高中三年级英语(人教版)全一册 Unit 8 Integrating Skills 2

　　Other books are for reading slowly and carefully. If it is a book on a subject that you are interested in, you will want to "chew and digest it". That does not mean reading it too slowly. When you pick up a book for the first time, check that it is not too difficult. Do not start a book unless you can see from the first few pages that it is one that you can easily read and understand.

　　Next, if it is not a story, get an idea of the organisation of the book. Read the back cover and the introduction. Look at the pictures and the short texts below them. Turn to the front of the book and look at the contents. This way you can decide whether the book is likely to interest you, and if so, then you can decide which parts of the book will be most useful and interesting.

　　Here are some more reading tips. First, read a chapter quickly to get a general idea. Then, if you wish, you can read it once again more slowly, using a dictionary when necessary. Second, do not stop every time you come to a word or a phrase you do not know. Quite often you will find the unknown word appears again, perhaps several times, and by the end of the chapter you will have guessed its meaning. That is how we learn the meaning of words in our own language. Imagine that you come across this sentence in a book: "The house was beginning to get cold, so Daisy pulled her red, woollen cardigan out of her bag and put it on." If you do not know the word "cardigan", you can guess from the situation that it is made of wool and is put on to keep warm, and is therefore likely to be an article of clothing.

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