English reading expository skills
English reading skills, my personal experience, three steps: 1. Quickly decompose the whole article and sort out its structure; 2. Quickly grasp the topic of the article; 3. Quickly find out the central meaning of each part and find out the sentences that express the central meaning. By doing these three steps, you can basically answer the next question without reading this article word for word. First of all, English articles, especially reading articles for exams, have typical structures. The general structure is a topic section, a discussion section, a summary section, and even a long graduation thesis is only within this big framework. Take five paragraphs of an article as an example: generally, the first paragraph is a topic paragraph, which means that the theme of the whole article will definitely appear here. What you need to do is to find the central sentence quickly. Generally speaking, the central sentence will appear in the penultimate sentence or 1 sentence, and relatively simple articles will appear in 1 sentence. If the test questions are difficult, you may need to summarize them yourself. Next, in the second, third and fourth paragraphs, each paragraph will discuss or analyze the theme meaning put forward in the first paragraph, that is to say, each paragraph will have a high-level theme, that is, a sub-argument, so what you have to do is to find it out quickly and use the same position and method; The last paragraph is a summary of the full text, and the conclusion will be further analyzed, speculated or commented, which is also a topic. What you have to do is to grasp the main idea of the summary and the conclusion of further analysis. Of course, not all articles are five paragraphs. For example, some topic paragraphs may have two or more paragraphs, argument paragraphs may have only two or more paragraphs (but generally not more than three paragraphs), and each argument in more difficult articles may have more than one paragraph. I just take five paragraphs as an example to illustrate the structure or general composition of the article. Through this rule, we can quickly decompose the article and grasp the main points of each part. Let's analyze the main points of the problem, or the law of the problem (if the problem is not too biased). Take a reading article with five titles as an example. Generally, it is 1 topic, 1 argument, 2 detailed questions, 1 conclusion or analysis and speculation on the conclusion. It can be seen that if you master the theme, argument and conclusion analysis of the article, you can get 3/5 answers correctly without reading the whole article word by word. What should you do about these two details? You need to quickly analyze the argument from the information provided by the topic, and then go back to the argument paragraph to find the sentence that matches the question. General questions are relatively simple and will be copied from the original sentence. If it is difficult, express it in another way. If it is difficult, set a trap around the circle. This is ... In this case, all five problems can be solved, which is the so-called targeted problem solving. Tell me about my reading habits. Generally, I will read the questions first, understand the meaning of each question very carefully and extract useful information. Although it is generally not easy to find out the topic of an article just by asking questions, I can certainly find the words and information related to the topic, at least know what the article is discussing or describing, that is, argumentative, expository or narrative, and then follow the above three steps quickly. In this way, the above is my experience in examining questions all the way to Grade 8. I'll leave the method to you. The next step is to practice more. Only by practicing more can we achieve perfection. Finally, it's easy and enjoyable to do reading questions! Ok, I have said so much, I hope it will help you!