苗淑華選譯

Is reading English hard？ Did you read anything in English this week？ How much of it did you understand？ “Reading comprehension2” means3 how much you understand of what you read. Even if you read an English book every week， it doesnt help your learning much if you dont know what the words on the pages are saying. So you may be wondering4 how to improve English reading. Here are some easy steps for you.

閱讀英語(yǔ)難嗎？這星期你讀了英文書(shū)嗎？你讀懂了多少？“閱讀理解”是指你對(duì)所讀內(nèi)容的理解程度。即使你每周都讀一本英語(yǔ)書(shū)，如果你不知道書(shū)頁(yè)上的單詞在說(shuō)什么，對(duì)你的學(xué)習(xí)也沒(méi)有多大幫助。所以你可能想知道如何提高英語(yǔ)閱讀能力，以下給你介紹幾個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單步驟。

◆Always Make Special Time to Read

◇一定要抽出特定的時(shí)間讀書(shū)

If youre reading to improve your comprehension， you need to focus5 on study. This means you need to make a special time for reading. It should be quiet， and you should read by yourself. You should try to spend at least 30 minutes every day on reading. The more you read， the more youll improve.

如果你閱讀是為了提高理解能力，你需要集中精力學(xué)習(xí)。這意味著你需要安排一個(gè)特定的時(shí)間來(lái)閱讀。在這段時(shí)間你要獨(dú)立安靜地閱讀，每天應(yīng)該至少花30分鐘看書(shū)。讀得越多，你的進(jìn)步就越大。

◆Read the Right Books

◇讀合適的書(shū)

When youre finding books to read， you should read things that you enjoy. You should also read books that are at an English level6 just above the one youre most comfortable with.

在找書(shū)閱讀時(shí)，你應(yīng)該讀喜歡的內(nèi)容。你也應(yīng)該讀一些英語(yǔ)水平略高于最適合你水平的書(shū)。

◆Ask Yourself Questions in Reading and After Reading

◇在閱讀中和閱讀后向自己提問(wèn)

Learning how to read English books is about more than just reading the words！There are a few things you can do before， in and after reading to help you better understand the text. Before you read， go through the text. That means you should look over the text quickly without actually7 reading every word. Take some time after you read too， to go through it again and make sure you have remembered something. Try to quickly say or write a few sentences that describe what the text was about. Thinking about what you read will show you how much of it you really understood. It will help you find out if you still have questions.

學(xué)習(xí)如何閱讀英語(yǔ)書(shū)不僅僅是閱讀單詞！在閱讀之前、閱讀中和閱讀后，你可以做一些事情來(lái)幫助你更好地理解課文。在你讀之前，先把課文通讀一遍。這意味著應(yīng)該快速閱讀課文，而不是逐字逐句地讀。在你讀過(guò)之后，也要花些時(shí)間來(lái)復(fù)習(xí)一遍，確定你所記住的內(nèi)容。試著快速地說(shuō)或?qū)憥讉€(gè)句子來(lái)描述這篇文章的內(nèi)容。思考你讀到的東西會(huì)讓你知道自己真正理解了多少。這將幫助你找出你是否還有疑問(wèn)。

◆Improve Fluency8 First

◇先提高流利程度

Do you notice how you stopped every time you saw the period9？ Now read a book like this， stopping after every word. It would be difficult to understand. Its hard to make an understanding of what youre reading when you read word-by-word instead of10 in full sentences. So to improve your understanding， its important to improve your fluency first.

你注意到每次看到句號(hào)時(shí)你是怎么停下來(lái)的嗎？現(xiàn)在這樣讀一本書(shū)，每一個(gè)字都要停下來(lái)。當(dāng)你逐字閱讀而不是讀完整的句子時(shí)，很難形成對(duì)所讀內(nèi)容的理解。所以要提高你的理解力，首先要提高你的流利程度。

If you follow those steps to learn English reading， you might suddenly discover that youre reading better and understanding more even in your own native language.

如果你按照這些步驟來(lái)學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)閱讀，你可能會(huì)突然發(fā)現(xiàn)，即使是用自己的母語(yǔ)，你的閱讀能力和理解力都在提高。

（英語(yǔ)原文選自：fluentu.com）

Notes

1. improve [? ? ? ? ? ?] vt. 改善，增進(jìn)

2. comprehension [? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ] n. 理解

3. mean [] v. 用意;意味著，意思是……

4. wonder [? ? ? ? ? ] v. 想知道;（用于詢問(wèn)時(shí)）不知道;感到疑惑

5. focus [] vt. 使集中

6. level [? ? ?] n. 水平;標(biāo)準(zhǔn)

7. actually [? ? ? ? ? ?] adv. 實(shí)際上;事實(shí)上

8. fluency [? ? ? ? ? ] n. （語(yǔ)言、文章）流利;（技能）嫻熟 n. 流暢度（寫(xiě)作演講等）

9. period [] n. 句點(diǎn)，句號(hào)

10. instead of代替;而不是……