(A) Read the following extract and answer the questions given
To read a lot is essential. It is stupid not to venture outside the examination 'set books' or the textbooks you have chosen for intensive study. Read as many books in English as you can, not as a duty but for pleasure. Do not choose the most difficult books you find, with the idea of listing and learning as many new words as possible . choose what is likely to interest you and be sure in advance, that it is not too hard. You should not have to be constantly looking up new words in the dictionary, for that deadens interest and checks real
learning. Look up a word here and there, but as a general policy try to push ahead, guessing what words mean from the context. It is extensive and not intensive reading that normally helps you to get interested in extra reading and thereby improve your English. You should enjoy the feeling which extensive reading gives. As you read you will become more and more familiar with words and sentence patterns you already know, understanding them better and better as you meet them in more and more contexts, some of which may differ only slightly from others.
Some people say that we cannot learn to speak a language better with the help of a book. To believe that the spoken 'language and written language are quite different things. This is not so.
Answer:
The importance of reading
Reading is essential. we must read not only textbooks but also other books not as a duty but for pleasure . we must not shows difficult books which need the use of a dictionary .often instead he must read books that we find interesting if we find any difficult words we must try to guess the meaning of the word from the context and try to avoid using a dictionary. it is extensive and not intensive reading that will improve our English opinions depot as to whether or not one can learn to speak a language better with the help of a book or not
To read a lot is essential. It is stupid not to venture outside the examination 'set books' or the textbooks you have chosen for intensive study. Read as many books in English as you can, not as a duty but for pleasure. Do not choose the most difficult books you find, with the idea of listing and learning as many new words as possible . choose what is likely to interest you and be sure in advance, that it is not too hard. You should not have to be constantly looking up new words in the dictionary, for that deadens interest and checks real
learning. Look up a word here and there, but as a general policy try to push ahead, guessing what words mean from the context. It is extensive and not intensive reading that normally helps you to get interested in extra reading and thereby improve your English. You should enjoy the feeling which extensive reading gives. As you read you will become more and more familiar with words and sentence patterns you already know, understanding them better and better as you meet them in more and more contexts, some of which may differ only slightly from others.
Some people say that we cannot learn to speak a language better with the help of a book. To believe that the spoken 'language and written language are quite different things. This is not so.
Answer:
The importance of reading
Reading is essential. we must read not only textbooks but also other books not as a duty but for pleasure . we must not shows difficult books which need the use of a dictionary .often instead he must read books that we find interesting if we find any difficult words we must try to guess the meaning of the word from the context and try to avoid using a dictionary. it is extensive and not intensive reading that will improve our English opinions depot as to whether or not one can learn to speak a language better with the help of a book or not
