考试题unit two.doc

How is it possible to read much faster and understand better? The only way you are going to read faster and understand your reading better is to learn to first tap into this amazing brain power you are gifted with and then second, to build a sharper focus. Once you focus better, your comprehension improves, your recall and memory improve, and your love and enjoyment of the reading process are more likely to improve. And the reality is you were probably never taught to focus in school, at work, or in college. In the Reading Genius course, you will learn that skill better. I believe, better than anywhere else on the planet, that this course will help. It is all about learning to focus, focusing to a whole new level, where you become one with the book, where nothing else matters. In this state, you build such an intense level of excitement that you cant wait to get to the next page. Well, getting back to reading and how we learn, one of the biggest reasons why we learned to read so slowly in the first place is that as a child in school, we learned to read by sounding out the words. When you pronounce the words you have to read with your tongue. And you know our tongue can only pronounce about 200 to 400 words a minute. According to the latest research, our memory is not stored in our tongue. The mind has great power that is not being used. The mind is a powerful thing, able to complete activities that even the greatest computers cannot even imagine. But, we are not fully using that great power. The way I like to explain it is by saying that the mind is like a hundred workers. However, we are using only 5% of them. And if this is true, 95 workers are doing nothing. Its like they are unemployed! Well, what are those 95 workers doing when unemployed? The same thing you or I would probably do if we were unemployed. We talk to each other and watch movies. And so those workers are talking to themselves and daydreaming. Now ask yourself something. Have you ever noticed th