如何提高大学英语四级阅读技巧

How to Improve Reading Skills in CET-4 (Reading Section)

[Abstract] Listening, speaking, reading and writing are the four basic skills in the process of English learning .Reading is one of the important skills. Improving reading skill is the major job in English teaching at college. The CET-4 reading section can test college students’ reading ability .This paper proves into the CET-4 reading section, lists the principle of selecting reading materials and the obstacles that hinder students in their comprehension and speed, meanwhile it states the strategy of skimming and scanning and the importance of background knowledge. Besides, on the basis of analyzing the past testing items, the paper suggests corresponding countermeasures so as to improve students’ ability of reading and testing.
[keywords] CET-4； reading comprehension；countermeasures； vocabulary； reading speed.

如何提高大学英语四级阅读技巧

【摘要】 阅读理解是英语四种基本技能（听说读写）中的最重要的一种。 阅读能力的培养又是大学英语教学的重点所在。大学英语四级考试中的阅读理解是对考生语言能力综合运用的一种检验。本论文主要探讨了英语四级的阅读部分，列举了阅读题选材的内容，阅读当中的妨碍阅读理解和阅读速度的因素，同时详细介绍了 skimming 和scanning的策略， 进而提及背景知识在应试技巧中的重要性，此外，本文在分析几例考题的基础上提出相应的应试策略以提高学生的阅读能力和应试能力。
【关键词】 大学四级；阅读理解；词汇； 相应策略；阅读速度

Introduction
When a test is to be given to test taker, the test makers should consider its validity, and the validity now have two aspects: content validity and construct validity. The content of a test constitutes a representative sample of language skill by mentioning validity, and such validity depend on the purpose of a test .If a test is too easy ,too difficult to most test takers or they lack the background of the testing material,it is not valid. That is, the purpose if test and testing principles as well as specific instructions to a certain test determines the validity of the tests. [1]R44
Today, the principle of testing complies by the CET test center are vital to the teachers of English and the students intending to take such tests, which determine the validity of the CET tests themselves and have a guide to English teaching and studying. This paper is about the CET-4 reading section, it concludes principles, purposes, and testing ability and how they are embodied in the reading section.
In CET-4 (college English test Band 4), reading comprehension test should be finished within a limited time (35 minutes) .CET—4 is held twice a year in the whole country. The reading section contains 4 short passages with five multiple-choice questions, amount to20 questions .The 20 questions are divided into two parts, according to the type of correct answer: direct questions and indirect questions .Therefore, the three reading achievements are obtained as dependent variables:
A. The whole achievement of the whole reading comprehension test;
B. Indirect –question achievement;
C. Direct-questions achievement;

1 Principle
From the CET—4model test (reading section),we can see that the student should finish the four passages in 35 minutes (the speed of reading is about 70 words every minutes ),it including 5questions in each passage .So on average the student should read each passage and choose the right answer in 8—9 minutes through thinking and reasoning. [2]R19
 “(1) The content of reading materials is about biography, society ,culture, common sense ,and natural science and the concerned background knowledge is not beyond the student’s reach of comprehension .
(2) The type of test is various, including stories, expositions, and argumentations, etc.
(3) The degree of difficulty is mild and the words are within Chinese meaning which has some influence on the sentence and passage comprehension.” [3]R45

2. Purpose
The purpose of the reading section is designed to test student’s abilities, as following;
(1) To get the gist of reading passage;
(2) To get the information of details of the passage and the example of supporting the gist;
(3) To understand the literal meaning and make inference according to the reading passages;
(4) Judge the meaning of some words and phrases through contest;
(5) To understand specific sentences as well as the logic relations of the context;
(6) Follow the author’s opinion and attitude; [3]R46

There are three different levels in the reading test:
(1) The first level, students may use skimming and scanning to find the details or the main ideas in the passage according to the questions, this is the basic requirement, and it is easy for students to get the accurate deductions.
(2) The second level, student can catch the key words and the related words to reason the implied statement and make some deductions. This type of requirement is more difficult than the first level, the students themselves should draw the conclusion from the passage, and they can not find the answer directly from the passage.
(3) The third level is the most difficult questions for students, students are asked to draw logical conclusion from the reading passage, they should consider more information in the passage , but these different levels of questions have not the same proportion in the test, it can expressed with the figure below: [5]R46

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