‘Improve Your Reading Skills’ Archives
Analytical Reading
Analytical Reading At the root of every book, whether fiction or nonfiction, is a central idea based on an outline of intentions. Think of the basic structure of the book as the skeleton and the elements that make up the story (and/or the themes) as the organs that complete the body. The life that this body takes on is based on your [...]
Passive Reading
Passive Reading Passive reading is effortless reading. It's when you pick up a magazine or what we refer to as "light reading" (think beach books, "chick lit," romance novels, etc.). You want the words to be easy, and the action to be fast and exciting or relaxed and simple. You don't want to have to think too much. You just want to sit back, [...]
READING COMPREHENSION – 9
READING COMPREHENSION – 9 TRUE OR FALSE The Explorers is a delightful book. It is delightful for its vivid descriptions of the fifteenth century seamen who set out to explore the unknown Atlantic and for its colourful English. It is delightful also for the charming sketches included here and there by a most unusual artist-author. 1) The [...]
READING COMPREHENSION – 7
READING COMPREHENSION - 7 The outlook for the expansion of the silk-producing business in the United States is not bright there is no obvious reason why it should. In the first place, the silkworm requires hour-by-hour human care, and Americans, by disposition, are not suited to the work. Again, there is a strong belief that each country should [...]
READING COMPREHENSION – 6
READING COMPREHENSION - 6 When the world was young, the opportunity for inventing new words must have been unlimited. Even then, however, the inventor's task was less than half accomplished when he had emitted the new sound. Before he could regard his task as complete, he must induce his neighbours to use the sound as he had used it. Here we [...]
READING COMPREHENSION 5
READING COMPREHENSION 5 The Tartan Museum You cannot miss it. At first it was only the outside of the new Museum of Scotland that was unmissable, stuck on the corner of Chambers Street in Edinburgh, with its huge, yellow sandstone tower and cheese-wedge buildings, topped by a hulk of a hanging garden. Last winter the building was greeted [...]
READING COMPREHENSION 4
A recent survey of crime statistics shows that we are all more likely to be burgled now than 20 years ago and the police advise everyone to take a few simple precautions to protect their homes. The first fact is that burglars and other intruders (criminals) prefer easy opportunities, like a house which is very obviously empty. This is much less of [...]
Reading Comprehension 3
Reading Comprehension 3 Social Influence Of the many influences on human behavior, social influences are the most pervasive. The main influence on people is people. When we hear the term social influence, most of us think of deliberate attempts of someone to persuade us to alter our actions or change our opinions. The television commercial [...]
READING COMPREHENSION 2
READING COMPREHENSION 2 Electronic technology has produced significant changes in the way that humans interact. Before telephones, computers, and digital pagers, people communicated primarily by writing. We had to sit down, compose our thoughts, and then spend some time writing them down on paper. There was also a delay between the expression [...]
READING COMPREHENSION 1
READING COMPREHENSION 1 "Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats. The cats had long conversations with one another, they wore cunning little clothes and lived in a warm house beneath a kitchen stove. By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice, the class was wriggling like a bucketful of [...]
