学术英语阅读方法.docxVIP

Academic Reading comprehensionReading-comprehension questions can be quite deceptive. On one hand,the answer to the question id somewhere in the passage. On the other hand, answers can be crafted to seem right but they are,in fact, wrong. This passage will teach you the best way to approach the reading passages on the test.ReadingAthough it might seem like reading-comprehension questions shouldn’t be very hard,but these questions would be made difficult by exploiting some common assumptions.The reading skill you’ll need to use for reading-comprehension questions are quite different from the ones you use in your everyday life. The biggest challenge will probably be the limited time you have to answer the quiestions.For on thing, reading passages are intentionally choosed to be complicated and are concerned with unfamiliar and, in some cases, intimidating topics, hoping that you’ll have a tough time absorbing the entirety of passage in the short amount of time they give you . in many cases, that is exactly what happens: test takers spend too much time trying to understand what they’v read and not enough time working on ther questions.You were also hoped to be overanalyzing the text. This lever of critical thinking is wholly approporiate for most types of academic reading ,but it only leads to trouble. The way to crack the reading portion is to read less into the passages, not more.Although it may sound counterintuitive, in some ways the passage itself is the least improtant part of reading-comprehension questions. This is for simple reason---you don’t get any points for reading the passage, and the only way to do well is to amass as many points as possible.Reading comprehension: the basic apprachAttack the passage. This step will vary slightly based on the length of the passage you’re dealing with, but in each case, the goal is to read less, not more.Size up the question. Reading-comprehension question can ask you to do a variety of things. Make sure you know what the