1 . How to Improve Speed Reading Skills
Speed reading is one of many skills that can improve your reading comprehension and shorten your study time.
Look at groups of words, not single words.
Scan for keywords.
Scanning is a highly effective way of extracting answers from a text without really reading it. If you know exactly what you are looking for﹣a name, a date, a statistic, or a specific word-you can find it quickly by skipping over large chunks of the text. To scan, first visualize the word, number, or phrase you would like to find.
You can train yourself to read faster by timing yourself as you go. Start by getting your base time. Set a timer for fifteen minutes, and speed read as you normally do.
| A．Race the clock. |
| B．Cheek your comprehension. |
| C．Here are some speed reading techniques. |
| D．Then, run your eyes rapidly over the text. |
| E．When the timer goes off, cheek to see bow far you have got. |
| F．If you read a text one word at a time, then this will slow your reading speed down. |
| G．One of the reasons is that you have to pause to understand what a passage is saying. |
2 . Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books — especially paperbacks(平装本), which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound(装订)between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock(贮存), or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the myriad(无数的)subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture(敢于去) off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small barrows(流动集售货车)which line the gutters(贫民窟). And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs(业余爱好者), have been waiting for them. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
1. “Londoners are great readers” means that ________.| A．Londoners are great because they read a lot |
| B．There are a great number of readers in London |
| C．Londoners are readers who read only great books |
| D．Londoners read a lot |
| A．is in the suburbs of London |
| B．is famous for its bookshops |
| C．contains various kinds of shops |
| D．is the busiest street in London |
| A．venture in a most busy street |
| B．venture away from a busy street |
| C．take the risk of going to the beaten track |
| D．take the risk of wasting time to hunt them in less noticeable streets |
| A．keep fine bookshops |
| B．keep only small bookshops |
| C．sell books on hand-carts |
| D．sell the same books as the bookshops on Charring Cross Road |
| A．Bookshops in London |
| B．The biggest bookshop in the world |
| C．Charring Cross Road |
| D．Buying books in London |
