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How does your reading proceed?Clearly you try tocomprehend,in the sense of identifying meaningsfor individual words and working out relationshipsbetween them,drawing on your explicit knowledgeof English grammar(41)_you begin to infer acontext for the text,for instance,by makingdecisions about what kind of speech event isinvolved:who is making the utterance,to whom,when and where.The ways of reading indicated here are withoutdoubt kinds of of comprehension.But they showcomprehension to consist not just passiveassimilation but of active engagement in inferenceand problem-solving.You infer information you feelthe writer has invited you to grasp by presenting youwith specific evidence and clues.(42)_A Are we studying that text and trying to respond ina way that fulfills the requirement of a given course?Reading it simply for pleasure?Skimming it for关注公众号【乘龙考研】获取后续课程更新关注公众号【乘龙考研】获取后续课程更新information?Ways of reading on a train or in bed arelikely to differ considerably from reading in aseminar room.B Factors such as the place and period in which weare reading,our gender,ethnicity,age and socialclass will encourage us towards certaininterpretation but at the same time obscure or evenclose off others.C If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms,youguess at their meaning,using clues presented in thecontext.On the assumption that they will becomerelevant later,you make a mental note of discourseentities as well as possible links between them.DIn effect,you try to reconstruct the likelymeanings or effects that any given sentence,imageor reference might have had:These might be theones the author intended.EYou make further inferences,for instance,abouthow the text may be significant to you,or about itsvalidityinferences that form the basis of a personal关注公众号【乘龙考研】获取后续课程更新关注公众号【乘龙考研】获取后续课程更新response for which the author will inevitably be farless responsible.FIn plays，novels and narrative poems,charactersspeak as constructs created by the author,notnecessarily as mouthpieces for the authors ownthoughts.GRather,we ascribe meanings to texts on thebasis of interaction between what we might calltextual and contextual material:between kinds oforganization or patterning we perceive in a textsformal structures(so especially its languagestructures)and various kinds of background,socialknowledge,belief and attitude that we bring to thetext.关注公众号【乘龙考研】获取后续课程更新关注公众号【乘龙考研】获取后续课程更新