题目内容
Do you know that a fast reader can get the ideas better than a slow reader can? Of course, you save time by reading fast, but it is not the main reason for fast reading. The main reason is that you understand better what you are reading when you read fast.
As your eyes move along the line of a book, they make fixations（注视）. It is important that you see several words at a fixation. It is also important that your eyes leave a group of words quickly and move onto another group. The number of letters or words that you see at a fixation are called your eye span（视幅）. With practice you can learn to read faster than you usually read.
The way in which you read always has something to do with what you are reading and why you are reading. You should know the different ways of reading so that you can use the fight and necessary way. Here are four ways of reading, but not all, they may help you read faster.
1. Skimming （浏览）is an important kind of reading. It can be used when you wish to go over something that you have forgotten. You may skim to find a lost place of a sentence that you have read and can't remember. You may skim to get an idea of a story.
2. Fast first reading and then rereading certain parts carefully is important. You may use this kind of reading to study a science lesson or a history lesson.
3. You need to do careful reading and rereading sometimes. This kind of reading is necessary for making a careful study of the main school subjects, working out math problems, studying rules for playing a game, or reading directions.
4. Fast reading is used when you read stories for pleasure. You may also do fast reading when going over the lessons you have already known well.
1．Which is a better way of reading, seeing a group of words or a word at a fixation?
2．If you forget an important date in your history lesson and want to find it in the book, what way of reading should you use?
3．What's the good point of reading fast?
4．Why does the writer talk about different ways of reading?
5．What's the main idea of the passage?
1．Seeing a group of words at a fixation.
2．Skimming.
3．Reading fast helps us get a better idea./Reading fast helps us understand a passage better.
4．To help us read fast./To help us become fast readers./Because the writer wants to help us read fast.
5．How to become fast readers./How to read fast.
Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal (偷) the bell on his neighbor’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of (抓住) the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
Then he sat down to think, “I must do something about the noise,” he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. “Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.” The next day he went to the door of his neighbor, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbor came running out. “Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson (教训),”the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbor found out he was stealing the bell. “Why did he come out just then?” he wondered (感到疑惑).
【小题1】The thief was trying to get .
| A．his neighbor | B．his neighbor’s doorbell |
| C．some cotton | D．a door with a bell on it |
| A．safe | B．difficult | C．dangerous | D．easy |
| A．he knew his doorbell was being stolen |
| B．he thought someone was eager (渴望的) to visit him |
| C．He realized (意识到) something strange happened |
| D．Both B and C |
| A．give him lessons | B．punish (惩罚) him for stealing |
| C．help him with the bell | D．be his teacher |
| A．The thief understood why he was hit on the nose. |
| B．The thief knew why the neighbor came out. |
| C．The thief thought the neighbor could not hear the bell. |
| D．The thief didn’t want to know why the neighbor ran out just at the time he stole the doorbell. |