Hints for Reading Practice
1. Most of us can find 15 minutes or half an hour each day for some regular activity. For example, one famous surgeon always spent 15 minutes reading something before he went to sleep each day. Whether he went to bed at 10 p.m. or 2:30 a.m. made no difference.
2. "Speed Reading" courses teach students how to read more quickly. In such courses, teachers often ask students to find out how many words a minute he is reading. You can do this too: look at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes and write down the page number you have reached.
3. Obviously, you should not increase your reading speed if you do not understand what you are reading. If you find something you don't understand in the book, or you cannot remember clearly the details of what is said, why not read the chapter again?
4. Take four or five pages of an interesting book you happen to be reading now. Read these pages as fast as you can. Don't worry about whether you understand or not. If you keep doing this "lightning speed" reading for a period of time, you will usually find that your normal speed has increased.
5. Most paragraphs in an article have a topic sentence that expresses the central idea. The opening paragraph often suggests the general direction and content of the article, while paragraphs that follow expand or support the first. The closing paragraph often gives a summary of the most important points of the article.
23 Paragraph 2 .
24 Paragraph 3 .
25 Paragraph 4 .
26 Paragraph 5 .
A The Organization of An Article
B Check Your Reading Speed
C A Way to Increase Your Reading Speed
D Check Your Understanding
E Read Something Every Day
F Read Extensively
27 You are advised to read something before you .
28 In "Speed Reading" courses, teachers often asks students to .
29 You can improve your reading speed if you .
30 It will help you to understand the article if you .
A find the topic sentences
B find out the new words
C keep reading fast
D go to bed every day
E keep a note of their reading speed
F look at your watch every few minutes
答案：23. B 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. E 29. C 30. A
解析：
23. B 第二段介绍了在“快速阅读”课上，老师要求学生记录他们的阅读速度，那么你自己阅读时也可以检测自己的阅读速度。
24. D 第三段讲了读不懂时当然就不能提高阅读速度，那么就应该把文章再读一遍。
25. C 第四段介绍了不管你是否理解了所读过的意思，也要尽可能快的阅读，这样保持一段时间之后阅读速度就自然提高了。
26. A 第五段讲了通常情况下各个段落的作用，提到起始段、中间段落以及结尾段，显然说明了文章的结构。
27. D 文章第一段提到一位著名的医生不管晚上睡得多晚，都要花15分钟读点东西，那已经成为习惯。所以本题说“在你干什么之前，建议你读点东西”，从选项中看只有 D 项合适。
28. B 第二段中提到老师让学生弄清楚他们每分钟读了多少字，即要记录他们的阅读速度。
29. C 答题依据在第四段。保持快速阅读是提高阅读速度的一种方法。
30. A 第五段第一句提到多数段落都有一个表达中心意思的主题句，因此找到了主题句也就明白了文章的大意。
