Many students trying to increase their effective reading speed become discouraged when they find that if they try to race through a passage faster, they fail to take in what they have read. At the end, they have been so busy "reading faster" that they cannot re member what the passage was about. The problem here is that the material they are practicing on is either too difficult for them in vocabulary or content, or not sufficiently interesting. We hope that the passages in this course material will be both interesting and fairly easy, but you should also practice as much as you can in your own time. Read things you tike reading. Go to the subject catalogue in the library. Biography, sport, domestic science, the cinema ... there is bound to be some area that interests you and in which you can find books of about your level of ability or just below. If you want a quick check on how easy a book is, read through three or four pages at random. If there are, on average, more
A. use the passages in a reading course
B. improve reading speed
C. develop reading comprehension
D. make a good use of the library
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