大学英语六级考试阅读练习题（2）_大学英语阅读

大学英语六级考试阅读练习题（2）

　　Most adults are able to increase their reading rate considerably and rather quickly without lowering their comprehension. These same individuals usually show a decrease in comprehension when they reduce their rate. Such results, of course are heavily dependent upon the method used to gain the increased rate. Simply reading more rapidly without actual improvement in basic reading habits usually results in lowered comprehension.

　　Factors that Reduce Reading Rate

　　Some of the factors which reduce reading rate:

　　1. Limited perceptual span ;

　　2. Slow perceptual reaction time

　　3. Vocalization

　　4. Faulty eye movements ;

　　5. Regression

　　6. Faulty habits of attention and concentration

　　7. Lack of practice in reading--use it or lose it!

　　8. Fear of losing comprehension, causing the person to deliberately read more slowly;

　　9. Habitual slow reading, in which the person cannot read faster because he or she has always read slowly;

　　10. Poor evaluation of which aspects are important and which are unimportant;

　　11. The effort to remember everything rather than to remember selectively.

　　Since these conditions also tend to reduce comprehension, increasing the reading rate by eliminating them is likely to produce increased comprehension, too. This is entirely different from simply speeding up the rate of reading--which may actually make the real reading problem more severe. In addition, forced acceleration may destroy confidence in ones ability to read. The obvious solution, then, is to increase rate as a part of a total improvement of the whole reading process, as special training programs in reading do.