① 读标题、副标题。② 标段落号 A / B / C。③ 每段读首二句,顺手抓转折句,首句必重读。④ 产出每段一句话主旨,够用就停。
Stepwells: Stairways to Water
A At Patan, Queen Udayamati commissioned Rani Ki Vav late in the eleventh century; a thirteenth-century flood later buried it.
B Restoration by the Archaeological Survey of India began in the 1960s; the well drops 27 metres, with 500 sculptures in its walls.
C In January 2001 an earthquake measuring 7.6 struck the region; remarkably, this ancient monument survived.