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在雅思考试中，时间非常紧张，因此，进行一定的阅读技能训练是非常必要的。以下是关于阅读技能训练的介绍。

意群阅读(Reading in thought groups)

一个好的阅读者在阅读过程中眼睛的移动是从一个意群到另一个意群;而普通阅读者阅读时眼睛从一个单词移动到另一个单词。避免把一个单词读出来，即使在脑子里读出一个单词而不出声也很浪费时间。

E.g. (The little boy Johnie ) (had been up) (with a packet of mints) (andsaid) (he wouldn’t go out to play) (until the post had come.)

运用上下文的线索理解生词 (using context clues for word meanings)

线索1：定义雅思零基础

a. The harbor is protected by a jetty-a wall built out into the water.

b. Jane is indecisive, that is, she can’t make up her mind.

线索2：重述

a. He had a wan look. He was so pale and weak that we thought he wasill.

b. I am a resolute man. Once I set up a goal, I won’t give it upeasily.

线索3：普遍知识

a. The door was so low that I hit my head on the lintel.

b. Mark got on the motorbike, I sat behind him on the pillion, and weroared off into the night.

线索4：相关信息

a. Just before the exam Carl’s hands shook and sweated so much that hecould not hold a pen. His heart beat fast and his stomach ached, even though heknew the subject very well. He really had a strange phobia about takingtests.

线索5：例子

a. Select any of these periodicals: Time, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest or theNew Yorker.

b. She is studying glaucoma and other diseases of the eye.

线索6：比较

a. Jane was talking with others while Eliza remained reticent all thetime.

线索7：比喻

a. The hot-air balloon took off. It was as buoyant in the air as a cork inwater.

线索8：构词知识

un-, im-,-less, -ness, -ion, -ist

寻找主题句，掌握段落主要思想。(look for the topic sentence and master the main idea)