看杂志、读报纸、看电影、听音乐、听广播、朗诵诗歌、读小说、读NOFICTION等凡是融合进生活的感兴趣的都可以作为语言的训练，但如何阅读、如何读得深、如何真正读懂文章还需要结合专门的读本,在指导下有目的的练习。9年级下的中学生可以去看看SAT1的要求，看他们是如何要求学生读懂文章的。
SAT1：
阅读 （Critical Reading）--时间:70分钟（分为两个25分钟和一个20分钟）
考核内容:阅读能力
考核方式:阅读理解、完成句子和段落阅读理解
分数:200-800
阅读部分共 67 道题：其中完成句子有 19 道，段落阅读有 48 道。 阅读文章涉及内容：自然科学类，人文科学类，社会科学类，文学小说类

写作 （writing）
时间:60分钟
考核内容:语法、习惯用法和词汇选择
考核方式:多项选择题 (35分钟.)；写作 (25分钟)
分数:200-800
写作部分共 49 道题和一个短文：
   其中有 18 道句子找错， 25 道改句， 6 道改段落和一个短文。
   作文类型：议论文，需有立论和例证（作文单独评分： 2-12 ；多项选择评分： 20-80 ）

    国内的诸多培训机构也接受国外读书的英语非母语的孩子，回国进行SAT的培训的。在应试方面，国内培训机构还是有许多办法的。
   SAT考的还是简单的推理逻辑，考的不是更难的那些间接逻辑， 你到了GRE或者是更高的层面，它考虑的是间接逻辑，开始变复杂。更高的考的是多值逻辑。.

The ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound　　埃兹拉.庞德:阅读入门　1934　Brookhiser: "An epitome of the aging aesthetic movement that will be forever known as modernism."
ABC of Reading is a book by Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach to the appreciation and understanding of literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as an ABC of Writing Poetry - in which the author does not suffer fools gladly. Several strikingly informative mantras are given:"Literature is language charged with meaning: Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost degree" - to be achieved by three main ways:
phanopoeia - throwing the object (fixed or moving) on to the visual imagination.
melopoeia - inducing emotional correlations by sound and rhythm of the speech.
logopoeia - inducing 1 & 2 by stimulating associations with other word/word groups.
"Literature is news that stays news".
"Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music."
"I've never read half a page of Homer without finding melodic invention."
"Without the foregoing minimum of poetry in other languages you simply will not know where English poetry comes."
"From Chaucer you can learn whatever came over into the earliest English that one can read without a dictionary."
"Artists are the antennae of the race."
"The honest critic must be content to find a very little contemporary work worth serious attention; but he must be ready to recognize that little..."
"There are three types of melopoeia, i.e. verse made to sing; to chant/intone; and to speak. The older one gets the more one believes in the first. One reads prose for the subject matter.".