《Week2英语专业阅读教程.ppt

Teaching Procedure Additional Task Reading Technique This Week’s Assignment Additional Task Video-watching: Watch the video clip “Food Corporation”. Discuss in groups and find out in what ways the food animals have been abused. The video clip Reading Technique: About TEM 4 The requirement for Reading Comprehension Major genres of articles in Reading Comprehension The Requirement (a) 能读懂英美国家出版的中等难度的文章和材料. (b) 能读懂难度相当于美国Newsweek的国际新闻报道. E.g. “Since the late 19th century, the unofficial slogan of the U.S. Postal Service (it doesn’t have an official one) has been guaranteed delivery through rain, sleet, or snow. Nowhere mentioned in that motto is a crippling economy or revenue and budget shortfalls. The government-subsidized service faces a nearly $7 billion net loss by year’s end, landing it on the government list of federal programs at “high risk” of collapse, right up there with Medicare and the 2010 census. President Obama even piled on, remarking this summer that America’s postal agency looked pretty dismal compared with private competitors like FedEx and UPS.” (By Daniel Stone, Oct. 5, 2009, Newsweek) The Requirement (c) 能读懂难度相当于Sons and Lovers 的文学原著 E.g. “Nevertheless, there was a state of peace in the house for some time. Mrs. Morel was more tolerant of him, and he, depending on her almost like a child, was rather happy. Neither knew that she was more tolerant because she loved him less. Up till this time, in spite of all, he had been her husband and her man. She had felt that, more or less, what he did to himself he did to her. Her living depended on him. There were many, many stages in the ebbing of her love for him, but it was always ebbing.” The Requirement (d) 能掌握所读材料的主旨大意,了解说明主旨大意的事实和细节;既理解字面意思,又能根据所读材料进行判断和推理;既能理解个别句子的意义,也理解上下文的逻辑关系. 历年的题型都紧扣大纲的这一要求，如常见的细节题（考查对事实和细节的理解）、推断题（考查对材料进行判断和推理的能力，以及上下文的逻辑关系）、主旨题（考查对材料主旨大意的把握）和词汇题（考查对材料字面意义和个别句子意义的理解）。 The Requirement (e) 能在阅读中根据需要自觉调整阅读速度和阅读技巧. (f) 考试时间25分钟 25分钟内需要完成4篇文章的阅读，每篇文章长度为400-500个单词，同时还要对二十道选择题作答，这就需