Read a wide variety of styles and subject matter.

讀各種風(fēng)格和題材的文章。

Variety is the spice of life, as the old saying goes. It’s also the spice of understandability. Reading different kinds of writing styles and subject matter helps to extend your ‘range’ — your knowledge and familiarity of the different ‘textures’ of operation of the English language. So read beyond your textbooks and set materials. There are no shortcuts to this.

常言道，多樣變化是生活的調(diào)味品，也是理解的調(diào)節(jié)劑。閱讀不同的寫作風(fēng)格和題材，幫助你擴(kuò)展你的知識(shí)，熟悉使用英語的各種方法。所以不要只讀課本和固定閱讀材料。提高閱讀能力沒有捷徑可走。

Here are my seven strategies for reading improvement.

1. Read about things that interest you. If you are interested in what you are reading about, the words will come alive, and you will be motivated to understand. You will feel satisfaction in accomplishing a task that you enjoy, and which you consider meaningful.

1.讀你感興趣的東西。如果你對(duì)所讀的東西感興趣，你會(huì)覺得語言變得生動(dòng)了，你會(huì)有動(dòng)力去理解所讀的東西。完成一件喜歡的而且你認(rèn)為有意義的事會(huì)很有成就感。

2. Read material that is at your level, or just a little difficult for you. Looking up many unknown words in a conventional dictionary is tedious, and the results of the dictionary search quickly forgotten. It is better to stay within your comfort zone and keep reading. Soon you will be able to take on more difficult content.

2.讀符合自己閱讀水平的材料，或選擇稍難的。用普通字典查很多不認(rèn)識(shí)的單詞是很乏味的，查到的東西也很快就忘了。最好選擇讀著舒服的難度，并堅(jiān)持閱讀，很快你就能讀更難的材料了。

3. Learn to read in depth, stay on the same subject for a while. If you are familiar with the subject you are reading about, you will understand better. If the subject matter is new to you, you should even try to read a few different books or articles about the same subject, before you move on. This way you will meet the same vocabulary and ideas often, helping you to learn. You will also be able to get deeper into the subject and your reading confidence will grow.

3.學(xué)會(huì)深入閱讀，同時(shí)閱讀同一主題。如果你熟悉主題，你會(huì)更好地理解。如果你還沒有讀過某個(gè)主題，你應(yīng)該先閱讀，然后閱讀一些關(guān)于這個(gè)主題或文章的書籍，這樣你就可以經(jīng)常遇到同樣的單詞和想法，這將有助于你學(xué)習(xí)。你也可以加深對(duì)這門學(xué)科的理解，增強(qiáng)你對(duì)閱讀的信心。

4. If you have trouble reading, listen first. Many great works of literature were written to be read out loud. Learn to appreciate the art of the narrator. Listen to audio books or audio files of the material that you are reading. This will help make difficult content seem more familiar. Hearing the rhythm of someone reading a text will help your own reading.

4.如果閱讀有困難，可以先聽。許多偉大的文學(xué)作品的創(chuàng)作都是為了被大聲讀出來，你要學(xué)會(huì)欣賞敘述的藝術(shù)。聽聽有聲讀物或閱讀材料的音頻文件會(huì)幫你熟悉較難的閱讀內(nèi)容。聽聽別人讀文章的節(jié)奏對(duì)你自己的閱讀會(huì)有幫助。

5. Let your imagination get involved. Good readers get engrossed in their reading and let it trigger their imagination. Learn to enjoy your reading without asking too many questions or analyzing too much. It will just spoil the sensual enjoyment of the reading experience. You do not need to predict or analyze. Just enjoy and look forward to absorbing the information, ideas and thoughts expressed by the writer.

5.激發(fā)你的想象力。好的閱讀者會(huì)全神貫注地閱讀，并讓閱讀激發(fā)想象力。學(xué)會(huì)享受閱讀，不要問太多問題，也不要做太多分析，那樣會(huì)破壞閱讀體驗(yàn)的感覺上的享受。你不需要預(yù)測(cè)，也不需要分析，只需享受并期望獲取作者傳達(dá)的信息、思路和思想。

6. Don’t worry about what you don’t understand. Most of your reading should be for pleasure. You can enjoy reading without understanding all of what you read. You may even understand some things in your own personal way.

6.不理解的地方不要擔(dān)心。你大部分閱讀應(yīng)該只是為了樂趣。不理解所讀的全部?jī)?nèi)容也能讀得很享受，你甚至可以有自己的一些理解。

7. Recognize that the key is to read a lot. You may develop a system for keeping track of new words that you encounter in your reading. However, the main growth in your vocabulary and reading skill will come just from reading as much as you can. So learn to enjoy reading and read a lot. Keep reading, and you will become a better reader.

7.記住提高閱讀能力的關(guān)鍵在于多讀。你可能習(xí)慣了記錄閱讀中遇到的新單詞，然而詞匯量的擴(kuò)充和閱讀能力的提升只來源于盡可能廣泛的閱讀，所以要學(xué)會(huì)享受閱讀并多讀。堅(jiān)持閱讀，你就會(huì)成為更好的閱讀者。

Unfortunately not all reading is just for pleasure. When you are reading a textbook or manual, or report or other material that have to read for school or work, you may need to underline, take notes, and read some parts over again, in order to retain what you are reading. However, if you have developed the habit of reading for pleasure, you will find that the cognitive techniques you need will come naturally, and that you will understand a lot better than before.

不幸的是，并非所有的閱讀純粹是為了消遣。閱讀課文，指導(dǎo)，報(bào)告，或其他材料學(xué)習(xí)或工作，你可能需要記住讀的材料做重點(diǎn)筆記，或重復(fù)閱讀一些部分。然而，如果你已經(jīng)養(yǎng)成了有趣閱讀的習(xí)慣，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你所需要的認(rèn)知技能自然形成，你的理解能力比以前更強(qiáng)了。

 
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