For many students of English, reading is by far the most important of the four skills in the foreign language (Carrel 1989).

• 正如卡莱尔(Carrel 1989)所说，“对于许多学习者来说，阅读是四项语言技能中最重要的，在英语作为第二语言或外语学习中尤其如此”。