Reading comprehension is the highest score in the English test paper. In order to make it easier for candidates to review English better, Bian Xiao compiled the stylistic types and answering skills of English reading comprehension in adult exams here, hoping to help candidates!

On the Types of English Reading Styles

The common stylistic types of college entrance examination English reading are narrative, argumentative, expository and practical.

1. Narrative: English narrative is mainly descriptive, mainly describing people, events, places or processes. The characteristic is that its theme often lurks between the lines. Reading narrative style should adopt skimming and scanning methods, quickly grasp the main content described in the article, grasp the coherence of the article as a whole, and then roughly guess the author's writing intention and emotional main line. In adult exam reading, most narrative questions are based on detailed understanding.

2. Argumentative essay: Generally speaking, the author's argument is usually led out in the first paragraph of the article, followed by logical reasoning and argumentation of this argument, and finally the conclusion. It should also be noted that in the process of argumentation, the first sentence of each paragraph is the topic sentence of that paragraph. Grasping the full-text argument, clarifying the topic sentence of each paragraph, understanding the level of the article and finding the position of the central argument are the keys to understanding the argumentative essay.

3. Explanatory text: The reading materials of the exam explanatory text usually introduce the latest technology, great achievements, lifestyles and popular phenomena. The key to answering questions is to understand the writing skills and methods of expository essays, and to clarify the structure of the essays and the central idea of the paragraphs.

4. Practical writing: English practical writing is a practical style, such as letters, notices, diaries, advertisements, etc. When reading practical writing, we should pay attention to grasping and understanding the specific details of the text, and make clear the actual information conveyed by the author and the specific content expressed. When reading, take the method of combining fast reading with intensive reading, and strive to find out the "key content" of the test questions quickly and accurately.

Second, test English answering skills

The common forms of questioning in reading comprehension are: guessing the meaning of words, getting the general idea, knowing the details, and reasoning. Different types of questions have different answering skills. Let's briefly analyze the answering skills of different types of questions.

1. Word meaning guessing skills

This type of question requires guessing the meaning of the underlined new words in the article. This kind of questions not only need clear word formation, but also need a comprehensive understanding of the context. When guessing the meaning of words, we should pay attention to underline the attributive clauses and appositive clauses behind new words. Attributive clauses and appositive clauses are usually used to explain the meaning of new words. In addition, we should also pay attention to punctuation marks after new words, such as commas, dashes, quotation marks, brackets, etc., which can be used to prompt the meaning of words. Sometimes the meaning of a word is hidden in the full text or a paragraph. To understand the meaning of the word thoroughly, we must grasp the artistic conception of the paragraph.

2. Skills to grasp the main idea

Generally speaking, the central idea of an argumentative paper is either in the first paragraph or in the last paragraph. The theme of expository texts is usually located in the first paragraph of narrative texts, and some of them are located in the opening paragraphs (such as news reports, current affairs, and articles in warp and weft, in order to get to the point), but most of the themes of narrative texts are hidden in the articles, so it is necessary to sort out the context of the articles, dig out the connotation of the articles, and grasp the author's intentions.

3. Reasoning and answering skills

Inference is to get the connotation meaning that accords with the content of the article on the basis of the existing information, that is, a question or an opinion is not directly expressed, but is hidden between the lines of the article, which requires that some connotation meanings that conform to the author's thoughts and the logic of the article are deduced through the information analysis in the article. Inference refers to the logical comprehensive analysis of the article. Whether the inference of the implied meaning that is not directly expressed in the article is correct or not depends to a great extent on whether the author can correctly grasp the point of view hidden between the lines.

4. Answer skills for detailed questions

The answers to detailed questions are usually solved by searching for specific information in the text. When answering questions, we should skim, scan, analyze and read intensively to find out the answers from the text. Detailed questions often ask about time, place, people, quantity, characteristics, etc.