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CH2 The Levels of Reading
CH3 The first Level of Reading
“Francis Bacon once remarked that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Reading a book analytically is chewing and digesting it.”
Words & Phrases (每日五词）
1. ferment
The word ferment means a commotion or excitement.
While you might be more familiar with the verb ferment, referring to the natural process that produces alcohol, the word is also used as a noun,giving the same type of boiling emotion to people or events.
If you keep in mind that the root of the word is fevere, meaning "to boil or seethe," you get a vivid picture of the ferment experienced at a political rally where tempers run high. 从词根记忆
原文：“Three historical trends or movements have converged upon our time to produce this ferment. ”
2. a far cry from
very different from something.
“ They can be summed up in the observation that teaching a small percentage of highly motivated children, most of them the children of literate parents, to read —as was the case a century ago—is a far cry from teaching every child to read, no matter how little motivated he may be, or how deprived his background.”
3. pendulum
A pendulum is something hanging and swinging freely from a fixed point. A grandfather clock might use for timekeeping a pendulum that swings back and forth.
Pendulum comes from the Latin word pendulous, meaning "hanging down." If someone hangs a pocket watch in front of you and swings it back and forth, saying, "You're getting very sleepy," they're mimicking the movement of a pendulum. We also use the word pendulum to describe a situation moving between two poles or across a spectrum, like the balance of power in a multiparty political system.
原文：“ More recently, however, the pendulum has swung back again toward phonics, which indeed had never entirely left the curriculum.”
4. the lowest common-denominator
figurative the broadest or most widely applicable requirement or circumstance
〈喻〉符合最大多数人们要求的东西, 雅俗共赏的特性。
5.germane
Something that is germane to a situation or idea is connected with it in an important way
Summary
There are four levels of reading.
the first level: Elementary reading ( or called rudimentary reading, basic reading or initial reading)
aim: what does the sentence say?
when: This level of reading is ordinarily learned in elementary school.
Problems: the problems of this level of reading will happen when we readboth in written in a foreign language or in our own language
the second level: Inspectional Reading( skimming or pre-reading)
aim: What is the book about? what is the structure of the book?
get the most out of a book within a given time
problem: most people, even many quite good reader, are unaware of the value of inspectional reading.
the third level: Analytical Reading
aim: know more about a book
The book is mainly about reading at this level. Only few books are to be chewed and digested. Reading a book analytically is cheweing and digesting it.
the fourth level: Synoptical Reading ( comparative reading)
aim：the syntopical reader is able to construct an analysis of the subject that may not be in any of the books.
the most rewarding of all reading activities.
The benefits are so great that it is well worth the trouble of learning how to do it.
Elementary Reading:
There are four stages of elementary reading.
阅读感悟：
在昨天的章节中，体会最深的是：
一本书如一个老师，一本好书就是难的一位好老师，我们要了解他的观点，跟他学习，跟他沟通，向他提问，缩短和他的差距，达到他的高度。
有了这个前提，今天这两章读的一点都不枯燥，跟一位优秀的老师交流是一件愉快的事情。
读书有四个层次，第一个层次是基础阅读。基础阅读差不多在中学阶段完成。达到第一阶段的阅读应该具备什么样的能力？
从一本书到另一本书不断吸收观念化为己有；对同一主题，能够对比不同的作者的观点；并终其一生坚持下去。这才是达到了成熟的初级阅读阶段。
“Finally, the fourth stage is characterized by the refinement and enhancement of the skills previously acquired. Above all, the studentbegins to be able to assimilate his reading experiences—that is, to carry over concepts from one piece of writing to another, and to compare the views of different writers on the same subject.This, the mature stage of reading, should be reached by young persons in their early teens. Ideally, they should continue to build on it for the rest of their lives.”
初级阅读阶段，如作者所说，即使我们已经上了大学，或者大学毕业，阅读水平可能仍然处于初级阅读层次，甚至远远没有达到初级阅读的最高要求。
坦诚的说，我连最基本的初级阅读到不达标。如果一定要定个位，可能只是刚刚小学毕业的水平。
今天跟How to Read a Book 这位优秀的老师交流的结果是：今天跟书对话的结果是，我知道的自己的阅读层次，知道自己在阅读的路上还有很长的路要走。
下一章是检视阅读，第二章作者中有一段话，问一问自己是个怎样的阅读者？是作者说的这种吗？
打开一本书，从第一页开始读，孜孜不倦，甚至连目录都不看。一本书也许只需要粗浅翻阅，你却花费巨大的精力去仔细阅读，试图理解一本书。
“They start a book on page one and plow steadily through it, without even reading the table of contents. They are thus faced with the task of achieving a superficial knowledge of the book at the same time that they are trying to understand it. That compounds the difficulty.”
世上的书千千万万，值得我们细嚼慢咽的书并不多。
some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Reading a book analytically is chewing and digesting it.
