【正文】 LOGO Unit 1 Section B Zhengzhou UNIVERSITY FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS The Framework for Love Contents Reading Skills Test Yourself Reading Comprehension Reading Skills — Scanning Introduction Practice Like the other skills for your use, the skill introduced in this unit does render you better able in reading. This practice is designed to help you get a deeper insight into the skill for this unit. 自測 課文 Introduction 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 Scanning We have introduced the reading skill in Unit 8, Book 1. Broadly defined, to scan is to read quickly in order to locate the place in a piece of writing where a particular item of information is given and to take in that item of information. This kind of reading involves no reading in any detail of large sections of the piece of writing. Perhaps it is particularly useful in reading newspapers or some magazines. The steps involved in scanning are the following: 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 1. Decide exactly what information you are looking for, and think about the form it may take. For example, if you want to find out who did something, you would look for a name. 2. Next, decide where you need to read to find the information you want. 3. Move your eyes as quickly as possible down the page until you find the information you need. 4. When you find what you need, do not read further. 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 Here are three examples from Text A in this unit that may illustrate how we can scan for some particular information in the text. Example 1 Having read the first two sentences, the reader knows that the writer has a brother with brain damage and that her life “revolved around my brother’s”. Immediately the question ing into the mind is probably “How?” ? 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 Example 1 With this question in mind, the reader moves his/her eyes quickly on, and immediately too he/she has the answer in the next sentence: Acpanying my growing up was always “go out and play and take your brother with you.” () ? 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 Example 2 Having found the answer to the first question, the reader may have another question out of curiosity: What did Jimmy’s parents do in looking after him? To answer this question the reader keeps his/her eyes moving quickly until he/she reaches the following two paragraphs: ? 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 Example 2 My mother taught Jimmy practical things like how to brush his teeth or put on a belt. (Para. 2) My father and Jimmy were inseparable. They ate breakfast together and on weekdays drove off to the navy shipping center every morning where they both worked—Jimmy unloaded colorcoded boxes. At night after dinner, they would talk and play games late into the evening. They even whistled the same tunes. (Para. 3) 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 Example 3 Now the reader may be curious enough to know: What would bee of Jimmy if his parents died? The reader moves his/her eyes as quickly as possible down again until he/she reaches the two sentences in Paragraph 6: ? 自測 課文 Back 閱讀實踐 隨 筆 Example 3 He has lived there for 11 years now with many different caretakers and blossomed on his own. He has bee essential to the neighborhood. (Para. 6) Practice 自測 課文 Back 閱讀技巧 隨 筆 Directions Scanning is to locate and find a piece of information without reading in any detail. Scan the following passage and locate the relative information to the questions with the help of paragraph reference. 自測 課文 Back 閱讀技巧 隨 筆 1. When and where did the story take place? (Paragraph reference: 1) “It was an autumn night in my native Nova Scotia.” 2. What were they doing in the old lodge? (Paragraph reference: 1) They “were vacationing in (it) for the weekend.” 自測 課文 Back 閱讀技巧 隨 筆 3. What did the writer learn about love? (Paragraph reference: 2) “It took me years, though, to learn that the love in our family didn’t just happen.” 4. What are the writer’s three reasons for saying that there is a framework you must live within to let love mature? (Paragraphs reference: 3, 7, 11) 自測 課文 Back 閱讀技巧 隨 筆 5. How can love be achieved? (Paragraph reference: 12) “First, love needs time.” (Para. 3) “Love needs another, hardertofind quality as well, the ability to let go.” (Para. 7) “Finally, love needs words to make it real.” (Para. 11) “It can only be achieved through patience and understanding.” Reading Comprehension Choice Making 4. Passage Reading 3. Questions Previewing 2. New Words 1. 自測 技巧 New Words 自測 技巧 Back 問題預覽 課文閱讀 隨 筆 閱讀理解 framework n. [C] 框架 。 結構 mould n. [U] 霉 。 霉菌 lodge n. / vt. [C] 鄉(xiāng)村小屋 / 提供住宿 shiver n. / vi. [C] 顫抖 。 發(fā)抖 / 顫抖 。 發(fā)抖 inspire vt. 1. 激起 。 促成 2. 激發(fā)靈感 。 啟發(fā) sip v. 小口喝 。 抿 upright a. 直立的 。 立式的 considerate a. 體貼的 。 關切的 hedge v. 避免正面回答 rival n. [C] 匹敵者 。 可相比的東西 自測 技巧 Back 問題預覽 課文閱讀 隨 筆 閱讀理解 declaration n. [C, U] 聲明 。 公告 parable a. 1. 可比較的 2. 可以相提并論的 anism n. [C] 生物 。 有機體 parallel vt. / a. 與 相似 / 平行的 mud n. [U] 泥 slender a. 纖細的 , 修長的 trunk n. [C] 樹干 manipulate vt. 1. 操縱 。 擺布 2. 操作 。 控制 。 使用 wit n. 1. [sing., U] 才智 2. (~s) 機智