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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 (页边空白) . 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

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本文是说明文.文章介绍了上课做笔记的方法.

36. 第一段所提到的办法 Clo6k through all that material,drill it into their brains,and hope they can remember the right parts at test time) 比较费 力，所以下文作者才会给读者介绍做笔记的方 法。B项符合此处语境，在文中起承上启下的 作用。

37.F。F 项的 prepared 与该空前的 with questions to be answered 和 pre-reading 相呼应。

38. E。E项的the extra space承接该空前的the extra margins 。

39. G。本段是关于总结大意的，故写下大意后，紧 接着应该列出支撑大意的细节信息。这与下文 提到的“这种方法帮你将零散的信息联系起来， 帮助你更好地记忆它们”相呼应。

40. C.此处考査该段的主旨句。C项中的 confiising 和 your teacher or a classmate 与该段的 doesn,t make sense 和 someone — 一对应。