Question

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 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.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.G

3.E

4.C

5.A

【解析】

試題分析：在本文中作者介紹了閱讀需要的四種能力，即略讀（skimming）、快讀（scanning）、深入理解（reading for thorough comprehension）和批判性閱讀（critical reading）。根據不同的閱讀目的，人們采用不同的閱讀方式，比如要想了解作者的思想觀點和文章大意，人們一般要采用深入理解的閱讀方式。

1.D根據下文These selections provide practice on employing different reading skills to get the message of the writer這些.閱讀部分選材能給學生提供了提高閱讀能力的機會，由此推斷上文應該與reading selections有關，縱觀選項D項內容可以承接上下文，所以D選項正確。

2.G根據前句This kind of rapid reading is suitable when you are trying to decide if careful reading is desirable or可知此空內容是關于何時應該使用skimming這項閱讀技巧，而C選項內容恰好能承接上文，所以正確答案選G。

3.E根據上文可知此段介紹scanning這種閱讀能力，而E選項內容給出了scanning這種閱讀能力的定義，由此判斷E選項內容符合語境，所以答案選E。

4.C本段介紹thorough comprehension，這是對文章的深層次理解，在這個階段讀者要能總結文章大意，不需要對作者的觀點做出評論，而C選項中….. those ideas 和上文…..the author's ideas.恰好呼應,能夠起到承上啟下的作用,由此可知答案選C。

5.A根據上文answering questions such as可知此處是列舉問題，再根據Critical reading demands that a reader makes judgments about what he or she reads可以判斷此處列舉的問題應該是對閱讀內容作出評判，所以A為正確選項。.

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