HOWTOREADFASTER如何读得更快
I zipped through2 all of them in a couple of days, then reread the good ones until the next issues arrived.
Yes indeed, when I was a kid, the reading game was a snap3.
But as I got older, my eyeballs must have slowed down or something! I mean, comic books started to pile up faster than my brother Rusll and I could read them! It wasn’t until much later, when I was getting my doctorate4, I realized it wasn’t my eyeballs that were to blame. Thank goodness. They’re still moving as well as ever.
attle The problem is, there’s too much to read the days, and too little time to read every word of it.
Now, mind you5, I still read comic books, in addition to contracts6, novels, and newspapers, screenplays, tax returns7, and correspondence8 , even textbooks about how people read, and which techniques help people read more in less time.
I’ll let you in9 on a little cret. There are hundreds of techniques you could learn to help you read faster. But I know of three that are especially good.
pursuits And if I can learn them, so can you—and you can put them to u immediately．
They are commonn10, practical ways to get the meaning from printed words quickly and efficiently. So you’ll have time to enjoy your comic books, have a good laugh with Mark Twain, or a good cry with War and Peace. Ready?
Okay. The first two ways can help you get through tons of11 reading material -fast—without reading every word.
They’ll give you the overall meaning of what you’re reading. And let you cut out an awful lot of unnecessary reading.
1． Preview—If It＇s Long and Hard
Previewing is especially uful for getting a general idea of heavy reading like long magazine or newspaper articles, business reports, and nonfiction12 books.
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It can give you as much as half the comprehension in as little as one tenth the time. For example, you should be able to preview eight or ten 100-page reports in an hour. After previewing, you’ll be able to decide which reports (or which parts of which reports) are worth a clor look.
Here’s how to preview: Read the entire first two paragraphs of whatever you’ve chon.
southcarolina Next read only the first ntence of each successive13 paragraph. Then read the entire last two paragraphs.
Previewing doesn’t give you all the details. But it does keep you from spending time on things you don’t really want—or need—to read.
Notice that previewing gives you a quick, overall view of long, unfamiliar material. For short. Light reading, there’s a better technique.
2． Skim—If It＇s Short and Simple
roentgen Skimming is a good way to get a general idea of light reading —like popular magazines or the sports and entertainment ctions of the paper.
You should be able to skim a weekly popular magazine or the cond ction of your daily paper in less than half the time it takes you to read it now.
Skimming is also a great way to review material you’ve read before.
Here’s how to skim: Think of your eyes as magnets14. Force them to move fast. Sweep them across each and every line of type. Pick up only a few key words in each line．
Everybody skims differently.
You and I may not pick up exactly the same words when we skim the same piece, but we’ll both get a pretty similar idea of what it’s about.
grace什么意思 To show you how it works, I circled the words I picked out when I skimmed the following story. Try it. It shouldn’t take you more than 10 conds:幼儿学英语视频
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My brother Rusll thought monsters lived in our bedroom clot at night. But I told him he was crazy.
“Go and check it then,”I said.
“I don’t want to,” Rusll said, “ I am chicken15.”
“Am not16,” I said.
“So...” He said.
So I told him the monsters were going to eat him at midnight. He started to cry. My Dad came in and told us to let the monsters to beat it. Then he told us to go to sleep.
“If I hear any more about monsters,” he said. “I’ll spank17 you.”
We went to sleep fast. And you know something? They never come back.
Skimming can get you a very good idea of this story in about half the words—and in less than half the time it’d take to read every word.
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学习基础英语 So far, you’ve en that previewing and skimming can give you a general idea about content - fast. But neither technique can promi more than 50 percent comprehension, becau you aren’t reading all the words. (Nobody gets something for nothing18 in the reading game.)
