如何达到这种英文境界啊？（阅读英语文章时不能先把文章翻译成汉语，再进行理解。

我想他们用的方法都是先看一下题目，然后到文章里面找对应的句子。文章里面的句子一般会有一些表达方式上的改动，但如果仔细找，总归会对号入座。

身为中国人，难免把文章的某些章节翻译成汉语来理解，谁说没有这种情况那是不可能的，除非他第一语言是英语。

我想，雅思考试考的是对文章的理解能力。举例说明，你读一篇中文文章的时候，如果有一些东西需要你理解，你必须要重新把那句话读一遍。而在这之前，你会把文章粗略的看一遍，大概了解是什么意思。

这个，就是雅思考试的官方重点技巧： skimming and scanning

【高分，英语好的进来】阅读文章Is Google making us Stupid?，回答下列问题

1. The internet helps a lot in his research as a writer. He (the author is male) used to spend a lot of time in libraries looking for what he needed, now it's much quicker and easier by searching the web.

2. In the author's opinion, footnotes are often compared to hyperlinks; however there're significant differences: the former point you to the related works, the latter PROPEL you toward them.

3. Marshall Mcluhan said, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the
stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.

4. The report says people using the sites showed a form of skimming activity. And there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users 'power browse' horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid
reading in the traditional sense.

5. Traditional readers have the ability to interpret text, make the rich mental connections. As decoders of information, this ability is largely disengaged.

6. The word malleable itself means capable of being extended or shaped by hammering, etc. Here it means, using Professor James Olds's words, the adult brain has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions.

7. According to Lewis Mumford, the mechanical clock disassociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world. The sbstract framework of divided time became the pint of reference for both action and thought.

8. As people's minds become attuned to the crazy quilt of Internet media, traditional media have adopted to the audience's new expections, by using pop-ups, shortening articles, introducing summaries, etc.

9. Here the system means what's introduced by Frederick Winslow Taylor, in which every job is broken down info discrete steps and the best way to perform each step is identified and applied, in order to realize maximum speed, efficiency, and output.

By measuring everying, Google seeks to develop methods which understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.”

10. The author is apparently is uneasy with the development. He doesn't agree that intelligence is the output of a machinical process.

However, he's also not sure if he's right by using the example of what happened after the arrival of Gutenberg's printing press.