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I. Reading Strategy: Skimming Skimming is a reading strategy to find out the main idea(s) of an article or any other type of reading material. When skimming, you should always read an article or a piece of information quickly, without studying it in detail, in order to get the main point(s). 

Skim the reading and choose the best answer to the following question. Exercise: Skim the reading and choose the best answer to the following question. (　) What is the main idea of the reading? (A) How Lugu got its name. (B) How many households in Lugu are in the tea business. (C) A journey to the tea town, Lugu. (D) The mountains and hills that surround Lugu. C  

II. Reading Strategy: Scanning Scanning is a reading strategy to help you skip unimportant words and pay attention to the information you are looking for. When scanning, you should first have a question in mind and then scan the passage for the answer.  

Exercise: Scan the reading and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.  

friend, who lived in Lugu. (B) She wanted to take part in the (　) 1. Why did the author visit Taiwan? (A) She wanted to visit her best friend, who lived in Lugu. (B) She wanted to take part in the annual tea competition. (C) She wanted to visit her grandparents and the countryside in Lugu. (D) She planned to study the soil, the weather, and the people in Lugu. C  

( ) 2. How many households in Lugu are in the tea business? At least _____. (A) 500 (B) 3,500 (C) 5,000 (D) 5,500 C  

( ) 3. What conditions are good for planting tea in Lugu? (A) The friendly people and the good surroundings. (B) The annual tea competition and the celebration afterward. (C) The strong tea culture and the beautiful valley. (D) The soft red soil and the moist, cool weather. D  

( ) 4. What did the author and her friend experience firsthand when they took a trip to Lugu? (A) How to plant tea. (B) How to raise deer. (C) How to turn tea leaves into tea. (D) How to make tea cakes. C  

( ) 5. Which of the following statements about Lugu is NOT true? (A) All the households in Lugu are in the tea business. (B) There is a very strong tea culture in Lugu. (C) Lugu was once a forest where deer roamed freely. (D) Tea farming in Lugu dates back to the nineteenth century. A  END