Contents 1
Unit 1 The Reading Process 1
Unit 2 Broadening Eye Span 6
Unit 3 Avoiding Vocalization and Inner Speech 12
Unit 4 Reading in Thought Groups 18
Unit 5 Faster Effective Reading 25
Unit 6 Obstacles to Faster Effective Reading 32
Unit 7 Hints for Reading Practice（Ⅰ） 37
Unit 8 Hints for Reading Practice（Ⅱ） 42
Unit 9 Looking for the Topic Sentence 48
Unit 10 Context Clues（Ⅰ） 55
Unit 11 Context Clues（Ⅱ） 60
Unit 12 Stems and Affixes 65
Unit 13 Sentence Reading 71
Unit 14 Reading Beyond the Lines 77
Unit 15 Reading for Implied Meanings 82
Unit 16 How to Scan（Ⅰ） 86
Unit 17 How to Scan（Ⅱ） 92
Unit 18 Recognizing Direction Words 99
Unit 19 How to Identify Reference and Substitution 108
Unit 20 How to Skim 113
Unit 21 Understanding the Main Idea 120
Unit 22 Recognizing Important Facts or Details 128
Unit 23 Discovering the Author’s Purpose 137
Unit 24 Making Inferences 140
Unit 25 Drawing Conclusions 147
Unit 26 Distinguishing Fact from Opinion 153
Unit 27 Making Judgments 159
Unit 28 How to Identify the Tone of a Passage 165
Unit 29 Critical Reading—Questioning，Comparing ＆ Evaluating 172
Unit 30 How to Use a Dictionary 176
Unit 31 Increasing Word Power 182
Unit 32 How To Read Newspaper Headlines 187
Unit 33 Preparing Outlines and Book Reports 191
Unit 34 Test Taking 195
Key to the exercises 198