2016年学位英语考试完形填空试题及答案（1）
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____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_____Charles 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