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56、根据材料，回答56-75题。
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fit into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
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____56______a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend____57______can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are____58______readers. Most of us develop poor reading _____59_____at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency____60______in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have_____61_____
meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs.____62______, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to______63____words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over____64______you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which ____65______down the speed of reading is vocalization-- sounding each word either orally or mentally as____66______reads.
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an____67______, which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speeD．The bar is set at a slightly faster rate ____68______the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, _____69_____word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first____70______is sacrificed for speeD．But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, ____71______your comprehension will improve. Many people have found_____72_____reading skill drastically improved after some training._____73_____Charles Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute____74______the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can_____75_____a lot more reading material in a short period of time.
第56题答案为
A．Applying
B．doing
C．offering
D．getting


57、 第57题答案为
A．Quickly
B．easily
C．roughly
D．decidedly


58、 第58题答案为
A．Good
B．curious
C．Poor
D．urgent


59、 第59题答案为
A．Training
B．habits
C．situations
D．custom


60、 第60题答案为
A．lies
B．combines
C．touches
D．involves


61、 第61题答案为
A．some
B．a lot
C．little
D．dull


62、 第62题答案为
A．Fortunately
B．In fact
C．Logically
D．Unfortunately


63、 第63题答案为
A．Reuse
B．reread
C．rewrite
D．recite


64、 第64题答案为
A．what
B．which
C．that
D．if


65、 第65题答案为
A．scales
B．cuts
C．slows
D．measures