有助于提高阅读的方法(3/6)

Have you noticed how you decide which magazine to read while you're biding your time in a waiting room? Or have you ever noticed how easy some material is for you to read while other reading seems to be so difficult? Or have you ever been reading something and suddenly realized how the ideas in this piece related to your own thoughts on the subject? In all of these situations, you are relying on something called prior knowledge to aid you in reading. You will usually select a magazine based solely on the title because from the words Sports, Illustrated or Mr., you can predict what the articles would be about and that they will interest you. You find some material easy to read because you already know a good deal about the subject and so the context is familiar to you. Your reading is also greatly aided by your ability to make connections between ideas you've already thought about and the new information the reading is providing.

你是否曾注意过在等候室里你是如何决定选哪本杂志来阅读以打发时间?或者你有没有注意到对他人来说似乎是很困难的阅读材料在你眼里却很容易懂?再或者你有没有在阅读的时候,突然意识到这篇文章的思想与自己对这个问题的理解不谋而合?其实，在这些情景中,你是依靠所谓的先验知识来帮助你阅读。你通常会就根据标题选择一本杂志,因为通过那些字眼-运动、插图或先生,你可以预测这些文章的内容，而且它们能引起你的兴趣。你发现有一些材料通俗易懂，因为你已经对这个话题了解甚深,所以你对文章内容非常熟悉。能够将你已有的想法和阅读提供的新的信息建立起联系也非常有助于你的阅读。