Ways of reading

I sometimes _________ a magazine in a newsagent's but I don't usually buy one

I never liked history at school. I found it very hard to ________ all that boring stuff about wars and revolutions.

I'll _____________ his number in the phone-book

You just ________an encyclopaedia for things that interest you.

I didn't know the word. I had to ________ a dictionary.

I spend a lot of time in bookshops. I don't often buy books. I just __________.

Some people have the ability to ________ a page, which means to read it very quickly, just taking the main points.

Of course an encyclopaedia is not a book you ______________.

If I come to a boring bit in a book, I just ________ a few pages till the real story starts again.

We have requested our lawyers to _________ the document with the greatest care to decide whether it's legal or not.