文档介绍：College English Reading Course Book INov. 2002Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
Extensive Reading
(for studecomplete picture, may give examples to help you understand the ideas better, may prove a point, or may show~0w the idea relates to other ideas.
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It is also obvious that not all facts in a paragraph have the same importance. Details that give major information about the main idea, however, are very important. Small or less important details help round out the paragraph and often hold our attention to make the material we are reading more interesting. Still, we may ignore small details if our goal is a clear and quick understanding of what we’ve read.
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So, when we are looking for the major detail of a paragraph, we have, first, to learn to read for the main idea of the paragraph. When we have found all the facts and details that help to add up to the main idea of the paragraph, we can separate the major detail from less important details.
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Now look at the following paragraph
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was diagnosed in the United States in the late 1970s. Since then, AIDS has killed more than 204,000 Americans -- half in the past few years alone. Another 185,000 of the one million infected with the HIV virus are also expected to die.
Main idea: AIDS was found in the States.
Major detail: AIDS has killed more than 204,000 since being identified.
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4. Useful Expressions
ponder 深思；仔细考虑
look back (on)回顾,追忆
head 在…加标题
crinkly 起皱的
be through with 结束
be good for 值得, 适于
scornful 轻蔑的
send for 派人去请
dial
slot
punch code 老式电脑的打孔编码
gear
blank out 出毛病
look at … with superior eyes 用非常高傲的/瞧不起的眼神看
loftily
dispute
be adjusted to适应,调节
nonchalantly
have sth. tucked beneath one’s arm
proper fraction
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Text 8 Today’s Technology Could Seem Goofy Tomorrow (15 minutes)
1. General Comprehension
1) What pieces of technology back in the 1930s and ’40s does the author mention have become goofy today?
2) Accor