For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation.To keep up their work they must read letters, reports,trade publications, interoffice communications, not tomention newspapers and magazines: a never-endingflood of words. In 1 a job or advancing in one, theability to read and comprehend 2 can mean thedifference between success and failure. Yet theunfortunate 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. Themain deficiency 5 in the actual stuff of language itself-words. Taken individually,words have 6 meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences andparagraphs. 7 , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. Helaboriously 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 badhabit in reading. Another habit which 10 down the speed of reading isvocalization—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 isset 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 forspeed. 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 skilldrastically improved after some training. 18 Charlce Au, a business manager, forinstance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute 19 thetraining, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can20 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.sucha

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