Reading should be part of your life. But the problem is that there's too much to read these days and too little time to read every word of it. There are hundreds of skills to help you read more in less time. Here are two skills that I think are very good.
Preview(预览)—if it's long and hard. Previewing is very useful for getting a general(总的)idea of heavy reading like long magazine articles and reports.
Here's how to preview:
Read the first two paragraphs and the last two paragraphs carefully.
Then read only the first sentence of the other paragraphs.
Skim(略读) if it's short and easy. Skimming is a good way to get a general idea of light reading like popular magazines or the sports and stars, movies of your daily paper.
Here's how to skim:
Get your eyes to move fast. Sweep them across each line.
Pick up only a few key words in each line.
Everybody skims differently. You and I may not pick up the same words when we skim the same news, but usually we won't get very different ideas of what it's all about.
