There are many methods to improve the reading skills when learning Chinese. When you do your exercises or in the reading process, you may often see the practicing methods of answering a certain questions with the grammar points provided so that to practice the application of certain language points in real context. To finish the practice of this type, the learners need to know clearly about the meanings of the words provided as well as the contexts.
For example, the learners are supposed to answer the question 你是什么时候开始不吃肉的with the given words 一向. In order to answer the question perfectly, you need to understand this question first and then the meaning of the word. The question is asking the time of stopping eating meat and the meaning of 一向is similar with always in English. Therefore, you can answer the question like 我一向吃素，从来没吃过肉, meaning I am always a vegetarian and have never eaten meat.
Let’s move our attention to the question 你有什么爱好, which should be answered with the word尤其. Most foreign students who go to school to study in China may all know the meaning of the question, that is, what’s your hobby. And the word 尤其is similar with the meaning of especially in English. In this way, when you answer the question, you need to explain your favorite hobby. You can answer it like 我喜欢运动，尤其是打篮球.
In addition, 反而 is also very frequently seen in daily conversations. Therefore, you can often hear people say 反而更好了and反而更糟糕了. If you want to answer the question 公司改革后情况怎么样 with 反而, you need to know it carries the meaning of on the contrary. Therefore, you need to say one thing on the contrary with the former one like 改革后不但没有好起来，反而更糟糕了.
The last but not least word the Chinese language learners need to know when they learn to speak Chineseis 何不, which is to explain the same meaning of why not do something. For example, when your friends say最近我心情一直不太好, you can say何不去旅游散散心.