英语A2 · 阅读：电子邮件、通知和短篇故事
英语 A2 知识点 14 2:55 英语旁白 · 英中内嵌字幕
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A2 reading meets you with three shapes: the email, the notice and the short story.
A2 阅读有三种形状：邮件、通知、小故事。
Each has a skeleton, and the skeleton tells you where to look first.
各有骨架，骨架告诉你先看哪里。
Read the skeleton fast and the flesh slowly: the subject line maps the email, the heading and date carry the notice, and in a story you track one person, one problem, one change.
骨架读快，血肉读慢：邮件的主题行是地图，通知的标题加日期是两只手，故事盯住一个人、一个问题、一次转变。
The email has four parts. The subject line is the map: class trip on Saturday, new time, and you already know the message. The greeting names the reader. The body must reach its point by line two: the bus now leaves at eight. And the sign-off says who wrote it. Read the subject and the first body line, and eighty percent of emails are done. If there is a question, it usually waits at the end: please reply by Thursday, where by marks the last day, not the first.
邮件四部分：主题行是地图（读完主题行就大概知道全文）；称呼点名读者；正文第二行前必须到要点；落款说明谁写的。 问题常在最后一行：reply by Thursday 的 by 表示最后一天，不是开始的一天。
A notice is a public email. The worked notice: LIBRARY CLOSED, in capitals, with the date, Friday the twentieth of May. What: closed all day for repairs. Where instead: the study room in Block B. How long: open again on Saturday. Five lines, four answers, and the capitals and the date are the two hands that point to them.
通知是公开的邮件：大写标题加日期是两只手，正文五行回答谁、什么、何时、何处。 示例：LIBRARY CLOSED，5 月 20 日周五，全天维修关闭，请改用 B 座自习室，周六恢复。
A2 stories are small: one person, one problem, one change.
A2 故事很小：一个人、一个问题、一次转变。
Ana lost her bus card: the person and the problem. She walked home in the rain: the trouble grows. Her neighbour drove past and gave her a lift: the change.
Ana 丢了公交卡（人与问题）；冒雨走回家（麻烦变大）；邻居顺路载她一程（转变）。
Track the person with one finger, and slow down at the turning signals, but, so, because and then. Meet an unknown word?
手指盯着人，遇到 but、so、because、then 就减速。
Ask whether it is the person, the problem or the change; if it is none of them, it can wait for the dictionary.
生词先问：是人、是问题、还是转变？ 都不是就先放着。
Use the skeleton to guess an unknown word is job before its meaning. The museum is closed for renovation: closed for something means the something is the reason, and a fixing-word fits a reason for closing.
先猜生词的职能再猜词义：closed FOR renovation，for 后面是原因，合情理的是“整修”一类词。
Guessing the job narrows the meaning to a small box, and then the dictionary comes and labels the box.
先猜到盒子，再用词典贴标签。
Watch out for three traps. Do not read every word at the same speed: the skeleton deserves speed, and the flesh deserves care. Dates run small to big or big to small: twenty May and May twentieth are the same day, so do not double-check yourself into doubt. And reply by Thursday means Thursday is the last day, not the day to begin.
三个陷阱：不要等速读每个词（骨架快读、血肉细读）；20 May 和 May 20 是同一天；reply by Thursday 的 by 标的是最后期限，不是开始日。
Check yourself. Which line of an email holds eighty percent of the message? Name the notice two hands.
自测：邮件哪一行装着八成信息？
In the three-sentence story, what is the second sentence job?
通知的两只手是什么？ 三句话故事的第二句干什么？
And is reply by Thursday the last day or the first?
reply by Thursday 是最后一天还是第一天？
If the skeletons sort themselves, the reading is done.
骨架分得清，阅读就过关。