Trong SAT Reading, Skimming - Scanning là kỹ thuật giúp tối ưu thời gian, làm bài nhanh và có kết quả đúng. Bạn đã hiểu rõ về hai kỹ thuật này? Cùng luyện tập qua bài học dưới đây để áp dụng thực hành, làm bài Reading tốt hơn nhé.

Kỹ thuật Skim-Scan là gì?

Giải thích chi tiết

Example 1. Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời câu hỏi.

The following text is adapted from Edith Nesbit’s 1906 novel The Railway Children.

Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull [visits] to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions.

According to the text, what is true about Mother?

A. She wishes that more ladies would visit her.

B. Birthdays are her favorite special occasion. 

C. She creates stories and poems for her children.

D. Reading to her children is her favorite activity.

Skimming​

  • Là kỹ thuật đọc lướt qua văn bản để nắm bắt ý chính mà không cần đọc từng từ/câu chi tiết​
  • Nhằm thu thập thông tin tổng quát và hiểu nhanh cấu trúc nội dung​

Scanning​

  • Là kỹ thuật đọc quét qua văn bản để tìm thông tin cụ thể mà không cần đọc toàn bộ nội dung​
  • Nhằm xác định vị trí chứa thông tin cần thiết​

Notes & Tips

  • Luôn đọc tiêu đề và các đề mục nhỏ (nếu có)​
  • Đọc câu hỏi trước​
  • Đọc lướt câu đầu và câu cuối của từng đoạn​
  • Skim trước, Scan sau​

Check-up.

Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời câu hỏi.

The following text is from Laila Lalami’s 2019 novel The Other Americans. The narrator is a member of her middle school’s jazz band.
One day the jazz band was invited to perform at the Summer Festival in Palm Springs. Walking across the stage to the piano, I did what my teacher had advised. Pretend you’re only playing for one person. That way you won’t be so nervous. I glanced at my father, who sat in the front row, leaning his head just so, waiting. Then I closed my eyes, and began to play.
 ©2019 by Laila Lalami

According to the text, what does the narrator do as she walks across the stage?

A. She thinks about the differences between playing the piano alone and playing in a band.

B. She feels excitement about playing in a music festival for the first time.

C. She remembers how hard she has practiced for the performance.

D. She follows her teacher’s advice about managing her nervousness.

Practice - Luyện tập

Exercise 1.

Đọc nhanh đoạn văn sau và trả lời câu hỏi.

The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray is taking his first look at a portrait that Hallward has painted of him.
Dorian passed listlessly in front of his picture and turned towards it. When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure. A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognized himself for the first time. He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before.

According to the text, what is true about Dorian?

A. He wants to know Hallward’s opinion of the portrait.

B. He is delighted by what he sees in the portrait.

C. He prefers portraits to other types of paintings.

D. He is uncertain of Hallward’s talent as an artist.

Exercise 2.

Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời câu hỏi.

The following text is from Jane Austen’s 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. Elinor lives with her younger sisters and her mother, Mrs. Dashwood.
Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence. She had an excellent heart;—her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.

According to the text, what is true about Elinor?

A. Elinor often argues with her mother but fails to change her mind.

B. Elinor can be overly sensitive with regard to family matters.

C. Elinor thinks her mother is a bad role model.

D. Elinor is remarkably mature for her age.

Exercise 3.

Đọc đoạn văn dưới đây và trả lời câu hỏi.

In 2014, Amelia Quon and her team at NASA set out to build a helicopter capable of flying on Mars. Because Mars’s atmosphere is only one percent as dense as Earth’s, the air of Mars would not provide enough resistance to the rotating blades of a standard helicopter for the aircraft to stay aloft. For five years, Quon’s team tested designs in a lab that mimicked Mars’s atmospheric conditions. The craft the team ultimately designed can fly on Mars because its blades are longer and rotate faster than those of a helicopter of the same size built for Earth.

According to the text, why would a helicopter built for Earth be unable to fly on Mars?

A. Because Mars and Earth have different atmospheric conditions

B. Because the blades of helicopters built for Earth are too large to work on Mars

C. Because the gravity of Mars is much weaker than the gravity of Earth

D. Because helicopters built for Earth are too small to handle the conditions on Mars

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