The word "essence" of "intensive reading" is the most worthy of scrutiny. In other words, "essence" includes several aspects, one is the understanding of the meaning of the article, the other is the understanding of sentence analysis, and the last is the understanding of the structure of the article.

First of all, let's take a look at the understanding of word meaning in the article. This level of understanding is the most basic. Because to understand what an article is saying, it is natural to know the meaning of every sentence, but the understanding of every sentence is based on the understanding of every word. So we say that we should do a good job in reading, and vocabulary has always been the focus. The first step of intensive reading in IELTS reading is to remove all the new words in the article. In other words, use the dictionary to find all the new words in the article. Let's take the PASSAGE 1 of TEST 1 on sword 4 as an example. This article is about the investigation of children's understanding of tropical rain forest. In the first sentence of the article, adults and children often face statements about the alarming rate of rainforest loss. Statement, worrying tropical rain forest. So in order to understand this sentence, we must look up the meanings of these words in the dictionary. Confrontation refers to face and encounter, statement refers to statement, vigilance refers to indicating people's worry and shock, and tropical rain forest refers to tropical rain forest. Finding out the meaning of these words is only the first step, because it is not profound to remember them just by finding out the meaning, so I suggest you prepare a word book and record the words you don't know in the article. But the understanding of the meaning of the article has not been completed. We need to analyze these words, especially verbs, and pay attention to finding their synonyms and antonyms. For example, the word confrontation is a verb, and its synonym is encounter, which means encounter and confrontation, but the difference is that encounter is often used in the military. Statement is a noun, it is a state addition, which changes from a verb state to a noun. Its synonyms include announcement and declaration. The verb state has not only the meaning of declaration and statement, but also the meaning of state, state and adjectives state, state-owned and formal. On the other hand, alarm is an adjective of the verb alarm plus ing. Alarm means intimidation and warning, and it also has a noun meaning alarm and panic. Finally, tropical means tropical, and tropical rain forest means tropical rain forest, so other similar words can be derived, such as temperate zone, frigid zone and polar zone. A word can derive a series of words, especially synonyms, which is also very helpful for reading comprehension in the future, because IELTS reading is often to examine students' ability to interpret synonyms. Therefore, if we consciously learn and know synonyms in intensive reading, it will be of great benefit to the improvement of reading ability. Of course, we also have certain principles in the choice of words in intensive reading. Not all words are worth intensive reading. The main words are verbs and adjectives with universal meaning, followed by adverbs and nouns. And those more difficult and biased nouns are not suitable for intensive reading, and can basically be based on cognition.

The second level of intensive reading is the analysis and understanding of sentences. It is best to analyze and understand sentences in combination with topics. Because I have done questions and answers before, I should know the sentences whose answers correspond to the article, so the analysis will be more targeted. Take the article mentioned above as an example. The fourth question in this paper is the judgment question. This topic is the fact that children's ideas about science form part of a big ideological framework, which means that it is easy to change them. The topic means that children's views on science are integrated into a larger conceptual framework, which means that it is relatively easy to change children's views. In this paper, the corresponding related sentence is that these misunderstandings have not remained isolated, but have become incorporated into a multi-faceted, but organized, conceptual framework, making it and the components of the idea, some of which are wrong and more powerful, but can also be modified. This sentence is a difficult one, and there are many insertions in it that affect our understanding of the sentence. But if we start with the main part of the sentence and analyze it step by step, we can sort out the whole context. The subject of this sentence is misunderstanding, these wrong views or ideas, and then use a structure that is not … but … to tell us that this wrong view will not always exist in isolation, but will be integrated into a framework system. Multi-faceted, but the organization and concept before the framework all modify the characteristics of this framework, that is, this framework system is multi-faceted, orderly and conceptual. The next sentence should understand the meaning of two pronouns, one is it in making it and the other is which. In some of them, it refers to the concept of a singular noun, and before it, it is a singular noun, that is, a frame, and before it, the nearest noun is an idea. So it refers to the component idea. Knowing what these two pronouns refer to, the second half of the sentence is easy to understand, which means that the conceptual system and the ideas that make up the system-some of which are wrong-will be more sound and easier to correct. From this analysis, the meaning of the topic is consistent with the meaning of the relevant sentences in the article, so it is true and correct to judge the topic. Therefore, the most effective way to analyze the sentence structure of IELTS reading articles is to start with the sentence trunk, then analyze its modifiers, and then organize the sentence meaning with Chinese ideas. Of course, the sentences mainly analyzed are mainly related to the topic, and some simple sentences don't need to spend too much time.

Finally, there is a higher level of intensive reading requirements, which is a kind of intensive reading method that students with good foundation should learn, that is, analyzing the macro-structure of the article. IELTS reading articles are mostly academic articles, so they are mainly expository and argumentative, and the contents are mostly natural phenomena such as investigation reports, experimental results and research projects. So the structure of many articles will be similar. If we can analyze the article structure of similar topics, it will be of great help to do the matching problem of paragraph details that is a headache for everyone at present. Take the article about the rainforest as an example. This article is a typical explanatory article of investigation report, with clear structure. After the above two steps of intensive reading, it should not be a problem to understand the content of the article. What we need to do now is skin and bone. The article is divided into 1 1 small paragraphs. The first three paragraphs are the background of the survey, and the last four to nine paragraphs introduce the specific content of the survey, that is, the children's answers and analysis of five open questions. The last two paragraphs summarize and look forward to the next investigation. Therefore, the overall structure of the article is similar to that of the investigation report. Background introduction-survey results-summary forecast. In the future, I will encounter similar investigation report articles, and the most likely writing structure is the same. Then, if the relevant paragraphs are matched in detail, you can use the article structure to quickly locate the relevant paragraphs and then make a selection. With the correct range, the correct rate will be greatly improved.

The above three points are the core of intensive reading. If we can insist on intensive reading of IELTS Cambridge series articles from these three points, I believe our vocabulary and reading ability will be greatly improved, and our overall English ability will also advance by leaps and bounds.