The ability to see words on either side of the point at which your eyes focus is called
peripheral vision
(外围视觉). Foreign students of English often feel that it is impossible to recognize so many words at a single
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or within a short time. It is difficult for many
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speakers too, but it can be done. It is something that has to be done if you are to read as
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as you should. You can increase your peripheral vision by eye exercises.
Equally important is the importance of moving your eyes from point to point in a uniform rhythm. Slow reading often
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from regression, the number of times your eyes have to go back. While practising to increase your peripheral vision and uniform rhythm, you may
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have to reread. Do not get
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. A smooth, forward rhythm comes with practice.
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your speed will get to the point where your eyes move comfortably forward without regression.
A final
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of slow reading is forming the sounds of each word, even though you might not speak them aloud. The
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American native speaks English at 180 to 200 words a minute. If you read each word in
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, it is impossible to read faster than this. Reading 200 words a minute is a dangerously slow speed.
A. average B. eventually C. results D. column
E. discouraged F. rapidly G. subsequent It. glance
I. mind J. scratched K. process L. native
M. occasionally N. cause O. offends