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                                Taking good notes

   Have you ever stared at your heavy textbook,your piles of handouts and wished you knew just what questions your teacher planned to put on the next big test? Lacking a crystal ball,most students feel they have no choice but to look through all that material,drill it into their brains,and hope they can remember the right parts at test time.

   36 If you learn the best ways to take good notes,you'11 make the job of studying for tests a lot easier from now on.

   Keep up with your assigned textbook reading.Come to class with an intefest in the material and with questions to be answered. You can develop these by thinking about and expecting the lecture and by pre-reading the text. 37 

   Date each day's notes and leave wide margins (頁邊空白) . Dated notes guide you to the right material to study for a test. At test time,the extra margins give you room to add more information if you need it. 38 

   Write down main ideas and underline or highlight them. Main ideas give you the “big pictureof information,the reasons why events took place. Write out a main idea whenever you think you hear one. 39 This kind of notetaking helps you connect related information,making it easier for you to remember it for a test later on.

   Use abbreviations and symbols to make notetaking easier. Here are a few simple ones:

   + plus,and

   = equal,same as,similar,like eg for example w/o without 

   40 If you write down something that doesn't make sense,talk to someone right away to clear up the problem.

   A. Write out a main idea.

   B. That's the hard way to study.

   C. See your teacher or a classmate about confusing notes.

   D. This gives you an overall sense of what the text is about.

   E. Also,the extra space will make it easier for you to find the material.

   F. When you are prepared,your teacher's comments make more sense.

   G. Then use single words or short phrases to list related details that tie into the big idea.

Answer 1

話題：學校生活

本文是說明文.文章介紹了上課做筆記的方法.

36. 第一段所提到的辦法 Clo6k through all that material,drill it into their brains,and hope they can remember the right parts at test time) 比較費 力，所以下文作者才會給讀者介紹做筆記的方 法。B項符合此處語境，在文中起承上啟下的 作用。

37.F。F 項的 prepared 與該空前的 with questions to be answered 和 pre-reading 相呼應。

38. E。E項的the extra space承接該空前的the extra margins 。

39. G。本段是關于總結大意的，故寫下大意后，緊 接著應該列出支撐大意的細節信息。這與下文 提到的“這種方法幫你將零散的信息聯系起來， 幫助你更好地記憶它們”相呼應。

40. C.此處考査該段的主旨句。C項中的 confiising 和 your teacher or a classmate 與該段的 doesn,t make sense 和 someone — 一對應。