摘要：
Active reading is a skill can be applied to reading different kinds of materials. Completely passive reading is impossible. Some people hold a wrong opinion that compared with writing and speaking, which are obviously active undertakings, reading and listening are entirely passive. The reader or listener is much more like the catcher in a game of baseball.Catching the ball is just as much an activity as pitching or hitting it. All the players are active in the game. But the amount the reader “catches” will usually depend on the amount of activity he puts into the process, as well as upon the skill with which he executes the different mental acts involved.
句型：
1.For the moment, it suffices to say that, given the same thing to read, one person reads it better than another, first, by reading it more actively, and second, by performing each of the acts involved more skillfully.
2.Successful communication occurs in any case where what the writer wanted to have received finds its way into the reader’s possession.
