ACT阅读,词汇稍难,题目乱序,时间短,35分钟40题4篇,做题速度快于托福,SAT。水平稍高,舍弃1篇,做3篇或3.5篇,水平稍低,只能做完2篇。ACT科学,英语,数学部分也常有学生做不完。速度慢,根本原因有两个:一是对所读内容不熟悉,二是阅读速度慢。
今天主要来讲如何提高阅读速度。阅读速度的提高,不仅对阅读有帮助,因为难句或大堆文字不仅出现在阅读中,还出现在英语、数学、科学部分,因此,提高阅读能力与速度变得相当重要。
下面将谈谈阅读慢的原因,提高的方法,理想的状态和材料的选择。
缓慢
阅读缓慢有以下几个原因:
手指着或笔指着读,阅读速度便局限于手速
阅读时读出声音,嘴巴动或心里默念,速度便局限于口速
翻译每个单词后理解,脑中便需经过多次转换组合
一句话读到一半,不太懂,回视而读,一个句子便会被读多遍,而且只读一半往往无法理解全意
阅读时分析语法或句子成分。请大家记住,在ACT中,除英语部分外,考生永远也不需要在考场上分析一句话的语法成分,唯一任务就是迅速地读懂文章
速读
要改变以上这些问题,便是进行速读训练:
一眼看两个单词以上
强迫自己读文章时不做任何回视
每篇文章速读五遍以上,平衡速度与理解
例:
It was/ with great relief,/ then,/ that in my early twenties/ I floundered into/ a word-association process/ in which/ I simply got out of bed/ each morning,/ walked to my desk,/ and put down any word/ or series of words/ that happened along in my head.
第一眼扫It was,第二眼扫with great relief,以此类推,从头到尾不回视反复速读,找到自己又快又能读懂的阅读时间点。
理想
我们要尽量让自己达到阅读的最理想状态:
三分钟内读完一篇ACT阅读
真正意思(非中文释义)直接流淌于心中
如一些人看小说一般,一秒看一页
材料
若考试紧迫,直接速读真题
若不紧迫,可读ACT或SAT真题中提到的书,或阅读其他英语小说,下面是一些推荐:
Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
Fletch – Gregory McDonald
Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
George W.Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
Howl – Alan Ginsburg
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Illiad – Homer
I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor
A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
Mrs.Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
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ACT阅读,词汇稍难,题目乱序,时间短,35分钟40题4篇,做题速度快于托福,SAT。水平稍高,舍弃1篇,做3篇或3.5篇,水平稍低,只能做完2篇。ACT科学,英语,数学部分也常有学生做不完。速度慢,根本原因有两个:一是对所读内容不熟悉,二是阅读速度慢。
今天主要来讲如何提高阅读速度。阅读速度的提高,不仅对阅读有帮助,因为难句或大堆文字不仅出现在阅读中,还出现在英语、数学、科学部分,因此,提高阅读能力与速度变得相当重要。
下面将谈谈阅读慢的原因,提高的方法,理想的状态和材料的选择。
缓慢
阅读缓慢有以下几个原因:
手指着或笔指着读,阅读速度便局限于手速
阅读时读出声音,嘴巴动或心里默念,速度便局限于口速
翻译每个单词后理解,脑中便需经过多次转换组合
一句话读到一半,不太懂,回视而读,一个句子便会被读多遍,而且只读一半往往无法理解全意
阅读时分析语法或句子成分。请大家记住,在ACT中,除英语部分外,考生永远也不需要在考场上分析一句话的语法成分,唯一任务就是迅速地读懂文章
速读
要改变以上这些问题,便是进行速读训练:
一眼看两个单词以上
强迫自己读文章时不做任何回视
每篇文章速读五遍以上,平衡速度与理解
例:
It was/ with great relief,/ then,/ that in my early twenties/ I floundered into/ a word-association process/ in which/ I simply got out of bed/ each morning,/ walked to my desk,/ and put down any word/ or series of words/ that happened along in my head.
第一眼扫It was,第二眼扫with great relief,以此类推,从头到尾不回视反复速读,找到自己又快又能读懂的阅读时间点。
理想
我们要尽量让自己达到阅读的最理想状态:
三分钟内读完一篇ACT阅读
真正意思(非中文释义)直接流淌于心中
如一些人看小说一般,一秒看一页
材料
若考试紧迫,直接速读真题
若不紧迫,可读ACT或SAT真题中提到的书,或阅读其他英语小说,下面是一些推荐:
Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
Fletch – Gregory McDonald
Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
George W.Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
Howl – Alan Ginsburg
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Illiad – Homer
I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor
A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
Mrs.Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
查找并关注微信公众号「美本留学观察」(aadpswx),获得有趣有用的第一手美国本科留学资讯!访问网站http://aadps.net查找美国大学留学文书和院校指南。