大學考試委員會推薦 101本最好圖書

【大紀元2011年10月12日訊】大學升學考試SAT測驗的3個科目中有一個是閱讀理解，ACT考試4個科目中也考一個閱讀。大專院校為甚麼那麼重視閱讀能力呢？

加州大學河濱校園英與系副教授布吉斯(John Briggs)，也是大學考試委員會(College Board) SAT閱讀發展委員表示：「很大比例的大學新生難以了解大學程度學術文章的要旨。要透徹了文章，對他們來說很難。」好的閱讀理解能力，是大學成功的必要因素。學生如果能在高中時期學好讀書技巧，上了大學就能駕輕就熟，熬夜苦讀的需要會大量減少，才能空出多餘時間交友、參與活動、充實完整的大學經驗。

最近一個ACT考試成績的統計也發現到，只有大約一半的學生能勝任大學程度的閱讀。2005年參加考試的學生中女性、亞裔與白人表現較好，但是他們當中也只有53、54、59%的學生有大學閱讀水準，家庭年收入高於10萬美元的學生，表現稍好，有70%的學生達到了所需的閱讀能力。對於華人家庭來說沒有英文文化與傳統的優勢，更加要聽從專家的建議，培養孩子上圖書館查閱研究的習慣、多上書店瀏覽選購新書，如果能陪同孩子一起選讀文章、討論內容就更為理想。請盡量鼓勵孩子多讀書，不但有助閱讀理解考試成績，更能幫助未來大學學習的成功與進步。

一位高中老師說，每天閱讀20分鐘一年就能閱讀2百萬字，每年2百萬也是加州教育單位對9-10年級學生的建議閱讀量。然而，要讀些甚麼呢？大學考試委員會開列了按照作者姓名字母順序排列的101本書籍，提供所有想上大學的學生選擇的參考http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html。

這項書單絕對不是考試必讀清單，一些老師、作家們也只不過讀了其中的10幾20或30幾本，一位愛書人與現代圖書館(Modern Library)提供的「100本最好小說」的清單相比較，表示大學委員會的書單更具多樣性，包含了不同族裔與女性作家的著作，不是清一色白人作家的作品。一位讀過書單中34本著作的老師說，閱讀清單上這些書能為學生打下堅實的古典文字基礎，更何況它們屬於不同古典、學者形式的書籍，讀起來很能享受其中趣味。

關心孩子閱讀能力的家長，不妨建議孩子從以下101本書中開始選讀 ( 按照書名字母順序重排)。不同年紀、個性的孩子有不同的喜好，家長們有特別顧慮的也可以參與選擇。學生可以請教圖書館員、老師或上戶聯網，例如亞馬遜網上書店www.amazon.com預先了解每本著作的大概內容再選讀。今天就開始每天20分鐘的閱讀計劃吧！

　　1. A Death in the Family by James Agee

　　2. A Doll』s House by Henrik Ibsen

　　3. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

　　4. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O』Connor

　　5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

　　6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

　　7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

　　8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

　　9. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

　　10. Animal Farm by George Orwell

　　11. Antigone by Sophocles

　　12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

　　13. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

　　14. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

　　15. Beloved by Toni Morrison

　　16. Beowulf

　　17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

　　18. Call it Sleep by Henry Roth

　　19. Candide by Voltaire

　　20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

　　21. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

　　22. Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

　　23. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

　　24. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

　　25. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

　　26. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

　　27. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

　　28. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

　　29. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

　　30. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

　　31. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

　　32. Gulliver』s Travels by Jonathan Swift

　　33. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

　　34. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

　　35. Inferno by Dante

　　36. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

　　37. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

　　38. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

　　39. Long Day』s Journey into Night by Eugene O』Neill

　　40. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

　　41. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

　　42. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

　　43. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

　　44. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

　　45. Native Son by Richard Wright

　　46. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

　　47. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

　　48. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

　　49. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

　　50. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

　　51. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

　　52. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

　　53. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　54. Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe

　　55. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

　　56. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

　　57. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

　　58. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

　　59. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

　　60. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

　　61. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

　　62. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

　　63. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

　　64. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

　　65. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

　　66. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

　　67. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

　　68. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

　　69. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

　　70. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

　　71. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

　　72. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

　　73. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

　　74. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

　　75. The Iliad by Homer

　　76. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

　　77. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

　　78. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

　　79. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

　　80. The Odyssey by Homer

　　81. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

　　82. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

　　83. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

　　84. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

　　85. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

　　86. The Stranger by Albert Camus

　　87. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

　　88. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

　　89. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

　　90. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

　　91. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

　　92. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

　　93. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

　　94. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

　　95. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

　　96. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

　　97. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

　　98. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

　　99. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

　　100. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

　　101. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte