标题: 考博英语完型练习4 [打印本页] 作者: 嘎嘣脆 时间: 2012-12-21 21:19 标题: 考博英语完型练习4 For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation.To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words.
In __1__a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend __2__ can mean the difference between success and failure.
Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are __3__ readers.
Most of us develop poor reading __4__ at an early age, and never get over them.
The main deficiency __5__ in the actual stuff of language itself-words.
Taken individually, words have __6__ meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. __7__ , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words.
He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to __8__ words or passages.
Regression, the tendency to look back over __9__ you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading.
Another habit which __10__ down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as __11__ reads.
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an __12__ , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed.
The bar is set at a slightly faster rate __13__ the reader finds comfortable, in order to“stretch”him.
The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, __14__ word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible.
At first __15__ is sacrificed for speed.
But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, __16__ your comprehension will improve.
Many people have found __17__ reading skill drastically improved after some training.
__18__ Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute __19__ the training,now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute.
He is delighted that how he can __20__ a lot more reading material in a short periodof time.
1.A.applying B.doing
C.offering D.getting