be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write\rdown the important words or sentences in it.\rAs for listening, there are two choices besides reading ,you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can\ronly pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading ,then you can catch up on your listening.\rSince you have lots of inputs( 输入)in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never\rmeans that you should not practice listening ・\rFor listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages\rare easy. O r if you are good at listening, you can listen to VO A or B B C programs every day. Again the thing to\rremember is being active in listening and preferably( 更好地)taking some notes.