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愚人节英文材料 愚人节英文材料 This programme was first broadcast in 2001. This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript of the programme. ANNOUNCER: Itrsquo;s time for Academic Listening - a series for students at English-speaking universities. This time Susan Fearn is focusing on academic reading, but to begin with, let’s hear from two people, a student and a teacher, as they tell us how they understand the problems of reading for academic purposes. CLIP: Student The problem of reading is to get used to [it]. It takes time. CLIP: Christine Reeves The main problem with reading is the actual amount of reading that you’re likely to have to do at University - you may be given a book list which has fifteen , twenty or even thirty books on it and you’ve got a very short time in which to read those books and so what you really have to learn to do is read effectively and you also have to learn to be selective in what you read. Talk about English ? BBC Learning English Page 2 of 6 Susan: The reading you have to do as a student is quite different from any reading you do for pleasure. And there are particular problems associated with it. The first of these relates to the sheer volume of material that confronts you when you walk into the library or when you recEive your reading list. There are other more obvious problems such as having to learn a whole new specialist vocabulary. Well, wersquo;ll start with some tips. If you come across unfamiliar words when yoursquo;re reading an academic text, try not to reach immediately for your dictionary. Practise trying to guess the meaning of the word from the context or from what you already know about the subject. Another World Service class member has advice for those of you who find you have so much to read that you just donrsquo;t know where to start. CLIP: Student [NB: very rough transcript] Select material to read. You can’t read everything - it’s impossible. You need to be selective and make choices, and then focus on the uncertain aspe