Reading comprehension is an important contents in english learning, and is classified 7 types according to various forms of passage, including the main theme of the passage, the central idea of the passage, the main purpose of the article, the author's attitude toward the article, forms of literature on the article, to guess the meaning of words from its context, to realize and grasp the detail of paragraph. Fist we will do the following training about the main theme of article.

　Exercises One

　　For years the Japanese goverment has directed many millions of dollars to school Enlish department only to see Japanese students consistently rank near the bottom in interational tests.
　　But Japan is increasingly pinning its hopes on the internet revolution to reboot a still-week economy as well as tentatively trying to raise its diplomatic profile. This has prompted urgent calls for the nation to brush up its English and make it central to everyday life.
　　In a soul-searching report on Japan's shortcomings, a special panel of experts said that Japan should consider adopting English as its official second language.
　　Unless every adult had a working knowledge of English, it said, Japan risked missing out on the world-wide info-tech boom.
　　The panel's ideas include having all public documents published in English.
　　Several top politicals and academics have backed the idea of making English the official second language.
　　Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a legislator for the opposition Democratic party of Japan, is drawing up bill to make English the official second language.
　　"Globalization means that in a hundred year's time...many foreigner will be living in Japan and English will be the way wi have to communicate," he said. Matsuzawa wants to saturate everyday life with English, from television to restaurant means, and to extend teaching of the language into elementary schools and universities. Some steps have already been taken to reduce the emphasis on rote learning that is traditional in Japan. Plans are afoot to place more native-speaker language assistant in high schools, where six years of English is compulsory.
　　But it will not be that easy.
　　Conservatives, already worried by the prospect of rising immigration as Japan's population ages, are wary of what they see as another threat to Japanese culture.
　　Some politicians said that the government's first concern should be to improve standards of spoken and witten Japanese, which many think have been slipping.
　　As panels think and academics argue, Japan's companies and individuals are taking matters into their own hands.
　　According to the Education Ministry, the number of Japanese studying abroad jumped to early 56,000 the year before, despite a lingering recession.
　　The "New Japan" economy needs little help from the state.
　　The rapid rise of Internet companies in Japan is being driven by a new breed of young, foreign-educated entrepreneurs. They can usually speak fluent English, said Edwin Sarfo, the CEO of Global Netrade Securities Co, a new online trading firm.