的、确定的意义。以前面“寻读”中的一句为例:Straitfold, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice,我们要是按9个单词汇一个个地读作Straitfold, says, Friedman, takes, pride, in, its, independent, voice,不但速度慢,而且形不成一个完整的意思。与此相反,要是我们将其分为4个意群来读:Straitfold, / says Friedman,/ takes pride in /its independent voice/,阅读效率就高多了。
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由此可见,意群阅读是提高阅读效率、把握文章整体的关键。因此,我们在阅读文章的时候,目光不应当停留在每个单词上,而应当放在中心词上,把目光集中在意群的中心,从一个意群中心词到另一个意群中心词,这样的意群整体扫描是提高阅读速度的行之有效之法。 5
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汉语常常用“一目十行”来形容某人读书速度快。英语的阅读训练有素者同样能达到这一境界。但对于一般的普通读者来说,能做到“一目数词”也相当不错了——这大大超出了大纲所规定的每分钟60个词的阅读速度。我们发现,阅读速度慢的人的阅读模式类似小学低年级学生读课本,看一个字读一个字,然后再想这个字的意思。这样的阅读方法眼睛再快也跟不上国家对研究生要求的速度。因此,要提高阅读速度,就得根除逐字阅读的坏习惯。而按意群阅读,既能提高目光的效率,又有利于整体思维,连词成句。 fV 6$YCf
下面读者不妨自己做这样一个比较,先按逐字阅读的习惯方法阅读以下段落,然后再用意群阅读法阅读下面同一段落,看看共花多少时间。 VE
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Many small cultural groups/live in places/far away from modern cities. /Some of these tribes have never had/any communication/outside of their small geographical areas. /When they do contact/the outside world,/their lives usually change. /Learning how to change/without losing the best/of their own cultures/is a problem for them. /How can primitive cultures/learn to live/in a technological world?/How can they do this/Without becoming lost? (75词, 18个意群) E3p3DM0F$
显而易见,采用“意群阅读法”能一眼同时看到三个词或五个词,甚至更多的词。这样就大大节省了阅读的时间,起到事半功倍的作用。 XAn{xNpz
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2.如何识别信号词? >.tP7=
2. 1什么是信号词? -T
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所谓“信号词”(Signal Words) 是指一些在阅读中起着信号提示的词语。这些词语预示着将要读到的内容与上下文存在什么样的关系,或具有什么样的逻辑意思。因为我们知道,文章的句子不是无序地排列,而是按照一定关系,有目的、有规律地组织起来的。注意信号词能使我们了解作者的思路,理顺该句与上下文之间的逻辑关系,从而提高阅读理解的效率和准确率。请看下面这一段落:
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In that mill, I learned the process of making paper. First, the logs are put in the shredder. Then, they are cut into small chips and mixed with water and acid. Next, they are heated and crushed to a heavy pulp to be cleaned. It is also chemically bleached to whiten it. After this, it is passed through rollers to flatten it. Then, sheets of wet paper are produced. Finally, the water is removed from the sheets which are pressed, dried and refined until the finished paper is produced. lzKJy
作者通过表示先后顺序的信号词first, then, next, after this, then 和finally, 有条不紊地描述出造纸工艺的整个过程。 j-?zB.jAh
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信号词可以归纳为下面几种: QGWfF,q
l)表示递进的信号词: !<ae~#]3P
after all, also, again, and then, as well as, further more, additionally, in addition, in other words, moreover, to repeat等; Z[(V0/[]
2)预示有相同或类似内容的信号词: m((A
and, also, moreover, further, likewise, in addition, besides, similarly, as well as, the same as等; !Q`vOVSUD
3)预示有不同或相反内容出现的信号词: 3#IU^6l:1S
but, however, while, whereas, on the other hand, on the contrary, as apposed to, to the opposite, otherwise等; q,<AW>
4)表示因果关系的信号词: JOR ?xCc
as, for, since, because, as a result, consequently, thus, so, therefore, for this reason, so that, thereby等; nA!Xb'y&
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if, in case, assuming that, on condition that, on the supposition that, provided that等; l&