Cloze Test 4 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 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 Cloze Test 4答案 1.【答案】D 【解析】本句意思是“誰如果想謀得一份差事”。applying需加for,意思是“申請”；B.doing做；C.offering提供此三項均不符題意， 只有D.getting(獲得)適合。 2.【答案】A 【解析】本句意為“快速閱讀與理解的能力，是關(guān)系到成敗的關(guān)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(nèi)容不符。 3.【答案】C 【解析】英語中，閱讀速度快的人稱為good reader，反之，就是poor reader。 根據(jù)上下文的內(nèi)容，多數(shù)人都屬于poor reader，因此選poor(差的)。其它選項不妥。 4.【答案】B 【解析】此處的意思是“大多數(shù)人早期養(yǎng)成看書慢的習(xí) 慣”因此選habits(習(xí)慣)。training (訓(xùn)練，培訓(xùn))；situations(形勢)；custom(風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣)。 5.【答案】