into trouble for not being able to understand. I had to wait until I got home so my mother couldexplain it to me. How did I ever get into Cornell University?
By eighth grade I started understanding a little on my own, but I was reading at a very slowspeed. In eighth grade, I got hold of all the speed-reading books I could get my hands on. I readthem all very slowly at the time. I even went out and took a course on speed-reading. Then Ideveloped my own way which was easier and produced quicker results. I started practicing thesetechniques every day, and as I started to read faster, my understanding increased. I found that 1stopped daydreaming and thinking about other things while I was reading, and started getting thelarger meaning. I was reading faster and comprehending better.
I found that when you read slowly, word-by-word, you get lost in the words, lose the biggerpicture, and your comprehension drops. When you read faster, your comprehension goes upbecause instead of getting lost in the words, you see the general picture.41. The main difficulty the writer had in reading in her 7th grade was that
A) she often forgot her school reading assignments
B) she had difficulty reading with comprehension
C) she had a poor vocabulary and very bad grammar
D) she always looked elsewhere when asked to read
42. The writer would pretend to be reading in the last 10 minutes of class because
A) she was afraid of being found out
B) the reading class was terrible
C) she had to do what others were doing
D) her mother told her to do so
43. The writer's reading ability improved a great deal mainly because
A) she entered Cornell University
B) she took a course on speed reading
C) her mother managed to help her out
D) she developed her own way of reading
44. From her own experience, the writer found that
A) one's comprehension drops if one reads too slowly
B) in order to understand better, one has to read slowly
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