One important use of surveying is to facilitate your reading: Think back to what happened when you surveyed this chapter. You caught the essentials and the writer’s plan.
In planning a car trip, you normally get out maps to see exactly what route to travel. Reading an article is much like traveling a strange highway. Through surveying, you understand what towns or cities to expect or what interesections or junctions to note. Surveying serves as a road map. Obviously, when you know the road even slightly, you travel it easily. So it is with reading. When you know in general where the writer is going, you can follow more easily. In short, surveying should actually increase your subsequent reading speed. After all, you’re traveling a more familiar road.
一、即学即练
1）多项选择
1. What does the word “facilitate” mean? (paragraph 1, sentence 1)
A. speed up B. mak much easier
C. get better D. be familiar with
2. What is surveying compared to?
A. traveling a strange highway B. a diagrame
C. a route D. a voyage
3. What is true about surveying according to the passage?
A. I trequires a specific skill B. It can be achieved through training
C. It increases our reading speed D. Only smart people can do it.
4. The word “follow” in paragraph 2 probably means_______.
A. keep track of B. understand the author’s plan
C. scan D. catch glimpse of
5. What’s the best title for this article?
A. Surveying B. A Useful Method in Reading
C. A Formula D. Functions of Road Surveying
2）词汇练习
1. The new design is to _______ new computer users.
A.convenient B.facilitate C.become facilitate D.fasten
2. Please ________ the plug into the socket in emergency.
A.put B.carry C.insert D.junction
3）翻译划线句子(见译文)
1._____________________________________________________________________________
2._____________________________________________________________________________
二、难词、重点词解析
facilitate vt.（不以人作主语的）使容易, 使便利, 推动, 帮助, 使容易, 促进
think back 回想
intersection n.[数]交集, 十字路口, 交叉点
junction n.连接, 接合, 交叉点, 汇合处
三、难句、长句解析
1． Surveying serves as a road map. Obviously, when you know the road even slightly, you travel it easily.
通过察看地图，就会知道下一个城镇在哪里，或者哪里有十字路口。阅读是纵览全文的作用相当于一张地图。
Passage 57参考译文及参考答案
参考译文
纵览全文为了方便阅读。当通览全部章节的时候，应该回想一下全文的内容。这样就能抓住最重要的信息和作者的写作意图。
在准备乘车旅行的时候，通常会拿出地图确定行进路线。阅读一篇文章就好似在一条陌生的公路上行进。通过察看地图，就会知道下一个城镇在哪里，或者哪里有十字路口。阅读是纵览全文的作用相当于一张地图。显然，当你知道一点道路状况的时候，旅行也会变得更加轻松。阅读同样如此。当你了解到作者写作意图，你就能够轻松地读懂他的作品。总之，通览全文实际上提高了我们以后的阅读速度。毕竟我们将在一条熟悉的道路上行进。
试题分析
1.答案[B]，词汇题。文章对facilitate的解释如下：Think back to what happened when you surveyed this chapter. You caught the essentials and the writer’s plan。可见，facilitate可能对阅读有所帮助，故B选项是正确答案。
2.答案[A]，细节题。文章的第二段提出，Reading an article is much like traveling a strange highway。故A选项是正确答案。
3.答案[C]，细节题。文章提出，surveying should actually increase your subsequent reading speed，故C选项是正确答案。
4.答案[B]，词汇题。文章对facilitate的解释如下：When you know in general where the writer is going, you can follow more easily。所以follow在文章中是指follow the writer’s intention，故B选项是正确答案。
5.答案[B]，主题题。文章讨论了survey对文章阅读和阅读速度的意义。故文章的主题是介绍一种有用的阅读方法，所以B选项是正确答案。
词汇题参考答案：
1． 答案[B]。解题的关键在哪个词汇能在句子中充当谓语动词，convenient是形容词，故不能选择，fasten看起来像是加快，实际上是“系牢”的意思，只有facilitate有“使…方便”的意思，故正确答案为C选项。
2． 答案[B]。解题的关键在plug和socket之间的关系，显而易见，两者应该是plug插入socket的关系，故insert是正确答案。Injunction虽然有结合、交会等意思，但是一般是指“、肢体的关节”等，故C选项是正确答案。
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