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BUILDING VOCABULARY:There are lots of ways to learn new words, but what’s important is to commit to learning a few new words every day. You can use vocabulary flash cards, study vocabulary words you find on university websites, and read novels, online articles, and news stories. We also recommend linking new vocabulary terms to an experience that you have had. This is a great strategy for remembering new words!
提升詞匯量：有很多很多的方法，最重要的一點，就是每天學一點新詞。你可以用閃卡，學學校網站上看到的陌生詞匯，讀小説，讀網上的文章，或者是新聞等等。我們推薦你把學到的新單詞和你自己的經歷結合起來，進行情景記憶，事件記憶，更容易記住新單詞喲
READING SPEED:We will be talking next week about techniques like skimming and scanning that can help to identify main ideas quickly. It’s also important to make sure you are reading practice texts at the right level of difficulty. If your reading materials are too easy, you won’t build your skills. If they are too difficult, you will just get frustrated. Another tip is to time yourself when using practice materials.
閲讀毒素：略讀和快速掃描都可以幫助你快速定位文章的中心思想。你選擇讀一篇難度適中的文章也非常重要喲。如果你的閲讀材料太簡單了，那對你而言并沒有什麽收益，如果太難，又會打擊自己的自信心。還有，記得在閲讀時候給自己定時。
PRACTICE MATERIALS:Several people asked where they could find more materials to practice. In addition to the practice content in the course, we will be introducing other official ETS practice materials during the course. You can see our main TOEFL® test resources here:www.toeflgoanywhere.org/toefl-practice(opens new window). 閲讀練習材料
Practice 利用词根提升词汇量的练习
Pick two of the following activities and complete them on your own. These activities are based on the tips presented in the Inside theTOEFL®Test videos.
Do an online search to find a list of common Greek and Latin roots, such as60+ Greek and Latin Prefixes Arranged by Meaning(opens new window). Pick 5 roots, and find the definitions of at least 3 words that use each root.
Select an article such as"The Heartbreak That May Have Inspired the Telegraph"(opens new window)about Samuel Morse, and outline the main points using one of the outline formats shown at the end of the Prose Summary/Fill in a Table video.
Using the Reading passages fromTOEFL iBT Quick Prep Volume 2(opens new window)(pages 4-5 and 10-11), select a paragraph to read. As you read, make a list of what information is important, and what is not as important. Have a partner do the same thing separately, then compare your lists.
Using"The Heartbreak That May Have Inspired the Telegraph"(opens new window), find all of the pronouns that aren’t "he" (since most of those obviously refer to Samuel Morse), and determine what nouns they refer to. For example, in this excerpt, you can find the pronoun "it" and determine that it refers to "the invention".
Soon, all types of news and messages were being tapped out across the country. The invention transformed communication, business, and the idea of news.Itsped up the world, cutting the delivery of a message from Washington, D.C., to New Haven from four days to under four seconds.
Resources 托福阅读的一些常用资源
If you’re looking to practice more and would like additional reading materials that have some similarities toTOEFL®Reading passages in tone and content, here are a few examples (the links will take you outside of the course and the edX platform):
Articles about archaeology from Smithsonian Magazine:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeology/(opens new window)
News articles about science and culture from National Geographic:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/(opens new window)
An Encyclopedia Britannica article about the history and techniques of mountain climbing:
http://www.britannica.com/topic/mountaineering(opens new window)
Also, check out these reading survival guides from a university in Australia:
http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/2748132/IE5-Reading-in-English.pdf(opens new window)
http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2748143/TN3-Read-effectively.pdf