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Another useful method for improving your reading is the ability to reflect on what is be
Careful note – taking on your reading material ___48___ while you read. Pausing periodically to ___49__ about important claims or ideas, ___50___ details, or questions about unclear concepts. The act of note – taking will help you to reflect about the content of the document, and the notes you keep will ___51___ an archive that you can refer to in the future.
Synthesis is the ability to take what are ___52___ seeming irrelevant points and put them together into a meaningful, new whole. Synthesis may occur during your reading, or it may tale place after you have read a document in its entirety.
Analysis moves synthesis one step ___53___ , encouraging a reader to carefully examine thoroughly the points ___54__ , and how they are synthesized. After readers analyze a passage or a whole text, they ___55__ regarding the document, either generally agreeing or disagreeing with its message. (205 words)
46. A. study B. reflect on C. consider D. think
47. A. and B. but also C. moreover D. yet
48. A. must take place B. may start C. have to begin D. should occur
49. A. make note B. write note C. take notes D. keep note
50. A. relevant B. connected C. associated D. linked
51. A. act as B. serve as C. consider as D. regard as
52. A. firstly B. to begin with C. first hand D. at first
53. A. in advance B. farther C. further D. forwardly
54. A. to be made B. being made C. having made D. to make
55. A. take a position B. insist on C. consider D. hold the view
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