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 stretchhim. 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 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. comprehension C. 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

　　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 stretchhim. 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 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. comprehension C. 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