四六级考试

【单选题】For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. In (1) a job or ad- vancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (2) can mean the difference between success and failure.But the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (3) read ers. Most of us develop poor reading (4) at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency(缺乏，不足) lies (5) 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 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 (发声法), sounding each word either or ally or mentallyas (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 (默读), practically impossible.At first (15) is sacrificed for speeD、But when you leam to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, (16) your comprehension will improve. Many people have found their reading skill drastically improved (17) some training. (18) CharlieAu, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was 172 words a minute (19) the training, which was reasonably good, and now, amazingly, it is 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that now he can get (20) a lot more reading material in a short period of time.
A、trainingB、habits
C、situations D、custom
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[解析] 词义辨析题。结合句意“大多数人早期养成看书慢的______”及后半句的代词then可知，空格处应填入复数，故排除training(训练)和custom(习俗)；habits意为“习惯”，situations意为“情形，情况”，结合句意可知，B正确。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>