完形填空 Students will need 21 all of their language skills in order 22 understand the reading selections in Reader's Choice. The book contains many types of selection on a wide variety of topics. These selections provide practice 23 using different reading strategies to extract the message of the writer. They also give students practice in four 24 reading skills: skimming, scanning, reading for 25 comprehension, and critical reading.
Skimming is quick reading for the general ideas of a passage. This kind of rapid reading is 26 when you are trying to decide if careful reading is desirable or when there is not time to read something carefully.
Like skimming, 27 is also quick reading. However, in this case the search is more 28 To scan is to read 29 in order to locate specific information, when you read to find a particular date, or number you are scanning.
Reading for thorough comprehension is 30 reading in order to understand the total meaning of the passage. 31 this level of comprehension the reader is able to summarize the author's ideas but has not 32 made a critical evaluation of those ideas.
Critical reading demands that a reader 33 judgments about what he or she reads. This kind of reading requires posting and 34 questions such as 'Does my own experience support 35 of the author?', 'Do I share the author's point of view?' and 'Am I convinced by the author's arrangements and evidence?'