Question

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 phrases, sentences and paragraphs.    7  , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing（退回） 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（預先確定的） 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（默讀）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 1,28 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can   20  a lot more reading material in a short period of time.  

1．  A．applying B．doing       C．offering   D．getting

2．  A．quickly    B．easily       C．roughly    D．decidedly

3．  A．good       B．curious    C．poor        D．urgent

4．  A．training   B．habits      C．situations        D．custom

5．  A．lies   B．combines        C．touches    D．involves

6．  A．some       B．a lot        C．little        D．dull

7．  A．Fortunately     B．In fact      C．Logically        D．Unfortunately

8．  A．reuse       B．reread      C．rewrite     D．recite

9．  A．what        B．which      C．that D．if

10．A．scales      B．cuts C．slows       D．measures

11．A．some one        B．one   C．he    D．reader

12．A．accelerator      B．actor        C．amplifier D．observer

13．A．then        B．as     C．beyond    D．than

14．A．enabling B．leading    C．making    D．indicating

15．A．meaning B．comprehensionC．gist    D．regression

16．A．but   B．nor   C．or     D．for

17．A．our   B．your        C．their        D．such a

18．A．Look at    B．Take        C．Make       D．Consider

19．A．for   B．in     C．after        D．before

20．A．master     B．go over     C．present     D．get through

Answer 1

1-5 DACBA 6-10 CDBAC 11-15 BADCB 16-20 ACBDD

解析:

1． D 本句意思是“誰如果想謀得一份差事”。applying需加for, 意思是“申請”；doing做；offering提供; 此三項均不符題意，只有getting (獲得)適合。

2． A 本句意為 “快速閱讀與理解的能力，是關系到成敗的關鍵所在”。只有quickly與原意吻合。easily(容易地)；roughly (粗略地)；decidedly(果斷地)均與原文內容不符。

3． C 英語中，閱讀能力強的人稱為good reader，反之，就是poor reader。

　　根據上下文的能力內容，多數人都屬于poor reader，因此選poor(差的)。其它選項不妥。

4． B 此處的意思是“大多數人早期養成了看書慢的習慣”。因此選habits(習慣)。training (訓練，培訓)；situations(形勢)；custom(風俗習慣)。

5． A 此處說的是“主要的困難在于語言的自身要素，即單詞”。combines聯合；touches接觸；involves包括；這三項的詞義與原文不符。而lies與in構成搭配，意為“在于”。

6． C 這里的意思是“如果單獨地看這些詞，它們并沒有什么意義”。some有點；A lot許多；dull單調的。此三項不合題意。只有little(很少)是否定詞，合乎邏輯。

7． D 此句意為“然而遺憾的是未受過閱讀訓練的人就不會意群”。Fortunately幸運地；In fact事實上；Logically合乎邏輯地,均不妥。Unfortunately(不幸地)合乎句義。

8． B 此句意為“在閱讀時經常重讀(反復讀)”因此，選reread重讀。reuse再使用；Rewrite改寫；recite背誦。

9． A  what引導賓語從句。

10． C  scales down按比例減少；cuts down削減；此兩項不合題意。measures不能與down搭配。只有slow與down搭配的意思“放慢, 減速”，在此合適。

11． B  one 指 “任何人”。

12． A  此句意為“訓練快速閱讀所使用的工具必然與提高閱讀速度有關”，因此選accelerator (快讀器)。actor演員；amplifier放大器；observer觀察者。

13． D 前面的faster決定了應當選than，構成比較級。

14． C  make… impossible (使…不可能)。此句意為“快速閱讀器迫使你加快閱讀速度，使你再也不能逐字閱讀，回顧前文內容或者默讀”。

15． B 這里的意思是“速讀最初會影響理解”，所以選comprehension(理解力)。meaning意義，意思，指詞或詞組表示的意義；gist大意，要旨；regression回顧。

16． A 與前半句中的not only相呼應，構成句式“不僅……，而且……”，只有選but。　　

17． C 本句中的主語是第三人稱復數，物主代詞必然是their。

18． B  take與后面的for instance構成短語，意為：“以……例”，其它三項不能構成搭配。

19． D 這里把受訓之前與受訓之后的閱讀速度進行對比，因此選before。

20． D 此處意為：在較短時間內，讀完眾多的材料。master掌握；go over復習；present呈現，展現；此三項均不妥只有get through (讀完)最恰當。